Vandals glue doors shut at (Jacksonville) high school

First Coast News - WJXX/WTLV Jacksonville ^ | 4.22.03

[mhking]

Vandals glue doors shut at high school

Vandals sealed the doors at First Coast High

The vandals sealed 120 doors

Locksmiths are working to replace the locks

 

JACKSONVILLE, FL - Students at First Coast High found themselves attending classes in the schools auditorium Tuesday after the doors to their classrooms were found super-glued shut.

School officials discovered the sealed locks at around 6am and also found more damage including walls covered in graffiti. Locksmiths are now at the school working to replace the glued locks with new ones. Officials say that thousands of dollars will have to be spent to repair the locks and repaint walls at the school.

Authorities say that the school was empty from 6pm to 6am when the vandalism was discovered. According to one official, "More than 120 doors were glued. They [the vandals] not only did the classroom doors, of which there are at least 85, but they did every door in the building."

School officials say they hope that whoever is responsible for the damage will brag to their friends with word eventually getting to them so they can apprehend the vandals.

[tacticalogic]

Cool. I'd want a big shop vac set up to blow, with some kind of siphon or gravity feed into the hose.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I may have been born in Illinois and grew up here, but I spend every summer of my childhood at my grandparents' motel in Lake Wales - I learned how to swim in Lake Walk-in-the-Water. I'm sure you two know where that's at, yes? ;-)

[Nam Vet]

"....a half-a$$ed bidet "

Isn't Bday one of Saddam's sons?

Nam Vet

[Poohbah]

And, after getting four JDAMs on his posterior, DEFINITELY half-a$$ed :o)

[discostu]

And leave what you glue with it in a well ventilated place for a couple of days. It really smells bad (especially when the tube is newish). But it does the job. I haven't encountered any two objects you can't glue together with it, and it's not instant so you never stick your fingers together. I just can't figure out why it's marketed as a craft glue and basically kept away from men, which is why I espouse it whenever I get half a chance.

[jmc813]

I bet you're the guy who gets his house nailed by all of the neighborhood kids each Halloween. Just a guess.

[TheSpottedOwl]

remember when it used to be cherry bombs in the toilets?

This is a hoot! I gave up trying to blow up the toilets, however I did have access to M-80's. My friend's dad(who was a teacher at the time, ended up as principal at a local hs years later)showed me how to make a delayed fuse from a cigarette. I'd go into the bathroom in hs and light up a smoke, then poke a hole somewhere in the middle of the cigarette and insert the fuse. Wash my hands and casually walk away. Sit in class and try not to smile as the noise from the explosion rocketed down the hall :) Ahhh, memories...

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

The Three Stooges wern't the only ones with pies on the ceilings.

Upside-down thumbtacks with a wing-tip Theology Teacher:)

[Crawdad]

"My girlfrind is still in high school"
Man, you don't see that written here much.

[The Black Knight]

Yeah, I guess I'm one of the younger crowd here, huh?

[Calvin Locke]

I had a neighbor that told me they got the janitor to remove the center piece of a set of double doors and the moved a
guy's VW inside the school. Then put the piece back in place.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Actually I'm pretty sure our local hardware store stocks E6000. I went there in a pinch when our local Michael's ran out ;-). And yes, it does behave a little like rubber cement at first - can rub it off your hands like regular glue.

I do have a funny story about a friend who literally super-glued her finger to her upper teeth. She had a problem with one of her fake nails and somehow did this to herself not all that long before she was to go on stage for a singing appearance. Well, I'm sure it wasn't funny at the time (to her) but it was funny to her later when she was telling and portraying the story to me ;-).

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Ping - I thought you'd appreciate the explosion/detonation stories on this thread (wink, wink).

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

And we're glad you're posting here - good for you. Glad to see you have plans to be a future educator - we could use a LOT more like you in our schools!!!!!!!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I was assisting the local leotard lady with a group project - she was doing custom unitards for a high school dance/pom pom squad. And part of my job was gluing on the rhinestones after all the sewing was done. Then when each unitard was done, we put it in a gallon-size ziploc bag with each girl's name on it. And we were on a very tight schedule to get these done, so there was no time to lay out 25 outfits over night to dry (and air). Hence when I opened up one of the ziplocs later on to do yet one more "quality control check", the fumes about knocked me out ;-).

[Illbay]

They only tried it once.

'Nuff said.

[rwfromkansas]

This is humorous, though hopefully they are caught so taxpayers aren't stuck with the tab.

[rwfromkansas]

I was tempted to do some pranks sometimes, and was in a perfect position to do them since often I would be at school after six when nobody else was there working on the newspaper. But, I never actually did anything.

[rwfromkansas]

lol....:)

Hey, anyone that rags on Illbay has my support.

[rwfromkansas]

There really were no pranks at my HS. Man, I was deprived.