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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

News Back in my day, pranks involved toilets and seeds

Posted By Rhiannon Fionn-Bowman on Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM

Some punk-ass from Charlotte Catholic School sent out a mass e-mail saying he planned to bring an AK-47 to school so he could shoot his peers. Oh, but he was just joking.

Yeah, dude, that's not funny.

The shit we did when I was in school was funny. Spelling out taunts in fast-growing grass seed on our main rival's football field? Now, that's funny.

Filling someone's locker with -- well, anything that would make a mess when it was opened: Funny, in a harmless way.

In my parents' day, they cemented a toilet onto the front steps of their main rival's school. Pretty rough, but still funny.

After getting tired of little kids begging for candy on the bus, a good friend of mine would lick a handful of M&Ms before giving them away. Gross, but funny to this day.

Warning everyone that you're going to kill them? Nope. Not funny.

Playing such a dumb-ass prank at the ripe old age of 18, when you're considered a legal adult? Well, that is only one more symptom of an extreme case of ass hattery.

Enjoy jail.

Lally has been charged with communicating threats.

School officials say they found out about this after a parent heard about the threat and called the school.

Principal Jerry Healy sent a letter home to parents Monday that read in part, “While I regret the fear and concern that this incident might create, I am grateful to the parents and staff members who took immediate steps to address the potential danger inherent in the threatening e-mail.

The police have indicated that the student involved in this matter thought he was playing a prank. As parents we all have experience with children doing regrettable things. It is part of growing up. But there are limits to what anyone can say. I have spent time today talking with CCHS students about using unacceptable language and threats when they communicate with their fellow students. Hopefully we will all learn something from this incident."