On Turf, Beer, and Furniture

[buschtrommel]

I just love this. Some pupils somewhere in Aberdeenshire turfed over the floor of their common room on their last day (cf. BBC article). I think instead of complaining, the headmaster should have them clean up the common room themselves. After all, once caught, you gotta hang for your pranks. That's why I only ever stole doors and built fences in

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[diarytypething]

The grassed-over common room doesn't quite beat the legendary prank carried out by someone at a school on the other side of Aberdeen. They managed to get a sheep into the headmaster's office, where it stayed undetected for a whole weekend.

[buschtrommel]

At the college I went to in Wales, someone people managed to get a donkey in the living-room and (allegedly) a goat into the staff common room.

Although I appreciate that these pranks demand some sort of effort, too, especially given the stoic reputation of donkeys, I don't like the enormous potential of having to clean up pats.

I prefer panks that demand careful planning, strategic foresight and effort. Above all, they should be clever. I have no sympathy for the reaction of the staff to send home all the students to teach a handful of students a lesson.

[diarytypething]

Yeah, the clever ones are the best. When my dad was at school the kids a couple of years ahead of him managed to get all the benches out of the school hall and put them on the roof, and wrapped toilet paper (huge industrial size rolls stolen from the school) round that part of the building. They also dismantled all of the football and rugby goals on the playing fields and re-arranged them into "Class of 72". Their final crowning achievement was to raise the head's car up off the ground on bricks during the disruption caused by the other pranks.