Riverview High School Prank Backfires On Teen Vandals (VIDEO)

Artists of all types have long drawn inspiration from the human form. But two student "artists" at Riverview High School in Florida are in big trouble for their X-rated spin.

ABC reports that two student vandals, 14 and 15, have been charged with felony criminal mischief and might be expelled after pouring used motor oil on the walkways of the campus in the shapes of obscene body parts. One of the figures in the main courtyard of the school is 90 feet long.

A cleanup crew has used a steam pressure washer and kitty litter to remove the damage, but nothing's worked so far. The bill has already ticked up to $30,000.

In the end, the student pranksters didn't even get the reaction they had likely hoped for. The prank has already cost one of the vandals his girlfriend and other students aren't amused.

"I just think it's a stupid idea," said 10th grader Alandra Sochor. "It doesn't impress anybody."

The two students confessed to the principal after their peers tipped him off.

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Comments

[Michael Spears]

10:39 PM on 02/01/2011

The worst part of this is one student was a freshman and the other was a Junior.

[Michael Spears]

10:36 PM on 02/01/2011

I'm a student at RVHS, and the oil actually seeped into the ground at the area where the bricks are removed.

[Niasia]

10:31 PM on 01/31/2011

I know in their minds it would have never come to this. In the end they're children, I'm willing to bet they had no idea how hard it would be to clean up. Oh the perils of youth...

[Diasamax]

07:22 AM on 01/31/2011

Besides the fact they are not the sharpest tools in the shed, there are bigger questions here:

Where did they get all of that oil from? Will their parents ultimately have to pay for the cost of clean up since they are minors? Why are the students who caused the mess not out there on their hands and knees in hazmat suits cleaning that mess?

Yet another example of the how blistfully dense kids can be nowadays. And they are our future, God help us!

[Michael Spears]

10:45 PM on 02/01/2011

I heard that the oil was actually "stolen" from one of the girlfriends garages.

[Boyette Riverview]

06:05 AM on 02/03/2011

You are wrong. You need to quit posting things that are not true. The oil was given to them by the girl that was involved. She was not a girlfriend of either of them. Plus there was another boy that was involved also but he is lying to stay out of trouble. The oil was outside not in a garage. Get you facts straight before you get sued for slander.

[michaellad]

12:48 AM on 01/31/2011

Why spend the money to tear it all up when you could just put a mural or something over it for far less??? this can be positive opportunity not such a horrible thing.

[maritimer]

01:47 AM on 01/31/2011

It is used motor oil. it is hazardous waste. it has to be removed completely. not covered up with more rubbish. School can face fines. Good grief.

[JoeGdr]

03:17 PM on 01/31/2011

True. Besides, all student artists suck. The mural would become an eyesore within hours.

[captainindustry]

10:56 PM on 01/30/2011

but it was so funny when they watched it on a sitcom on the television!!!

everybody was supposed to high five them!!!

[Rubyfoo]

10:12 PM on 01/30/2011

That is wrong on so many levels that it's easy to lose count.

[WittyUsername]

06:01 PM on 01/30/2011

they should be charged under the Clean Water Act. add a couple years to their sentences...

[maritimer]

01:48 AM on 01/31/2011

I would agree to that if and when BP gets charged with the CWA and OPA90. At least the school is making an effort to clean it up. I would advise to sue the parents for damages.

[JoeGdr]

05:36 PM on 01/30/2011

I will be the first to admit that I was HIGHLY immature in high school. Even so, the worst I did was jam super glue into the locks of classroom doors in the morning before class (rendering them useless and delying many a class), glue library books shut with glue sticks (sometimes page by page) and so on. I had no respect for the property of others whatsoever, but I had my limits. I knew that if I ever got caught, I would have to have the locks replaced and pay for the damaged books (among all the other crap I damaged). Those expenses were at least manageable -- and was always conscious of that. The mistake that these two kids made was letting too many people in on the prank, and by that I mean anyone not already in their long established, closely knit group of friends. (I suspect they let others in on it.)

Poor guys. They should have not taken things as far as they did. A 90-foot phallus (which is what I think it was)? Come on.

[Cody Ray]

04:33 PM on 01/30/2011

Cover the entire area with motor oil to hide it.

[maritimer]

01:48 AM on 01/31/2011

Brilliant. I hope you are joking.

[Michael Spears]

10:46 PM on 02/01/2011

Troll alert, don't feed trolls

[Cody Ray]

12:10 PM on 02/02/2011

No, I just mean that the only way to hide the shapes would be to cover the remaining area with the same difficult-to-wash-off residue, that way the shapes would no longer be visible. I wasn't trolling! It's a silly solution to a silly prank, that's all.

[KsWrangler]

04:03 PM on 01/30/2011

Isn't the used motor oil considered an environmental incident? I'm surprised the EPA didn't get involved.

[maritimer]

01:50 AM on 01/31/2011

Local/state may have been involved. Depends on how much these id#ots used. Sounds like quite a bit.

[ninetailedfox]

03:36 PM on 01/30/2011

Im indifferent to graffiti, but this is going overboard. I can understand the decision made by the courts.

[Mxyziptlix]

01:53 PM on 01/30/2011

Did they try to paint over it?

[feyangel]

02:04 PM on 01/30/2011

Paint probably would not adhere.

[Marioam]

01:33 PM on 01/30/2011

If you've ever had to change the oil in your car then you know that motor oil is like almost impossible to get off of cement even when it looks like it's gone. You can put down traps to catch the spill from the drain, but I swear that some of that stuff will get onto your driveway.
These kids are vandals, not artists and as teenage boys are wont to do they chose the one thing that consumes almost all of their braincells, which is sexual, the other thing being eating that takes up the rest of their braincells.

[landskroon]

12:40 PM on 01/30/2011

What is this damage compared to the damage made to thee High Schools of Bagdad, Kabul and many other places where Americans have brought havoc. What a news-item

[usmcSaltDog]

12:51 PM on 01/30/2011

you dont have a clue whats going on in those countries. We are building schools in those places you mo|2on. When was the last time you were in Kabul or these "many other places" you speak of? Probably never. The only time someone like you goes anywhere is when your drunken step daddy needs your attention.

[Design4you]

01:43 PM on 01/30/2011

Sure, we build them schools and then they get blown up. Then we build them again, and they get blown up again. Sounds like a real sane plan, how could it fail.