Missouri yearbook prank leads to student's arrest

[Sherman A1]

COLUMBIA, Mo. • A Columbia high school student faces a possible felony charge in criminal court after her arrest for changing a classmate's name in the school yearbook to a sexually suggestive term.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that a 17-year-old Hickman High School student was arrested May 14 after she allegedly changed a student's last name from Mastain to "masturbate" in the yearbook. She could be charged with first-degree property damage, a felony, and harassment.

The school decided against reprinting more than 700 yearbooks and instead placed stickers on the altered page with the student's correct name.

Raigan Mastain told the newspaper she "wasn't devastated" over the incident and was surprised the student was arrested. No charges had been filed as of Tuesday morning.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/missouri-yearbook-prank-leads-to-student-s-arrest/article_f0fe2396-d411-50a5-afe7-75ee9ab29fe2.html

[tabbycat31]

1. I'm surprised she did not blame autocorrect

[KurtNYC]

2. So no one proof-read the book prior to printing?

Yearbook pranks are common. In our day a bunch of surfers decided it would be funny if they pulled their shirt tails out the fly of their pants so in a big grainy group picture it looks like they are exposing themselves. They re-shot that picture 4 times because people kept doing different things that only got caught after the film (back in the day) was developed and printed. They spelled things in ASL. Smoked imaginary doobies, etc. etc.

[11 Bravo]

3. Actually the young woman who was the target of the prank was also a yearbook editor.

She said that she missed it completely.

[cbdo2007]

4. LOL

I'll always laugh at a good yearbook prank.