AN end-of-year scavenger hunt last night by Year 12 students from a prominent north Canberra school has left police responding to a number of incidents of theft, traffic hazards and disorderly behaviour.

Up to 100 students were believed to have been involved in the hunt, with a list of more than 60 tasks to complete, including stealing street signs, running naked through Civic, confining a Year 11 student and catching a wild animal.

Police spoke to one teen, who will be summonsed to attend court charged with causing public mischief. Police are investigating the incidents and envisage further charges will be laid against others involved.

Last week, there was an incident at an inner north private school where a possum was strung up a flagpole. Police said the were unable to establish whether the possum had been killed prior to the incident or as a result of the incident. Plants, toilet paper, wheelie bins and other items were overturned and strewn around the area in incidents which police believe were the result of Year 12’s “muck-up day”.

North district superintendent Mick Calatzis said when behaviour such as this gets out of hand and results in criminal offences such as property damage, public mischief or the risk of injury, then police will step in promptly.