Virginia school board meeting became victim of Bart Simpson-inspired prank

Last week, a school board in Virginia received a hilarious prank directly from Bart Simpson’s script.

period The Simpsons In its heyday, a popular running gimmick saw Bart call Moe’s Tavern anonymously, asking to talk to interesting and creative customers like “Seymour Butz.”

The joke is that when Moe starts asking for help out loud (for example, telling them “I want Seymour Butz”), the surroundings will be fun.

Although these jokes may not be so common in shows these days, an unidentified prankster continues to dig out the format of comedy gold in real life.

Last Thursday, August 26, at a meeting of the Henrico School Board of Trustees, the board member Pastor Dr. Roscoe D. Cooper III began to convene members of the public who had registered to speak.

It quickly became apparent that the names on the list for public comment during the meeting were actually not real names at all.

Neither Cooper nor anyone else on the school board noticed any problems.

In a lively minute, he invited each of “Phil McCraken”, “Suck Mahdick”, “Ophelia McCaulk”, “Eileen Dover”, “Don Kedick” and “Wayne Kerr” to the podium in turn, because each The names are ignored and suspended.

It didn’t take long for social media to discover this prank, Twitter The release of the video received 7 million views and more than 76,000 reposts.

Cooper, the pastor of Rising Mount Zion Baptist Church, later admitted to the hoax when replying to a tweet highlighting the hoax.

“I have been laughing since then, but these names are completely incomprehensible to me,” he wrote. “I don’t know they are illegal.”

Weekly newspaper Cooper has been contacted to comment further on this video.

However, this brief moment of indiscretion is in stark contrast to scenes that have appeared at other school board meetings in the United States, where officials voted to introduce the requirement to wear masks. Understatement threat And baseless allegations Linking face masks to child sex trade.

After his predecessor Michelle’Micky’ Ogburn resigned in April, Cooper was elected chairman.

According to NBC12, Ogburn resigned after being criticized for sharing social media posts in March. Announced that Dr. Seuss Enterprise will stop publishing several books.

Ogburn shared a viral Facebook The post depicts the classic Grinch character with Dr. Seuss raising his middle finger. This photo is accompanied by a poem, shocked by the decision to stop publishing these books.

According to reports, the former school board chairman shared the post and made a comment: “I like this book and Dr. Seuss’s book.”