Pranks that went well: best of. A group of students at a highschool

[applegrove]

my older brother went to set a tennis ball machine up on the balcony of the dinning hall. Then they pointed the gun at the headtable, set the timer and stuffed chairs in the only stairs leading up to the balcony. Right in the middle of the meal it went off and started shooting tennis balls at the headmasters of this private school.

[struggle4progress]

1. Tis ever heartenin t'see th'nation's youth apply their wits an'learnin t'good purpose

[applegrove]

2. LOL!

[applegrove]

3. Actually, come to think of it, the story was from a friend of my sisters who went to the

same highschool as my brother, but a year later.

[BiggJawn]

4. That couldn't have happened in this century.

We could have gotten away with something like that back in the 70's, but today?

The whole lot would have been brought up on felony assault charges.

If a kid can be looking at 10 years for leaving a gawd-dam BLOWUP DOLL in the girl's room...

[applegrove]

5. It happened in the 1980s.

[Rochester]

6. Only if caught :)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

7. I bet that went well.

What's the rest of the story?

[applegrove]

13. I don't know the rest of the story anymore. It was told to me by my sister about 23 years ago.

[meegbear]

8. The best prank I heard of, but never saw and wish I did ...

was a story of some students releasing 3 goats into their school.

On the first goat, they painted a "1", on the second goat, a "2", and on the third goat, a "4".

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[WolverineDG]

9. Kids at my school used to

take the dividers out of the doors on both sides of the Main Mall & drive cars through it during Senior Days. By the time I was a senior, the admin had found a way around that, so one kid rode his motorcycle down it instead. (all done between classes when no one was in the hallways)

dg

[guitar man]

10. At our little rural school

back when I was in Jr High, I remember a new HS math teacher coming to town. She drove one of those tiny little first generation Honda cvcc civics. Some of the upper classmen pinched a couple 4 ton cable come-a-longs and some log chain from the FFA shop and proceeded to hoist her car up on top of the gym in the middle of the night. Nobody laughed about it harder than her when she saw her car sitting up there :D

[gratuitous]

11. A friend of mine went to the University of Michigan

Many, many hijinks, as you might imagine, particularly back in the 1970s. Anyway, the men and women on one floor of a dorm got into a feud, with each side pulling pranks on the other. The men ended it when one of them, who did his work/study as a custodian, had access to the locked storage room in the women's bathroom. A band of men sneaked into the women's bathroom one night, and removed all the dividers between the bathroom stalls, stacking them in the locked storage closet. The women wouldn't use the facilities sitting that close to one other, effectively cutting the occupancy rate in half, and they sued for peace within hours.

[TygrBright]

12. ahhhh.... Back when Jesus rode the dinosaurs....

...I was part of the crew that popped enough popcorn to completely fill the 9-foot long x 6 ft wide by 7 ft high, window-walled umbilical corridor that connected the "Administration" offices to the rest of the High School building, for "Senior Prank Week." (Seniors were allowed/expected to perpetrate some memorable prank during the last week before graduation as long as it did no actual property damage or injury. Those were more innocent times, for sure.)

I brought five big garbage bags full. We estimated it would take 375 cu. ft. of popcorn to do the job properly, and counting settling, smooshing, and handling problems, we wanted a round 400 cu. ft. to work with. We actually had just enough. We got there at 5:30 when the building opened and no one was there but one of the office staff and custodians who hung out elsewhere.

By the time the rest of the office staff arrived at 6:45 a.m. the deed was done. We'd snuck out the back Admin office entrance, which was also the entrance the Admin staff used to enter the building. The door from the Admin office to the little umbilical hallway opened outward into the hallway.

It was beautiful to watch. I wish we'd gotten pictures, but we felt that hanging around snapping pictures might have been a bit risky.

reminiscently,
Bright