Bare-bottomed prom invitation
Filed under: High school, Public school, Teenager, Weird but True
When Kristoff Wennersten decided he wanted Carolyn Campbell to be his date to the prom, he didn't want to just walk up and ask her. That would be too simple, too straightforward, too normal. He needed something spectacular. Something that would impress the object of his desire and guarantee she said yes. So the Huron High School senior enlisted the help of his lacrosse teammates and together these brilliant guys came up with a surefire way to get her attention: spell out the invitation on their bare bottoms and display them during a game. Because nothing says "you are special" quite like a row of butt cheeks with writing on them.
Surprisingly, it worked. When Campbell saw "Will You Go To The Prom With Me? Yes or No?" spelled out on the backsides of the 13 players, she responded by tapping on the back of the guy with "yes" on his butt. Not surprisingly, the display got the lacrosse team in trouble.
"Inappropriate is inappropriate," athletic director Dottie Davis said. "It disrespects women, and that's the clear message we need to have the students understand - what may be fun to them isn't necessarily fun to everyone else."
In addition to a receiving a one-day suspension from school, the team members involved must sit out an undetermined number of games and perform 20 hours of community service. Wennersten is unrepentant. "I enjoyed every bit of it," he says.
I don't know what ever happened to the time-tested tradition of just asking a person to be your date, but apparently that is passé.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments