Sort of a long story ahead;

Ok, several years ago during my senior year, I decided to pull a senior prank. I'm a bit of a prankster, but in no way would I have ever pulled a stunt for my high school, since I routinely despised everything about that school. The reason I did pull it, was because of all the ideas thrown out there by other people, they were all extremely stupid and completely weak. Such ideas included "hilariously" ordering pizzas for the principal or TPing the school.

Looking back at the previous pranks (or lack there of) pulled by the former classes, I decided to pit it upon myself to do something awesome. My original idea stemmed from the fact that our new Principal was both the principal of the middle school and the principal of our high school and that both school were connected by a large hallway. Since it would've been "tough" to make that walk everyday (although many of us students had to as several classrooms were located in the middle school for some reason) she was allowed to drive around a golf cart and even ran a student's foot over. My idea would be to steal the cart and drive it around, hopefully to get it onto the Interstate and drive at 5 miles an hour. However, once we had the cart, we could not in any way get it out of the building as it was too large, so we ended up abandoning the idea.

Frustrated by my defeat, I spent the end of my Friday at my friend's house drinking. Soon someone had the weird idea to play drunk Scrabble, which wasn't the kind of thing we would normally do, but I guess he had the board ready. As we were messing around with that, I got the idea to vandalize the school sign, which was pretty lame but it was probably the best thing our class had for a prank.

So anyways, we go out and get; bolt cutters, a large Industrial lock, duct tape and a pack of gum. We do a quick drive by of the school and pencil down what the sign said, then make our way back to the house.

While there, we use the scrabble board to word out what we wanted with the letters available on the sign. Given the limited choice, we also used duct tape to make several extra letters ourselves.

Anyways, we head back to the school around 3 AM, use the bolt cutters to cut the lock, open the sign and rearrange the letters to display our message. We close the case, put a very large unbreakable lock on the case and fill the keyhole with chewed gum. We then head back to the house and pass out.

Well, the story isn't over, if it was it wouldn't be THAT memorable. But it just so happens that we had a few special guests at our school the next day.

You see folks, this was around 2003, where the big thing going on in Iowa every four years is the Iowa caucases, an event where presidential candidates come from all over and speak all over the state. Well, on this very special Saturday morning, we had two very special guests; soon to be the Democratic Presidential candidate; John Kerry and Senator Ted Kennedy. According to what others have said, they arrived early and were among the first to spot what was on the sign. Our Principal apparently ran out to the sign, falling in the process and twisting her ankle but getting up and pulling down the flag and throwing it over the sign.

Now, I was not aware of what happened, until Monday. She got over the PA during my 2nd period class and condemned whoever did this ungodly act saying it was the most embarassing display our school has ever shown and that until someone stepped forward, she was going to cancel both Winter Formal and the Senior Prom. Well, since I didn't really give a damn about either, I just sat back and had a good laugh at it. Of course, she later recanted her threats and both events still happened unfortunately, so there wasn't really a happy ending there.

But it still ranks pretty high in my book, in fact soon after that, our school upgraded their security so that an event like that would never happen again. And since I graduated that May, I'm sure it never will.

Rydog wrote:

What the fuck did the sign say? Did I miss that part?

Honestly, it wasn't memorable enough to mention, simply had something to do with a teacher gangbang and our super intendent eating babies.