AURORA, Ill. (STMW) — A pair of East Aurora High School students decided to pull a prank while on a school bus Monday afternoon. But the State Police weren’t laughing.
The bus was returning from a field trip to the Holocaust Museum in Skokie around 2 p.m. According to State Police, two students decided to amuse themselves on the long ride home by writing signs and flashing them at passing drivers.
One sign read “Please help us,” and the other said “We were kidnapped,” according to police.
Some concerned drivers saw the signs and called State Police, who pulled the bus over at New York and Kendall streets in Aurora around 2:20 p.m. Police removed the two students from the bus and spoke to them on the side of the road.
No charges were filed, police said, but parents and school administrators were contacted.
Clayton Muhammad, spokesman for the East Aurora School District, said the students would be disciplined.
“We understand it’s a joke,” Muhammad said, “but it could be taken seriously.”
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