Kickass HS Senior Prank

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Fruita Monument seniors pull off quite the prank

By RICHIE ANN ASHCRAFT/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

Friday, May 01, 2009

Students and faculty gathered in front of Fruita Monument High School on Thursday morning, wondering how senior pranksters welded an old Eagle hatchback around the flagpole without damaging the pole.

“This is a good one. I’m a little jealous I didn’t think of it myself,” said senior Jonathon Bradley as he inspected the sight between classes.

“I’m pretty impressed they didn’t damage anything,” said his friend, senior Evan Bluk.

The students recalled last year’s prank, which left the school reeking of mustard for days.

Senior pranksters Alex Almy and Jesse Poe stand atop a car they welded around the flagpole in front of Fruita Monument High School Wednesday night. Photo by Richie Ann Ashcraft.Because the prank this year was harmless, Principal Jody Mimmack said the perpetrators probably would not be in trouble as long as they came forward and offered to help clean it up.

“We traditionally have a senior prank,” Mimmack said. “This one entailed a lot of planning and execution. It shows a lot of Wildcat pride,” she said humorously.

Two seniors, Alex Almy and Jesse Poe, confessed to administration and classmates about their secret midnight deed.

Although nervous about what the consequences of their mischievous actions might be, the boys were proud of their late-night antics.

Here’s how they pulled it off:

Almy and Poe decorated the car, put it on a trailer hidden under a tarp, then drove it to the school via J and 19 roads.

They were worried the police could spoil the plan, so they had fellow seniors Shawn Hillman and Nick Hofius park nearby, armed with cell phones.

As for the car, the passenger side door was removed, allowing the boys to pick up the car and slide it around the flagpole. Then the boys welded the door and a pre-measured roof piece into place, encasing but not touching the pole. It took about an hour and 15 minutes to complete the mission.

Almy said they had discussed beforehand with their parents what they were planning to do. Their parents explained that they would have to face whatever punishment might be associated with the prank, even if it meant jail time or suspension.

“We thought a lot about if people would think we were disrespecting the flag,” Poe said. “I’d feel really bad if a veteran or someone took it that way. That’s why I wrote ‘God Bless America’ on the side of it.”

“I woke up with butterflies this morning, but I think it’s going to be OK,” Poe added.

Mimmack said as long as there weren’t any complaints from the community, the school would be willing to leave the car in place until the end of the school year.

“People are going to remember this one,” Bluk said, laughing.

That is crummy reporting. What kind of weld wire did they use? Where'd they get power for the welder? Gas power or plug in?

Inquiring minds want to know.

How much do they want for the Eagle?

That is an awesome prank. Clearly pulled off in good spirits by people with integrity and ingenuity.

It was clearly significant, visible, and lasting enough for everyone to see it. They caused no damage and didn't harm or offend anyone. It involved planning and fairly unique talents. When called out, they stepped forward and accepted any punishment coming to them. Well done!

At my school, senior pranks always sucked. Some people made a pyramid of trash cans. Others glued a bunch of chewing tobacco canisters to a wall. The worst two: there were locks with glue in them that all had to be replaced; another involved a significant amount of human excrement spread around the gym.

I had a great idea for a senior prank. Since I had my pilot's license, I wanted to get a friend and bomb the school with rolls of TP during break. I would have accepted whatever the school might dish out to me, but was stopped because the FAA would likely revoke my license if/when they found out. The administration would also know exactly who pulled the prank, since the dean knew I was one of only two pilots in the school, and the only senior.

I have scene better exacution of this prank. one i know of they flat out cut the car in half and welded it back together

The Eagle has landed.

Now if it was an E30, might we suspect Tommy?

Actually, if you look at my avatar, it's an M3 (UK) that someone tried to wrap around a pole and did NOT do quite as good a job as this...the pole held a sign saying: "thank you for driving carefully through the village"

My freshman year the seniors brought. Bunch of cows to school. Apparently cows will go up stairs but not down, so there were cows on the third floor for a couple days till they figured out how to get them out.

It helps to see the Picture, Great work

Not as cool, but some local kids let 9 chickens go in the school, but numbered the 1 through ten, skipping 7. They were left looking fir 7 for quite a while!
I thought that was a good one.

Joey

One of the greatest pranks ever. Kudos to the principal for letting them slide; apparently he has a good sense of humor. Well played, by both sides.

Nice. That's almost as good as the North Penn prank in 2004 (my girlfriend's alma mater), where students stuck near 100,000 plastic forks in the lawn in front of the school.

The best my senior class could do was spray paint a dick on the grass. Intellectual giants, we were.

I think the most notable senior prank that someone did at my high school was throw dead fish into random lockers and the school reeked like a fish market. A few years ago, some school down on the main line (you pa folk will know what im talking about) spray painted something on one of the lanes of either 476 or the schuykill expressway. I thought that was pretty ballsy..

Ballsy? more like a suicide wish. I have NEVER seen either of those roads not very busy

I remember at my school there was an incident of someone placing one of the school vans in the middle of the closed court yard. This was a full size Ford van mind you.

They would have had to push the van behind the school to the big double doors on the other side of the school, remove all 4 wheels put the van down on some rolling platforms. Then open the double doors, remove the center bar so that you can push the van through (just barely fitting). Put the wheels back on once its inside the courtyard then roll it down some ramps to the lower level about 3 steps down.

Not sure how that could be pulled off.

My class sold the school.

We took an 8x6 ft for sale sign with 2 6 inch square posts and cemented it in the ground one night out in front of the school. We also put an ad in the local paper under property for sale with the school office phone number listed for contact information.

Prime real estate that was.

Senior pranks in my HS were always pretty good... year ahead of mine disassembled a VW Bug and lugged it up to the flat roof of the school, and put it back together and drove it around until school staff came for them, then abandoned the car and repelled off the roof to escape. they had to get a crane to get the car off the roof... (and yes, that was in a movie as well, ive always wondered if it originated from the prank at my school!)

My class wasnt quite as innocent... all ill say is that district school board members shouldn't piss off the student body repeatedly without considering that they are smart and have the ability to organize. we raided the school board offices after blocking the entrances by pushing their small cars sideways into the vestibules, theres more but today you'd get arrested for stuff like that, but we certainly left an impression...

The senior class before mine "gathered" hundreds of for sale signs from front yards of homes for sale in the area, and placed them in grassy yard out front of the school, then turned on the hose in that area and turned it into a swamp for sale by 300 different realtors. Ever try to remove over 300 for sale signs from a muddy field with 3" of standing water?

My class did the hose bit on the night before the last day for the seniors, then proceeded to play a 300 man game of tackle football in the mud...for about 2 hours, then go to class, on time mind you, covered from head to toe in grime.We didnt feel bad though, because 2 weeks after the school year was over, there were plans to expand the school and the parking lot right into that field, so that grass was doomed anyway