HS prank tells all girls to show up for vagina inspection

[redheadbaker]

Fucking creepy. 

Gross High School Prank Told Girls to Show Up for Vaginal Inspection



Female students at a high school in Minnesota were tricked into believing they were required to show up for a "mandatory vagina inspection," thanks to a sick prank.

The letter was written on forged letterhead from Prior Lake High School and was hand delivered to an unknown number of students' homes. The letter was eventually circulated through various social media sites. While it was deemed to be a senior prank, most people (especially parents) are still pretty horrified. Here is an excerpt from the letter, via Fox9:

To all female students at Prior Lake High School:

The district is required to conduct a mandatory vagina inspection on all female students at Prior Lake High School in accordance with Minnesota Health Code 69. End-of-the-year vagina inspections will occur in the Blue Gym. The mandatory health inspections will be conducted Friday, May 23, 2014 promptly at 8:05 a.m. Make ups will occur the following week on Tuesday, May 26, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. All students who have not already completed a vagina inspection MUST attend one of these two mandatory sessions. Students will be excused from any classes they miss in order to attend an inspection.

Senior pranks are what they are, but the creepiest part about this is the idea that someone knew the home addresses of all these students and went house-to-house, delivering the letter. Even though school officials don't think they can discipline anyone involved (since there's no evidence the letter was written or printed on school property) police are still investigating the matter:

Putting anything in a resident's mailbox without paying postage is a federal offense, but typically, if a mail carrier sees it, the person distributing letters wouldn't face charges, but the mail carrier would remove the items and explain the action is illegal.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Postal Service removed about 50 letters from boxes before they were discovered by the intended recipients.

I guess this is supposed to be "funny" because GIRLS HAVE VAGINAS LOL LOL LOL. Apparently the "prankster" never gave a second thought to how a young, vulnerable girl would feel thinking her future rested on being forced to submit to something as deeply invasive and private as a vaginal exam. See, because it's funny when gullible, naive people fall for horrifying things and then get freaked out by them!

The school's principal, David Lund, apologized to parents via email and said the school is continuing to look into the matter.

jezebel.com/gross-high-school-prank-told-girls-to-show-up-for-vagin-1577262199

[bimbi284]

I used to live very close to this school, but didn't attend.
Also kids are dumb.

[NewOrleans]

well, how else are schools supposed to prepare teen girls to face a lifetime of misogyny a nd rape culture if there are no degrading senior pranks ?

[StrawberryBlondie]

I live not too far from Prior Lake. Ugh.

[pixy0stix]

All else aside, of course students are going to know where other students live. That part is a dumb statement in the article.

[runaways]

What the hell. Because obviously preying on girls is the best kind of "prank", I guess?

[karinothing]

May 16, 2014 9:45:13 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

All else aside, of course students are going to know where other students live. That part is a dumb statement in the article.

But where all the other students live? I mean my Sr class had 455 people. I knew where like 4 of them lived.

[iammalcolmx]

Did anyone show up? I think the prank is ridiculous however if I would have showed this "letter" to my Mom she would have flipped shit and I would have been told to NOT go.

[pixy0stix]

May 16, 2014 10:01:38 GMT -5 karinothing said:

May 16, 2014 9:45:13 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

All else aside, of course students are going to know where other students live. That part is a dumb statement in the article.

But where all the other students live? I mean my Sr class had 455 people. I knew where like 4 of them lived.

The article said it was delivered to an unknown number of students. I don't think all of them got the letter.

[josieposy]

Oh OF COURSE it's PL.

I'm gonna leave before I insert a PL stereotype...

[cville]

I lost my shit about this on ML the other day, but then there was some contention that the letter may be a fake.

So, I reserved the right to re-lose my shit about this should it be uncovered to be real.

I OFFICIALLY REFUCKING LOSE MY SHIT.

ETA:  I hereby reincorporate everything I said here:  pandce.proboards.com/thread/324902/senior-prank-letter-inspections

[StrawberryBlondie]

May 16, 2014 10:07:27 GMT -5 josieposy said:

Oh OF COURSE it's PL.

I'm gonna leave before I insert a PL stereotype...

I admit I was a little surprised it wasn't Hugo.

[karinothing]

May 16, 2014 10:09:24 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

May 16, 2014 10:01:38 GMT -5 karinothing said:

But where all the other students live? I mean my Sr class had 455 people. I knew where like 4 of them lived.

was my school the only one that issued a student directory? it had our name, address, phone and DoB along with our parents name for the entire school. i still have all 4 of mine.

My school did not issue this.

[cville]

May 16, 2014 10:17:59 GMT -5 karinothing said:

May 16, 2014 10:09:24 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

was my school the only one that issued a student directory? it had our name, address, phone and DoB along with our parents name for the entire school. i still have all 4 of mine.

My school did not issue this.

My school didn't, but my sports teams did (both were co-ed).  And I think for plays I was in too (shocker, I was a drama nerd).  You get enough of those together and you could know the addresses of 1/2 the class, easily.

[StrawberryBlondie]

May 16, 2014 10:01:38 GMT -5 karinothing said:

May 16, 2014 9:45:13 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

All else aside, of course students are going to know where other students live. That part is a dumb statement in the article.

But where all the other students live? I mean my Sr class had 455 people. I knew where like 4 of them lived.

Prior Lake is pretty small. I think like 20k people.

[phunluvin82]

May 16, 2014 10:23:25 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

May 16, 2014 10:01:38 GMT -5 karinothing said:

But where all the other students live? I mean my Sr class had 455 people. I knew where like 4 of them lived.

Prior Lake is pretty small. I think like 20k people.

The town I grew up in was fairly small and the school was somewhat tight knit, so a lot of people just knew where a lot of other people lived.  I could still drive around my old neighborhood and tell you where maybe 30-40 of my classmates lived.  So I also thought it was weird that the article would mention how 'creepy' it was to know where your classmates live.  I guess it all depends.

[pixy0stix]

May 16, 2014 15:15:53 GMT -5 incogneato said:

It's against the law to put something in someone's mailbox? Seriously?

Yes, it's a federal crime. The only thing that is supposed to be placed in the mailbox is stamped mail.

[starlily]

The seniors this year at my alma mater in SF apparently sent "penis inspection" letters to male staff & faculty. :/ I don't know if they used the faculty mailboxes or just posted them around the building.

[LoveTrains]

May 16, 2014 10:09:24 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

May 16, 2014 10:01:38 GMT -5 karinothing said:

But where all the other students live? I mean my Sr class had 455 people. I knew where like 4 of them lived.

was my school the only one that issued a student directory? it had our name, address, phone and DoB along with our parents name for the entire school. i still have all 4 of mine.

We still do a paper directory book at the school I work at. But it's a private school. 

[meshaliuknits]

Shouldn't it be "vaginal inspection?"

Yes, that's what I got stuck on.

Sent from my EVO

[redwino]

I graduated in a class of 170. My social circle could have come up with the address for at least 100 of those kids. Each individual wouldn't have more than 15 or so, but together we probably could find the houses of most of the kids in our school. It wouldn't be creepy at all.

[af1212]

May 16, 2014 10:09:24 GMT -5 @majorwife said:

May 16, 2014 10:01:38 GMT -5 karinothing said:

But where all the other students live? I mean my Sr class had 455 people. I knew where like 4 of them lived.

was my school the only one that issued a student directory? it had our name, address, phone and DoB along with our parents name for the entire school. i still have all 4 of mine.

Mine did too. There was a negative consent form you could return in the beginning if the year if your parents wanted to opt out.