Portland Prom Prank Probed



Someone sent a letter to the parents of students at Lincoln High School in Portand, Oregon, urging them to provide alcohol on prom night.

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.”

Parts of the letter are ridiculous, such as the statement that a fifth of cognac will serve eight adults or four teenagers. School official want police to find out who was responsible for sending the letter, which was copied on the limited-access school letterhead. The Smoking Gun has a copy of the letter. Link -via Fark


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Posted on April 25, 2008 at 9:56 am by Miss Cellania
Category: Crime & Law



21 Comments to "Portland Prom Prank Probed"

  • Nate
    April 25th, 2008 at 10:06 am

    haa haa!

  • Justin
    April 25th, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Why are school officials trying to find out who suggested this good idea? Kids are going to go out and party and get drunk on prom night anyways, you might as well organize at least some sort of supervision.

  • Evilbeagle
    April 25th, 2008 at 10:41 am

    While it was out of line for this to go out on school letterhead, the suggestions were sound. If more people thought this way, teenagers would get into less trouble.

  • bean
    April 25th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    The bit about them including condoms gives me a mental image about condoms attached via safety pin.

  • Alannah
    April 25th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    What a wonderful senior prank! I hope that instead of pursuing legal action, the schools grin and bear it.

  • Pol x
    April 25th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    The school wants the polce to investegate?

    Man what a sad sad bunch of soulless clowns.

    It’s a joke, a prank an shenanigan.

    Aside from the ideas actually being pretty good that is.

    A safe environment where kids didn’t skull a bottle of jaegermiester and choke on their own vomit, or wake up in the back of a pick-up being fucked by the football team.

    But yes we should prosecute the pranksters.

    With waht exactly?

  • Sheldon
    April 25th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    That’s a great senior prank. But it does kind of make sense. The prom party I went to a couple of years ago needed so many dd’s to come pick up the kids, and even then many students escaped and drove home drunk. On prom night especially, high schoolers need to be watched. I hope that parents everywhere realize this, and that they should know that the students will drink on prom night, and that hosting a party could be helpful. Not providing the alcohol, but hosting it and taking keys away from everyone, only to give them back to sober teens when the party is winding down.

  • Lore
    April 25th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    What’s so bad about the letter? It got the parents to think of ways their kids could be safe at home. Wish I had thought of it.

  • Rosi
    April 25th, 2008 at 11:51 am

    “Limited access” letterhead?
    It’s so easy to duplicate a letterhead, just scan it into the computer (assuming that they have received letters from the school before)! I’ve done it before (although I found out later I didn’t need to, the letterhead is saved to the school network where anyone can access it but most people are too stupid to realise where it is).

  • Thomas
    April 25th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    The school I went to didn’t have any security on their network. I literally found the lunch code database, which had names, addresses, social security numbers, and how much money people had in their lunch accounts. I showed my computer teacher, and he showed the administration, and instead of them doing anything to fix it, they threatened to fire him for snooping around in their network.

  • luvpumpkns
    April 25th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    the sad thing is, as others have said, the ideas are pretty darn good in and of themselves. teenagers will drink and have sex. why not provide them outlets to do what they’re already going to do more safely?

    i attended a prom party where the mother at the house took everyone’s keys away until the next day. we all had a great time, and most importantly, no one got drunk and drove home.

  • bowdenski
    April 25th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Might be a good thing to learn in high school:
    “you can drink, but then you CAN NOT drive”

    People don’t seem to learn that key lesson any of the other ways parents/teachers/officials have tried.

  • NeuroGirl
    April 25th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Our senior prank was way better… at least they didn’t damage any property.

  • kro31
    April 25th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Kids have gotten more refined since my day. We drank Boone’s Farm. Serve the prom kids cognac? Seriously?

    Where did you get this cognac? Answer me, young lady!
    idk my bff Jill?

  • Miss Cellania
    April 25th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    They’re hinting for the parents to buy it. Whether such parties are a good idea or not, parents can get arrested for providing liquor to anyone under 21 years old.

  • shecky
    April 25th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Get the cops involved? School official needs to lighten the hell up. It was just a prank, and nobody was actually harmed.

  • fastergrace
    April 25th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Priceless! Kids are getting creative these days.

  • ted
    April 25th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    Excellent joke. Although sending condoms to all those parents would have cost a little.

    I like the phrase “fantastic young adults”.

    Lincoln High School must have one serious pickle up its bum if it’s trying to waste the police department’s time with this.

  • SQRL
    April 25th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    This is fantastic prank and I think it is absolutely hilarious. Good for them for having a bit of fun and doing it in such clever fashion. I am one proud LHS alumna and hopefully the administration has more important things to do that try and use any and all methods to find out the culprit. Nobody got hurt and no school property (unlike damage done by grafiti)was harmed. Let the kids have some fun!

  • Carl
    April 25th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    “limited access letterhead” may mean that it was printed on special paper, or have been embossed, not just run of the mill copy paper.

  • Manticore
    April 26th, 2008 at 1:16 am

    reminds me of the ‘bubbler care condom package’ senior prank that made headlines a year or so ago.
    ahhhh motion lotion.
    LMFAO


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