"We Suck"

[DigiQ8]

(AP) A high school student who tricked football fans from a crosstown rival into holding up signs that together spelled out, "We Suck," was suspended for the prank, students said.

Kyle Garchar, a last year student at Hilliard Davidson High School in suburban Columbus, said he spent about 20 hours over three days plotting the trick, which was captured on video and posted on the video-sharing Web site YouTube. He said he was inspired by a similar prank pulled by Yale students in 2004, when Harvard fans were duped into holding up cards with the same message.

At the end of the video, Garchar wryly thanks the 800 Hilliard Darby High School supporters who raised the cards at the start of the third quarter during last Friday's football game.

"It couldn't have been done without you," reads the closing frame of the video.

Garchar, 17, created a grid to plan how the message would be spelled out once fans in three sections held up either a black or white piece of construction paper.

Directions left on stadium seats instructed fans to check that the number listed on their papers matched their seat numbers. Darby supporters were told the message would read "Go Darby."

"It was tedious," Garchar said. "I didn't really think it was going to work."

But it did, and everyone at Davidson has been talking it ever since, said Jordan Moore, a third year student.

"That was the ultimate in-your-face," he said. "I think it was ingenious."

Davidson Principal John Bandow had told students that he expected them to show sportsmanship at the game, which Darby won 21-10.

Bandow gave Garchar three days of in-school suspension and banned him from extracurricular activities for a semester, the students said. Two Darby students who helped Garchar received the same punishment after the principals from both schools spoke by phone.

Hilliard schools spokeswoman Michelle Wray said she could not confirm the punishment because the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act forbids the release of student disciplinary information.

"We weren't expecting it to be such a severe punishment," said Jen Trimmer, 17, one of the students involved. "We just thought it was all in good fun."

now for the video
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Y_AkT7PEM[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Bad^Hat]

Owned.

 

[BillyJoBob]

Hah nice.

 

[xcellerate]

seriously? That's so ****ing retarded it pisses me off. Nobody got hurt and they didn't even use unacceptable language. It was a good ****ing prank and they fell for it, now how about they show some ****ing nice conduct and laugh it off rather than being a bunch of ****ing whiny pussies and suspend him.

 

[CyberPitz]

So they suspended a student for others stupidity? I'd sue.

On another note, Owned.

 

[Azner]

pwnt

So funny

 

[Vegeta897]

Agreed @ Xcellerate

Great prank.

 

[mastag]

genius.

 

[Lucid]

Haha, that's awesome.

They got suspended over that?!
Humorless bitches.

 

[Smoke]

Prank was win.

Punishment was pathetic.

 

[Cormeh]

I liked that.

 

[Asknoone]

Haha, awesome.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

wow

 

[The Brick]

I was almost expelled for hiding behind the curtains in class for a whole period without getting noticed. I also got got banned from the school's computer network for messaging 'drop dead you ****ing gay bitches' to all pcs in the school, lol. But I wasn't really thinking that moment.

 

[Seppo]

Owned.

I agree

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I was almost expelled for hiding behind the curtains in class for a whole period without getting noticed. I also got got banned from the school's computer network for messaging 'drop dead you ****ing gay bitches' to all pcs in the school, lol. But I wasn't really thinking that moment.

Is that for fun or actual homo-hatred :x

 

[Seppo]

I also got got banned from the school's computer network for messaging 'drop dead you ****ing gay bitches' to all pcs in the school, lol.

why would anyone do that?

 

[Evo]

Awesomeness on all counts

 

[The Brick]

I found out how to bypass the cmd protection on the computers, sent a few fun messages to a few people in class (cs). Everyone quickly found out how to do it and I got blamed for every message everyone got, so I sent that final message to everyone, and deleted the file that was used to do it. 5 mins later the system administrator tapped my shoulder.

 

[Tagaziel]

Amazing feat. God, this reeks with awesome.

 

[Bad^Hat]

I was almost expelled for hiding behind the curtains in class for a whole period without getting noticed.

Hahaha, oh god why did that make me lol so freaking hard xD

 

[Qonfused]

Genius.

 

[Wanted Bob]

Seconded

 

[Krynn72]

Seconded a second time.

 

[Taboo]

Pwn.

The punishment surely does not fit the crime... that isnt even a crime.

 

[The Monkey]

why would anyone do that?

Someone in my old school made goatse as the network's default desktop background, and thus appeared on every computer. The manhunt that followed was nothing short of huge, but it failed; the one behind it didn't get caught. (And good for him, I heard police was involved too.)

 

[Kevin]

How did the Darby's feel, when they saw they're own fans doing that?

Someone in my old school made goatse as the network's default desktop background, and thus appeared on every computer.

Could've set Tub girl...

 

[ríomhaire]

*claps*