For a Good Time, Call Linda Vista Elementary School
It was an innocent mistake, says school official
Normally you expect to find sex chat numbers in the back of adult magazines or the LA Weekly. But at Linda Vista Elementary, it was printed on the kids t-shirts.
The school was promoting a jog-a-thon fundraiser and printed shirts displaying a lion, their school mascot. The caption below featured the tag line "How's my running? Call 1-800 Eat Dust."
It was supposed to be a snarky, fun slogan.
Until a curious parent called the number and discovered it connected to a she-male sex chat line. Oops.
"It was an innocent mistake. Parents have been very understanding," Rosemary Gladden, public information officer for Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, told the Orange County Register.
The schools PTA, who printed the shirts, is not the first group to make the "typographical error" according to the Associated Press. The two word 800 number shows up online as part of a popular running slogan sold on T-shirts and merchandise.
Who knew?
The school believes they got all the T-shirts back but called parents just in case, Principal Jackie Howland said. No doubt when the news leaked, most untainted elementary school boys rushed to return theirs.
Despite the tiny typo, Howland says the jog-a-thon raised $25,000 for student activities.
