I just pulled an amazing prank, how much trouble am I going to get in?

[kgarchar]

So this weekend was the first inter city rival game, first ever. I wanted to be remembered, so I pulled a nice prank that I got from the Yale geniuses, and to my surprise...it worked. It wasn't anything terrible, just some fun...but I guess a lot of parents are EXTREMELY angry.

http://www.crewstadium.com/?s=events&h=news&a=00079

What I did was tell everyone that the sign would say GO DARBY, but it said WE SUCK



http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5436/picture3sr5.png

So, now It's done, and looked GREAT

But I'm wondering, how much trouble am I getting in...?

[zap2]

Do people know it was you?


If so, you might be screwed!

[kgarchar]

yeah, its well known by now

[mad jew]

I'm pretty sure you'll go to jail. Nice knowing you.

[MrSmith]

But I'm wondering, how much trouble am I getting in...?
Well, soon you'll be able to tell us. ;)

[Royale w/cheese]

What would the charge be if prosecuted? Just wondering.

[7on]

What would the charge be if prosecuted? Just wondering.

Libel?

[zflauaus]

And these will be the last posts of kgarchar, for, oh, a few months.;)

Nice seeing you.

[Royale w/cheese]

Libel?
Yeah, I could see that, I guess.

[swiftaw]

I hope you weren't planning on graduating, I think you'll probably get expelled from school for this.

[xsedrinam]

That's hilarious. But whatever title you once held, to empower you to pull off something like this, will be short lived. I still think it's funny, though. Nicely done. :)

[TheAnswer]

The key to an amazing prank is to not let anyone know it was you until all fears of serious negative consequences have subsided.

GO DARBY!

[savar]

Awesome prank...I remember when Yale pulled that (on Princeton?)...I went to Penn so I was happy to see either of those schools get shamed.

Congrats, that's a once in a lifetime prank!

[StealthRider]

It's not libel, it's not an expell-able offense...the most he'll get is a few days suspension, if that. Those parents are just angry that they got outsmarted by a teenager. Fortunately, they're from another school district, right? :p

[QuarterSwede]

And I thought pretending to be a Housing Official and stealing a guys mattress was bad. Great prank!

[zflauaus]

And I thought pretending to be a Housing Official and stealing a guys mattress was bad. Great prank!
That may be a thread in itself...:p

[Counterfit]

Yeah, I could see that, I guess.

I think whether something sucks or not is considered a matter of opinion, with the exception of vacuums and Microsoft software.


That said, this has been done before (MIT did it at a Harvard/Yale(?, maybe it was CalTech?) football game I think, among other pranks on Harvard football (http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_topic/harvard.html)). What you should have done is condition a bunch of birds to respond to the ref blowing a whistle by feeding them at game time for a few weeks. :D

[xsedrinam]

Who ARE you people? :eek:




:D

[TheAnswer]

That said, this has been done before (MIT did it at a Harvard/Yale(?, maybe it was CalTech?) football game I think, among other pranks on Harvard football (http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_topic/harvard.html)). What you should have done is condition a bunch of birds to respond to the ref blowing a whistle by feeding them at game time for a few weeks. :D

CalTech did it at the 1961 Rose Bowl (http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132).

GO DARBY!

[Wayfarer]

You are officially awesome. :)

[kgarchar]

It's not libel, it's not an expell-able offense...the most he'll get is a few days suspension, if that. Those parents are just angry that they got outsmarted by a teenager. Fortunately, they're from another school district, right? :phaha, nah. same school district. I pulled the prank straight from when Yale did it to Harvard.

http://harvardsucks.org

anyways. parents are pissed...I know i'm not going to get into any legal trouble, just suspension or expulsion. I just don't think it's expulsion worthy, does anyone else?

[OutThere]

http://www.zug.com/pranks/super/index01.html

nice one

[Markleshark]

LOL. Nice one.

See, this I personally think is how a prank should be done. It didn't cost anyone anything, and aside from a little pride no one got hurt. Which surely is the point.

Kudos to you my friend. :)

Be sure to [try] and update us though.

[kgarchar]

I'll be sure to update you, I feel the same way. It was pretty harmless, but I can just see my school being *******s. We lost anyways (embarrassing...we won the Division 1 State Championship last game we played)...so I guess that might make the other school administrators be a little lenient.

I made a little video that I'm gonna youtube in a bit

http://www.sendspace.com/file/za7z9z

[Markleshark]

Ace. Just ace.

So I'm guessing your in charge of that for your school and you just moved it all around? Great prank, seriously, greatest prank I've seen in years. Video shows it up a lot better than the photo as well.

For the record, at the start of the video someone wrote 'You Suck' on a car window, I'm guessing that was the other school, on someone from your schools car? Yes. If we're looking at this from a 'wrong doing' point of view, personally i'd say that was worse that what you did. But thats just me.

[Genghis Khan]

oooh....BURN! is all i have to say

they can't be that angry, but expect some harsh words...not much more

[kgarchar]

Ace. Just ace.

So I'm guessing your in charge of that for your school and you just moved it all around? Great prank, seriously, greatest prank I've seen in years. Video shows it up a lot better than the photo as well.

For the record, at the start of the video someone wrote 'You Suck' on a car window, I'm guessing that was the other school, on someone from your schools car? Yes. If we're looking at this from a 'wrong doing' point of view, personally i'd say that was worse that what you did. But thats just me.Nah it was a darby car that said beat davidson, you suck

[kgarchar]

Ace. Just ace.

So I'm guessing your in charge of that for your school and you just moved it all around?Honestly, I was just like...hey, there's a HUGE game coming up, and I'd like to do something fun. I'm not really a big prankster, but I'm not like some type of huge nerd...well, I am...but I just thought it would be a funny thing to do after seeing the whole yale v harvard one. I think that most people were surprised that of all people to do a good prank, it was me..


PS. Youtubed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw5xgskz_44

[MrSmith]

Yes, well, I don't think you're going to help your cause by posting a video of the event for the whole world to see. A certain amount of contriteness might be the better option. ;)

[Abstract]

I wonder if they have ADSL....IN HELL!!!

[RoadieJodie]

Thats nothing.

A couple of years ago in a neighboring city, they were playing playoffs and someone ran across the field in the nude. Expelled, ticketed and tackled by 5 policeman.

:]]

[natemonster]

very nice work. *applase*

[kgarchar]

Thats nothing.

A couple of years ago in a neighboring city, they were playing playoffs and someone ran across the field in the nude. Expelled, ticketed and tackled by 5 policeman.

:]]See, I think someone streaking through a crowded stadium is one of the least funny pranks ever. It takes no thought, completely mindless, and you just look like an ass.

[ghall]

LOL, that is classic.

Some people have no sense of humor though. Some people just need to learn to laugh it off and call it a day.

[Counterfit]

CalTech did it at the 1961 Rose Bowl (http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132).

GO DARBY!

Sneaky. :p Anyways, MIT has gotten Caltech too (http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2006/mitcannon/). :p

[jellz]

^ olddddddd. MIT and Caltech constantly pull pranks on each other. I think the best one was with t shirts. Caltech students handed out t-shirts during one of MIT's orientation, and on the front it says "MIT" but on the back it said "Because not everyone can get into Caltech." lawwwlllll

[sushi]

I wanted to be remembered, so I pulled a nice prank that I got from the Yale geniuses, and to my surprise...it worked.
Nice! How much trouble did you get into for that?

^ olddddddd. MIT and Caltech constantly pull pranks on each other. I think the best one was with t shirts. Caltech students handed out t-shirts during one of MIT's orientation, and on the front it says "MIT" but on the back it said "Because not everyone can get into Caltech." lawwwlllll
Pretty good as well.

[kgarchar]

So right now, I'm awaiting trial. The school administrators are having me come in tomorrow morning at 7:30 so they can figure out my punishment. My two accomplices both received 3 days in school suspension and a ban from all extracurricular activities.

Lame, eh?

Anyways, check out the video on Break.com, and I'd appreciate it if you can DIGG it!

[DoFoT9]

it took me a good minute to actually realise what it said. i had to unfocus my eyes!!! hahaha this is a classic prank!!! i love it. i doubt nething will happen, cept they might hurt you haha/ nice

[kgarchar]

So, today i received my punishment. Along with a ban from all extracurricular activities, Im in "in school suspension"...which is essentially nothing. All my work is sent to the office, while i sit and do the work quitetly. They dont supervise me, so I just listen to music all day, and im getting the penalty lessened by helping them orchestrait a student sign saying "go cats" or something.

[ghall]

So, today i received my punishment. Along with a ban from all extracurricular activities, Im in "in school suspension"...which is essentially nothing. All my work is sent to the office, while i sit and do the work quitetly. They dont supervise me, so I just listen to music all day, and im getting the penalty lessened by helping them orchestrait a student sign saying "go cats" or something.

Really? Wow! That's a little over the top. Somebody needs a sense of humor. (LOL, and I don't mean you, since you appear to have a great one). People these days take too much seriously. It's not like you really did anything bad.

[joepunk]

I am thinking that those really angry parents tried to get the school to offer a more serious punishment and in the end the came to a compromise. I agree with others, that is a harmless prank that took brain power to do. It did no physical or mental harm to anyone.

[Keebler]

hey there,

first of all, i can't even see what you did..i'm missing something?

secondly, f*ck them. the problem with today's society is that too many people are so STUCK up and so SELFISH, either from being so stuck up or so stressed at their jobs, that they can't take a joke. it's actually quite sad.

good for you. hey, as long as no one was injured, keep doing it. (and as long as future pranks aren't against the law). i mean, honestly, changing the words to a sign isn't that big of a deal.

when i worked (stay at home Dad now), i pranked a ton of people...stuff like taking balls out of the computer mice, leaving my own daily voicemail msg on other people's vmail etc... etc.. the absolute best was pranking a higher level manager that he need an internal acquisition form to get cookies, popcorn and pop from another floor. that was hysterical.

i think it's great.

keep up the good work.

hell, next year, i'd do the same thing and put " we still suck"

:)

[barr08]

So, today i received my punishment. Along with a ban from all extracurricular activities, Im in "in school suspension"...which is essentially nothing. All my work is sent to the office, while i sit and do the work quitetly. They dont supervise me, so I just listen to music all day, and im getting the penalty lessened by helping them orchestrait a student sign saying "go cats" or something.

I'm glad you didn't get in any trouble. Parents today are way too over-protective with their kids. It's sickening. We're going to have a nation of pansies in 30 years :eek:

Pranks are great. They used to be held in high regard among both students and administrators in high schools. Today, parents are too uptight to allow these travesties to happen. If a prank is funny, generally harmless, and clever, I consider it one of the better ways to express creativity and leadership in high school students. Of course, these real life skills are supressed in today's high schools.

Man, I sound like I am really dating myself, but I am only 21! I tried to pull off a prank senior year, but it failed miserably. There were two sucessful pranks, one was too harmful (manuer covering all the enterances to the school) and one was too lame (filling the principals office with baloons). At least the manuer one had some balls.

Anyways, nice job. Go shoe horns, or whatever you are.

</rant>

[dops7107]

Excellent. The kudos will be worth 100x the punishment which is, as far as I can tell, pretty benign. How long does the suspension last before you have to listen to teachers like everyone else in the school?

And why can't I find the video anywhere? :confused:

[Phat Elvis]

Great job!

Suspension lasts several days but you'll be telling this story forever. Totally worth it.

[mac 2005]

secondly, f*ck them. the problem with today's society is that too many people are so STUCK up and so SELFISH, either from being so stuck up or so stressed at their jobs, that they can't take a joke. it's actually quite sad.

<wasting my breath>

The problem with society is that too many people suffer from lack of food, medical care, safe housing and clean clothing.

With respect to this matter: From what I can tell, the "punishment" is in line with the "crime." So, if you truly have a sense of humor, the only issue worth considering, after the fact, is: Was it worth it?

Personally, I appreciate the prank. Although repetitive, it was ultimately harmless, and it took a fair amount of coordination to execute. At the same time, I understand why the people involved--the students, parents and school officials--may be less than amused. Blaming them for being upset by the prank is not only immature, it's "sad," "stuck up" and "selfish."

Like it or not, breaking the rules violates a social compact. Boundaries of what is acceptable behavior exist between friends, among families and, especially, within communities and institutions. To the extent that not everyone finds the same stuff funny, you can't cross these lines and then rely on other people to laugh along or the "I-was-just-being-funny defense" to get you off the hook.

</wasting my breath>

[Telp]

That's hilarious. But whatever title you once held, to empower you to pull off something like this, will be short lived. I still think it's funny, though. Nicely done. :)

Well said.

[kgarchar]

If anyone lives in columbus, an article on me will be in the dispatch and the other paper tomorrow

[eRondeau]

Good one!

Don't worry, you haven't committed any crime, there will be no criminal charges. How the school treats you will depend largely on whether or not they have any sense of humour at all. There's a long history of such pranks pulled against rivals; it's all part of the fun. Nobody got hurt, everybody had a good laugh, no damage was done.

[barr08]

Cool! You're on Fark (http://www.fark.com)!

[swiftaw]

And ESPN: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/highschool/news/story?id=2997862&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

And SI: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/highschool/08/30/bc.fbh.student.stadiump.ap/index.html?eref=si_topstories

[d_and_n5000]

Ahh, that is just too awesome...can't believe that you got suspended for that, though—It was a harmless prank. Hella funny, as well.

[barr08]

Just saw it pop up on my iGoogle homepage, but I think it may exagerate the punishment a little...

[DoFoT9]

this is way over the top. you americans sure know how to exaggerate a point. in australia no1 would care hahahaha.

[iHerzeleid]

Your On Digg Dude. Congrats 15 Secs of Fame at such a young age. ;D

[zap2]

It was well worth it IMO

[zioxide]

http://digg.com/football/High_School_Senior_Tricks_Opposing_Fans_With_We_Suck_Sign

[MarkCollette]

Today I'm proud to be a MacRumors member :) I just read about this on Fark today, and then came across this thread just now.

Sucks you're getting punished, but that's life. If I was your Principal, I'd give you a high five :)

[Mattydj]

Dude! You reached the front page of Digg! Grats!

[A Pittarelli]

digg frontpage take out some ads man! congrats i think it was awesome and you should tell your home team to support you and the others to screw off

[mad jew]

this is way over the top. you americans sure know how to exaggerate a point. in australia no1 would care hahahaha.


It wouldn't have even got off the ground here. Give one of those kits to an Aussie and tell him to do as you say and this is what you'd get back:


Get ****ed! **** off! Hold up your own piece of bloody paper, you turkey!

[DoFoT9]

It wouldn't have even got off the ground here. Give one of those kits to an Aussie and tell him to do as you say and this is what you'd get back:

oh thats so true!!! im just imagining some fat beer belly'd fella with a XXXX in his hand stumbling around.

[Sideonecincy]

Hey man you made it on the local news in Cincinnati. I was watching the news and they showed the clip and explained it and I started yelling how you post on macrumors haha

[it5five]

You're the top story on Digg right now.

Crazy.

[phungy]

You just got suspended?! Link (http://sportswrap.berecruited.com/2007/08/30/high-school-student-pulls-off-genius-prank-on-rival-high-school/).

[SactoGuy18]

CalTech did it at the 1961 Rose Bowl (http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=132).

GO DARBY!

If you've read what CalTech did at the 1961 Rose Bowl to the University of Washington cheering section, here's what they pulled off when they changed the placard sequence:

1) Changed the look of the UW huskie to a CalTech beaver.
2) Reversed the HUSKIES to SEIKSUH.
3) Put in a placard sequence that said CALTECH.

What was so amazing was that the UW cheering section stopped right at #3, when the CalTech students did not change the next and final placard sequence!

It's been considered the #1 all time college prank by many people.

Here's a picture of the final placard sequence that made history:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/images/rosebowl.jpg

[barr08]

My buddy was on the frontpage of digg and fark and all those sites for some stupid blog entry last week. He thought he was God's gift to the Internet.

[invasian]

Congrats on your feat...it was awesome to see you show up on three sites that I visit with regularity...ESPN, Digg, and Macrumors....great job

[theBB]

I think the school officials are afraid next time somebody will pull a harmful prank, so they try to nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand. They don't want to be blamed later if somebody gets hurt. I'd say punish the dangerous ones, let the harmless ones go.

[BamaDan]

This is cool. This is the 1.st time I've read this post. I clicked on it and saw the picture, and the local news just aired the same story while I was reading it. This is about the coolest thing I've seen in a while, and the timing was awesome. You're a celebrity. A celebrity in a load of trouble, but still cool. Prank of the decade, but a bad idea at the same time.

[RoadieJodie]

You made the local Houston news as well (http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5623027)!

:]]

[Raid]

This story also made the Toronto news. They said the Youtube posting was taken down. :( I really wanted to check it out when I got home.

[Much Ado]

This is great, and surely they can't punish you?

If that ever happened over here in the UK, we'd all just laugh and admit that we'd been done.

MA.

Edit: Uh, well maybe not in Liverpool.

[nickster9224]

you made fox news chicago too.

[eMac4ever]

The prank is on NBC's "All That & More" right now! Eastern Standard Time.

[Xander562]

You've made it into my local newspaper as well. Congratulations.


Up untill i heard you were actually punished, i was thinking of doing this prank myself. I was almost entirely certain there was no way you cold be fined or banned or suspended... completely unfair man.

I still want to do it, just to see what'll happen. :D

[Bobdude161]

quite a large amount of views pouring in. I wonder if news articles are pointing out this thread on MR? :p

[Bobdude161]

This story also made the Toronto news. They said the Youtube posting was taken down. :( I really wanted to check it out when I got home.

some duplicates were made (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lemhDgYLbT0)

[Cassie]

Wow I feel so honored to be a member of MR right now.:)

Props to you dude.:)

[Stampyhead]

You're on CNN.com now too:
CNN link (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2007/08/31/mennecke.oh.school.prank.ohionewsnet)

[eMac4ever]

You're on CNN.com now too:
CNN link (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2007/08/31/mennecke.oh.school.prank.ohionewsnet)

On the frontpage: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6753/prankaz4.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=prankaz4.jpg).

[Wayfarer]

You are officially awesome. :)

I take that back.

[Xander562]

You've made break.com. If i were you, i'd try and get the $400 for that video. I hope someone else didn't get it instead of you. Lord knows you've earned it.

http://www.break.com/index/darby-sucks.html

[Phat_Pat]

you are a god. i saw someone on digg found your principles email address. looks like hes gunna have some emails come tuesday..

[JW8725]

Your big in the Wu Han district of China! Congrats fella!

[rt_brained]

NEW MIT prank salvo launched against Caltech?

http://www.caltechvsmit.com

[kgarchar]

You've made break.com. If i were you, i'd try and get the $400 for that video. I hope someone else didn't get it instead of you. Lord knows you've earned it.

http://www.break.com/index/darby-sucks.html wait, so someone got the $400 for that video? i'm pissed!

[true777]

I suppose after all those years in the US I am still not getting the culture at all. To me something like this seems infantile and pointless. How old are you, twelve?

I understand that people in the US find this funny and fantastic, so I suppose it's a cultural thing -- good reminder of how different people are in their view of what's funny and what isn't.

[ghall]

I suppose after all those years in the US I am still not getting the culture at all. To me something like this seems infantile and pointless. How old are you, twelve?

I understand that people in the US find this funny and fantastic, so I suppose it's a cultural thing -- good reminder of how different people are in their view of what's funny and what isn't.

Well apparently some people in the US didn't find it very funny.

[adk]

I suppose after all those years in the US I am still not getting the culture at all. To me something like this seems infantile and pointless. How old are you, twelve?

I understand that people in the US find this funny and fantastic, so I suppose it's a cultural thing -- good reminder of how different people are in their view of what's funny and what isn't.

You're right, we should all be running around like benny hill :D:D:D









Just a joke, mate, don't take it too harshly!

[iDAG]

So this weekend was the first inter city rival game, first ever. I wanted to be remembered, so I pulled a nice prank that I got from the Yale geniuses, and to my surprise...it worked. It wasn't anything terrible, just some fun...but I guess a lot of parents are EXTREMELY angry.

http://www.crewstadium.com/?s=events&h=news&a=00079

What I did was tell everyone that the sign would say GO DARBY, but it said WE SUCK

Dude, you're the reason I'm finally joining this forum! I was just reading around this yesterday and i couldn't believe you were part of this thing cause I go to the same high school as you! LOL but its just hard to believe how much national coverage this has gotten. I'm a Cross Country runner and a team from Indiana at our meet yesterday were talking about the 2 schools and the prank. BTW we beat most of the teams there including Darby! lol:)

[Diatribe]

Props to you. You got suspended so what? I'd say it was worth it.
It is not like a suspension is the end of life. Experiences worth living. :)

[iSaint]

Just saw you interviewed on CNN Headline News. Ahh, the life of the famous!

[calvy]

kgchar, all I can tell you is that when I was in high school, I was put in In School Suspension for just skipping class and hanging out at a buddy's house all day. It was only for 3 days or so I think. The extra curricular activities ban is kind of lame, but do you care? Are you in any anyway? I say start smoking pot (if you don't already) and blame them for your "bad" ways.

Seriously though, if it was me, and I didn't care about the extra curricular stuff, then I'd just take it and laugh it off. Enjoy the 15 minutes of fame.

[j3nsen]

Haha wow, that was great.. I think it's funny that you're getting so much attention from this. Although, I don't think you should be punished, the prank didn't harm anybody, and hell, ISS was always better than being in class anyways I thought.

[lilstewart]

dude
that's AWESOME!
you're my hero :D

[klymr]

That is such a bold move. Kudos to you my friend. Here is a video of the interview on CNN.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6SJ-EVEcQ

BTW, cute partner in crime. ;)