High drama over April 1 prank
2009-04-02 12:00
Tirana - An Albanian high-school class played a dangerous April fool's prank on their teacher when all of them took sedatives and fell asleep in class, local media reported on Thursday.
All 20 students of a class in a school in Saranda, on Albania's southern Adriatic coast, swallowed one or two Diazepam pills. They obtained the drug, similar to Valium, in a pharmacy, reports said.
When the teacher saw his entire class slip into a deep slumber, he grew frantic and had all his students transported to a hospital, where the joke unravelled.
The school director described the prank as "collective idiocy". - dpa
- SAPA