April Fools’ prank coats car on Rutherford

An anonymous tipster contacted the Aylmer Express about an April Fools’ Day prank in progress on Rutherford Avenue south of Talbot Street West by East Elgin Secondary School in Aylmer on Friday morning, April 1. By the time a reporter rushed out to try to catch the pranksters in action, the plastic wrap job on this car had already been completed and the perpetrators were no where in sight. Later that day, EESS Grade 13 student Shawn Vanderpluyn fessed up that he, Nicholas Neufeld and two other friends who wanted to stay anonymous played the joke on their mutual friend Logan Wilson. The jokesters took about an hour and used 1,080 feet of plastic wrap, at a total cost of $4 from a local discount store, to cover Mr. Wilson’s car. The two unnamed pranksters helped Mr. Logan take the plastic wrap off of his car, mostly to make sure no litter made it onto neighbouring properties.