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A 'school prank' is a prank pulled at school by a student or group of students, usually on another student or, less commonly, a teacher, which can result in punishment. If a prank produces sufficient emotional or physical injury, the act may be legally treated as assault. Such assault may include sexual harassment or a violent crime.
In primary education, pranks are commonly perpetrated by bullies seeking to dominate less powerful children. During higher education, or military training, hazing, an extreme form of prank or harassment, is practiced by some student groups such as fraternities and sororities, supposedly to enforce group cohesion.
Examples of impromptu pranks
Many, if not all pranks involving the causing of pain are regarded as bullying or even assault can result in school punishment and (in more serious cases) legal punishment.
Drawing pin
A drawing pin is placed on a chair, with the point upwards, thereby hurting the victim when he/she sits down. [1]
Flat Tire/Flat Foot
By catching the heel of a victim walking in front, the victim may be caused to stumble, or their shoe may come off. Stepping on the rear portion of the shoe as the foot lifts and thereby removing it is also a "Heels" variant known as a "Flat Tire". A variant is to kick their heel forwards as it lifts.
Hertz Donut
This prank fools the victim into giving their permission to get punched. The prankster approaches the chosen target with a closed donut or pastry box and asks "Would you like a hertz donut?" If the target say yes, the prankster then strikes them in the arm without any warning and asks "Hurts, don't it?"(pronounced "donut").
Kick me
Writing phrases such as "Kick me" on the back of the victim where he cannot see it. Now this prank is more often done with post-it notes or other stickers.
Indian burn
Known primarily as a "Chinese burn" in the United Kingdom and Australia, this is a prank done by grasping the victim's forearm firmly in both hands, and then twisting the hands in opposite directions about the victim's arm, causing the tender skin to stretch making it red and sore. Also called an ''Indian sunburn'', ''Indian rugburn'', or ''Snakebite''.
Mooning
"Mooning" is displaying one's bared buttocks to someone, so-called because the buttocks are generally not suntanned, so purportedly resemble a full moon. It is commonly performed out of windows of moving buses and cars.
Nipple cripple
Also known as a "nipple twist", "nipple gripple", "titty twister", or a "(purple) nurple", it is the act of taking a person's nipple between the thumb and forefinger and then twisting it around roughly. On August 8, 2005, David Thumler, a 15-year-old living in Gold Hill, Oregon , was charged with a misdemeanor for doing this act to 13-year-old Matthew Cox. Thumler was fined US$67 and given three days of community service.
Noogies
Sometimes called a ''Dutch Rub'' or ''Russian Haircut'', this is done by putting the victim in a headlock and using the middle knuckles of the fore and middle fingers to cause friction by rubbing them across the surface of the skull quickly and firmly. This sometimes rips out bits of hair at the worst, but usually only causes minor skin irritation.
Pantsing
Pantsing (also debagging, shanking, skanking or dacking in Australia) is the act of pulling down a person's pants (trousers in England) without the person's consent, and without their approval. The most common method is to sneak up behind the intended victim, grab the pants', shorts', or skirt's waistband, and apply a quick downward tug before the victim is aware of the "debagger's" presence.
Towel snap
Also known as a "Rat-Tail" or "Rat-Tailing", the prankster twists a towel (typically wetted to hold its shape) along the diagonal, making it into a whip with a towel corner at the tip. The prankster "snaps" the towel as if cracking a whip, striking the victim with the tip of the towel and causing pain.
Shoe laces
Tying a victim's shoe laces together, or sometimes to a convenient object such as a chair leg, is a common prank. Less common is cutting the laces while the victim is seated and distracted. There is a common variation of this, in which the victim's shoelaces are tied to a heavy object, and then they are caused to run, making them trip.
Short sheeting
A prank done at boarding schools, camps or on excursions where children sleep in full beds (also common in the military). It is achieved by untucking the foot end of the bottom bedsheet and wrapping it around to the bed opening, making it look as if it is two sheets (the base plus the covering sheet). The victim will find that he/she cannot get into bed (as doing this "shortens" the bed length). Known as an 'Apple-pie bed' in the UK.
In a variant of the 'apple-pie bed', described in "The Reverent Wooing of Archibald," a story by P.G. Wodehouse, the upper and lower sheets are sewn together and a spiny plant inserted in between to keep company with the victim as he slips himself in between.
Spitball
A "spitball" is a clump of paper that the prankster has chewed and thus soaked with his/her saliva, with the purpose of throwing, spitting, or otherwise causing it to become a projectile, targeting with it any person or object on which he intends to inflict a sticky surprise. These are often propelled by placing them in a straw and blowing them out the other end. A variation of this includes empty biro pens being used instead of straws.
Swirlie
The act of holding the victim upside down with his or her head in the toilet bowl, and flushing. Typically perpetrated by two or more older, larger individuals. Can result in injury and charges being filed[2]. More commonly known as bogwashing in the U.K, or dunnyflushing in Australia.
Wedgie
A 'wedgie' is any one of a variety of pranks involving pulling the victim's underwear up so that it wedges between the buttocks. On April 6, 2006, Fox News reported on an Albany, New York teacher who was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child for giving a 10 year old student a wedgie. Can be performed by one attacker, or by a group.[3]
Atomic Wedgies, Wet Willies, and Other Acts of Roguery, Greg Tananbaum and Dan Martin, , , Santa Monica Press, 2005, ISBN 978-1595800008
Wet Willy
Usually performed on a sleeping or otherwise unsuspecting person, the perpetrator of a wet willy wets his or her finger with saliva and inserts it into the ear of the victim. While not typically resulting in physical harm (although ear infection might occur), the moist sensation can be extremely unpleasant.
Organized pranks
Many schools and colleges have a rag week (or rag day, called by local names in some areas), during which pranks (ragging) are commonplace. This may include the staging of organized hoaxes and other pranks, generally for the benefit of charity. Recorded examples include letting animals into school facilities, turning small cars onto their roof or lifting them into places from which they cannot be driven out.
References
★ If at all possible, involve a cow : the book of college pranks, Steinberg, Neil, , , St. Martin's Press, 1992, ISBN 0-312-07810-2
External links
★ A variety of pranks to pull at school
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