College and pranks go hand-in-hand. When I was at college, my roommates once covered everything in my room in tin foil when I went home for the weekend. Another time we replaced our friend's wine with non-alcoholic vino and watched her make a fool out of herself.
Pranks work best when they're harmless, funny, and don't land you in trouble with cops.
But that's exactly what happened at Northwest Iowa Community College (NCC) in the city of Sheldon back in March.
Prior to the global pandemic resulting in nationwide lockdown measures, three female students placed skin from their feet in a bag of their roommate's cheese, nwestiowa.com has reported.
The incident took place in an Osceola Hall dorm room on March 13, and saw 20-year-old Lindsey Ann Cundiff of Pocahontas, IA, 19-year-old Kyiah Elaine Kastner of Sanborn, IA, and 20-year-old Ellie Thompson of Parker, SD, look on as their roommate tucked into a snack - totally unaware that they were actually eating dead foot skin.
It is unknown if the disgusting act was carried out as a prank or whether there was some genuine malice behind their actions, but the three were later charged by the Sheldon Police Department on Monday, April 20.
The student who ate the skin shavings has only been identified as "a fourth roommate".
Per VICE, Kristin Kollbaum, a spokesperson for the college, said in an email: "We hold the quality of instruction and safety of our students and employees as our highest priorities. We are aware of the incident and are cooperating with the proper authorities in the investigation."
It has also been revealed that just five days after the "fourth roommate" ate her roommates' literal foot skin, NCC canceled all in-person classes and resorted to online education as a result of the outbreak.
At the time of the incident, it is important to note that no cases of the novel coronavirus had been reported in the state of Iowa.
