Teenage Mischief

[MorningStar]

I was just laughing about the stuff I did as a teenager. I didn't go out and party or anything like that, but I did love playing jokes on people.

My parents live on a wide road that goes straight for quite a ways and they have lots of trouble with speeders. We get so sick of it and the city refused to allow speedbumps to be put in because it would increase the time it takes for emergency cars to get through. Anyway, one night my sister, her friend, and I stretched packing tape across the street between a sign and a lamp post and hid behind the bushes, laughing our heads off after the speeders would go through it and freak out, screeching their brakes. Then they would get out to see what it was they just ran through. We hoped it would startle them enough to make them think twice before speeding. A couple of them saw it right before going through it and got out to look at whatever was there in bewilderment.

Now I have urges to throw those spike strips in the road. But I won't.

[lilered]

One of our football buddies was dating the prettiest cheerleader. We accussed him of making out with her which he always denied. One Sat. Nite after the church dance, we secretly followed them to their favorite necking place. Snuck up on the car, waited until it appeared something was going on and then
snapped a couple of flashbulbs using a camera. (The camera didn' contain any film, but they didn't know that. We then took off like rabbits, leaving them to discuss their future if the pictures became public. He came to football practice on Monday, threatening to kill the individual(s) responsible and told us all to let him know if we found out who did it. The cheerleader was afraid someone would show them to her family. We never let the secret out until the day of Graduation a couple of months later. We then slipped them both a note while they were standing wih their respecitive families, advising them there was no film in the camera. They didn't appreciate the humor for some reason.

[MorningStar]

That's horrible.

My husband's roommates used to go up to Squaw Peak in Provo and shine flashlights on people making-out. They wouldn't let me go because they said it was a good way to get your bum kicked.

[Honor]

LOL there's no feeling like doing stupid stuff and feeling a tad juvenile. We used to get cups of water and put or tape them to the top of our car and drive around pretending to be oblivious. I thought it was one of those things that was funny because we were 17, but after a girls night out with a few friends from our ward, we did it again and laughed just as hard. 4 moms (ranging 24-37 in age) driving around Las Vegas in the middle of the night laughing our heads off. I think I need crazy moments like that every now and then to stay sane.

[MarginOfError]

We once built a jump at the side of a road for our sleds. The road was at the bottom of a big hill and the idea was to get enough air to be able to jump over a car. We never had the guts to actually take the jump when traffic was coming, but in theory, it would have worked.

[MorningStar]

My roommate and I used to paint this guy's windows every single holiday. Then she bought a bunch of used bras, hooked them together, and we wrapped them around his car. He was mad. And the louder he yells, the funnier he is.

[Honor]

-writing-
Used... bras.... around.... car....

Got it! Just taking notes for my list of things to pick from when I need ideas.

[breeb]

In my closest group of friends the guys would car surf. The girls would all be in the car, sometimes driving, and the guys would do the surfing. Once my friend took a turn a little to sharp and her boyfriend fell off and she nicked him with the front bumper. Oh man I'm laughing just thinking about it. It was so funny. He was ok....just a little bruised.

[Hemidakota]

Anyone from England? Remember the term - KNOCK DOWN GINGER?....man! Those were the days of pranks.

[rameumptom]

Let's see:

Put the science teacher's VW bug up on a 3 foot high snow ball.

Drove through the Univ of Montana campus sidewalks at midnight one night in a 1947 pickup truck with a buddy, asking directions to the highway.

During Desert Storm, created a phony set of orders for a buddy who was on leave for a month, and left them on his desk. When he returned, he stood staring at them for the longest time, realizing he was leaving the next morning at Oh-Dark-Thirty from the flight line to an unspecified location in his previous AFSC (job specialty) as a jet refueler.


A friend of mine in Pocatello Idaho told the following: He and his buddies wanted to scare their girlfriends. It was the year the movie "Race with the Devil" came out, where Peter Fonda and other campers witness a human sacrifice and then get chased around by devil worshippers. Well, two of the guys took their girlfriends to the drive in to see the movie. On the long drive back, they had to go over a small bridge near a wooded area. Someone obtained a cow that had died, and they hoisted it up above an unlit bonfire. Several people dressed in black robes awaiting the arrival of the car. The plan was once they hit the bridge, to honk the car, flames would erupt in front and behind the car on the bridge, and the bonfire/cow sacrifice would be lit - scaring the girls. Unfortunately, the car honked prematurely, and the fires were lit while a drunk was driving over the bridge. When he saw the flames, the robed individuals, and the dangling cow corpse, he freaked and hit the gas; crashing about 1/2 mile down the road. Everyone scattered. The cops showed up, arrested the cow corpse and doused the flames. The next morning, the headlines in the local paper said, "Devil Worshippers Sacrifice Cow". Of course, this was in the 1970s when a lot of cows were being killed out west by devil worshippers or UFOs....

I could tell you more, but then I'd have to go into hiding. Again.