Originally Posted by dieseldiehard

a few years back the local Indy (Larry, owner of MB Garage) started seeing cars with hood stars having been cut off, like with a shear or something. He was repairing them at a good clip then one day the principal from the local high school called and asked if he had been replacing many hood stars and how much he charged for each one. Said they had a small number of students that were wearing the stars on chains around their neck, maybe some sort of gang competition to see who had the most mercedes stars on their body.
The principal took all the stars, called the kids parents to come down and made them pay for each one!