With several states actively working to prevent schools from mandating masks and kids already becoming sick or being quarantined left and right, we needed some levity. It doesn’t appear that the person or persons responsible for the prank have been named, but I’m going to hope it was a group of kids trying to help us adults feel a brief flash of joy amid what’s already a pretty fraught school year. And if you read those names and wondered what the problem was - try reading them out loud. Bless him, he just kept on reading one fake vulgar name after another, apparently not realizing the Board had been had. “Phil McKraken? Phil McKraken?” He continues in the otherwise silent room, oblivious, reading off names including: Suk Mahdik, Ophelia McCaulk, Eileen Dover, Don Kedick, and Wayne Kuhr. Cooper III dutifully reads each nonsense name twice to give the person a chance to walk to the podium. That happened the other night at a meeting for the Henrico School Board in Virginia - and this poor guy really did just keep reading those nutty names without realizing what was going on.īoard member Roscoe D. You know how on The Simpsons Bart prank calls Moe’s Tavern and gives the name of a fake person he’s trying to get ahold of? The name is always ridiculous and embarrassing when said out loud and poor Moe never seems to catch on until it’s too late. Thankfully, some heroic soul decided to give us a break from that horror show and make us laugh - by sending their school board a list of would-be public commenters with fake names that when said out loud, sound pretty dirty. Toss in an angry, uninformed rant about CRT, and there you have it. In a COVID world, school board meetings are another thing entirely with angry parents on both sides arguing for or against masks, distancing, and other mitigation measures. Sure there might’ve been some spicy moments here and there, but overall, they were just meetings to discuss what needs to be done (or not done) in order to keep a school district up and running. Local school board meetings were once a perfunctory monthly snooze-fest in most American towns. It wasn't long before social media picked up on the prank, with a Twitter post of the video racking up 7 million views and over 76,000 retweets.Someone pranked a local school board by sending in a list of fake public commenters a la Bart Simpson calling Moe’s Tavern I've since learned of the pranks from The Simpsons." "The names looked legit, and so were their associated districts and board members. In the space of one hilarious minute, he asked, in turn, for each of "Phil McCraken", "Suck Mahdick", "Ophelia McCaulk", "Eileen Dover", "Don Kedick" and "Wayne Kerr" to take to the podium, pausing as each name went ignored.Ĭooper,, who is a Pastor at Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church, says he wasn't familiar with pranks of this kind prior to the incident. "It wasn't until after I read all of the names that I received a text message saying: "Those names may not be real people lol.'" "It's not uncommon for people not to show up, so I honestly didn't think anything of it," he told Newsweek. Not that Cooper or anyone else on the school board noticed any issue. It quickly became apparent that the names listed to be called for public comment during the meeting weren't actually real names at all. Cooper III began calling up members of the public who had been registered to speak. Last Thursday, August 26, a meeting of the Henrico School Board fell victim when board member Reverend Dr. Read more Florida Dad Claims Mask Mandate Facilitates Child Sex Trafficking In School
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