What high school prank made you realize, oh, we went too far.

So the senior class, two years ahead of me, forked the lawn in front of the school.

That's a classic, right? Well, they took it a bit further.

Instead of buying plastic for their whole school year,

methodically pocketed the metal silverware for lunch and breakfast.

Not every piece, every time, but just enough that the lunch staff would think it was accidental

loss. We have a small class size, so kids would bust their own trays by dumping the scraps

into a big trash can, and sometimes people would forget to take their silverware off first,

and they'd get lost. We had regular announcements at lunch, reminding us to make sure we didn't

throw away the utensils. So in this mess of conspiracy that only they knew about, they collected

hundreds of metal utensils. The night before their last day of classes, they snuck into the

school grounds and methodically stuck hundreds of forks, knives and spoons into the grass a foot

apart each. To make it worse, one of the two custodians had recently been fired, and the

remaining custodian was an older guy who was perfectly kind and in an ideal world should

have retired sooner. He had to pick them all up by himself. I heard one of the teachers came in

early and helped him a little bit and saw the custodian had tears falling down his cheeks.

Spraying people with ne'er hair remover. A group of kids staged a kidnapping one time. They borrowed a

van and drove it in front of a busy shopping centre. One guy, pretending to escape, jumped out the

trunk all wrapped up in duct tape. To the horror of all the bystanders, the van stopped,

two kids ran out and recaptured the escapee, and drove off.

The cops had to go to their homes when the van was identified, and they had a lot of clearing

up to do.

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