Two Madison County high school kids, wearing George Bush and Spiderman masks, try to ride motorcycles down school hall

Jason Sandford

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Gotta love the end-of-the-school-year pranksters. These doofuses, as reported in the News Record & Sentinel, are out in Madison County:

Jacob Ballard and McClellan Clay Patterson were suspended from school for the remainder of the school year and told they would not be allowed to take part in graduation, Madison High School Principal Dr. Tony Tipton said.

The two – wearing masks – tried to ride two motorcycles into the lobby at the high school on Thursday, May 27. Madison County Deputy Pat Hefner, the resource officer at the high school, said he received a call from Assistant Principal Steve Bowlin that “we had two motorcycles try to get in the building.”

The two, one wearing a George Bush mask and the other a Spiderman mask, tried to enter the bus-riders entrance at the back of the main lobby. “One made it in,” Hefner said, but “there were several administrators in the breezeway” who stopped the other teenager.

The two riders then fled the campus on the bikes. A trooper later cited both with four traffic violations: having no endorsement to ride a motorcycle on a state road, driving a motorcycle on a road with no tag, no insurance, and no helmet.