I didn't do this, but it was so fucking funny and stupid I just have to share it.
When I was doing year 10 the year 12s had their "muck up day" - that is, for the honour of enduring six years of stifling regulation you were "given" one day where you can fool around like a mongrel and not get punished. Favoured tactics were to crossdress - so we had a bunch of tall footballers wearing girl's uniform dresses -, bring cartons of eggs and throw them at people - oh so fun -, sneak up on someone with shaving cream and ... well, cream them... anyway...
A couple year 12s decided to take things to a new extreme. Not content with merely being nuisances these year 12s set out to make GIANT nuisances out of themselves.
Now, to properly understand what happened, you have to get a brief layout on my HS's geography. There's a road that has only a single lane each way, which is where the parents come in from (a lot of these parents hadn't heard of the bus time-table, so often the road would be congested on the best of days as every motherfucker sought to drop off or pick up their offspring). There's only one main gate into the school. There are other entrances/exits, but they're reserved for the kids who are like me - who either walked to school or caught the bus and came in from a different angle. So in any case, there's only one entrance to the school for the parents who drive cars to drop off their kids.
You can see where I'm going with this, surely. If not, think what one chokepoint, a couple bored year 12 students who want to go out with a big bang, and a bunch of
really fucking HUGE chains and locks will do.
Yes, that is correct - they locked the gates to the only entrance and exit for cars the school had. They did it during the night, and frankly no-one was expecting them to do it so it's not like security was called out. They locked the gates with, as I recall, huge locks and chains. When morning came the school groundskeeper tried to break the locks - and ended up breaking his own tool. They got out a blowtorch (which the school apparently has), yet no-one knew how to use it, so they had to wait for some people to come by and operate it. All while the traffic was backed up immensely, as parents were wondering just what the fuck was going on. One guy, who wasn't even a parent to a student, became late for work and sued the school for lost income. It was crazy.
Needless to say, the school's admin was pissed. Royally. But who did it? Which year 12 student could have done such a thing? Who was going to get punished? Surely the majority year 12 student population was innocent - only a few could have done such a thing (in spite of all the craziness most year 12s were alright).
Now, here's the kicker. Remember, this thread was about "stupid" actions, and while locking the chokepoint was diabolical and cunning (and real fucking mean) it wasn't really "stupid" - it would take brains and brass balls to pull it off to some sort of satisfaction. However, pulling it off was the challenge - keeping free of recrimination should have been simple, if you were careful.
And no, they weren't careful. As I understand it the conversation went like this:
Year 12 student responsible: "So, I see we're having some trouble with the gate today, eh? Traffic's backed up quite a ways. Any idea who's behind it?"
Principal: "You parked your car inside the gates."
"Fuck."
Epilogue: The students were told that if they attended the graduation ceremony, which is entirely a formality (proof - I didn't attend mine when I graduated, but I still graduated - confused much?), they would be expelled. Otherwise, they didn't want to see them
anywhere. They would still graduate and so on, but they just didn't want them to show their faces.
"Wow." you must be thinking. "That's pretty lenient of them, considering."
Yes, and you'd think the students responsible would stay clear away from the ceremony. But that would be intelligent, no?
An ex-friend of mine who I (thought I) knew convinced them to go, saying all sorts of persuasive arguments like "oh, they wouldn't throw you out - trust me." They made the same mistake that I did and trusted this guy, and they went to the graduation ceremony, and there they got expelled. Talk about stupidity.
Epilogue 2: When it came to my year's "muck up day" the school was no longer fooling around. Think what september 11th did to America and scale it down to our HS (by that, I mean: dreadful event that comes out of the blue severely fucks with normalcy, and afterwards things get obsessively strict and draconian). They had security guards, cameras etc.
), his father beats the shit out of him when he;s drunk, etc.