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Cowichan Secondary School festooned with toilet paper in 'overboard' grad prank

Island Savings Centre staffers noticed it as early at 4:30 a.m. when they began arriving at work.
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A few people have been on a roll at Cowichan Secondary School. The principal is not impressed.

Island Savings Centre staffers noticed it as early at 4:30 a.m. when they began arriving at work.

It's not known exactly when it happened but sometime overnight between Sunday and Monday the front grounds of Cowichan Secondary School were given the ol' TP treatment.

Toilet paper covered trees, grass, shrubbery, hung from the roof and the bus stop and pretty much anywhere the culprits could get it to stick — which wasn't too hard given the wet and soggy conditions outside. Later in the morning Principal Charlie Coleman confirmed it was a grad prank.

"We have several Grade 12 volunteers cleaning it up now," Coleman said. "For the most part, it is a very small group of kids who go overboard and a large group step up to fix it."

Coleman said staff at the school reminds grads that pranks should be harmless fun.

"Any costs associated with repairs or cleanup come out of the Grad Class Fund," he warned.