You can never underestimate the innovativeness of American Farm Boys:
At a high school in Kansas, a group of male students played a prank.
They let three goats loose inside the school.
But before turning them loose, they painted numbers on the sides of the goats: 1, 2 and 4.
School Administrators spent most of the day looking for No. 3.
Now that's funny, I don't care who you are...And you thought there was nothing to do in Kansas .
http://www.ktvn.com/Global/story.asp?s=6906696
So, the fines were to cover the cost of the Administrators that were finally doing a little work???
Yikes! Hadn't heard this story! I'll have to forward this link to the person who sent me the joke.
Maybe. Or maybe not.
I'm not saying it couldn't have happened. But unless someone can vouch for the true story, I would wonder if the paper itself hadn't reported on a well-known joke. It's happened before.