Coach Takes Middle School Team on X-Rated Prank

MARIETTA, Ga. — A coach faces charges after police said he led a group of students on a lewd Christmas prank in Marietta.Police said John Hayes, 46, loaded several middle schoolers into the back of his pickup truck, and drove them around after dark as they damaged Christmas displays.The group even made several homeowners’ displays X-rated, police said, including placing reindeer in sexual positions.A homeowner who did not want to be identified said he followed Hayes’ pickup truck and confronted him.

‘Are you crazy?’ and he said, ‘It’s just a bit of fun,’” the homeowner said.Other adults in the neighborhood aren’t laughing.“We try as hard as we can to keep our kids on the straight and narrow, and then to find out it was a parent actually doing this, it makes you wonder,” said Jennifer Schuchmann, one of the residents allegedly victimized by Hayes’ group.CBS 46 went to Hayes’ home Monday night, but he refused to come to the door. Police said Hayes refuses to give up the names of his young accomplices.more

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