It reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) senior prank that was part of my high school’s local legend: The school, being rural, was surrounded by farms. So the seniors took three pigs from the farm next door, painted the numbers 1, 2, and 4 on them, and let them into the school one night. Rumor has it that school was cancelled the next morning, and the school custodian stayed in the building until midnight trying to coax #3 out of the locker room, only to discover that the smell he thought was the (non-existent) third pig was an unflushed toilet.
I think have heard that in almost every small town I’ve been in. It has become a legend by now. Some variations I heard with goats or chickens, sometimes the missing number changes.
That’s the big reason I decided it was probably apocryphal. Though I do allow for the possibility that it’s actually happened in a bunch of places, copycat-style. Kind of like how a lot of high schools have a bowl discreetly hidden on stage next to the superintendent during commencement so that they can deposit marbles that graduating seniors hand to them.
It reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) senior prank that was part of my high school’s local legend: The school, being rural, was surrounded by farms. So the seniors took three pigs from the farm next door, painted the numbers 1, 2, and 4 on them, and let them into the school one night. Rumor has it that school was cancelled the next morning, and the school custodian stayed in the building until midnight trying to coax #3 out of the locker room, only to discover that the smell he thought was the (non-existent) third pig was an unflushed toilet.
I think have heard that in almost every small town I’ve been in. It has become a legend by now. Some variations I heard with goats or chickens, sometimes the missing number changes.
That’s the big reason I decided it was probably apocryphal. Though I do allow for the possibility that it’s actually happened in a bunch of places, copycat-style. Kind of like how a lot of high schools have a bowl discreetly hidden on stage next to the superintendent during commencement so that they can deposit marbles that graduating seniors hand to them.