Vandals glue doors shut at (Jacksonville) high school

First Coast News - WJXX/WTLV Jacksonville ^ | 4.22.03

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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.

[Sam's Army]

"Polk County, ya know."

Me too, what school?

[yarddog]

When I was in high school a bunch of us loved playing pranks and tricks. We must have been unusual because we had a standing rule that none of our jokes could do real damage to property or harm people.

As to vandalism, I despise it. I consider vandalism worse than theft. At least the thief obtains something of value. I would also punish vandalism much more strictly.

I once took a course in park design and one of the things covered was how to avoid vandalism. The thing which really struck me was the book stated that vandalism in parks was practically unknown before WWII.

I always wondered what occurred around that time to make the change in society.

[AdA$tra]

In high school we performed a physics experimenet. One of my friend's family was in the masonry business. He had a .22 caliber nail gun in his car. One night while working on the yearbook we nailed the physics teacher into his room with a 2x4. Can you imagine how much trouble a kid could get into with a nail gun at school these days?

[AppyPappy]

At my old high school, someone rewired the speakers in the auditorium and played "Amother Brick In The Wall" during an assembly.

[Exit148]

Seniors, in one of my son's class, put a Volkswagon Beetle on the school roof. They took the engine out and hoisted it up. Next morning, there it was -- high on the roof. HeeHee!

[adx]

One of the best pranks I saw at our fraternity was covering every square inch of floorspace in someones room with cups of water filled to the rim.

A friend of mine who was in college (I was still in HS at the time) did something similar. They filled some guy's room full of shredded computer paper. Full, as in "damn near to the ceiling" full.

Hey, mabye we should ask the Admin to add in the title of this thread "Post your favorite pranks here!"?

[Poohbah]

At my old high school, someone rewired the speakers in the auditorium and played "Amother Brick In The Wall" during an assembly.

I can top that one...

My school was located in a heavily Jewish neighborhood.

So, one fine morning, instead of the "Star Spangled Banner" for the flag-raising, the external PA plays a recording of the 1934 Nuremberg Rally--Deutschland Ueber Alles, followed by 100,000 Stormtroopers shouting Sieg Heil!

The principal looked up the hill overlooking the school (said hill known to one and all, including the Jewish community, as "Hanaukah Heights") and said, "Ah, s**t, I think we've just gone to war."

[discostu]

{whistle non-chalantly} Oh, you know, the usual ways.

Seriously though, E6000 kicks butt, much better than superglu. And it's hidden from us by a female conspiracy, it's sold as a CRAFTS glue and you generally have to go to scary estrogen places like Ben Franklin's or Michael's to get it. Worth the trip though.

[Poohbah]

Hmm.

I wonder if I can E6000 the throttle shut on my neighbor's obnoxiously loud motorcycle, the one he insists on driving home a 2:00 AM in the morning?

[lepton]

I decided to join the Air Force in '74, because I didn't "know what I wanted to be" and ended up staying for 24 years.

Figured it out yet?

[tacticalogic]

What part of "Worst prank I ever heard of" do you have trouble comprehending?

[The Black Knight]

Yeah, I saw it too. Post 44. Your version was much more accurate than mine. I thought it was like a million bees. Oh well. That's what I get for watching MTV with my ex-girlfriend.

[Poohbah]

Not-so-bad version of that prank:

Get 1000 cu. ft. of the styrofoam packing peanuts.

Lift false ceiling outside target's office, then lift inside panel.

Start pouring in peanuts.

Works best on a door that opens OUTWARD.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

At my high school, there were four guys in my sister's high school class with the names of Lyndon Johnson, Jack Kennedy, James Buchanan, and Andrew Jackson (I kid you not). The new school principal was going around meeting kids in the cafeteria at lunch time and he got more and more frustrated when asking the kids their names. He thought these kids were trying to pull his leg so he sent them all to the office for detention.

This bunch of guys spent a couple of years thinking this one up to do in the last week of the school year: they figured out that the auditorium had a playback system that could play music in the cafeteria. So...... these guys rigged a tape that had a 3-minute header of silence on it, which was enough time for them to get into the auditorium control room (one of them was an A/V geek so he had access ;-), cue the tape, then chain/padlock all the exit doors shut - from inside :-). They also figured out that there was one door to the outside which no one used and it was essentially a one-way fire door, which automatically locked upon closing and had no handle or deadbolt from the outside. By the time the guys were safely back in their seats, the music playing through the cafeteria was Frank Zappa's "It's F-ing Great to Be Alive".

Then on the very last day, they somehow managed to get on top of the school building and unfurl a hand-made banner that said, "It's F-ing Great to Be Alive in the Class of '75". AND at the graduation ceremony itself they also hung a black wreath on the podium, which was totally undetected by the school administration until afterwards.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I remember when I was in high school some kid saw the chemistry teacher give a demonstration how potassium would react/ignite/spark if a small sliver was dropped in water. Well the "genius" snuck in during lunch and took several pounds of potassium out of the chem lab intending to flush it down the toilet. What he failed to realize is that the potassium would explode as soon as it hit the water and he wouldn't have time to flush it. He managed to blow the toilet up and was taken to the hospital with minor injuries from the "shrapnel".

That's a Darwin Awards candidate story if I ever saw one! Submit it!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I use E6000 to glue all the shiny sparkly things on my daughter's rhythmic gymnastics outfits :-). (See a sample outfit here - my daughter's friend.) Breathing that stuff for too long will definitely give one a headache (at best). Only use that stuff in a well-ventilated situation. Truly.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Yes. Just leave enough time for it to dry - a couple of minutes at best ;-).

[SquirrelKing]

...5 gallons of water...

Reminds me of a college prank we used to do. Fill 55 gal trash can and tip it against the door to someone's room, then bang on the door. When they yank the door open the deluge begins.

Another one was to take the same can filled with water and dump it down the back stairwell as someone was coming up. You had to wait till they got to the middle landing to ensure proper soakage.

[T Minus Four]

Hee hee - good one!

We filled a very large accordian file full of shaving cream, pinched the top shut, slid the top edge under a dorm room door, and stomped on it. Most gratifying if said dorm room is occupied.

[tacticalogic]

I've heard of that. When I was in college, we glued a couple of WD-40 spray can nozzles together with the snorkel tube, and used that to transfer half the contents of a can of spray paint into an empty spray deoderant can.