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Ontario students put a sports car on school roof as graduation prank

When students at Grimsby Secondary School made their way to class on Monday, they noticed something peculiar when they looked up. A sports car sat on the school's roof, with the school's mascot, Baldwin the eagle, in the front seat.
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A group of graduating students put a Jaguar on the roof of their high school. (Photo courtesy of Matt Lalonde)
As It Happens6:09High school students put Jaguar on roof as graduation prank

When students at Grimsby Secondary School, in the Niagara region of Ontario, made their way to class on Monday, they noticed something peculiar when they looked up. A sports car sat on the school's roof. The school's mascot, Baldwin the eagle, sat in the front seat. 

Grimsby Secondary School's mascot sits in the front seat of the Jaguar. (Photo courtesy of Matt Lalonde)

Six students put the Jaguar sports car there the previous night as a graduation prank. 

"I think everyone [at school] liked it," Matt Lalonde, one of the Grimsby students involved, tells As it Happens host Carol Off. 

The students bought the Jaguar on Kijiji for $750 in May. Over the next few weeks, they took the car apart and built a wooden structure to use as a frame for the reassembled car parts. 
Part of the wood frame the teens built. (Photo courtesy of Matt Lalonde)
 

On Sunday, the students pulled pieces of the car onto the school's roof. 

"We had to build a pulley system and we were going to be pulling it up by hand. So, we didn't want it to be too heavy," says Lalonde.  

Lalonde says they were "expecting to get in a lot of trouble" when the prank was revealed this week. But, he says, school administrators took it "pretty well." 

As for his parents, Lalonde says they were "relieved" everything went all right.  

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