Field......trip

Plot twist: Fake crime scene, real body.

High school criminology class’s field trip turns bizarre when corpse turns up.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Truth proved to be at least as strange as fiction for a high school criminology class investigating a fake crime scene after students discovered a real body on a field trip.

Teacher Sue Messenger has been planting fake skeletons with bullet holes and other evidence at mock crime scenes for more than 20 years to give her students a firsthand look at what crime scene investigators do.

"I think they kind of went into shock and disbelief, but also, you have to say it's completely bizarre," Messenger said. "I mean ... what are the odds that we would be out here?"

The discovery Monday at Fort Lauderdale's Holiday Park by 29 students from St. Thomas Aquinas High School jolted the class.

"It was a good crash course," said student Juan Cantor, 15. "The first thing we thought was, 'That's a real good dummy she set up.'"

The body of the man, in his mid-50s, was not immediately identified. He appears to have died recently of natural causes, Fort Lauderdale police Sgt. Andy Pallen said.

© 2006 The Associated Press.

Hmm, I wonder if he was into psuedo-necrophilia...ROFL

how come there was no criminology class when I was in school
lucky kids

gee all i took was film makeing and art ,i was ripped !

I have a Jr. high school story. There was this kid named Mike and everyone teased him, it was awful but I digress. He was in my Photography class and we were being shown the dark room for the first time. Mike was afraid of the dark or having a bladder issue, I am not sure which. He ended up pissing himself in the dark room in front of the entire class. When the lights went on there was Mike in a puddle of his own urine. He never lived that down even past high school. :(

...poor Mike... :(

...and that's pretty wicked, finding a real body! what are the odds indeed! :D