Scavenger Hunt List for High School Shocks Community

One of the notable Patch stories from 2014.

Sachem East seniors taking part in a scavenger hunt Sunday night “created havoc all through the town,” according to one local resident, as they pursued a list of activities that ranged from the unsavory to the outright illegal.

Participants in the scavenger hunt, a tradition dating back years, received “points” for activities like driving 100 mph, stealing a mailbox and dancing on a grave, according to a list of obtained by Patch.

The list assigned point values for different activities. Some of them:

10 points- Steal a restaurant menu, shot gun a beer

20 points- Run through a white fence, steal a mailbox

30 points- Dance on a grave, run a red light

40 points- Steal a street sign, 10 shots in 10 seconds

Participants could receive 50 points for participating in a sex act or for defecating on someone’s doorstep.

Read the full list here.

There is no indication of how many students took part in the scavenger hunt or how many of the items on the list were actually completed, but several posts on Twitter suggest the hunt involved illegal activities.

More on Patch:

• TV Reporter: Sachem Students Bullied Me on Twitter Over Scavenger Hunt Story
• Officials: 8 Postal Workers Stole Packages Containing 129 Pounds of Marijuana
• Police: Drunk Ronkonkoma Man Steals Cab With 5 People Inside
• Police: Man Drove Drunk at 106 MPH With His 3 Kids in Car

A user with the handle @SachemSeniors tweeted: Kids windshields smashing kids getting black eyes from sachem security overall a night to remember #SENIORS2015 #ScavHunt14

A photo on Twitter showing a white car with the windshield smashed in has been “favorited” 248 times, mostly by Sachem East students.

Initial police reports from Sunday night do not seem to show an unusual uptick in reported criminal activity in the area. However, police said someone on Knickerbocker Avenue in Holbrook reported that their mailbox was stolen overnight.

The graves of four Civil War soldiers at Lake Ronkonkoma Cemetery were also damaged sometime over the weekend, according to the Lake Ronkonkoma Heritage Association.

Reached by phone Monday night, Sachem East Principal Lou Antonetti said he was “speechless” when he saw the activities on the scavenger hunt list, which he said was “definitely not a school sponsored event.”

“It’s not the way we want we want our students represented in the community,” Antonetti said.

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