The Hound believes the statute of limitations is past or these tales wouldn't be told. Like the Zion-Benton High students suspended for pulling a senior prank, The Hound took part in several.
Let's see, there was the firecracker incident the night of senior prom and the liberation of a piglet in the halls of a certain central Lake County high school. Boy, do little pigs have a lot of pig doo-doo in them.
The Hound isn't admitting anything, but there was that early ignition of a certain homecoming bonfire. "Long live cool", as a certain motorcyclist screamed wild to be wreckage, as a Molotov cocktail was flung on a pile of logs, old furniture and aging fence posts.
What those Zee-Bees did the other day seem tame in comparison to what The Hound undertook on several covert missions. Let's see, these guys spent a few bucks on banana outfits and a gorilla suit and got chased around the Zee-Bee campus. Hmm, hasn't poly sci teacher Bruce Hansen brought scarier people to the school?
Looks like these merry pranksters have been suspended for a few days.
Guess that will be on their permanent record. Guys, this will follow you the rest of your lives. And, they will still talk about you at the 10th class reunion in 2018.
Perhaps they were aping that favorite program of Gen Xers', "The Banana Splits". Then again, maybe not.
But, remember what The Boss, aka, Bruce Springsteen, said:
"We busted out of class, had to get away from those fools
"We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school."
Hey guys, no retreat, no surrender. Especially in this era of No Child Left Behind and six-figure teacher and adminstrators' salaries.
Hail to the Hound and Bruce Springsteen. Maybe the Administration should try and remember what it was like to be in High School.
You go Bananas, ZB Pride all the way!
I work in a local high school...and cannot believe that these kids were suspended for so long. I know a few of the kids, and my son, a ZB grad, knows a few others. Big deal!
I worked at Zion the year the senior prank was to let crickets loose in the IMC. It was a mess, for sure, and the kids involved had to pay for clean up. But it wasn't a greased pig. Last year's senior prank at another high school landed kids in jail, and THAT will follow them for the rest of their lives.
Bananas and a gorilla? C'mon administrators - lighten up.
As far as six-figure teacher salaries - by and large that's NOT the case. Can't speak for the administrators, though...it's easy to do if you do the right people!
THE HOUND SEZ: Hah, following them the rest of their lives! Bet the military will take these guys in a nanosecond. Sounds like they should be a part of a recon platoon in the Panshjer Valley in Afghanistan. Hoorah!
What kind of blithering banana butts are running the school? High school seniors have been pulling pranks since God was a kid. This one was totally harmless, totally non destructive, with no sex, drugs, or rock and roll behind it.
THE HOUND SEZ: HAL, were you conceived in Urbana, Illinois? If not, you are correct. No vandalism and a bunch of Banana Splitz running around the Zee-Bee campus. What could be worse? Well, let's see, they could have gang shootings like at Chicago's Crane Tech. This was a benign prank and the punishment certainly doesn't fit the crime. P.S., there's a school board election next year. Toss out these rascals who want to stifle creativity among Zee-Bee students. One doesn't get into Harvard by being a wall flower. Just ask Barack Obama.