Teens Fill Yard with Forks, Plastic Wrap Car

Two Severna Park High School athletes were recently the recipients of some "decorating" by their fellow teammates.

Claire Hanratty's U18 Green Hornets Select Softball team "forked" her front yard with white plastic utensils after a team sleepover. Claire's parents, Laura and Dennis Hanratty, were good-natured as they joined Claire in their front yard to remove the forks.

Dennis Hanratty said the joke may prevent him from having to use a rototiller on the yard in the spring. They all agreed it was better than toilet paper strewn from the trees.

Next door neighbor Sam Pershall, the high school's county cross-country champion and county indoor 1600-meter and 800-meter indoor track champion, also had a surprise Sunday.

Sam and his teammates have a little friendly "decorating war" going on, said his mother, Ann Pershall.

Sam awakened on Sunday to his car wrapped in plastic wrap. As he unwound  the streams of plastic encircling his compact car, he theorized that the prank was a payback by a friend who he pulled one on the day before with similar decorating. The note on the windshield read "no more bro-romance."

Both teens found the decorating humorous and all in good fun. However, the Pershalls do have toilet paper hanging from their tree on the front yard, maybe that was from Ann Pershall turning "the big 5-0?"