South High School students trick Google

High school’s location changed to Harambe Drive for a brief time

Three juniors reported to Google the school is located is named Harambe Drive, not Shankland Road.

For a short time, South High School in Willoughby was located on Harambe Drive, according to Google Maps.

This was thanks to three rising juniors at the school, who reported to Google that the street is named Harambe Drive, not Shankland Road.

Harambe is the name of the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo who was shot and killed after a 3-yearold fell into the gorilla enclosure on May 28.

Since then, the Western lowland gorilla has become an Internet meme, with everything from song parodies to Photoshopped images of the animal in former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ house . The renaming of the street has now been added to the long-running meme — at least in Internet terms. Harambe Drive caught the eye of Buzzfeed, who wrote a story about the boys and the hoax.

Max Brinton, one of the three boys, told Buzzfeed that on July 10 he enlisted the help of his friends to report an error on the street’s name.

“It just kind of came to me one day,” Brinton said to BuzzFeed. “I had no faith that they would actually change it. I was 99 percent sure nothing would happen.”

But, as Chris Gallagher, another one of the three, noticed on July 22, Google did change the street name.

The trick was shortlived, however, and Google has since changed the name of the street back to Shankland Road.