Erina: Yr 12 girls dance semi-naked in ‘scavenger hunt’ prank
A GROUP of girls have plunged one Central Coast high school into scandal after stripping down to their underwear and dancing in a fountain for an end of Year 12 “scavenger hunt”.
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A GROUP of girls have plunged one Central Coast high school into scandal after stripping down to their underwear and dancing in a fountain for an end of Year 12 “scavenger hunt”.
At least nine girls were in on the prank, which shocked onlookers at Erina’s busy Fountain Plaza business park about 12.45pm today with four girls getting partially naked — one without a bra — and dancing in the fountain.
A few elderly passers-by had to look away as the girls went wild, screaming and giggling as their friends filmed them on mobile phones.
When asked what they were doing, a number of the girls said they were from a particular Central Coast High School and on a “scavenger hunt”.
While an unsanctioned event, end of year scavenger hunts have been a long-held tradition at this school.
Past students said scavenger hunts were typically held on the last day of classes and involved a “list” of pranks, which if completed, were given a weighted “score” depending on how outrageous they were.
However a Department of Education spokesman said the school named by the girls was not aware of any unauthorised scavenger hunts planned for today.
He said there were only nine students reported absent today and only four of them were girls.
Scavenger hunts have largely replaced the former Year 12 muck-up day tradition.
However last year students of a prestigious Sydney private school issued a grovelling public apology to their neighbours in one of the city’s ritziest neighbourhoods for a muck-up day rampage.
Police were called when more than 100 Year 12 students from The Scots College overturned portable seating, damaged an external TV monitor and pelted buildings with watermelon, flour and eggs on September 15 last year.
The students at the $34,900-a-year school later published an apology in the local newspaper for their “appalling” behaviour.
The open letter published in the Wentworth Courier to the school’s Bellevue Hill neighbours said they were “remorseful” for their behaviour, which was “a discredit to the values which the College spent many years instilling in us”.
“We recognise that for you, our neighbours, it was your tranquillity we violated as we moved through your street as a rowdy group,” it said.
Do you know who was involved in the Fountain Plaza stripping prank?
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