told CBS News on Friday.<\/a> \u201cAdrenaline rush. Then you don\u2019t get caught and it\u2019s like \u2018this is fantastic.’\u201d<\/p>\nInstead of arresting the underage pranksters, McGlaughn formed a special task force for an extravagant tactical operation in the small city 75 miles west of Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n
\u201cDear school kids of Cleburne County,\u201d McGlaughn wrote on Facebook. \u201cWe think that rolling the police department was a little uncalled for, but as we enter into Halloween season, we don\u2019t want to hear any crying when we load up like we are going to serve a search warrant and go full out tactical ninja style old school rolling at your place.\u201d<\/p>\n
McGlaughn warned the youngsters that they had messed with the wrong people because his department is made up of many personnel who grew up pulling the same pranks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know who you are and while you just put the PlayStation controller down for a week, we are children of the 80s and 90s who perfected this craft years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Police cars were left covered in the bathroom tissue after the high school seniors\u2019 prank. City of Heflin Police Department \/Facebook<\/p>\n
The police department\u2019s main building was dressed with rolls of toilet paper that covered the entrance, squad cars and the roof. City of Heflin Police Department \/Facebook<\/p>\n
McGlaughn used his initial warning to deceive the kids about when the revenge attack would be carried out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis whole time the class of 26 expected retaliation on Halloween night and I let them believe that. I learned early in my career that in any tactical situation, 3 things must be accomplished for success; speed, surprise, and violence of action,\u201d he wrote on Facebook after the \u201cmission.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Haflin Police Department, with the help of community members and other law enforcement agencies, launched their revenge attack under the cover of darkness on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n
\u201cOld school rules were put into place. We would park down the road and approach the target on foot,\u201d McGlaughn said, having his team sneak around so as not to set off any alarms or cameras.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost importantly, it was every man for themselves. Stragglers get left and have to make their way back on their own. It never fails that rule gets enacted in any rolling endeavor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
They targeted the homes of several students \u2014 with the permission of their parents.<\/p>\n
Drone footage captured toilet paper rolls being flung over the houses and covering the trees with the white bathroom tissue.<\/p>\n
Chief Ross McGlaughn talks to his officers before the nighttime attack on the students\u2019 homes. City of Heflin Police Department \/Facebook<\/p>\n
Toilet paper stream down from trees and onto the road after the officers\u2019 attack. City of Heflin Police Department \/Facebook<\/p>\n
Three houses were struck by the officers who attacked with \u201cmongoose-like speed and military precision.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy group was kicking butt like a pack of ninjas! Toilet paper hung from the branch of every tree and bush. I was proud of my team. They had 100 percent, absolutely, lived up to every bit of the hype I had talked them in to,\u201d McGlaughn said.<\/p>\n
Overnight weather caused the masterpieces to quickly spoil, as social media mocked the officers\u2019 attempt.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the next morning, the whiteout conditions we created were a soggy mess and just looked sad. We were mocked on social media for what appeared to be a feeble attempt, but what really only a select few know to be the Mona Lisa of rolling. I now know how the 1998 Atlanta Braves felt,\u201d McGlaughn wrote.<\/p>\n
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The police boss said the main goal of his revenge was to have fun with the community, and didn\u2019t see any harm in what the kids had done.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs long as they\u2019re doing this, they\u2019re not getting in trouble doing something else,\u201d McGlaughn told CBS News.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t seen any type of drugs or alcohol involved, because I think they\u2019re spending all their money on toilet paper,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n
Drone footage captured toilet paper rolls being flung over the houses and covering the trees with the white bathroom tissue. City of Heflin Police Department \/Facebook<\/p>\n
The Haflin Police Department, with the help of community members and other law enforcement agencies, launched their revenge attack under the cover of darkness on Oct. 29. City of Heflin Police Department \/Facebook<\/p>\n
The students were glad the police department took part in their antics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think it\u2019s good clean fun for everyone and it\u2019s been great for the whole town, the police department and everybody,\u201d one of the pupils said<\/p>\n
\u201cIt brings a sense of community,\u201d another offered.<\/p>\n
To help clean up the mess, the clever high schoolers began selling TP insurance to community members and will mobilize the \u201cToilet Paper Rapid Response Team\u201d to clean up the mess.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you buy their insurance and your yard gets rolled, the youth group will come clean it up for you,\u201d McGlaughn said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not getting off \u201cScott\u201d free. An Alabama police force playfully exacted revenge against a group of high schoolers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5334,11182,9,11,10,104,15993,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-24927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alabama","9":"tag-high-schools","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-pranks","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}