Oh, come on, you can bulls*** people easily. Thinking up some really bizarre caper top pull off on school administrators takes talent and planning. He invested 5 or 10 minutes of make believe to an idiot that passed it off with their own (former) journalistic credibility.
IMHO, that doesn’t hold a candle to guys who reassemble a VW on the roof of, or deep inside, a school. ;-)
We carried the principals English Ford out on the beach pier crossways. It fit almost perfectly.