All sheep, report to the principal's office

There's a high school in Montana where kids played a prank that completely frustrated the faculty. We won't name the school because they're already embarrassed enough without being identified.

Students, who remain unknown by authorities to this day, somehow obtained live sheep for their prank. The idea must have been nurtured by the much- viewed mattress commercial with the numbered sheep wandering about.

Late one Sunday night an unknown number of students spray painted numbers on the sides of each of the sheep and then placed the gentle creatures at various locations throughout the school.

The clever students were able to circumvent school security, because no alarms went off. Everything on the campus appeared completely normal as school faculty and staff began arriving Monday morning.

It was not long before there was the report from a science teacher of a sheep in one of her labs on the second floor. The sheep had the number two spray painted on its side. A short time later the librarian made a frantic report of a sheep with the number one painted on its side roaming among the stacks.

It wasn't until the principal arrived and unlocked his office that sheep number four was spotted behind the big guy's desk. Okay, so the staff had now located sheep numbers, one, two, and four. What about sheep number three?

The staff checked everywhere. The custodian even climbed up into the bell tower expecting to find sheep number three. Nothing.

By the time school was dismissed at 3 pm, sheep number three was still among the missing.

The sad fact is, sheep number three hasn't been found to this day - and it's been six months since the day of the infamous deed.

You don't suppose...? No, the students would do a thing like that. Not to their faculty friends!

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