High School Seniors Dirt Bike Prank Backfires
It's a right of passage that's been
going on since the first graduating class of cavemen and women
decided to let a baby Velociraptor loose in their high school cave
on the last day of school. Since that time high school seniors have
been elevating the level of pranks in an effort to leave their
legacy in the halls of their schools. Some pranks are harmless,
like filling the front office with hundreds of helium balloons
while others are a little more nefarious and destructive, like
squeezing toothpicks and Superglue into all the exterior door locks
on campus.
Last week WKRN in Tennessee reported on two seniors, Lenny Watts,
and Daniel Myers, from East Hickman High School in Tennessee wanted
to go out in style and thought it would be a good idea to ride
their dirt bikes through the halls. The stunt went off without a
hitch and as you would expect there were plenty of kids lined in
the hallway with their phones out to record the antics.
It was a harmless, albeit loud prank; can you image shock of the
teachers and unsuspecting students when they heard the echoes of
the exhaust
resonating off the floor and through the narrow hallway from the
Honda and Yamaha?
Even though no one got hurt, the boys were suspended from school
for two days (the event took place on Wednesday). All seemed well
and good, the boys pulled of the prank, they were caught and
punished, end of story. However, it wasn't the end of the story,
because on Friday there were informed that besides serving the
two-day suspension they would also not be allowed to take part in
the graduation ceremony the next day. They weren't even allowed to
sit in the stands with their families and the families and friends
of the other graduating students, and when they tried to sit in the
crowd they were escorted off campus.
These two guys weren't the first ones to pull off a stunt like
this, there are several videos on You Tube from other people who
have done the exact same thing. One of the most popular videos was
posted by Austin Campbell who rode a
YZ 450F through his school, that video has more than 11
millions views.
https://youtu.be/oO8s7OgoIKk
Obviously Lenny and Daniel and their families weren't too happy
about not being able to attend graduation. However, had they
watched Austins video they might have had a good idea as to what
might have been in store for them, as Austin received the exact
same punishment. Maybe these boys missed that day in history class
when the quote from George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember
the past are condemned to repeat it," and Winston Churchill "Those
who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it," was
taught? Whatever the case may be, we are left us with the debate of
how far is too far? Did the punishment fit the offence?
