A class of high school seniors fooled their entire town into thinking a Trader Joe's was being erected at the site of an abandoned grocery store.
Last month, Pasadena, Maryland, local Marlena Calobong said as part of their senior prank, students at Northeast High School duped the town's nearly 32,000 residents into believing the beloved grocery chain was making its way to their neighborhood.
"To my Pasadena friends... Yesterday the Senior class of our local high school pranked the ENTIRE town! They hung a banner in front of an empty grocery store property that said, "Coming Soon: Trader Joes" with a QR code that Rick-Rolls you ("Never gonna give you up" by Rick Astley). The whole town was abuzz yesterday morning, thinking we were getting a Trader Joe's!" Calobong captioned a photo of the banner on Facebook.
"AND again this morning to find out it was just a prank... Well, they got us all!! That was a good one!!!" she wrote.
"Kids can be so cruel," one person commented.
"I have a weird feeling traders will get wind of how thrilled everyone on fb was yesterday to be getting one in our area that they will put one in here. Just sayin," another hopeful person wrote.
