Widefield – Most Mesa Ridge High School students got yearbooks with a black mark under one student’s picture, covering up a phrase that has caught the Secret Service’s interest.
After about 100 yearbooks were distributed May 6, somebody complained about the caption, which reads “most likely to assassinate President Bush.”
School officials asked students to return the yearbooks, and staff members used markers to cover up the words in those and the still-undistributed books.
“They kind of ruined our yearbook,” said Christina Tredway, who just graduated from the school.
Widefield School District officials said it was a prank that wasn’t caught before the yearbooks were printed.
District spokesman James Drew said future yearbooks will be triple-checked before printing.
Lon Garner, special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Denver District, said all threats against the president must be investigated.
“That’s our mission,” he said. “That’s what we do.”
