A group of scheming high school seniors seem to have gotten the last laugh on their whole town before graduation. On April 30, Facebook user Marlena Calobong about a prank played on the residents of Pasadena, Maryland. According to Calobong, high school seniors legitimately fooled townsfolk into thinking a Trader Joe’s was opening in their neighborhood.
“To my Pasadena friends,” Calobong wrote. “Yesterday the Senior class of our local high school pranked the ENTIRE town!” Calobong explains in the post that students hung a banner that read “Coming Soon” in front of a closed grocery store property. The banner also featured “Spring 2025” and the Trader Joe’s logo, in its signature white and red colors.
Calobong didn’t respond to TODAY.com’s request for comment. To the residents of Pasadena, it seemed and were about to be much easier to score.
Along with the exciting wording, a QR code was provided on the sign. But, instead of linking to any information on the opening, the code allegedly residents with Rick Astley’s 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” TODAY.
com attempted to scan the QR code, but the link seemed to be broken by May 28. “The whole town was abuzz yesterday morning, thinking we were getting a Trader Joe’s!” Calobong continued. “AND again this morning to find out it was just a prank.
..😂🤣😂” Like the other residents, Calobong still took the apparent prank on the chin: “Well, they got us all!!! That was a good one!!!” .
