Petal Mississippi is a small town adjacent to Hattiesburg (The Big City.) Petal police are offering a reward for clues about the vandalism of Petal High School. Before the inside of the school was vandalized, these suspected teenagers had done a number on a new and very costly sign installed over the Petal football stadium.

The sign read in big red letters "HOME OF THE PANTHERS." Well, these kids snuck in one night and somehow climbed up to the big sign and neatly spray painted over the end of the sign and changed it to read "HOME OF THE PANTIES."

It took a company with a truck with a cherry picker bucket with a boom extension long enough to get up high enough to install the sign--but somehow these kids got up there and spray painted it with red paint that matched the sign, and did a nice neat job of it. The paper wrote about this incident many times, and even though these kids need to be caught, "HOME OF THE PANTIES" is still pretty funny.

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