Ideas Needed

[Soldier]

We're quickly approaching Hundreds Night here at the good ole Academy, a night filled with tradition of vandalism. While all the seniors go out to celebrate 100 days left until graduation by getting trashed, we freshmen trash their rooms - it's in fact considered quite a slap in the face if nobody trashes your room.

Just across the hall from me and down a door lives the women's fencing captain, an epeeist. I'm looking for something good to do to her, hopefully fencing-related - and something that can be done to only half the room. You see, her roommate's half is going to be put in perfect inspection order, the highest insult one can give.

Rooms generally have themes. Aquarium rooms will sometimes have everything removed from drawers, the drawers filled with water and fish. There will be a duct-tape room (probably our squadron commander, directly across the hall from me), which will have everything in it duct-taped up. Possibly a dirty-socks room. Then there's the old shaving cream bomb, which is to simply throw a can of shaving cream in the room, and find some way to puncture it. Basically, anything that can be done to trash the room without actually damaging/destroying property, and without getting HR (Human Relations, aka politically correct kind of thing) inappropriate. Which means none of those fencing thongs.

Any ideas?

[jBirch]

Soldier,

Remove all her furniture, replace with a piste (in duct tape), crossed epees on the wall, two dummies with full mask and whites and rig up a box that just goes off, again and again and again and again. For extra points, rig her radio to buzz whenever the epee tips are depressed. Make sure they are depressed on the wall.

Put her furniture in someone else's room. If you've got a guy that acts real childish, use her furniture to build bunk beds.

Take it easy.

[Soldier]

That would work if a) we didn't already have bunk beds, and b) the beds didn't weigh ~200 lbs. each. Possibly more, I'm not sure. The piste sounds like fun, except nobody else in the squad fences, so it could be tough finding support. Any other ideas out there?

[jBirch]

Soldier,

See, now when I was doing stuff like that, ~200lbs was nothing to figure out.

Here's three non fencing classics:

We actually took an entire room and inverted it: bolted the bed to the ceiling (which, again, was one of those cast iron ones), the barrack box up there, hung all the clothes upside down (including the ties), put the desk upside down on the ceiling (even taped all their papers upside down too), and the dresser (including the clothes inside the drawers) then took the light fixture and mounted it on the floor and re-hung the door to be upside down too. The guy we were doing this to was suitably impressed although he got us back: he slept there.

We also picked up a buddy's Toyota Tercel and placed it between two trees so that it was 1" off the ground. Buddy had to call the Fire Department to cut the trees down.

Finally, we waited until one guy was asleep, duct taped him to a stretcher and hoisted him up a flagpole.

'Course, we were infantry and capable of complicated battle strategy like that. You AF types sound like you need something simpler. Maybe take all the staples out of her stapler??

*grin*

Take it easy.

[mifencer]

Make her room into the beach room, filled with sand, water and maybe a palm tree.

Fill her room with that insulation foam (but that would be on a permanent basis).

But both of those involve messing up her roommates half.

How about topsoil. It's cheap. Her whole side in top soil. Plant some flowers and sod.

Sounds like fun. Good luck.

[Soldier]

Apparently the beach room, the forest room, the fall room, the inverted room, etc., have all been done already. One of the better ones I heard was covering every last square inch with aluminum foil, bringing in two out-of-sync strobe lights, and blasting Bob Marley and a police siren - keep in mind these seniors are coming back hammered beyond belief. The primary problem here is that just about everything's been done already.

[dberke]

One of the best pranks my friends and I did back in college was to make a friend's room disappear. He was gone on a weekend trip so we bought a big piece of drywall, some 2x4's, spackle and paint. The dorm doors were recessed, so we removed the doorknob, put the 2x4's in the doorframe, cut the drywall to the exact shape, and nailed it into place. We pulled off the molding that surrounded the frame, spackled the gaps around the drywall and proceeded to paint the whole thing. (We matched the paint with the exact dorm wall color.) We "obtained" a piece of floor molding and cut it to size so that the runner at the base of the wall matched. After a second coat of paint, the guy's room was completely gone. Needless to say, when he got back, he thought he was on the wrong floor...

I don't know if that would work since you mentioned a roommate, but if there is anyone with a single room, it may be a fun option. It sure was fun for me way back then!

Dan

[Soldier]

An awesome idea. However, looking at the hallways, the doors are set in metal frames, and not recessed - not quite doable. Two doors to an alcove, but I'm not sure how easily those could be walled over in a few hours.

One of the best I've heard of was to completely empty the room, throw everything in a U-Haul, and drive it to a storage room in Denver. They left only a map in the middle of the empty room.

[DHCJr]

There was a book out and it is probably in your library was 'Wild Blue U'. It had a number of ideas. For a senior who was going to go over to Army, they transfered is room out to the parade field complete with barb wire.

I don't know if it could be rig, but how about the 'Sword of Damaclese' (terrible speller). If it could be done to drop down in the middle of the night to hang over their head.

Does it have to be to the room, what about equipment, like body cords. Use parts of paperclips to short out the B and C line. You talked about how not doing something is the greatest insult. Could you do something that is not visible. If they keep their fencing equipment in their room the bodycord trick would be perfect. You could also do things that a first glance, nothing has been done. For example, your shoes and boots must line up. Keep them perfectly aligned, just switch Left with right. Short-sheeting has been done so often, it is expected. If she has a picture of a boyfriend, cover it with a picture of let us say Kermit from the Muppet's pirate movie.

Think subtle.

[Soldier]

No, no subtle - this is not at all about subtle. Nobody will care about the footwear being switched; the room will be re-cleaned before an inspection anyway. The idea is to hit the room, not just her fencing equipment. And most people have their beds short-sheeted already; getting under your sheets every night means having to make them perfectly every morning. The sword idea could work quite well, considering the seniors' sabres - I'll keep that in mind on top of everything else.

[KShan5[PrFC]]

You guys seem like you are having a little too much fun with this.

[telkanuru]

Hm. Well, at school we obtained a 120 DB buzzer. I should note that all the clocks in the school are synchronized by a 2-4 second pulse of 24VDC every minute. We put the buzzer in parallel with the clock in the classroom, put the entire unit on the wall as it was, and left. It drove the teacher who used the room crazy as such a loud noise is really nondirectional. What fun. Of course, this only works if the room is equipped with such a clock. If not, I have a backup. Release two (2) live chickens in the room, one with a sign around its neck that reads "1" and another that reads "3". Most people spend a very long time trying to find "2". Now I must try to think up a good senior prank for the end of this year... Perhaps filling a hallway with packing peanuts...

[dberke]

While this may not really apply, I thought it was an ingenious prank and I might as well share it...

In our dorm, the smoke detectors on the walls were mounted back-to-back. One guy took his smoke detector off his wall, which exposed the back of the detector in the room next door. This room, of course, was the room that a friend of his was in.

Somehow he was able to access the speaker or buzzer in the other guy's smoke detector via the back panel. He soldered a couple wires to the speaker leads and then ran them into his stereo system. He could then play pretty much whatever he liked (at low volume) into the other guy's room.

At night he started off by playing sound effect CDs that had things like crickets chirping and rain falling. As the days went on, he slowly moved up to things like jungle sounds and thunderstorms. He played things quiet enough to not wake the guy next door but loud enough for it to be noticable.

Needless to say, the guy thought he was hearing things and never suspected the smoke detector. He was blown away when the guy finally fessed up to it.

Dan

[jBirch]

Soldier,

Hmmmmmm.

Cellophane wrap down the middle of the room, pump dry ice (ie// fog) into the sealed area and put a police light in there. No fog machine, just roll a smoke grnde in there. Then rig various epees up so that she's bound to run into them and hook them into something loud.

If you've got linoleum floors, (sp??) a centimetre of vaseline all over the floor should be fun. Should be fun to clean up too. Unscrew the lightbulb so she's bound to go flying.

Rig a parachute up to her bed and a button under the covers. When she slides into bed, have the parachute fire out the window.

I'm really racking my brain here!

Take it easy.

[KShan5[PrFC]]

That is one of the most ingenious ideas ever....the chickens, been used too many times before.

[deadly lefty]

an old one but a good one put pennies in the keyhole so they cant back into there rooms

[Mergs]

Can't let this thread go by without comment!

Variation on the pennies and door thing. Assuming that your dorms are built basically "GI-proof", that is metal solid core doors and metal doorframes, stack two or three pennies jam them between the door and frame. The best technique to use to do this is to have someone hit the door (usually body slam it) and as they hit it then slip the pennies in. Make for a REAL good friction fit that prevnets the door mechanism from working.

100 day night sounds like what we used to call "Footlocker". In the weeks before Thanksgiving, and during the time when we used to build Bonfire, freshmen would either kidnap their cadet commanders and say drive them to his hometown and leave him handcuffed naked (or at least in his underwear) to the flagpole outside his old highschool or city hall or dump him by the side of the road with a bent dime, and then relieve him from his uniforms, books, clothes, etc. Then began an intense period of negotiation combined with ingenious "hazing" techniques to return things to "normal". One outfit had the tradition of sprinting across the football field at halftime and depositing thier CO's footlocker in the middle of the field.

But I digress.

If you really want to get at one of the upperclassmen, here's a particularly nasty one.

Get a can of Comet cleaning powder (we used to use Babo, well, not me personally, but guys talk, you hear things ) and cut the top off. Pour out half of the powder. Then cut a small hole in the side of the can and put a cherrybomb, or other such firecracker, with the fuze through the hole. Pour the powder back in and tamp the powder down until firmly packed. crumple up newspaper and pack it between the packed powder and the top which is duct-taped back on. Light fuze, toss in room and run like hell. Resulting mess is nigh on impossible to clean up.

To take this particular one to the next level, replace half the cleaning powder with confectioners sugar, mix well. Guaranteed to have the room crawling with ants in 24 hours.

Enjoy!

[pacer]

Antics like this used to be done at CalTech each year - maybe they still are. some I heard of - lining the entire room (in this case just her half) with a plastic liner or dropcloth and filling it with water and fish - a room size variant on the aquarium room. Others involved relocating the room to a different location - how about to the fencing salle? or relocating a vehicle into the room. The gimmick used to be that if the senior left the room unlocked it was off limits to any pranks, but if the locking mechanism the senior devised was somehow defeated - the room was fair game.

Knew someone who covered a classmate's entire floorwith paper dixie cups each half filled with water.... the trick was all the cups had been stapled together.

[remise]

You say she fences epee? Then line the room with foil. Cover everything with foil. Remove her epees and replace them with foils.

[Lady Cristina]

Decorate her room in Army or Navy paraphernalia. Also you could turn it into a very girly room with lots of pink and flowers. Just a thought.