Anyone who’s been to high school can likely tell you a thing or two about pranks. After all, they’re a fairly common part of growing up, particularly in environments where hundreds, if not thousands of young people are thrown together.
Yet though I was witness to my fair share of practical jokes during my school years, I don’t ever remember watching a prank play out that threatened someone’s life.
Call me old-fashioned, but I think there’s a definite, sacrosanct line that shouldn’t be crossed when it comes to pranks that put people in real danger. Like, for example, exposing them to something they’re highly allergic to.
That’s exactly what happened at Lake Travis High School, Texas, last year, when Carter Mannon’s football teammates decided to sprinkle peanuts in his locker.
Carter’s serious peanut allergy was reportedly diagnosed when he was just nine months old.
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“We had him sitting on the counter, and my husband was making a peanut butter sandwich right next to him. Carter reached his hand inside of the peanut butter jar and he ended up smearing it on himself,” his mom, Shawna Mannon, told PEOPLE in February 2024.
“He broke out in hives right away – it was a perfect handprint of hives. And that’s when we realized, ‘Oh, he must be allergic.’”
Through exercising caution, the young man has been able to live a normal life, and he was delighted to have made it onto the Lake Travis High School Varsity football team.
