“It was a lot better than getting toilet papered,” said Darrin White, whose house on Parker Drive was targeted with the prank.
White said he counted 87 pieces standing or hanging around his yard, trophies discarded after dance, soccer, baseball and softball award events.
“I thought it was kind of funny,” said Darrin White II, 14.
The Whites are the latest recipient of a prank conceived as a new kind of special recognition by the church’s youth minister, Shawn Acrey, after he noticed about 50 trophies in the trash outside a local dance studio in September.
“You’re a star in God’s eyes. Don’t break the chain. Go share the love with somebody else,” Acrey said was the message written on a sign including a list of other potential victims that traveled with the trophies.
Both parents said they saw this an opportunity to add to the display and get rid of some of their unwanted trophies or a ceramic Dutch couple yard ornament that came with the house. Their daughters, Julie, 16, and Brianna, 11, puzzled over who was responsible.
No one would say where the trophies would wind up next.
“It’s a surprise,” Darrin White said.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2261 or lbudd@DaytonDailyNews.com.
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