1968
I and the rest of our football team snuck into the opposing high schools gymnasium on the night of their pep rally.
This school had been built in the thirties and it was built entirely of wood.
Well we stole into the gyms locker room and ‘flushed’ a couple of M-80’s down each of the six toilets.
For a minute .. nothing seemed to happen.
All of sudden .. a rumble starts under the old wooden floor boards and you’d have thought that an earth quake was starting.
Water gushing up out of the toilets, floors buckling and .. The next thing you know .. The damn dividing wall between the locker room commodes and the gymnasium itself .. “FALLS”!
We were standing there looking out at some of the most stunned and angry looking crowd of faces that you’d never want to see!
Needless to say .. We hauled our butts out of there with about 200 alum .. right behind us!
haha, that’s a great one. We didn’t have any of that, but I know it would cause the pipes to leak in the basement. I went to a very large HS in Chicago (Lane Tech for those in our region), but it would make a huge ruckus and a water mess!
Now, also, being in the city, I heard our M80’s were the cheap ones... you had to go south to get the “good ones”.
But then again, I used to hear that the good beer was “Coors”, until a few folks made the smokey and the bandit run out west and brought some back. Bleh.
Thanks for the chuckle, reminded me of a scene that shoulda been in Porkys, and I can only imagine!