On Tuesday, The Daily ran a post-April Fools Day guide to getting back at everyone who got you on April 1. It included a variety of suggestions, from fake craigslist ads to super-glued shoes.
In return we got, well, exactly what we deserved.
Late Wednesday night, a group of students scattered hundred of Easter eggs across the South Oval and around Oklahoma Memorial Union.
Inside? A treat — a piece of chocolate, a penny — and a while slip of paper. On the paper? A breathless announcement that the recipient of the egg had won a prize (!) and needed to call a certain phone number to collect said prize. The number? The Oklahoma Daily’s newsroom.
The calls started coming in 10:18 Wednesday, before the next day’s paper was even finished (the note said to call before 5 p.m. Thursday).
Not every number belonged to The Daily (we know, we checked). A couple of eggs had a number for Vice President of Student Affairs Clarke Stroud, and another led us to a tired-sounding woman manning a roadside assistance hotline (“Are you calling about the prize?” she asked, sounding bored.)
But the vast majority of the numbers were for The Daily’s newsroom, opinion desk or photo desk.
So, in case you were wondering, there is no prize.
Except the one that goes to Pe-Et, the senior honor society responsible for the eggs-travaganza.
Well played, ladies and gentlemen. We got punked.
Meredith Simons/The Daily
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kcreasey 3 years, 1 month ago
This is one of the best Pe-et pranks I've seen in a while. I think the last one I can remember that I liked was the fake retirement of President Boren.
ricflair 3 years, 1 month ago
i saw some of the landscaping staff giving them to random students
pe_et 3 years, 1 month ago
there were hundreds. happy easter.