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Kids today....amatateurs! A good prank does not have to be destructive (although some of those can be fun!). My freshman year in high school, my class made sport out of tormenting our german teacher. I think she even required medication by the end of that year. We just did little things, like lowering her desk one notch every few days. She just couldn't understand why she seemed to be getting bigger!
When the musical greeting cards came out in the 1980's, we made good use of them. I cut one open, took out the tiny music circuit, and hid it in the ceiling air intake. She said "Whoever has the music maker, turn it off." We all just looked at her deadpan and said "What music?" She went to get another teacher but while she was gone we turned it off. They both left and when she came back in alone, it was playing again. SHe went through the entire period with "happy birthday" echoing around the room.

Kids today kind of disappoint me.

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.

The prank I remember from my high school was putting a bunch of sheep and goats in the court yard. It was hilarious seeing people try and round them up.

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.

Kids today....amatateurs! A good prank does not have to be destructive...

The music chip is a good one. It's fun, yet not distructive (monetarily at least). Sometimes these teachers just set themselves up to be picked on as they are such easy and enjoyable targets. But lets remember, boys and girls, as long as it's good clean fun,