Three Under Investigation After Vulgar Image Chemically Burned Into Football Field

TEMPERANCE (WWJ) -- An investigation is underway into a parent and two teens who allegedly burned a phallic symbol into the grass at Bedford Senior High School as a prank.

Monroe County Sheriff's office is preparing charges for the mother and her 16-year-old daughter and 17-year old son over the vulgar image that was left on the school's football field.

Bedford Schools School Board President Michael Smith said that volunteers are helping to figure out how to repair the field -- which was damaged with some sort of weed killer -- in time for the homecoming game next weekend.

"It's like something that you would use for poison ivy, or something like that," Smith said. "It's a little bit stronger chemical to make that kind of damage happen so quickly."

Police believe the three were emulating an Internet prank. Smith said that the field will cost about $10,000 to repair.

"The concern in talking with the expert -- the landscape expert that's on premise that we're working with and with volunteers to make repairs -- the concerns is that we don't know exactly what was used because it was used in multiple spots," Smith said."We take a lot of pride in our community stadium and we want to make sure that it looks beautiful," Smith said.

No charges have yet been filed in the case.

"We're disappointed that somebody felt that they had to put that image on a district with such pride."