Rude schoolboy prank visible from space
Ooh, what a whopper
By Adamson Rust: Wednesday 31 January 2007, 11:18
BOYS WILL BE BOYS and just can't help indulging in tasteless
graffiti. But, according to local newspaper the Southern Daily
Echo, this time their japes are visible from space.
Lads at a Southampton school etched a 40-foot long penis into grass
using weedkiller two years ago, the Echo said. And even though
teachers at the school took a dim view of the jape and re-seeded
the lawn, the evidence is still clearly visible.
The Echo report is here.
http://www.thisissouthampton.co.uk/display.var.1158083.0.whos_been_a_naughty_boy.php
School's rude awakening as pranksters' picture goes global AS
end-of-school teenage pranks go, it's a whopper. So big, in fact,
it can be seen from space!
Click here to take a look at the satellite shots of Bellemoor
When staff at a Southampton school looked up their site on the
internet they spotted an embarrassing appendage.
Clearly visible from 300 miles above the planet was a 40ft-long
drawing of part of a male anatomy. It had been burnt into the grass
using weed killer as an end of term joke two years ago.
Teachers at Bellemoor Secondary School in Upper Shirley had
re-seeded the lawn once and thought they had removed the phallic
image.
But their relief turned to horror after the giant shape was
captured on aerial and satellite images and could be seen on the
Internet. Although the grass has now covered the graffiti, the
satellite images have not yet been updated and can be viewed around
the world..
Advertisement continued...One 14-year-old boy from the school, who
asked not to be named, said: "It was hilarious when the school
staff found it.
"They replanted the patch of grass but it took quite a while to
grow back and there was nothing they could really do about it in
the meantime.
"It was even funnier when people found out you could see it in
aerial and satellite photos on the Internet.
"A link to one of the sites has been doing the rounds on e-mail and
now nearly everyone in the area knows about it."
Chef Tom Bucknell, 26, also spotted the giant image while using the
Microsoft website to locate a friend's house.
He said: "I use the website to get directions and download maps and
I was scrolling across an aerial photo of the area when I spied
something which looked rather strange.
"When I zoomed in, I had to do a double take, but there it was as
plain as day.
Speaking on behalf of the school, Claire Port from Southampton City
Council said: "Some Year 11 pupils used weed killer on the front
lawn to draw a large penis.
"It was just one of those high jinks incidents. The school
responded to this by replanting the area. They assumed that was the
end of the matter.
"But unfortunately, owing to modern technology, it seems as if the
drawing has come back to haunt them."
Not too far from Southampton at Cerne Abbas, can be found a rather
larger but officially sanctioned piece of ancient graffiti -
here.
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/majorsites/cerne_abbass.html
