Senior Pranks Leave Ten Arrested, Queens HS on Lockdown

With high school graduations quickly approaching, it’s time for the annual day where 17-year-olds look back on their twelve-plus years of free education and ditch any tender moments of gratitude or nostalgia in lieu of creating pure chaos: Senior Prank Day. Yesterday in Queens, Richmond Hill High School's pranks turned into a riot with ten students arrested and the school put on lockdown—all before 10 a.m. The arrests were spurred on when authorities arrived in response to a fire alarm students had pulled. On top of that, the Post reports that departing seniors "threw baby powder, oil, food, paint, barbecue sauce and eggs all over the school's second floor, causing a panic." Windows were broken and computers damaged. One student gave the paper a familiar story: "It was supposed to be a powder fight, but people started showing up with eggs and rice and bananas and shaving cream. It was supposed to be something minor." The ten students were charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct.

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By Billy Parker in News on June 13, 2009 9:51 AM

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Reflect

Old people vs Young People. I say Young People win.

Get over it crotchety's its just a little damaged property, lord knows

in america we value property above humans so this is no shock.

They must have caught on to the fact degrees and school is a farce.

Oooo Lockdown.

Its not rikers for god sake.

Establishment Smablishment

Spirit of 76

Wow. If you didn't actually write that you hate school, we would be able to easily infer it from your pitiful command of the English language. Still harboring hatred for your English teachers for flunking you?

Reflect

As long as you get my point language has done it's job to me. Still harboring hatred for people not writing perfectly because no ones fucking you?

Spirit of 76

Holy cow. You say you hate grade school, yet act like like you're still in it, slinging inane insults I haven't heard many adults use. Little wonder that your only way of getting ahead in life is to prey on people's unhealthy addiction to nicotine.

Willy Nilly

"It was supposed to be a powder fight, but people started showing up with eggs and rice and bananas and shaving cream. It was supposed to be something minor."

...story of my life, bro

Snoopy

They should make a movie of this, "A Vision of Things to Come."

Steven

Senior pranks and senior skip day is so childish.

Spirit of 76

I guess those seniors won't be departing after all. At least not the way they think. Kids are so dumb. If you're going to take the "I'm gone, and they won't be able to touch me" attitude, can you at least wait until you're actually gone?

r1b2

Look, if you brought paint, eggs, and oil, that's premeditated vandalism, premeditated destruction of property, no 2 ways about it. It's not a harmless youthful prank, because you knew there would be harm, in the form of expense and additional work. You're a moron, your parents didn't teach you right from wrong, you now have a criminal record, and I am saved the headache of ever hiring you. Fail.