Piping up: Richwoods High School senior class prank is drawing national attention

PEORIA — A prank by the 2024 senior class of Richwoods High School has gone national.

The New York Post has picked up details of the prank from a story published by the Peoria Journal Star last week, in which the newspaper told the tale of how students hired a bagpipes pipe major to follow around Richwoods principal Billy Robison for an hour at school, playing non-stop.

"It was the all-time best prank," Robison told the Journal Star. "Nothing got broken, no one got hurt and no mess to clean up. I loved it."

WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio, WDEF in Chattanooga, Tenn. and other outlets around the nation picked up the story.

WSRZ-FM radio 107.9 in Coral Cove, Fla., carried the story on its digital site, writing "Talk about putting the 'NOIS'E in Illinois."

The story also has appeared with WIYY-FM in Baltimore, KDVC-FM in Columbia, Mo., KQYB-FM in La Crosse, Wis., WBAB-FM in Southhampton, N.Y., WROR-FM in Framingham, Mass., and was still spreading to more outlets on Tuesday morning.

Dave Eminian is the Journal Star sports columnist, and covers Bradley men's basketball, the Rivermen and Chiefs. He writes the Cleve In The Eve sports column for pjstar.com. He can be reached at 686-3206 or deminian@pjstar.com. Follow him on X.com @icetimecleve.