So I'm sitting at my drawing desk during second period when all of a sudden we hear the voice of the vice principal over the intercom.
He's telling us to evacuate the main school building and head towards the football field. Thankfully our class isn't in the main building and we remained in our classroom until further notice. Now, I attend Belmont High School in Los Angeles. Our school tends to around 4,000 students, I mean, IT IS PACKED. From messages I received, the football field was overflowing with students, and I start hearing that there are talks of a bomb in the main building.
I've seen things like this on TV and now I'm living it. Then I start to ask myself, "Since we're so near graduation, could this be the senior prank?"
Turns out it was. Greatest Senior Prank Ever. They managed to evacuate the school and get the L.A. Bomb Squad into the campus.
Any of you guys have any memorable senior pranks you remember? Anything that can top that?
How is that funny at all? A fake fire drill that gets all the school outside would be mildly amusing, but a bomb threat that brings the L.A. Bomb Squad? I think that's illegal. Not to mention the poor parents must have been worried sick. If one my non existent kids were there I'd be fucking pissed
Yeah, I agree 100% with everyone above me. That is not funny AT ALL. A bomb threat is a serious offense; in fact, I’m pretty sure it’s a felony in many states, if not all of them. That shit is not cool, and once they find the guy, he will be in some serious shit.
“Criminal statutes typically dictate severe penalties. For example, the state of Massachusetts, U.S.A., provides for penalties of up to 20 years in prison, up to $50,000 fine, and restitution for the costs of the disruption.”
Since an 11-yr-old could pull off that "prank," I think it really sucks. It's absolutely nothing to be proud of, as it showcases no creativity and puts everyone at risk and terrifies parents who are going to take off work to check on their kids.
Honestly, I hope they get busted; most of them should be 18, right? I'd like to see them explain that bomb threat prank to prospective employers for the next dozen years.
That's terrible and illegal. The pranks we had involved writing funny messages in herbicide and stealing the gay cow and putting it places, like on the school roof.
The gay cow is this huge ass cow they had to advertise a steak restaurant, but then it got bought out by a gay bar. For some reason instead of removing it they decided to paint it pink where the black spots were and to put nice little pink spots on the bottom of the udders. Making this the #1 target in our town for pranks.
Did I mention I live in Florida? This will explain all of paragraph 2.
I should also add that my friends wanted to release some greased up pigs with 1, 2 and 4 painted on them somewhere on the high school grounds. But they couldn't find any pigs =(
The seniors at my high school never called in a bomb threat( (goddamn, that's really stupid, not funny and not original) but they did manage to get their dumb asses on Howard Stern one year for releasing live chickens into the parking lot reserved for juniors. Oh, the news was ablaze and national media even caught a whiff of it, claiming these violent youths were torturing and killing the poor beasts.
Here's the thing you have to understand about chickens. Chickens are retarded. Like, there isn't an olympics special enough for them. And the kind of chickens you can buy for about $50 to fill a small parking lot? Not exactly the pick of the bunch. Most of them were on the verge of death already.
Actually, I thought it was kinda funny. Not nearly as funny as the outrage it produced, but at least mildly amusing.
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I was expecting a Castlevania reference.
I agree with Lemon. That's not a prank at all.
And then, when there's an actual bomb, everyone will think it's just a prank and die?
Agree with the above. Too extreme.
How is that funny at all? A fake fire drill that gets all the school outside would be mildly amusing, but a bomb threat that brings the L.A. Bomb Squad? I think that's illegal. Not to mention the poor parents must have been worried sick. If one my non existent kids were there I'd be fucking pissed
I missing the humor here.
Yeah, I agree 100% with everyone above me. That is not funny AT ALL. A bomb threat is a serious offense; in fact, I’m pretty sure it’s a felony in many states, if not all of them. That shit is not cool, and once they find the guy, he will be in some serious shit.
From Wikipedia:
“Criminal statutes typically dictate severe penalties. For example, the state of Massachusetts, U.S.A., provides for penalties of up to 20 years in prison, up to $50,000 fine, and restitution for the costs of the disruption.”
That dude is sooo not graduating.
That's illegal, actually. Illegal prank = utter failure.
This blog = similar failure.
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I'm going to try to Rick Roll the entire 2008 graduating class here in Las Vegas. Hopefully things will work. Will provide videos.
not saying it's funny... just pointing out that it is the biggest senior prank i've been witness to. Heck i'm not even a senior.
yeah. that's a shitty prank. I hope this "prankster" gets caught, arrested, and proded in the butthole in prison.
worst prank evar
Since an 11-yr-old could pull off that "prank," I think it really sucks. It's absolutely nothing to be proud of, as it showcases no creativity and puts everyone at risk and terrifies parents who are going to take off work to check on their kids.
Honestly, I hope they get busted; most of them should be 18, right? I'd like to see them explain that bomb threat prank to prospective employers for the next dozen years.
That's terrible and illegal. The pranks we had involved writing funny messages in herbicide and stealing the gay cow and putting it places, like on the school roof.
The gay cow is this huge ass cow they had to advertise a steak restaurant, but then it got bought out by a gay bar. For some reason instead of removing it they decided to paint it pink where the black spots were and to put nice little pink spots on the bottom of the udders. Making this the #1 target in our town for pranks.
Did I mention I live in Florida? This will explain all of paragraph 2.
I should also add that my friends wanted to release some greased up pigs with 1, 2 and 4 painted on them somewhere on the high school grounds. But they couldn't find any pigs =(
I hope they like PMITA prison.
was it an actual bomb threat or a prank that lead to a stupid misunderstanding by easily panicked officials
That's actually worse than the one my class (I stayed ouf of it) pulled off. Have fun in prison kiddos
That is the most unoriginal shit.
My senior prank, putting shit in the dryers in the men's college dorms and running them. Although not huge in scope, it pisses off quite a few people.
not really just a bunch of blow up dolls and dildo spread out in the cafeteria
The seniors at my high school never called in a bomb threat( (goddamn, that's really stupid, not funny and not original) but they did manage to get their dumb asses on Howard Stern one year for releasing live chickens into the parking lot reserved for juniors. Oh, the news was ablaze and national media even caught a whiff of it, claiming these violent youths were torturing and killing the poor beasts.
Here's the thing you have to understand about chickens. Chickens are retarded. Like, there isn't an olympics special enough for them. And the kind of chickens you can buy for about $50 to fill a small parking lot? Not exactly the pick of the bunch. Most of them were on the verge of death already.
Actually, I thought it was kinda funny. Not nearly as funny as the outrage it produced, but at least mildly amusing.
whoever did that is gonna get severly fucked over.