Many students play pranks on teachers, but a group of US teenagers went a step further by attempting to sell their school.
Seniors at Meade High School in Fort Meade, Maryland, listed the property on an online property site “for a measly $42,069”, reports HuffPost. The school was described as a “nice half working jail” in which “all 15 bathrooms come with sewage issues”. Even though the property would come with a private basketball court, potential buyers would have to put up with “rodents and insects that will make you squeal”, warned the listing, which has now been removed.
Although the listing was “a little insulting”, said Bob Mosier, a spokesperson for the local county Public Schools, he admitted that “he found it funny”.
“This is incredibly creative advertising, but we are stunned that the listers so vastly underestimated the value of this prime real estate with amazing amenities,” Mosier said in a statement to media outlets. “Potential buyers surely will be flocking to snap this deal up, right? This won’t be on the market for long.”
It's not the first time that seniors in this schools district have hung a for sale sign on their school. In spring 2020, at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, students at Broadneck High School in Annapolis attempted the same prank.
“It, like the Meade High School prank, was simply funny,” Mosier told Patch. “No one was hurt, no property was damaged, and everyone got a great laugh.”