Way back when, I used to work at a radio station. Whenever we would get a big snowfall, kids used to call up disguising their voices and say that school was cancelled. I’d just play along with them and say OK, thanks for the information. We had a private phone line for school administrators to call.
Ha! I had the same thing happen to me many times when I worked in radio. We didn’t have a private phone line so the administrators used code words.
Ummmmm.... You didn’t work at WDEL did you?
OK, that’s hilarious.
On one of the cable channels is a show called "High School" where they tell about senior pranks.
One group of senior knew about the "secret" method the administrators used to contact the radio stations and managed to get into the school early one day, find the secret code word (on the secretary's desk) and call in to the local radio stations with an announcement school was closed for some sort of mechanical reasons. If I remember correctly they even went so far as changed the message sign at the school entrance.
The radio stations ran the announcements and of course half the kids did not show up.
Some of the pranks presented were both amusing and harmless but some would make you wonder what were they thinking.
I think one of the funnier pranks I saw was when some students adverstised the school for sale in a local paper and gave the principal's number as the point of contact.