Students Dupe Community, National Website with 'Tiger Scare'

After students evacuated South River for the second time in a week, some teens decided to turn the event into a playful "news" prank.

South River High students duped part of the community and a national news website by convincing them that a fully grown tiger was loose inside the school on Thursday. When students evacuated the school on Thursday due to a fire alarm—the second evacuation of the week—students speculated why they were once again being taken out of class. Earlier in the week, an unidentified odor caused administrators to pull the fire alarm. Thursday's alarm was pulled after a dryer malfunction. However, this time, the students decided to have some fun with it later that night. Using Tumblr, students created a fake news website called “Anne Arundel County News and Alerts,” similar to the popular Facebook page “Anne Arundel County Breaking News and Events.” …

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