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| Police call for end to Year 12 Student Muck-Up Day pranks |
| 2008-10-24 |
| POLICE have called for an end to muck-up day pranks, after a school was evacuated following the discovery of homemade bombs on the school grounds. Police were called to Brighton Secondary College, in Melbourne, yesterday morning, after a cleaner found a device containing wires and powder on Thursday night. Thinking it a hoax, the cleaner left it overnight for staff to find. But principal Julie Podbury decided to call in emergency services. More than a dozen police and fire units turned out to Marriage Rd in Brighton East, as 1000 students and 100 teachers were evacuated to the oval. The effort follows a week of muck-up day controversy, including the suspension of the entire year 12 at Xavier College, after drinking, violence and damage to neighbours' property. Students going home after the Brighton evacuation yesterday said the discovery followed at least one student letting off a smoke bomb in a corridor on Wednesday. Others said some year 12 students had been determined to out-do the Xavier College efforts. Yesterday, the Victoria Police bomb squad combed the campus and found two more devices, apparently incendiary - designed to cause fires or smoke. Staff said the VCE students were not allowed to have a muck-up day, with class continuing as normal this week. Det Sen-Sgt Steve White said year 12 students were the suspects. "Given the time of the year and muck-up day, certainly some of the students can expect a visit from the police," he said. "We've certainly got the names of six to a dozen that we want to speak to." |
| Posted by:Oztralian |