And so it begins....

[Amina516]

Our Senior prank included stealing all the plastic forks from the cafeteria and using them to write our graduation year (very largely) in the lawn outside the school.

Yeah....not so crazy. But no one got arrested.

[AccountingDrone]

We floated the photography teacher's VW in the school pool.

[lordlundar]

A senior prank is handing the principal a marble when you shake his hand getting your diploma.

...

<raises hand>
guilty
And not ashamed of it either. A class of several hundred watching the principal try to maintain his pockets and his composure is a beautiful sight.

[Crossbow]

...

<raises hand>
guilty
And not ashamed of it either. A class of several hundred watching the principal try to maintain his pockets and his composure is a beautiful sight.

Damn right it is. Especially when it's on a raised wooden stage. And 370+ students are in on it...

<raises hand>

[XCashier]

I have nothing against a harmless prank, there were rumors about a Gangnam Style flash mob; which would've been awesome.

Yes, it would've! I daresay even the sternest teachers would've gotten a giggle out of it.

It takes much more creativity and cleverness to come up with a harmless, genuinely funny prank than the unfunny vandalism and injurious "pranks" that are far too often done.

[mathnerd]

I'm probably an old fuddy duddy, but I also don't see the humor in "pranks" involving animals. I also don't see the humor in making a couple of janitors run around for hours chasing after said animals, then having to be the ones to clean up the resulting mess. Those people work too hard for not enough money and not nearly enough appreciation to have to bear the brunt of somebody's "joke".

That said, truly funny, harmless pranks are an art form. The "hand a marble to the principal" prank never gets old, though my headmaster was prepared and had a basket on stage to receive any gifts he might be given. I've also been involved in a practical joke where we got a couple of real police officers to interrupt the last 2 minute's of a friend's class (friend was the professor) and tell him that they "need to talk to him", then escorted him across campus to the conference room, where the joke was ended because the dean couldn't keep a straight face.

[fireheart]

I have nothing against a harmless prank, there were rumors about a Gangnam Style flash mob; which would've been awesome. But this is insane.

I've been joking that my boyfriend's medieval re-enactment group should do Gangnam Style in their kits. (sans swords and shields)

I'm floating around the idea of suggesting that all the groups do Gangnam Style (with new lyrics of course ) in the medieval fair arena the following year.

[Blue Ginger]

Brings back memories of the Muck Up days at my high school. We had very strict rules in place. Nothing that caused damage. Nothing that would cause stains. Nothing that would hurt people. No animals. Anyone that broke the rules had to do their exams in the city and were not allowed to come to the graduation night.

The year 12's always had a water fight at the front of the school. Think 100 year 12's in costumes drenching everyone and anyone who went past. The year 7's were able to purchase a charity ribbon that prevented them from being targeted. If you were busted spraying them, you had to surrender your water gun and were put in the 'sin bin' for 5 minutes. Teachers could be targeted.

Some of the things that happened were:
- all the chairs from the year 10 classrooms were stuck into the cyclone fencing across the back of the school.
- gold fish were all moved into one pond and bubbles were put into the main fountain/pond at the front of the school.
- various teachers cars were toilet papered or were covered in streamers. This happened to at least one a year.
- The art rooms had all the light globes removed and put into the darkroom in the photography lab.
- the staff room floor was covered in bouncy balls and marbles.
- faces were drawn on windows in fake snow.
- labels were changed in the home ec room. Flour labeled as sugar, rice labeled as flour, etc.

Our year, one group took all the tables and chairs from the year 11 classrooms, put them in the hallway, hung streamers and then filled the rest of the space with balloons. Some of the balloons had glitter and rice and confetti in them.
Another group put plugs in all the long drinking fountains and then filled them with chunks of jelly.

One of the other rules was the year 11's had to clean up everything that was done for muck up day, not the cleaning staff. We had some year 11's encouraging us to do more so they could get out of certain classes.

[fireheart]

Some of the things that happened were:
- all the chairs from the year 10 classrooms were stuck into the cyclone fencing across the back of the school.
- gold fish were all moved into one pond and bubbles were put into the main fountain/pond at the front of the school.
- various teachers cars were toilet papered or were covered in streamers. This happened to at least one a year.
- The art rooms had all the light globes removed and put into the darkroom in the photography lab.
- the staff room floor was covered in bouncy balls and marbles.
- faces were drawn on windows in fake snow.
- labels were changed in the home ec room. Flour labeled as sugar, rice labeled as flour, etc.

Our year, one group took all the tables and chairs from the year 11 classrooms, put them in the hallway, hung streamers and then filled the rest of the space with balloons. Some of the balloons had glitter and rice and confetti in them.
Another group put plugs in all the long drinking fountains and then filled them with chunks of jelly.

One of the other rules was the year 11's had to clean up everything that was done for muck up day, not the cleaning staff. We had some year 11's encouraging us to do more so they could get out of certain classes.

Just a quick note: in most states apart from mine, high school starts at Year 7 (mine is Year 8). so basically the little 'uns don't get hit.

As for the rest of that, I can see that happening at my old high school.

Rumours went around that the deputy principal never took his car to school on the day. He always took a taxi.

My cousins' high school had the rule that if you caused any damage to school property, you were suspended and not allowed to sit your exams. Given that for a number of topics, your exams made up anywhere from 30-50% of your grade...

(the old system used to be a mixture of three choices: PES (half exam, half assessment tasks), PAS (70% assessment tasks, 30% non-formal moderated something-this generally applied to the Arts and certain topics) or SAS (completely school-based). Now it's either HESS G (exam) or HESS R (no exam. The mixture of topics you did resulted in whether or not you were eligible for university entrance. Not sure what the PES/PAS/SAS ratio was, but it had to be 4 HESS G and 1 HESS R. Music was either HESS G or R depending on what you wanted to specialise in. You had to pick two areas to focus on from a list of eight. If you picked the theory topic + any other topic, you were HESS G. If you picked two other topics, you were HESS R.)