The frozen net-post prank on Ingersoll

texture · ~1 Jan YDAU

• When: ~1 January YDAU — "last New Year's," as reckoned from the 20-Nov YDAU vantage of the reporting scene
• What: Rader "and them" got the younger Evan Ingersoll to press his tongue against a frozen tennis net-post; the tongue stuck fast and Ingersoll lost a small piece off the tip. The episode surfaces months later when Ortho Stice — himself frozen by a sweated forehead to his bedroom window — invokes it as the exact precedent for his own predicament. Earliest datable Rader beat, and the establishing entry in his prankster ledger.