Topic: Best High School pranks (Read 26435 times)

ErrantVenture · « **on:** 18 Oct 2010, 21:06 »

High School pranks were always fun. Share yours with the rest of us for amusement and idea fodder!

I seem to recall a friend of mine sneaking a keylogger he wrote onto a few of the computers in our school's library. Our school had 3500 students and by the end of the week he had about 1000 unique user accounts/passwords collected. He then proceeded to fill each of these accounts with gratuitous amounts of horse porn.

JD · « **Reply #1 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 21:11 »

Did they ever find out who did it?

ErrantVenture · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 21:16 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 18 Oct 2010, 21:11

Did they ever find out who did it?

Nope. Not as I recall. The administration went all nuts about computer security for a few weeks and then no one cared anymore, iirc ^__^

Dazed · « **Reply #3 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 21:28 »

I was actually a victim of the most creative one I've seen. At my high school there was a building with the cafeteria on the 2nd floor, and a lobby/locker rooms etc. on the first floor. In the lobby, there was a staircase leading up to a few suspended walkways, arranged in a sort of T formation. Lots of kids (myself included) tended to just leave backpacks and shit around the base of the stairs/the lobby, with sort of a gentleman's agreement not to steal from each other.

The school had mandatory assemblies every Monday morning. They were dull and awful. At the end of one Monday assembly, a group of seniors had an announcement to make via a video they had made, and would project for the school. The video showed them taking everyone's bags, stringing them along heavy cable reaching from one end of the aforementioned lobby walkways to the other, leaving them all suspended ~20 feet above ground, hanging in midair. The ends of the cables were tied off and locked with industrial strength padlocks. At the end of the video they told us where we could find the first hint as to where the keys were, and thus began what amounted to a school-wide scavenger hunt, looking for where they had hidden the keys.

It was pretty brilliant.

squawk · « **Reply #4 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 21:57 »

my school was super lame, and also outdoor campuses kinda suck

the class of 09 before me, before they graduated, just got a bunch of penis balloons and put them around campus and administration was able to take them down before school officially started anyway... that was super dumb

my class of 2010 was too cliquey/antagonistic/lazy as fuck/anticipatory of getting the fuck out of school to collaborate for at least a little bit to think of good pranks. ideas were thrown around, though. like: "every senior give the dean a cupcake" (variation including the first cupcake being a weed cupcake therefore just making her eat all the other 600 cupcakes)
our mascot was the mustangs, so above the cafeteria and amphitheater it said "MUSTANG COUNTRY" in giant letters... a couple friends of mine are skilled... building cilmbers? so i wanted my buddy to go to the top of the cafeteria and change the sign to "wu-tang country" i mean it wouldn't have been that hard

umm

one time i put a sign on the band room door that said "bring ice cream tomorrow [bad microsoft word clip art teachers love that shit] don't ask questions" because i wanted people to bring ice cream and people did. that made me pretty happy. my band director was kinda just like. "why" but he didn't get mad

this isn't a very contributory post oh well. i just miss high school when calculus wasn't difficult :[

Ozymandias · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 22:05 »

Melodic · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 22:23 »

GOOD ONE OZY.

NOW SHOW THE ONE OF TEODOR EATING A DICK

Ozymandias · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 22:38 »

I was gonna just photoshop Teodor fluffing a large real cock and post it here but I got as far as GIS "hard cock" and I ran out of steam.

Use your imagination.

Alex C · « **Reply #8 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 22:49 »

Quote from: ErrantVenture on 18 Oct 2010, 21:06

High School pranks were always fun.

False!

Zingoleb · « **Reply #9 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 22:52 »

For my senior year me and some guys I knew printed up some wanted posters of George Bush and put them up around the school, since it would piss off the incredibly conservative staff. I don't think any of them stayed up more than an hour, and we were purposefully putting them up in hard-to-reach places.

JD · « **Reply #10 on:** 18 Oct 2010, 23:32 »

they mus have shot em down

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #11 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 00:25 »

I didn't go to normal high school, but I did participate in a pretty epic (scale, not effect) prank in the program I was in for April Fool's Day: we labelled every item in the 3-room student lounge with a Post-It note (including every square foot of the wall, every ketchup packet, every book, every chess piece) and wrapped it all up in Saran Wrap (including the refrigerator, couches, television, photocopier).

Video here. I am in the purple shirt at 0:18 and 0:27.

The program moved this year, but I believe a number of the "wall" Post-Its were still up four years later, and they were still occasionally finding labelled items.

Clearly a massive waste of time, but, hey. That's what this thread's about, right?

Christophe · « **Reply #12 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 00:33 »

The Science Fiction Literature class at my high school culminated in the Dune Trial, where Paul Atredies is put on trial for being bad for society. People are picked to role-play witnesses and it gets really fun the more that people put into it.

The year that I took the class, we took the opportunity to smuggle in about a ton or so of sand into the classroom so that we could have the trial actually set on Arrakis. We also put a dickload of cinnamon in the sand so that when the teacher walked in, the entire place basically smelled like a cookie. Considering the absurd lengths people have gone to in previous Dune trials, our teacher was impressed, if not surprised (a class several years ago did the same thing, but it had been a while since then).

The classroom had sand for about a week, and the teacher mentioned that he hated teaching his freshmen classes there that week, as they'd see the sand and their brains would just turn off.

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #13 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 02:58 »

Quote from: Elizzybeth on 19 Oct 2010, 00:25

I didn't go to normal high school, but I did participate in a pretty epic (scale, not effect) prank in the program I was in for April Fool's Day: we labelled every item in the 3-room student lounge with a Post-It note (including every square foot of the wall, every ketchup packet, every book, every chess piece) and wrapped it all up in Saran Wrap (including the refrigerator, couches, television, photocopier).

Video here. I am in the purple shirt at 0:18 and 0:27.

The program moved this year, but I believe a number of the "wall" Post-Its were still up four years later, and they were still occasionally finding labelled items.

Clearly a massive waste of time, but, hey. That's what this thread's about, right?

My friend did something similar, only it wasn't a prank, he was just having fun.

He randomly posted post-its around the school that said stuff like "brick #1429" and "table #27".

snalin · « **Reply #14 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 05:04 »

Someone exchanged the Norwegian flag with the McDonald's one the night before the seventeenth of may.

other than that,

Quote from: squawk on 18 Oct 2010, 21:57

this isn't a very contributory post oh well. i just miss high school when calculus wasn't difficult :[

Inlander · « **Reply #15 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 05:47 »

I went to a school called Narrabundah College in Canberra (the Canberra secondary education system is split into two types of school, high schools and colleges, but that's another story). Narrabundah College was what I guess in the US you'd call a "liberal arts" school or something. It had trimesters instead of semesters - so six terms in a year rather than 4. Students were encouraged to call teachers by their first names. Everyone smoked lots of pot. It was a great place.

Anyway in Australian high schools there's a tradition at the end of the school year called "muck up day" where the kids basically pull all sorts of pranks. When I was at Narrabundah College some kids tried to light a bin on fire in the quadrangle or something and there was a stern note in the school newsletter the next day saying that Narrabundah College had no tradition of muck-up day and that if anything like that happened again they might cancel the school formal (that's Australian for prom).

So I don't have any stories about high school pranks. I did, however, go to an awesome school in the best public education system in Australia.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #16 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 05:53 »

Quote from: Inlander on 19 Oct 2010, 05:47

so six terms in a year rather than 4.

Really? That's crazy! I'd never really heard of semesters before but I thought there are usually just two - one from about August/September til Christmas, and one from January til June. Am I way off here?

I have three terms a year, two eight week ones and one seven week one. Then more than half the year is holiday. We don't really have time for pranks here

But I loved that video of the senior prank where they just kept crossing the road for ages.

Inlander · « **Reply #17 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 06:23 »

Okay, well, for starters in Australia the school year follows the calendar year (our summer holidays are also our Christmas holidays!). Typically the school year is divided into two semesters, with a two-week winter holiday between them. Classes last for a semester - so students have two suites of classes per year, one in each semester. Each semester is sub-divided into two terms, with a two-week holiday between them (but you have to do assignments for class in those holidays. Boooo!).

So at Narrabundah, pretty much until the year after and my classmates left there (I graduated in 1997), instead of two semesters there were three trimesters, meaning three suites of classes per year.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #18 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 06:25 »

Ah, I see. We have the three-trimester system in schools up to university level, but they're called terms and the holiday in the middle is the half term holiday.

Christmas in summer must be weeeeirrrrd. What does it leave you with to look forward to?

Inlander · « **Reply #19 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 06:36 »

When you have Christmas in the middle of summer you don't need anything else to look forward to.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #20 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 08:00 »

I live with a bunch of subequatorians and this topic has come up occcasionally. My favourite one was when one chilean told me that christmas in december must be awful because "you can't really enjoy samba in the cold". The images it conjures in my mind make me smile every time.

Silly southern hemisphereans.

calenlass · « **Reply #21 on:** 19 Oct 2010, 10:01 »

Harry, there are actually three semesters in a year, but most people do not do summer semester. There are essentially holidays (rather, more like unscheduled periods) between all the terms: Christmas (winter), Spring Break, and Summer Vacation (or, if you do summer classes, a two-week break in like August before autumn). Also, if I understand correctly, I believe we have lots of schools on a similar system to your trimester thingy. We call it "quarters", because there are four, one for each season, and one (our summer) is scheduled with the understanding that most everyone will be on extended holiday. Fall Quarter starts in early to mid-September and goes until December when you have a break for Christmas, Winter Quarter is from january until Spring Break (in late March or early April), Spring Quarter is from April to the end of June when there is a break for Independence Day/summer stuff, and then Summer Quarter that no one really pays any attention to that lasts from whenever to some other time around the beginning of September, when we have a bank holiday called Labor Day.

Tom · « **Reply #22 on:** 20 Oct 2010, 02:53 »

My school put the kibosh on muck-up day. They'd threaten to not allow us to sit our exams at the College and we'd have to find another school that'd process us in time for the HSC. As you can tell, Australia has a proud history of authoritarian, private Catholic education.

Jace · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 Oct 2010, 03:09 »

Quote from: calenlass on 19 Oct 2010, 10:01

quarters

In the southwest (at least in arizona) The fall quarter started in mid august. And the spring quarter ended in mid may.

calenlass · « **Reply #24 on:** 20 Oct 2010, 09:11 »

Well, I was going based on the schedule I know Northwestern is still on. Whatevs. The only real important thing is that there are 4 roughly equal length terms (or 3, in the case of semesters).

Van donk III · « **Reply #25 on:** 20 Oct 2010, 11:55 »

Back at school, bout 1996; I filled up my nemesis' car with expanding foam from the sunroof. It took about 5 cans to fill the car, thankfully the CDT building had plenty left. Still feels good thinking about it now.

vegkitkat · « **Reply #26 on:** 20 Oct 2010, 17:49 »

This is not my prank, but I still think it's brilliant.

John Green's High School Prank

And, yes, this prank is found, somewhat altered, in Looking for Alaska.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #27 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 22:04 »

Some kids at my high school accused a much loved teacher of molesting them. It was a pretty bad scene.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #28 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 22:30 »

I think someone died?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #29 on:** 21 Oct 2010, 22:31 »

We were all like:

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #30 on:** 22 Oct 2010, 01:42 »

There was a dead deer's foot hanging around my school in various locations for at least a week. I think I know the guy who did it, but it was never really clear. The situation was so bizarre.

Also my friends and I inserted something special into our morning news on the last day of senior year. We played this.

jhocking · « **Reply #31 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 05:00 »

I honestly don't remember which pranks were real and which pranks were just "oh man wouldn't it be funny if someone did X." Like, I have a recollection of someone blocking the headmaster's door with a wall of bottles, but is that real or am I remembering just talking about that idea? I do remember that a bunch of senior girls streaked naked through the gym while people were taking the SAT, mostly because I remember wishing I had been taking the SAT that day.

Also, there were a lot of things people did that don't exactly qualify as "pranks" but certainly have a similar vibe. Like, people playing campus golf (we had a huge campus, and "campus golf" is where you hit tennis balls at buildings designated as "holes") during school hours, that sort of thing.

Inlander · « **Reply #32 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 07:37 »

I guess if we were talking about college and not high school you'd remember things more clearly, right Joe?

jhocking · « **Reply #33 on:** 24 Oct 2010, 10:02 »

That is true, but I still take offense at that comment. harrumph

Thinking now about pranks in college, they were generally not as mean-spirited as high-school pranks. Yet another example of how the "these are the best years of your life" people were full of shit.

Aaden Foli · « **Reply #34 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 20:34 »

Our school banned muck up day with the threat of police involvement or expulsion. Was pretty shit.

But my uncle and some of his mates kidnapped a teacher, stuck him in a coffin, and dumped him in the middle of the town oval. I always thought that was pretty amazing.

allison · « **Reply #35 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 21:09 »

I am just wondering if you can ahead and edit your post for a different word choice in that second sentence there. Hate for that to be your welcome to the forums, but I think it's probably a good idea for you to not use that phrase 'round these parts. Or at all.

Jace · « **Reply #36 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 21:44 »

Maybe he went to a theater high school.

Spluff · « **Reply #37 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 21:49 »

we planted 7000 forks in our oval

Aaden Foli · « **Reply #38 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 22:17 »

Spluff, that's fucking aweosme.

Allison, you for real? K, I changed it, but like, that's pretty sensitive man. I'm not homophobic at all, one of my closest friends is bi.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #39 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 22:18 »

hahahahaha oh god this is going to be fun

Eris · « **Reply #40 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 22:39 »

I'm not racist, one of my friends is black. He's just a cunt.

Inlander · « **Reply #41 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 22:48 »

It doesn't seem to be on YouTube but when Sam Kekovich was doing his rants on the Fat all those years ago he came out with the classic line "I'm not racist, some of my best friends should be sent back to where they came from."

Aaden Foli, we frown heavily on the use of sexual or racial epithets around here. I'm sure you're not homophobic but we still don't think anyone should use the word "gay" in a derogatory sense. It's not a bad thing to be homosexual, so "gay" shouldn't be used as an insult.

Aaden Foli · « **Reply #42 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 22:59 »

Fair enough then. I just hate PC bullshit.

If I were to say 'sup niggers?' as a greeting, would that be frowned upon?

Lunchbox · « **Reply #43 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 23:01 »

I uh, think you just got your answer?

Tom · « **Reply #44 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 23:02 »

I was just waiting for him to trigger the word filter.

Quote from: Spluff on 03 Nov 2010, 21:49

we planted 7000 forks in our oval

I'm not a buzz-killer but that seems more than a little environmentally irresponsible.

Aaden Foli · « **Reply #45 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 23:05 »

Shit, fair enough. Didn't see that one coming. I assume you all know what the word was.

My point is, in that sense, it isn't even remotely used in a derogatory way, but rather in a 'chummy' way. I don't see what the fuss is there.

Also, is there a quick reply box?

ALSO, sorry for completely derailing the thread's original discussion.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #46 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 23:08 »

It's just easier to use words that can't be taken as offensive, I guess.
Also there is a quick reply box? I am typing in it right now.

As for the original thread topic, we were told at both my junior and senior Catholic high schools that if we did any pranks, the school formal would be cancelled and the perpetrators would be expelled. So we didn't do anything.
I think once when I was in Year 7, some of the Year 10 kids dressed a statue in heart boxer shorts. That was pretty funny.

Spluff · « **Reply #47 on:** 03 Nov 2010, 23:21 »

Quote from: Tom on 03 Nov 2010, 23:02

I'm not a buzz-killer but that seems more than a little environmentally irresponsible.

How so? It's not like they got left there permanently (it would make it particularly difficult for them to play sports on it if they left them in).

Tom · « **Reply #48 on:** 04 Nov 2010, 00:32 »

I mean, did they get recycled or did they go in a landfill?

Jace · « **Reply #49 on:** 04 Nov 2010, 00:35 »

They went in the ocean.

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