Students Confess To Toothpick Prank
5 Students Admit Lodging Toothpicks In Football Field
POSTED: 12:09 pm EDT October 22,
2007
UPDATED: 7:41 am EDT October 23,
2007
TAWAS CITY, Mich. -- State police said five students are responsible for planting thousands of toothpicks in a high school football field.According to state police, the students from Oscoda confessed to sticking about 5,000 toothpicks in the Tawas Area High School turf last week.Players warming up for a game against Alcona noticed the toothpicks, which forced the game to be moved 37 miles north to Alcona County.The students, one 17-year-old girl, three 16-year-old girls and a 16-year-old boy, said they planted the toothpicks only as retaliation because their school was vandalized days before.State police said the teens didn't mean for the prank to escalate like it did.No charges have yet been filed.
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