Tales from the front office (long)

[Eevie]

The best senior prank I've heard of was when the seniors released three pigs into the school, and had painted numbers on the pigs' sides: 1, 2, and 4.

Which drove the faculty and authorities crazy because they were wondering "where's pig #3?"

Holy crap that's awesome! Seriously I've been giggling at this for a good ten minutes now. I like how it's still funny, but not destructive (aside for a mess or two that are no doubt going to have to be cleaned up).

No... I'm not searching for ideas for this year's prank.... Why do you ask?

[KatherineB]

One lot of seniors at my school stupidly wrote 'Class of 1993' on the quadrangle at my school. The grass quadrangle. In weedkiller.

Yeaaaah.

[Racket_Man]

We had somebody blow up a locker.

hmmm that along with locker fires and filling lockers with shaving cream were monthly occurances during my time in HS back in the mid 1970s.

The semester was never complete with out at least one good locker fire and fire alarms going off with one floor with smoke fill halls in between classes.

One lot of seniors at my school stupidly wrote 'Class of 1993' on the quadrangle at my school. The grass quadrangle. In weedkiller.

Yeaaaah.

I think either my class or the class after mine painted the street in front of the school with the worlds CLASS OF 19XX the WHOLE width and length of the 3/4 of a block in front of school.

[ozcatbug]

We didn't do much. Just had the school principal taken away in the back of a police car.

[fireheart]

We didn't do much. Just had the school principal taken away in the back of a police car.

I do believe this requires details.

We had our "muck up day" (aka senior "prank" day) cancelled after the following occurred the year before my class:

-Smeared grease and oil onto all of the handrails around the school.
-Urinated on several walls or dumped urine on or near them (the music room stank because of it, our lesson was done with the doors OPEN that day)
-Trashed one of the upstairs toilets to the point of closing it down.
-One guy did a streak from one end of the school to the other (commonly nicknamed the "spine") wearing nothing but a skirt and "shirt" made from used/opened condoms.
-People were shrinkwrapping others.
-Some guy's scooter got shrinkwrapped.
-Shaving cream, talcum powder and water bombs were popular.
-About half a dozen guys covered themselves in vegemite and stood out near the entrance to the school (being "tanned")

Apparently up until then as well, the deputy principal ALWAYS got a taxi to school on muck-up day.

[Eevie]

We didn't do much. Just had the school principal taken away in the back of a police car.

O.O Please elaborate...

[Jay 2K Winger]

We didn't do much. Just had the school principal taken away in the back of a police car.

Gonna echo what others have said.

You don't post something like that and not give details.

[Peppergirl]

I actually feel bad - 25 years later. I was supposed to be suspended at the end of the year, right before graduation (for reasons I won't get into ), and the principal DIED suddenly several days before graduation.

Yeah, my suspension got lost in the chaos that ensued.

[EricKei]

Semi-related on the "almost-suspended-but-not" front:

On the very last day of class, a guy who was basically .00001 GPA short of being Valedictorian, never once had so much as a tardy, etc, decided to make his mark on this last day. No, it wasn't me 8p. He was a genuinely nice guy, tho. He just did something really reckless and stupid, with equally bad timing...Sit a while and listen...

He put water and some powders into a GLASS coke bottle, and that within a backpack (presumably he was trying to limit the amount of glass shards flying thru the air?), intending to shake it all up, drop it into a trash can, and run like hell. Unfortunately, our school Disciplinarian spotted him during the shaking process, and, for some reason, decided that the best way to handle a suspicious package like this was to OPEN it on the spot, over said Senior's now-wide-eyed objections. Boom.

The man got some minor cuts on his hand because he attempted to grab the bottle, but no other injuries took place. All he needed was a bandage/wrap for a few days.

The Senior? Well, normally this would easily have been expulsion-worthy (because someone was injured; had it gone as planned, it likely would have meant a summer of helping the janitors clean up the entire school)...But the kid was from a "donator" family (to the school), so his only punishment was that he didn't Graduate on stage -- read: still got his diploma, but it was just mailed to him, and they made him sit off to the side and watch everyone else accept theirs. I imagine his parents ripped him a new one, as well.

[ozcatbug]

This is the story of how our graduating class got our principal taken away in the back of a police car.

First a bit of background. When I started in year 7, our school started a pilot program where a police officer would be stationed at the school. His or her job was to encourage good relations between students and the police, and to dispel a lot of myths about police. The police officer would be stationed at the school for the full year, with the option to extend the position at the end of the year, or they could return to the local police station. Our police "Senior" (which is what they were called as they were usually a senior constable) went on all the school camps, helped in legal studies classes, helped in driver's ed, etc. You get the idea. End background.

Since we had been the first class that had gone through the entire 6 years with our "Senior" (by graduation we were on our 3rd "Senior" and our 1st police woman) we had a special place in the hearts of our police. Plus there were three year 12 students that had fathers that were in the police (I was one), so "Senior" was willing to help us out when we came up with our ultimate prank.

On our last day, our school captains told the principal that the year 12's would like an assembly to address the rest of the school. He agreed . We started the assembly, with the captains telling the rest of the school all the things we thought they needed to know to finish high school, when all of a sudden we could all hear the sound of a siren. Around the corner of the year 12 common room comes a police car, which stops near the assembled students. "Senior" and a policeman get out of the car and walk towards the principal. They then direct him to the car and help him get in to the back. The siren is put back on, and to the cheers of the entire student body and faculty, the principal is taken away in the back of the police car.

Of course "Senior" had to get approval from the principal before our stunt, which we are still amazed he allowed. We also wanted him to be handcuffed, but we were told that wouldn't be happening. Oh well, we still lived the dream that every student around the world wants to happen.

[fireheart]

Reminds me of a Year 4 assembly.

Picture if you will, a deputy principal and a school principal. The deputy principal supports one of the state football teams. The principal supports the other. Both of them declare this by having footy scarves on their doors.

On the day of the assembly, it also happened to be Showdown, where these two teams are playing against one another (for some reason, we call it the Showdown because of this, despite the fact that Victoria has 8 football clubs and are most likely playing each other at some point...). The deputy principal walks in like normal and takes a seat.

Then the principal just RUNS in with the deputy's scarf, throws it on the floor and jumps up and down on it.

Cue about 200-something students pissing themselves laughing