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Following the disappointing senior prank of the class of 2005 of my school (toilet paper over our 4 main grassy areas and chocolate syrup on the floor), I'd like future ideas for the class of 2008 senior prank. It's a ways away...but hell.

So far, here's what I'm thinking...and some other friends of mine
- Get the "Do Not Cross" yellow tape, put it around the front of the parking lot entrances effectively sealing off the entrances, and use white chalk to draw a body outline on the floor
- Superglue locks on all building entrances (each building holds like 500 or more kids)
- try to get an electric current throught the metal fences around the school
- hijack the intercom somehow (help? I'd like to do this one sooner rather than later)
- Build a brick wall in the hallway of the building/s
- Plant a tree in the middle of our "beloved" football team's field

That's all the plausible, non-criminal ideas that we've come up with. I'm not satisfied the least bit. I want my school to turn into a warzone overnight on a cold night of June 2008. C'mon NS, use your destructive ideas...THIS is where they can come to life!

Two suggestions:

one- get a bunch of coathangers and a butane torch. place the long face of the coathanger in the crease where the locker meets the wall, then weld said locker shut with the butane torch. Repeat until you run out of hangers. Make sure not to weld your own locker shut. Don't close them all or they might close the school; just do enough so that it will piss off a lot of people. I'd aim for a 30-40% ceiling if you have the time.

two- this one requires either a lot of money or a contact in the farming industry: get 3 full grown pigs, coat them with lard and spraypaint '1' 2' and '4' on their sides so officials think there's 4 pigs when there's just 3. Grease them up with some lard to make them arder to catch, feed them a healthy amount of ex-lax and let em rip.

Two suggestions:

one- get a bunch of coathangers and a butane torch. place the long face of the coathanger in the crease where the locker meets the wall, then weld said locker shut with the butane torch. Repeat until you run out of hangers. Make sure not to weld your own locker shut. Don't close them all or they might close the school; just do enough so that it will piss off a lot of people. I'd aim for a 30-40% ceiling if you have the time.

two- this one requires either a lot of money or a contact in the farming industry: get 3 full grown pigs, coat them with lard and spraypaint '1' 2' and '4' on their sides so officials think there's 4 pigs when there's just 3. Grease them up with some lard to make them arder to catch, feed them a healthy amount of ex-lax and let em rip.
:) Lovely.

The locker idea would be quite easy to pull off, and have an effect on the school lasting for perhaps months. Given that there are about 3,000 lockers in the school...which ones the pranked one? Hmm? Hmm? Mwahahahaha.

The pig idea was simply hilarious. I can imagine the old "security guard" lady running around...

Yeah... it's a shame my senior classes prank was so lame... I think it was something along the lines of simply vandalizing the school with paint cans. Terribly unimaginative.

The best ones that happened at my school were as follows:

the year before I got there [naturally] someone managed to crack all the soda machines and replace the soda cans with beer cans. PRICELESS!

a decade or so ago, some ballsy kids managed to build a brick wall in the middle of a main hallway. During a class.

If you know a bunch of people that are really, really, really adept with cars, you can try the following:

steal your principal's car, take it apart piece by piece, and reassemble it in his office. Needless to say, this demands a very comprehensive knowledge of auto mechanics, as one misplaced piece can fuck up the entire project. Sill, 5 or 6 guys who really knew what they were doing could get this done in a few hours.

a decade or so ago, some ballsy kids managed to build a brick wall in the middle of a main hallway. During a class.
That is SO good that I MUST write that down for the future. I mean wtf...that's awesome! Walk to your class in the F building, suddenly your stopped by a giant brick wall! How classic is that?!?!?!?!

Spike the punch with viagra.

Following the disappointing senior prank of the class of 2005 of my school (toilet paper over our 4 main grassy areas and chocolate syrup on the floor), I'd like future ideas for the class of 2008 senior prank. It's a ways away...but hell.

So far, here's what I'm thinking...and some other friends of mine
- Get the "Do Not Cross" yellow tape, put it around the front of the parking lot entrances effectively sealing off the entrances, and use white chalk to draw a body outline on the floor
- Superglue locks on all building entrances (each building holds like 500 or more kids)
- try to get an electric current throught the metal fences around the school
- hijack the intercom somehow (help? I'd like to do this one sooner rather than later)

That's all the plausible, non-criminal ideas that we've come up with. I'm not satisfied the least bit. I want my school to turn into a warzone overnight on a cold night of June 2008. C'mon NS, use your destructive ideas...THIS is where they can come to life!
I know someone who put the audio of a porno tape on the school PA, set it to a loop, and kept the admins from changing it for a while. I was proud.

At my school, someone split oreos in half, and put the creme side down ALL OVER someone's car. That was pretty unique, and funny.

Someone else released probably a thousand little bouncy balls in a busy student area. They also planted a tree in the middle of the football field. The teachers covered for them on the latter one...it was hilarious. The tree was up for 3 days before the administration noticed.

a decade or so ago, some ballsy kids managed to build a brick wall in the middle of a main hallway. During a class.
Damn, that's some good prankery.

One suggestion/word of warning: Don't try to fill the school with bugs. Last year's senior prank at my school was to fill the school with cicadas, as they're loud and only come around every seventeen years. Unfortunately, they all died overnight, leaving a pile of dead bugs and a pissed-off janitor.

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a decade or so ago, some ballsy kids managed to build a brick wall in the middle of a main hallway. During a class.

If you know a bunch of people that are really, really, really adept with cars, you can try the following:

steal your principal's car, take it apart piece by piece, and reassemble it in his office. Needless to say, this demands a very comprehensive knowledge of auto mechanics, as one misplaced piece can fuck up the entire project. Sill, 5 or 6 guys who really knew what they were doing could get this done in a few hours.

Holy hell, that's awesome. Have you seen the car one, or know of someone actually doing it?

Damn, that's some good prankery.

One suggestion/word of warning: Don't try to fill the school with bugs. Last year's senior prank at my school was to fill the school with cicadas, as they're loud and only come around every seventeen years. Unfortunately, they all died overnight, leaving a pile of dead bugs and a pissed-off janitor.

lol, we were planning on putting tarantulas in the vending machine. Unfortunately, that idea never was carried through.

My class's senior prank was to scale a 150-foot abandoned smokestack and plant a huge flag atop it.

All the school administrators were really pissed, but none of them had the balls to climb up and fetch it down, so it stayed up there until halfway through the next schoolyear. :D

know of someone actually doing it?
IIRC, that was a prank a while back. Instead of taking the car apart, however, they took the front doors apart and rolled the car into the lobby.

Holy hell, that's awesome. Have you seen the car one, or know of someone actually doing it?
No, but I do know it can be done. It's one of those pranks that probably requires all parties involved to be good sports about it; if you do end up doing this one it would be a good idea to stop in at some point and inform the victim that you intend to fix the situation. I can't say that many administrators would have any idea how to get the damn thing out anyway.

It sucked going to a small school, no football field, and since there were only 8 seniors, pranks ran into a fairly good brick wall themselves. The only prank that we got off was getting small groups of the seven and eigth graders to follow us out to a large covered building in the schoolyard and then shrinkwrapping them upsidedown around all the cement pillars. We couldn't believe how gullible the kids were. I think we managed to get almost all the 28 people in both classes caught. Luckly they were only found after we had split to look for the next group.

The night before the last day of school we did the following:

-Stole a shitload of orange roadcones from roadworks around the place as well as an arrow sign we found and left them in the bushes beside the main road that runs past the school. Off this main road is the school driveway that runs through the school grounds and out the other side onto a small street. School busses use it to pick up/drop off kids.

The goal was for a whole group of us to walk out at a given time, pick up 2 roadcones each and put them in the middle of the road in a pre-determend way to try and detour all northbound traffic off this main road through the school. To give us enough time to do it, someone walked onto the pedestrian crossing up the road and fall over. When the driver got out concerned, he jumped up and ran off.

Unfortunitly our roadcone hiding wasn't as good as it needed to be, and they were easily spotted from the road. When the staff realised what we were doing a few rushed down and moved some cones so that no one was detoured through the school.

-Before we did that though, we had the school caretaker (and first XV rugby coach) to come down to the school and unlock the staffroom. We then carried all of their flash furniture and swaped it with our shitty beat up crap that we had in our year 13 common room. Someone also bought along an old toilet that was marked as the princials throne in the middle of the staffroom. Our school rep on the board of trusties arrived early with a camera and stood in the middle of the staff room taking photos of all the teachers when they walked in.

My favorite idea: start a grass fire on your football field with lighter fluid.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for injury, death, and/or destruction of property that results from the use of this concept.

Senior pranks. At my school those are HEAVILY discouraged. Last year some kids were planning to do something involving fire hydrants or something. Anyway the school found out and the kids were suspended and could not attend graduation. Because of the suspension they missed their exams and had to come back and make them up in the summer.

Another one was done to us by our main football rival. It involved our football field, grass killer, and a large, poorly done drawing of male genetalia. I'll let you figure that one out on your own.

Since it's my senior year next year, I need to start thinking of one. I was thinking of something like a fake Communist revolution :D .

Another one was done to us by our main football rival. It involved our football field, grass killer, and a large, poorly done drawing of male genetalia. I'll let you figure that one out on your own.

Since it's my senior year next year, I need to start thinking of one. I was thinking of something like a fake Communist revolution :D .
I kinda wanted to switch the American flag in our school to the Communist one

And perhaps, if I managed to get the keys to the classroom, swipe all the American flags and see what happens when we do the Pledge of Alligience.

Preferably I'd switch 'em all with Soviet flags, but that's much too expensive...

Okay -

0530 wake up, drive to schoool
0600 get someone to do chalk outline, several, put ketchup on the ground to simulate blood & yellow tape
0630 replace canadian flag with USSR one, possibly USA. Run across the street, hide cars (if any)
0645-0830 watch reactions to flags & bodys.
1000 take over intercom (they generally let grads do this) play Hendrixesque O Canada. Live. Possibly USSR or USA anthem dependeding on the flag hoisted at 0630. (we normally have announcements at that time)

It'd be cool if you could sneak a little something into one of the school slide shows...

Actually the fake Communist Revolution one was something I pulled at work once. I had a shitty job in this phone room, my boss was a good guy and he loved pranks so it was cool I just got a lot of red ribbon and talked everyone into wearing a red ribbon. I replaced all the 'inspirational slogans' about productivity with Soviet style s*** about 5 year plans and he came in and said 'huh?' I then said 'Can you bring in a TV we want to watch the parade in Moscow cuz it's May Day.'
He loved it. It took careful planning to have the whole shift do it. Only one guy dogged us. So we teased him and called him an 'enemy of the State' and 'politically suspect'

The car hack has a long tradition at MIT.

Most schools do punish pranks that involve any significant clean up. Some ideas really do come under the modern definition of criminal vandalism.
I feel sad that pranks just aren't what they used to be. I wasn't in on any school pranks because I just could not afford the consequences. Most of the pranks people thought of were really a bad idea.

At my son's school his prank, he organized this one was on Club Day, he got his friends a table and some paper and put up a sign up sheet and a sign, it was the Entropy Club. They got away with that for like an hour, then someone noticed there was no Entropy Club. Since no harm was done, it was not punished.
They had fairly outrageous Spirit Week things like 'Struck by Lightening Day' 'Communist Day' and 'Stark Raveing Lunatic Day'.

Sneak in at night and cover the entire floor of the school office with paper cups full of water. Then put a guppy in each of the cups. If you have extra paper cups and extra fish, then do the same in one of the main hallways in the school.

Two good ones:

The car with a slight modification. My freshman year, some seniors took an old VW bug from a junkyard, rolled it through the school late at night, and put it up on cinderblocks. Classic.

The one I organized for my senior prank. A lonely pot o' potty was at a local park. One of my friends had a truck with a large bed. We threw a sheet over it and drove down main street at 3 in the morning to the school. That took balls. Once we got it there, we got into the school and placed it in front of the office. Luckily, we got away with it, but our principal was not a happy man.

One stupid one: Take one gallon liquid detergent. Mix with one high traffic floor. Run.

We had pudding wrestling out in snr. court.

We also bought about 10000 super bouncy balls and released them down the main hallway during passing time. Then ran like hell.

Oh, and my sisters class built an entire bathroom scene in the front lawn...complete with shower curtains, faucets, toilets...the works.

We havn't had any senior pranks for awhile...but i intend on my grade changing that....the last decent one was when some seniors made brownies and put them in the teachers lounge with a note saying "Thanks for all the memories". They had filled the brownies with Ex-Lax. We didn't have very many classes that day =D

We havn't had any senior pranks for awhile...but i intend on my grade changing that....the last decent one was when some seniors made brownies and put them in the teachers lounge with a note saying "Thanks for all the memories". They had filled the brownies with Ex-Lax. We didn't have very many classes that day =D
Deliciously evil...mwahahahahaha

I talked to a graduate from our cross-town rival school a few months back, and she shared with me a great idea:

Give all the graduating Seniors a bouncy ball before the graduation ceremony. Later, each Senior gives the principal (or whoever) the ball when called up to receive their diploma. If the Senior class is large enough (at least 75-100 should be sufficient), the principal will have a hell of a lot of balls.

My class, the Class of '06, has about 220-240 people. So if we do it, it'll be sweet.

theres a smoke bomb recipe using potassium nitrate (the active ingredient in gunpowder) and sugar. you melt them together, and make a jelly, put it in a coke can, and use a small fuse.

apparently, half a coke can could easily fill a 500 square metre, 2 story building.

thats one for my senior year

and if your school has a car park that gets really congested, or a really small road system, get witches hats and roadwork signs and divert all the traffic from the road outside through the carpark/road. someone did that at our school a couple of years ago.

You could do something my dad once did. (Not a senior prank, but still a good one)
For this prank, you need a goat and female goat pheremones. Find a piece of furniture in the teachers' lounge, couches work best, and smear it with goat pheremones. Get a hold of a male goat, and lock it in whatever room you choose.
This one works best on weekends. That way, you can get the fullest effects of it. Plus, it's perfectly legal.

Disclaimer: I can not be held accountable for the results of this one.

Detergent and food colouring in a public fountain is always fun.

ok, if you have co-operation form a teacher, plus a lot of friends, then:

-buy a bunch of RC cars, one per person
-find lots of road kill(preferrably with a rancid stench)
-make some sulphur diexide in the lab if necessary
-stick the road kill to the cars(if you dont have enoug then cut the roadkill in half) :D
-if you can be bothered, then som form of tape recorder playing back barnyard sounds can also be used


in the middle of lunch, get you and your friends hidden, with a good view through the teachers lounge window. give your accomplice teacher a sign so that tey open the door, nad hold it open. then drive them all in and swamp te floor, drive into teachers legs as much as possible.
(make sure you get tis on tape to play in the final assembly[using someones laptop hooked up to the projector and sound system])

ps, try to hide the RC car so it looks like a moving roadkill

When I was in the services, we pulled a stunt at our COs retirement dinner. I was a steward, and one of the stewards pretended to be ill. We all crowded round one of the tables whilst he made vomiting noises and poured a can of vegetable soup over the table. Then we all stood back to see the reaction.

Then the icing on the cake. Myself and the rest of the stewards took spoons out our pockets and ate the "vomit".

This didn't happen at my school, but the other one in the district. They have very steep staircases going up down 3 floors in total. The seniors emptied boxes of bouncy balls at the top, thousands of them went pouring down into the school.

My school is on lockdown for the final 2 days to prevent pranks.

Best prank I ever heard of came from a neighboring school. This was so good, it made me jealous:

A couple enterprising seniors brought two pigs to school. Greased em up, painted the numbers, '1' and '3' on the side of the pigs then let them loose in the school. They were a major pain in the ass for the school to deal with and catch. They had to call in the local constabulary(police) to help. The best part, though was after they caught 1 and 3. Because they spent all day and well into the night hunting for a non-existent Number '2'. :D

go out onto the football field every day over the summer. Blow a whistle (like the one they would use in a football game), then spread birdseed.

the birds will learn that the whistle means food.

It took several hours to fully clear the field at the first game of the season

Cling film round the buildings. Get a huge roll of it, longest you can get, stick the end to a wall and run round and round the building. Doesn't cause any lasting damage either, so you won't have 'the authorities' all over you.

alot of these are genius! ok, don't do the pig thing, everyone has already heard of that and knows different variations.

about 10 years ago, some seniors cut a school bus in half and welded it back together around a tree! amazing.

my favorite: abouta week before the seniors get out start telling everyone one you know that your "friend" is h=going to put laxatives, or vodka, or marijuana, or bleach or SOMETHING into your school's ketchup. :gundge: (*at my school we have the large plastic jugs with pumps on them.) and even if you don't actually put anything in the ketchup (catsup), the rumor drives everyone crazy and no one in the school will eat that ketchup until the end of the year.

also, since there is no ketchup everyone will want salt, so switch the salt with sugar. but keep that a secret.

It'd be cool if you could sneak a little something into one of the school slide shows...

Am I the only one that thought of Fight Club with this?

Best prank I ever heard of came from a neighboring school. This was so good, it made me jealous:

A couple enterprising seniors brought two pigs to school. Greased em up, painted the numbers, '1' and '3' on the side of the pigs then let them loose in the school. They were a major pain in the ass for the school to deal with and catch. They had to call in the local constabulary(police) to help. The best part, though was after they caught 1 and 3. Because they spent all day and well into the night hunting for a non-existent Number '2'. :D

lol! That's brilliant.

Someone put a cow on the upper floor of my school a couple of years ago. And hooved animals don't like to go down stairs.

Took them forever to get it down.

Tie a fish to a teacher's car exhaust pipe. This won't kick in for a while, but as they drive the fish will slowly cook, driving them insane with the smell.

Mix ethanol and epoxy putty. You now have around twenty minutes to fill as many locks as possible.

Has anyone else ever played with those "rockets" made by filling a large plastic bottle with water and pumping air in? Fire them through open windows!

Run the Jolly Roger up the flagpole, if you have one.

Hand out porn to the youngest students.

Turn on all the taps in the toilets, then get out and do the epoxy putty thing with the door. Deny all knowledge of floods.

Get as many alarm clocks as you can find, set them to go off at different times during the day, and padlock them into lockers.

Set every clock in the school up to three minutes forwards or backwards.

Steal every whiteboard marker in the school.

For those more destructively-minded people, take an apple, slit it open, put some magnesium ribbon inside and light it. Roll it through an open door and run. Pow! Bits of apple everywhere!

EDIT: Ah yes, I just remembered. A bunch of guys that my dad knew at university dismantled a car, only they rebuilt it on the roof!

find someone who knows alot about cars and dismantle your principle's car and rebuild it in the gym. this one was done by my dad. you need alot of car guys for this and a key and security code for the gym (be nice to your teachers it works)

Come in early and bring string. Choose a room. Make a big, random web-like structure by joining everything in the room together with string. If you do this right, you should be able to suspend a chair or two from the string (I mean plastic chairs, not heavy wooden ones). The aim is to make the room very difficult to move through (as well as an amusing sight).

If you want to top it off, convince someone to let you duct-tape their hands and feet together and leave them on a table in the middle.

This prank really didn't work the way it intended, but the idea was still pretty nuts. Now the highschool I went to had a front and back lot, with a speed bump seperating the two. The front lot held all the seniors and teachers cars, the back held anyone who wasn't a seniors car. During lunch a group of seniors went out side and tried to cement (unfortunatly for them they were using "homemade cement") a bunch of bricks to the speed bumb rendering any non senior car unable to leave the school. But the cement there were using (which I believe was tanamount to sand and water mixed with other stuff) didn't hold together and all that was made was a mess. Would have worked pretty well if it had actually stuck to the speed bump though.

What if someone were to variate the water cup and fish idea and include mousetraps? Set up the cups with the fish on the moustraps so the when the door is opened in the morning all the cups tip over and all the fish, cup and mousetraps are flying all over the place.

Also, we had a group of FFA people put a cow on the bridge at my school (all the hallways are outside) they had to bring in a helicopter to get it out, quite good

Great idea! You take FOUR pigs and label them 1,2,3 and 4 and they will think its the old bit with the three pigs 1 2 and four and wont look for three, but three will just be hidden really well and in the middle of the day it will come out.

OR

Sneak into the bus lot get into every bus and put toothpicks in the ignition.

Following the disappointing senior prank of the class of 2005 of my school (toilet paper over our 4 main grassy areas and chocolate syrup on the floor), I'd like future ideas for the class of 2008 senior prank. It's a ways away...but hell.

That's all the plausible, non-criminal ideas that we've come up with. I'm not satisfied the least bit. I want my school to turn into a warzone overnight on a cold night of June 2008. C'mon NS, use your destructive ideas...THIS is where they can come to life!

Well 2008 is a while a way, i've already got my Senior prank planned out, but its very risky and could quite possibly get my friends and I expelled but i'll probably do it anyway.

But if its non-criminal i probably can't help too much, i mean did you want destruction or just a mess?

I got a few that were suggested around my school, but no one did them -

If your school parking lot has speed-bumps(mine were installed my senior year... bastards), BREAK them, all of them, or make them impassible, preferably with concrete or something else that is hard to remove. If you don't mind destruction and can do it right before school lets out, coat them in petroleum jelly and set them alight. Make bigger fire/explosions if you want.

My school had gates that they close on the Junior lot during lunch to prevent Juniors from going out to lunch - cement the gates closed during lunch.

There's the pig one...

Lace something, anything mass-consumed at school with viagra or a laxative. Preferably viagra, but it's easier to get a laxative. Ketchup, Mustard, salad dressing, doesn't really matter. If you don't care about getting caught, target certain people with gift food laced with the stuff. My favorite target - if your school has a male sex-ed teacher, give him viagra laced brownies.

Here's another good suggestion - most schools get a newspaper delivery. What you do, get in early and take those newspapers, replace what you can with fake headlines - start a war, have Bush killed, something. It's been done before, but it requires a really good fake paper. Best way to do it is just replace the front page with your own but keep much of the original newpaper itself.

Replace the contents of vending machines with porno, beer and what drugs you can afford.

More of a hypothetical, not sure if it would work - hire a hooker or stripper to come into the school during hours, demand to see the principal, and start a big fuss about how he stiffed her last night.

What we did this year - a few friends took 2,000 yards of twine and went to every place on campus that had railings or lockers. We ran the twine through every lock (the little hole on the locker where the lock goes), we ran it through the railings, and we went across walkways with railings. The result was a forest of criss-crossing twine all over the campus, preventing anyone from walking to classes. We also took all of the garbage cans and stacked them in a pyramid in the middle of the mall. We also took two of the teacher's cars from the parking lot and parked them in the mall where they could not be moved, except by tire jacks.

Ones that have been done in the past
- Taking 3 pigs and painting them with the numbers 1,2, and 4. letting the Administration look for #3
- Hijaking the PA system and playing music all day (involved crawling into the access hatch and splicing into the wires)
- bringing a cow to a second story building and leaving it up there
- glueing army men to every available surface (right next to each other)

What we did this year - a few friends took 2,000 yards of twine and went to every place on campus that had railings or lockers. We ran the twine through every lock (the little hole on the locker where the lock goes), we ran it through the railings, and we went across walkways with railings. The result was a forest of criss-crossing twine all over the campus, preventing anyone from walking to classes. We also took all of the garbage cans and stacked them in a pyramid in the middle of the mall. We also took two of the teacher's cars from the parking lot and parked them in the mall where they could not be moved, except by tire jacks.

Ones that have been done in the past
- Taking 3 pigs and painting them with the numbers 1,2, and 4. letting the Administration look for #3
- Hijaking the PA system and playing music all day (involved crawling into the access hatch and splicing into the wires)
- bringing a cow to a second story building and leaving it up there
- glueing army men to every available surface (right next to each other)

All of these are great. Brilliant.

-Lead a cow into the school and up the stairs, this will cause major problems for the staff since I hear cows will go up stairs but not down.
-Weld any metal gates shut
-Lock principal in office

Advice: Befriend a custodian, with them all things are possible... trust me ;)


Oops, didn't read through everything... the cow thing was mentioned

Sealing the gates was too, but I don't think anyone else suggested locking the principal in his office yet. I'm amazed at some of the ideas that are being claimed as legal on this thread (and yes I know not everyone has claimed that) -of course some of you are probably in other countries with different laws.

As to the original starter of this thread, I'm pretty sure at least the super glue in the door locks would be illegal due to being a major fire hazard. But if you don't mind that risk, that's up to you. There have been some really great ideas so far -even if several have been repeated multiple times. If I think of any really good ones I'll add them to your list.

If you can fiddle the heating system, that would be good.

The PA/Music idea is cool too. Blast out some Hayseed Dixie and no-one'll keep a straight face.

well i havnt had the last day of high school yet but at the last day of middle school some one let off a bunch of firecrackers in the gym without getting caught. If your school has an assembly at the end usually a lot of people will agree to do a mosh pit (if most are doing it the more timid wont be afraid of joining cuz chance of consequence are low) then wen teachers are distracted (and usually think this is the end of school prank) you have a chance to slip off and do whateva prank you want... so if you wanted to build that brick wall... this would be a good time since most kids are moshpitting and teachers are trying to break it up. store bricks in a friends locker in the hallway you plan to block ;)

Boy you guys have it good in the US. If my year tried to pull anything like that we'd get so chewed up.
An idea though, if your school is a rural one, build a fence around the carpark or bus stops and let a whole load of sheep or cows in there.
Or just set a flock of sheep through the school.

With the whole cow thing, be real careful as cows can be very very nasty. Another thing you might wanna know is that when they get scared, they dump everywhere.

[QUOTE=Light Keepers I'm amazed at some of the ideas that are being claimed as legal on this thread (and yes I know not everyone has claimed that) -of course some of you are probably in other countries with different laws.
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Oh right, should I have mentioned that my first idea (even though we actually tried it) involves theft, violating traffic rules, as I assume re-directing traffic is illegal somehow.

I'm lazy and don't want to read all of the posts so I'll just say about the hijacking of the intercom that at my school its possible to do that from any phone in the school. I had to dial #825 (or something like that). Also, many of my teachers had listings of all the other teachers' phone numbers in the school and it was posted there.

Put an advert/press release in your school newspaper saying that you're starting a new charity, "Arm the Homeless." Tell the paper you will raise money in order to provide firearms for the homeless to protect your country's most disadvantaged. After all, who more needs to exercise their constitutional right to have a weapon for protection more than homeless people?

[edit]Take a photo of your headmaster's car, put an advert for it in the weekend paper with his name and the school's phone number.

Vaseline on the toilet seats too

The only senior prank that was done at my school which I am aware of was my flying odd objects from the flagpole. Problem is you get in deep shit anymore for doing anything, I got lucky in that no one ever knew, but it sounds like your school is more lenient than that school was.

Put an advert/press release in your school newspaper saying that you're starting a new charity, "Arm the Homeless." Tell the paper you will raise money in order to provide firearms for the homeless to protect your country's most disadvantaged. After all, who more needs to exercise their constitutional right to have a weapon for protection more than homeless people?

[edit]Take a photo of your headmaster's car, put an advert for it in the weekend paper with his name and the school's phone number.

Vaseline on the toilet seats too

good ideas, I wish I'd thought of doing those, and better yet, they do not break any laws, nor could they be called "terroristic threats"

I'm class of 2008, and therefore have had no chance for senior pranking, but a kid at my school tried this and it worked.

Get unflavored Knox gelatin and either get to school really really early or stay really late the previous day and put it in the school toilets. It makes the water set, so whenever anyone tries to flush, the waste just stays in the bowl. Use unflavored so no one notices.

I'm class of 2008, and therefore have had no chance for senior pranking, but a kid at my school tried this and it worked.

Get unflavored Knox gelatin and either get to school really really early or stay really late the previous day and put it in the school toilets. It makes the water set, so whenever anyone tries to flush, the waste just stays in the bowl. Use unflavored so no one notices.

Holy shit dude, that's great!

This is what we did as our senior pranks long, long ago.

1. "Borrow" every real estate "For Sale" sign we could find and put it up on the front lawn of the school.

2. Made "This Building is Condemed" signs that look like they came from the health dept. and put on every entry door of the school.

3. Found a VW bug and rolled it up the legs of the school auditorium so it was resting on the top of the dome (roof). Of course, this only works if your school has a dome with legs reaching to the ground, but it's the thought that counts.

I have some good stories. My school is pretty lenient about senior pranks so some good stuff has happened during my three years so far.
First take all of the desks from the class rooms as well as any other furniture and place it outside in interesting configuration. (Think a maze of desks and a coliseum of tables with a fake tree in the middle or something). If the teacher has a particularly nice chair or desk place it in the bathroom or on the roof. Soap in the school fountain.

Then take your school's foldable chairs and spread them every where. Lay them in interesting patterns (male genitalia or a message you fancy) on the football field.

Get used tires and form a wall preventing anyone from getting into your school parking lot. Next find a couple beater cars. One place out in front lobby (ideally very ugly and rusted). Take one and cut it in half and weld it around a pole or pillar (WV bug around our school pillar). Take another or more and place them inside buildings like the library or the school office.

Another thing which happened was that yellow caution tape and plastic wrap are wrapped around everything making walking to class very difficult. (Basically a plastic spiderweb in every courtyard and hallway). Get chalk or spray foam and leave messages for the remaining classes and faculty on windows and doors.
Assemble full size trampolines in classrooms.

All of these things happened over three years not one day but that would be pretty awesome!

Some ideas that didn't happen:
1. flood the courtyard
2. moving the principals office materials into the bathroom.
3. Place janitorial equipment in the principal's empty office.
4. ski ramp build off of the library roof.
5. If you attend a religious school you might try turning crosses upside-down (but that might scare people ;) )
6. Again if religious school reposition statues or busts into "inappropriate" positions with one another.
7. build a brick wall behind an administrators door.
8. drop dry ice in bathrooms and fountains (this might not work so well)
9. ducktape porn onto bathroom stalls (ugh...**shudder**)
10. change computer backgrounds or screensavers to porn

Ooh..another one. My friend thought of this. Take a screenshot of every computer in the school. Delete the icons off the desktop. Set the screenshot to the wallpaper.

heres a good one, my friends already have this one planned out, put a classmates car on the roof of the school, or inside the gym.

Here's one my friends brother did for his senior prank...

He bought 3 white rabbits and painted 1,2, and 4 on their backs, brought them in to school in the morning and set them loose. The curator and a bunch of teachers were looking for the rabbit #3 all day, which of course didn't exist.
hehehehe

i thought it was pretty good...

*sob* I love you guys. A humble little high school in southern california with 3,000 kids will suffer dearly for being in said high school in June of 2008. *cries in happiness*

This year we had a bunch of harmless ones, it's been a while since soemthing really good has gone down.
Now, my class is about 500 people, so there was tons of little things:
-guy in a gorilla suit running around between periods
-two of the biggest football players (200+ lbs), boxers and a shitload of green body paint
-bunch more like this, involving costumes, ect.

About 50 people tailgated in the senior parking lot 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. That was pretty damn funny, they had all the necessities, grill, food, ect.

We- basically the top twenty of the class- were all gonna dress up, wife-beaters, ripped jeans, bandanas, bring skateboards, scooters and rollerblades, and go around between periods blasting "schools out for summer".

Didn't happen... and oh, about a week before school ended, we engineered a super-soaker attack on one of my friends. It involved a ninja suit, mission impossible music, 4 people with super soakers and about two packages of water balloons. The bio room was soaked.

A few good ones our seniors have done the past few years:

-pooled money and purchased 650 white mice---released them on the 2nd floor hallway between 6th and 7th periods (lunch break for tons of security)

-bought 5 pigs. painted numbers onto them: "1", "2", "3", "4", and "6". Let them go before 1st period in the school. All the school staff spent the entire day looking for the pig painted "5" (there was none).

-We have some picnic tables, benches, and the like outside. the seniors came at night one year, managed to get them out of the ground (power driver?), and got them onto the roof

Like any?

If anyone does any of these be very careful. The class after mine tried to burn some sort of sign into the football field, but instead they got caught and fined the amount of money to repair the damage. If you do anything to the buildings themselves, make sure it involves easy clean up or you could be charged (in the US) with destruction of property. Spiking someone's food or beverage with laxatives or viagra (both of which I'm going to assume could be detected with a blood test...well not the viagra; that one will be self-evident) can be considered assault and charged as such if they catch you.
Having said all that, the class before mine (my class didn't do anything, we were lame!) did something funny. In my town yard statues were really popular for a while, and you can still sometimes see these stupid things in people's yards. I'm talking gnomes (like the one from the movie Amelie), gnomes sitting on toadstools, nearly life-size deer, more gnomes, birds, turtles, giant frogs, pagodas etc. When I was in high school kids would get together in gangs and steal these things from people's yards and put them in someone else's yard. So the seniors from that year went on a huge gnoming expedition and 'gnomed' the principals yard. I think if I recall correctly there were over 200 of the things out there. Simple but effective. Also easy to clean up, and nothing needed to be fixed.

with the help of the caretaker(groundskeeper) since hes pretty cool nad wolud help us. we plan to put a gib board over the dor to te staff room, then plaster over that so it looks like the wall. they can see through the widow, but they cant find the door. it wuold also help to have someone inside saynig help, the door dissappeared" even theigh it still visible from inside

since there are a few cool cops around, it wolud be fun to try and get them to fake an arrest in te middle of assembly for ripping of a prostitute(prositiution is legal)

We didn't have too many pranks...except...

Putting the Caretakers house up for sale, as its on school property. It was in an estate agents (realtors) window for like two weeks as well as in the local paper, he even got offers for it :D ...

We had some really dank toilets with windows high up the walls next to the ceiling, so we proxied the doors shut turned the hot taps on and left it over night to come back to a huge swimming pool...

Cheap deodorant/fire lighter fluid on grass with a message questioning the head master parentage...

Oh and switched the coffee to defcaf :D Lots of pissed of teachers...

We were gpoing to do this this year at my school but we couldn't get it organized in time. Take as many people out of the senior class, including the top students, valedictorians and all, and then go throughout the day to the office and request drop out forms, then watch the administration freak out.

Our class also got away with chanting F*** the High School at a pep rally that was fun.

This is giving me good ideas for 2008. The seniors at my school only set off a stink bomb. And then a friend of mine that is a freshman set a computer virus on the school's computer system on the last week of school. This is giving me so many ideas. Must...use...ideas...

Measure the height of the flagpoles in front of your school.

Obtain junk tires from a junkyard. You'll need enough to stack them side on as high as all of the flagpoles.

You'll need a suitable ladder as well.

Put the tires over the top of the flagpole. As each one gets to the bottom, top it with two-part epoxy.

It forms a really tough tower of tires that is difficult to remove, even with a power saw.

Our class set fire to a clump of trees... It wasn't such a good idea.

The year before that was a box of crickets released in the cafateeria. They sung for weeks.

The year before that they attached the school sign to the back of their truck and hit the gas, dragging it down the road for several miles

The year before that they taped off all of the bathrooms with 'do not cross' tape. As it stood, there were only three bathrooms for 1500 students, so taking those three bathrooms offline was actually kinda funny. A friend of mine decided he would relieve himself in the gym showers.

The best prank ever will still go down in lore around here forever. A nearby high school, Rye Neck in Rye, New York. It happened about thrty years ago. Listen to this one, it may be impossible to duplicate these days, but it's fun to hear about.

One morning towards the end of the school year, the student population filed in only to see a large, ugly bucket on top of the flag poll. It took several hours and a large snorkle truck borrowed from the nearby power company to get the offending bucket down. The entire day was filled with rumor and speculation as to how the bucket got there in the first place.

The next morning, the students entered the parking lot to find an identical bucket atop the flag poll. Once again, it was a major production to get the bucket down. By now, a rumor had circulated that one of the students had a pilot's licence, and had come to the school via helicopter to drop the bucket on the flagpoll.

That night, the police, local media, entire student population and concerned parents and teachers camped out under the flagpoll to watch for the helcopter. Naturally, nothing came. The next morning, somewhere in the twenty or so minutes between when the campers filled out and when the students returned to school, the bucket reappeared on the flagpoll.

How, do you ask, did the entire population miss the chopper? There was no chopper, the entire population let rumor get the best of them, and played the prank on themselves. The five students that put the bucket there got the entire town to fool themselves into a night of stupidity.

How did the bucket get there? It was attached to the flagpoll ropes and hoisted up. Simple, right? The students involved did almost nothing to cause this mass hysteria, which makes the joke even funnier.

Holy hell, that's awesome. Have you seen the car one, or know of someone actually doing it?

The variant on the car one I saw was one that got taken apart and then reassembled around the flag pole (with a hole cut in the middle of it to make space for the pole of course).

You should probably not attempt this with the principal's car.

One of our nearby schools had a mass meeting and everyone brought their newspapers, buckets, and a couple bottles of Elmer's glue. During the night they managed to make a giantic paper maché male part and then hoist it on top of the roof. It stayed there half the day until the admins could figure out what to do with it.

My class's senior prank was to scale a 150-foot abandoned smokestack and plant a huge flag atop it.

All the school administrators were really pissed, but none of them had the balls to climb up and fetch it down, so it stayed up there until halfway through the next schoolyear. :D


Where do you get the thingys at the bottom?

Watch out! My dad and his brother hijacked their high school's intercom (they said there was a fire drill and the school evacuated) and someone found out it was them and my dad wasn't allowed to go to his own graduation ceremony! (He still received his diploma, though.)

I have no idea how you Yanks could possibly get away with this stuff - the security is too tight at my school, and they would be down on you like a shot if you tried anything along the lines of letting pigs loose in the school - our caretaker actually lives on the grounds and he has a great big Alastian so I would pity the fool who tried to break into my school.

I would have thought an obvious one would be to go to a telephone box and animously call the police. Say that the one of the teachers has got a gun or some lunatic is holding the headmaster hostage or one of the female teachers is a prostitute etc etc. Of course the police would have to believe you but it has virtually no risk as they never find out who it was. In our school, the fire alarm system has a direct connect to the fire station so if it goes off, the fire brigade arrive. But you have the promblem of being caught.

I dont know about US law but most of what I have seen suggested here would constitute criminal damage and/or theft under UK law (under UK law criminal damage is any damage which makes the owner have to get the property repaired or cleaned).

Since I'm not going to waste my time reading all of these, my idea may already be on here: Zip-tie all the lockers shut during the last class of the day, so everyone won't be able to get their stuff and go home. This is a variation on the prank that the seniors at my school pulled this year, the difference being that they didn't do it at the end of the day.

About 20 years ago the seniors at Cornell University put a 2-ton pumpkin on the top of the steeple of the Old Church. The steeple was taller than the largest crane in the area so nobody had any idea how they got it up there and the administrators had no idea how to get it down. It stayed up there for weeks until it rotted and fell down. Wasn't a pretty sight when it landed.

Do what I did, toss some smoke grenades under teachers windows. I heard everyone yell out FIRE!!!!!111

Get a coffin, place one of those fake skeletons like they have in the health classes in it. Place coffin in either teacher's lounge, principal's office, or cafeteria.

Even better: get one of the faculty/teacher to help out, have said teacher get in coffin and feign death for awhile. When the coffin (and teacher) is found and everyone starts to freak out, walk up to coffin and chant gibberish, having the "dead" teacher "arise" upon chant's completion. Works best when clothed in black robe.

I have no idea how you Yanks could possibly get away with this stuff - the security is too tight at my school, and they would be down on you like a shot if you tried anything along the lines of letting pigs loose in the school - our caretaker actually lives on the grounds and he has a great big Alastian so I would pity the fool who tried to break into my school.

I would have thought an obvious one would be to go to a telephone box and animously call the police. Say that the one of the teachers has got a gun or some lunatic is holding the headmaster hostage or one of the female teachers is a prostitute etc etc. Of course the police would have to believe you but it has virtually no risk as they never find out who it was. In our school, the fire alarm system has a direct connect to the fire station so if it goes off, the fire brigade arrive. But you have the promblem of being caught.

I dont know about US law but most of what I have seen suggested here would constitute criminal damage and/or theft under UK law (under UK law criminal damage is any damage which makes the owner have to get the property repaired or cleaned).

Pffffft. The caretaker was more than happy to help us with our pranks :)

I was gonna release a bunch of rabbits or rats or some other animal in the hallways for my senior prank, but I didn't have any money.

Invest in a large number of garden gnomes

These were the pranks during my high school era..

Release 1 or 2 thousand crickets in the school's lunch area.

Dye the schools pond red.

Break into the school's bus parking compound during the night and deflate all of the tires.

Organize a class-wide senior ditch day. Over 90% of all the seniors skipped class at once.

I think maybe erecting a fullscale replica of the rabbit from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and putting it either on the football field, in the front lawn, or in the middle of the building if you have a trapped area in the school as we do, we have 4 wings in a square so we have a central courtyard that never gets used but can be seen from all the classes in those halls, putting the rabbit there would to me be a hilarious stunt just in the difficulty of removing it once it's built, also the absolute shock on the faces of the students and staff when they see a log cabin rabbit in the middle of their building.

I wonder if anyone will read this, buried so deep in the thread. But anyway, take all the tables and chairs (and everything else that's not bolted down) from the cafeteria and recreate it on the lawn. I suppose it would also work for a classroom.

We were gpoing to do this this year at my school but we couldn't get it organized in time. Take as many people out of the senior class, including the top students, valedictorians and all, and then go throughout the day to the office and request drop out forms, then watch the administration freak out.

Our class also got away with chanting F*** the High School at a pep rally that was fun.

lol. I was gonna post both those but I figured I'd read the rest first, then when I read yours I was like, holy crap, those are our ideas! Then I know you and you go to my scool. lol.

The worst thing we did in my year was to put "organic fertiliser" on the flowerbeds under the staff-room windows. Thus, the entire admin building stunk of mixed horse and sheep manure. That was the worst we did, because some utter twerps did a whole lot of destructive crap a few days before the main event, totalling a damage bill of about $15,000. So be warned; don't go pranking with the more destructive folk in your year. Also, stay away from air-conditioners.

However, my brother has done one of the best I have ever heard about. He was finishing high school in the days when scanners were brand new, and we had saved to get one for the both of us for school. Anyway, he scanned up a copy of the school's letterhead and wrote a letter to the effect that some students had sustained minor injuries in previous years, so we parents consider keeping their children at home this year. He put the principal's name at the bottom, but made sure not to sign it, as that could be argued to be forgery.

So, he printed off ten copies and passed them out on the condition that they recipients photocopy it and keep the chain going. Eventually, the coolest workshop teacher got hold of it, laughed his head off, and photocopied up 100 or so copies.

Needless to say, school attendance was at an all time low on that day.

I would like to put in a word for British pranking seen as everyone seems to be American. I have rought some havoc in my time:

1. Wrapped a teacher's car in shrink wrap.
2. Sold the Headmasters car (this one's really easy to do; put an add in loads of papers selling the car for less than it's worth then give the address and number of the school and the name of your headmaster as the contact, he'll be getting perspective buyers for months!).
3. Held the cafeteria staff to ransom with paintball guns.
4. Covered an entire corridor with greece, walls and floor.
5. Replced all the books in a teacher's study with porn.

And many other classics.