Police Officer: All Your Friends Are Dead. Just Kidding!
In a briliant display of poor judgment, a California high school had a police officer inform students that 26 of their classmates had been killed in a car accident, all as part of a clever ploy to warn them of the dangers of drunk driving.
The students, and their parents, were understandably less than appreciative of the lesson after they became aware of the ruse.
El Camino officials defended how they handled the exercise, saying it gave students the opportunity to experience real grief."They were traumatised, but we wanted them to be traumatised," guidance counsellor Lori Tauber reportedly said.
Brilliant PR move, there. That's what every parent wants to hear. "No, guys, chill out! It's totally cool! We wanted to traumatise your kids!"
School pretends students have been killed to teach dangers of drink-driving [Telegraph]
Will O'Wisp
Posted to WTF? on 17 June 2008
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EPIC WTF!
I've heard about things like this going on for years - they did a much smaller version of it at my high school, but all the kids involved just happened to be part of the drama club, and most of the school knew about it before hand, so it really lost a lot of the effect.
Do scare tactics like this really work, anyway?