Mom, Teens Suspected of Using Weed Killer in Phallic Football Field Prank

A southeast Michigan school district is scrambling to relocate a slate of football games and other activities after vandals used weed killer to deface the football field with a 100-yard likeness of male genitalia.

Monroe County authorities are questioning a 50-year-old woman, her 16-year-old daughter and a 17-year-old male in connection with X-rated vandalism at the Bedford High School, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Superintendent Mark Kleinhaus said the vandalism is “just absolutely ridiculous,” but the nothing to laugh about. It could cost the district $10,000 to repair the field.

The outline of the the super-sized male anatomy began appearing in the days after Labor Day, when officials think the vandalism occurred. As the weed killer began to work, it left a “very inappropriate, disgusting symbol,” Kleinhaus said.

He allows that whoever is responsible “probably had no idea of the impact,” but said the vandalism “ isn’t a little prank misdemeanor,” but a felony.

Authorities think the suspects got the idea from the Internet.

The Tampa Bay Times reported in June that a high school had to move its graduation ceremonies after finding unmistakable outline of genitalia in the grass at a nature preserve. The story had a viral following on social media, but the prank before that, Google satellites captured a similar prank at Fairfield College in New Zealand in 2011. Google Earth satellites captured images of another schoolyard penis in 2007.