School traditions

[King Penguin]

I'm just wondering why someone is leaving school in mid-October - isn't July more usual ?

[helen]

he's australian!!

[Guest]

Oh.. no.... not another Oz v Brit discussion:)

[helen]

actually no, robbos been a regular member on here for pretty much as long as i can remember (coming up to 2 years!)

[paddy]

i like this.

what distance do you run for the best effects? how much food dye do you need to drink? and how many litres of milk do people make it to?

[mharky]

4 x 400m at max pace with 1 pint each lap, not sure about colourings...

[fell]

as much food dye as you like.

a litre of milk and some lemon juice every lap.

a lap is only about 200m. preferably sprinted.

and if you get lapped, you're out.

The amount of laps you go is dependent on how much you can stomach I guess

[fell]

(winners were only doing about 5 laps)

5 litres is a lot of milk

[Nails]

Think I might have everyone on this.

Me and 5 Art mates (I specialised in sculpture) decided we were going to do the prank of the century. We confided in our Art teacher -Richard (we used to call him Dick, Chard or Boss -he was a crazy legend) who supported us the whole way through.

This is the story:

2 months before the last day one of my mates aquires(?) an old blue mini. We strip it down -take out engine, seats and gearbox so its just a shell. We proceed to cut a large 70cm hole in the roof and floor. Then cut the thing in half lenghtways.

2 weeks before we stalk the school premises at night taking accout of the new cctv system, finding dead black spots. We work on the Boss and eventually get him to agree to help us (after all this is the best thing he's heard of for a long long time!)

The night before the last day arrives and the plan goes into action. (2am) The boys move in like a well oiled sas squad -black clothes and balaclavas. We had rehearsed this so many times it couldn't go wrong. Me and Andy carried our extra gear, while the other 4 moved the two sections of car into the main quadrangle from the Waste ground round the corner. See map -this college had 7000 students so that should give you an idea of the scale.

Meanwhile the boss was sat in his car watching for the Principal to make his rounds. (Boss told us that every year something goes down -normally the rugby lads upto no good -so the principal wanders round with a couple of the other heads of department trying to catch them in the act.) Our aim was to come and go without being seen.

So the mini is positioned around the large tree in the centre of the main quad. Jake and Tim leg it to the playing fields incase a distraction on the other side of the school is needed (thats about 6-700 meters away.)

Me and Andy get out the extra kit -the welding torches (as supplied by the Boss) -yes i can weld -not very well but enough. We proceed to weld on extra plates to make the car solid round the tree.

15 mins of welding later the boss is on the walkie talkie. The principal is on the move -what we going to do? phew he heads up to the back of the school first. Jake and Tim leg it about abit looking dodgy and distracting them. Finally they get chased off site. Welding is going well. Nearly finished.

The boss is on the talkie walkie again we've got company. Ok we get ready to leg it. Andy wan'ts to give the joints a touch up with some spray paint (ever the perfectionist) Finally we leg it -it's taken about 40-45 mins (the time flew) as we leave the main quad we look right towards the boss (he's out the car and chatting to the principal -wtf.)

I've never been so smug in my whole life as the next day I rock up to college -admittedly a bit sleepy -walk into the main quad and there it is 2 months in the making a mini literally wrapped around a tree. There must have been 4000 people just pointing and talking -and i thought 'i did that'.
Anyway it turns out that the boss had wangled some story about doing some late night painting, and he got us those valuable extra seconds -what a legend.

So we pulled it off -no one knew who did it -though our circle of friends soon clocked it and the rumors spread like wildfire.
Wish i had a photo -i'll get onto the other boys over xmas and see if anyone has got one.
And I must go and visit the Boss when I'm home.

[paddy]

5 litres is a lot of milk

respect. it truelly is. they are true men if they can do that much. better breeding than in bell shaft. i like the food dye. not only is the milk you chuck up blue, but other things are blue too...

[Shea]

So what did you do paddy? Im loving the car thing!

[Carnage Head]

That's an amazing mini prank.

For more recollections, try

http://www.playgroundlaw.com

Hmm. Perhaps I shouldn't have recommended it. My friend made me do it, sir.

[Becks]

My friend Abigail helped start that website. It's ace.