Newton scavenger hunt
School administrators and local police are cracking down on the annual senior class scavenger hunt at Newton South High School in Massachusetts. The decades-old tradition has lately evolved "from a quest for silly and obscure items to an X-rated game of sex, drinking, drugs, and vandalism." Participants in this year's event earned points for things like stealing road signs and highway barrels, getting a middle-schooler to drink beer, finding a cab driver smoking pot, taking a Polaroid of yourself standing naked outside school and performing assorted sex acts. The school principal sputters, "Evidently in years past it was much more innocent. However, it has evolved into an event that is at a minimum disturbing and at the other end certainly criminal.... A whole bunch of kids sit around and try to think up the most outrageous things they can, and that's a very, very dangerous situation to be in."
