My sin is pride.
My high school makes me proud. Every time we get in the national news it is for something absurd like this, when I was there it was for the “sleep in” in protest of us having the shortest school year in the developed world. How that is determined, I have no idea. Lincoln High School students exist on a different plane. Here’s the Death Star of senior pranks, in a good way…
From the Smoking Gun, Portland Prom Prank Probed:
APRIL 24–Oregon educators want law enforcement officials to probe who was responsible for mailing parents a letter on school letterhead suggesting that they supply students with alcohol at post-prom parties. The letter, a copy of which you’ll find below, was sent this week to families of students at Portland’s Lincoln High School. Recipients of the missive were urged to consider opening their homes this Saturday for parties as “a safe, secure place for students to have fun,” adding if adults “provide the alcohol, you can have peace of mind knowing that they did not acquire it illegally. Condoms were included with the letters–which were written on Portland Public Schools stationery–since “STD epidemics have spread through other high school communities and we want to prevent such an outbreak as best we can.” The letter was purportedly written by “The Lincoln High School Faculty and Administration.” Officials do not know how the letter’s creator(s) got access to school mailing lists. And while rather well written, the letter did include obvious clues that it was a hoax, including a supposed recommendation from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. The state agency, the letter claimed, “stated that a fifth of alcohol, like Hennessy Cognac, is sufficient supply for at least 8 adults. One can assume that for 17 to 18 year old individuals, one fifth can probably be spread out to 4 students. Considering our reputation (Drinkin’ Lincoln), in some cases one fifth is only enough for a single person.”
Click through to see the letter. It’s even well written.
-Zanramon
April 27th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Hahahaha I love the part instructing parents on how much alcohol is necessary. Drinkin’ Lincoln. Oh how I wish that letter were real.
That is on a completely different level from Laguna’s prank in which several Senior guys decided to stack the lunch tables into a giant pyramid and then continuously set the fire alarm throughout the day. One might call the latter amateurish.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Yeah, the more I think about it, the better it gets. They had to get access to not only the school letterhead, but also the entire school mailing list. Impressive.
Also, I’ll have you know that your comment was the 1,000th comment on ATW. You should win some sort of prize.
April 28th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Well that would be up to you, PLZ.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
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April 28th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
That was in no way making fun of the use of “plz” in the comment above mine.