Senior Pranks

[Lady Cristina]

The school year is winding down and I need help coming up with a prank my class can play on the school. The idea is to be non-destructive. We have the abilities to pull off something big but we can't come up with an idea. Any suggestions?

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

Is it highschool or colledge? If highschool, go into the cafeteria dressed in black leather with a guitar case full of paintball guns, open it up, and paint them like a house, el mariachi style. If its colledge, Rig up speakers all around campus, and play ride of the valkyries while you ride down the streets on bicycles throwing eggs at everyone.

[whtouche]

D, I'm not convinced you read the "non-destructive" part of the original post.
Spraying the cafeteria with paintballs, while they're washable, I think would qualify as destructive. Throwing eggs at people isn't so much destructive - tho it could be - and wouldn't that qualify as assault, on some level?
Not to mention the panic that would be caused if they showed up in the cafeteria dressed in black, if people were around, and pulled guns out of a case.
Yeah, that's REALLY smart.

AND if there were people around, chances are they wont have masks on, and they could lose an eye. Once again, assault.

What have we learned? Don't take senior prank advice from an 11 year old.

To answer the original question....my class never did a senior prank, so I'm not sure. Some from previous years included using herbicide to spell out a message on the football field. But that definetly qualifies as destructive, PLUS the prankers were made to re-plant it

[mifencer]

Is it highschool or colledge? If highschool, go into the cafeteria dressed in black leather with a guitar case full of paintball guns, open it up, and paint them like a house, el mariachi style. If its colledge, Rig up speakers all around campus, and play ride of the valkyries while you ride down the streets on bicycles throwing eggs at everyone.

Sorry, but that's really NOT a good idea. Bringing ANY kind of gun in school now-a-days is a big NO. Throwing eggs at people, not cool at all. -- maybe I'm just getting old.

Since you're in Michigan and in highschool (vs. an outdoor school or college), how about a bubble machine. Imagine you're coming out of your class and the hallway is filled with bubbles. DFP did have a good suggestion, how about commadeering the PA and play music during lunch / class. How about getting a picture of a teacher, and making a mask out of it -- during his/her class everyone in the class where's the mask (I dunno about this one - would be interesting if everyone cooperated though). You could line the hallway floor with hay and maybe bring in some farm animals (this might get the PETA people mad though).

Good luck and have fun!

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

You could organise a coup and overthrow the principle, that would certainly be funny. Or, you could sprinkly ground up pecan logs in the toilets, people would be like "what the #$*%#* happened here, who made this?" and it would look gross. You could melt a slowpoke all over a locker. You could go on a pissing spree all over the school. Take over the PA and play some cool music. Put limburger in the airvent, or set off stink bombs. Not to mention what you could do with fake blood, uncooked steaks, scarecrows and meathooks all over the bathroom, make it look like the freakin texas chainsaw massacre.

[a517dogg]

Grease up some pigs, number them 1, 3 and 4, and set them loose in the school.

[Black Jeebus]

D, I'm not convinced you read...

Yeah I'm not convinced he can read either.

[fencingguy]

edit: Never mind, I'm a teacher, I can't contribute

[akishier]

What the seniors in our school did last year, was arrange with the police to have the principal of the school arrested during assembly. Obviously he didn't know about it, neither did the rest of the school. They arrested him with handcuffs and everything, very very funny, esp. his expression as they were leading him off the stage...

[noodle]

Grease up some pigs, number them 1, 3 and 4, and set them loose in the school.

one senior class at my hs did this except with roosters. we had a courtyard in the middle of our school, so some the birds got in the trees, became a task to get them out. and there were funny signs, too; i'm sure you can imagine the gist of them.

we also thought about disassembling a car and reassembling it on the roof, and thought about filling a low area in our main hallway with water and putting koi and lillypads in it

[MXL]

High school days.....This actually happened when I was a sophomore...

One of the seniors got into the school radio station, hotwired the system through the PA system, so that around 11:50am it began to play Adam Sandler's "the Principle's Office". Then, after it stopped, (I'll never forget my teacher's tomato red face...) everyone went back to work...Around 12:15pm, the fire alarm sounded, but it wasn't the actual fire alarm, but a tape played through the PA system, again. Needless to say, it was an eventful day.

[telkanuru]

I think the current plan is to paint something along the lines of "IA IA CTHULU FTANGN" in washable paint somewheres on the floor with candles, pentagrams, and that sort of thing. Then to hang stuffed animals by the necks from the ceilings with bloody wounds. That or fill a stairway with packing penuts. Or pull a twisted prank by *fixing* the school computer network (it needs it). personally, I'm thinking trip wires all over the place...

Only listen to the fool above if you want to get shot by someone who really did bring a gun to school/a SWAT team. Even if you survive, I don't think that you will get away without charges.

[RebelFencer]

Easy...Sacrifice your Valedictorian to the ghost of Christmas past. Or...you could set up speakers in the middle of your school's general meeting place and go into a big song and dance with your friends, pack up, then leave as if nothing happened.

[AndrewH]

The best pranks are those that cause no damage, but are a pain in the *** to fix. Examples:

Cover a classroom's floor with dixie cups. Fill each one with water, so they need to be removed one by one.

Fill a room with balloons. If you have more time on your hands, make them water balloons.

If you have a well stocked chem lab: pour liquid nitrogen over shaving cream cans, then cut away the metal with a hacksaw. Throw the frozen blocks in the bathroom and as they thaw, they expand to huge proportions. Just make sure they go in the bathroom/locker room/someplace with tile floors.

Arrange to have several people park their cars in the principal/administration's parking spaces.

You get the idea.

[athena]

build a wall across the driveway

take all of the desks out of all of the classrooms and fill the hallways

have everyone simultaniously break some harmless school rule

[Moonitic]

hmm...

A tradition at our school was to get a full set of living room furniture & set it up in front (or even just a load of junk...the tackier the better). A large pyramid made of desks as well. There's also been times when the principal's cars have been moved to odd locations.

Before they removed it, there used to be the outline of a body on the sidewalk in front of our main doors. It was there for the longest time.

[npkeith]

Use dustbusters to collect as many dandelion seeds as possible (Bags full if possible) Mix them with some form of paste. Use the paste to write messages on the football field. Ideally this is done in such a way that the messages are not visible the next morning. It will take them weeks to come up. Meanwhile, admin is going nuts trying to figure out what the senior prank will be.

Similar things can be done with fertilizer (write really big) When they try to hose the white powder off, it just sinks into the grass, making it a much darker green.... If you write big enough, it should still be legible.

Finally (and my personal favorite) is to put as many expanded polystyrene beads as possible into one room. They are like packing peanuts, only smaller, and when they pick up a static charge (say, by pouring them out of a bag...) they stick to anything. Even with a good shop-vac, people will be finding them for years...

[grphiw]

I don't know if they're are any left where you are, but last year the seniors in my school let loose a few wild turkeys, and dozens of Norwegian black lab mice (Which, oddly enough, are white). Don't know if you can do the turkey one, they're kinda hard to trap, but you can try the mice.

[laughingduelist]

Last year someone put my school up for auction on ebay. This year someone hacked into the computer system so that every time someone writes "the" in microsoft word on any computer in the school it comes out as "04 runs this". There are of course the requisite rooftop waterballoon attacks, animal releases, etc.

[KShan5[PrFC]]

One of the pranks pulled this year:

Our Janitor has a very infamous golf cart that he trots around school in, everyone knows whose it is etc. They took it, and burried it 6 ft underground somewhere on the campus, and it was MIA for about 2 weeks. Was not one that hits you right then, but it was funny enough.