What’s the reason behind this?

Senior Prank.

We literally did this exact thing for senior prank, except not up stairs ‘cause fuck that shit

Mediocre!

WITNESS ME!

Oh, what a day, What a lovely day!

WHITENESSED!

I have started a new religion, NoDoThis’ Witnesses, come join us in our DoThis Hall

I am not entertained!

We (the hockey team) did this for a senior prank as well. Since ours was the coach’s 1964 VW bug and not really that heavy, we DID go up the stairs. It was 1600 lbs, and there were 16 of us, so it was not light, but it wasn’t terribly heavy. We did put it down a couple of times on the landings so folks could rest and adjust their grips. It was not wise. We had to carry it down again, and that was a lot harder than going up. Coach Carlson wasn’t even mad, though, and nobody got into trouble. We actually got yelled at more for removing the center pieces from the doorways (so the car would fit) than for the car itself. Which was fair, because we did a shit job of putting those back in, and the doors weren’t shutting properly. Ah, to be young and dumb again.

The original version was to *disassemble* a VW Bug, carry It up in pieces, and reassemble it on the roof.

Curious what the structural load maximum weight is for those stairs

It can take an empty chassis. The crowd of people probably weigh more.

I counted 29 guys plus the chassis, an average school stair requires a minimum load of at least 1,000 lbs per step. As long as its only the empty chassis they should be ok.

Had a boss who’s favorite story was about him and his friends secretly building a crane in shop class and lifting the Principal and Vice Principal’s cars onto the roof of the gym for their senior prank.

We “parked” our Dean of Students car on the stage in the auditorium.

And that is why no one will remember your name. -Achilles 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I have the fun of knowing the owner of a construction company with a crane crew. Pranks can get to be a lot more fun

Yeah I have heard of this as a senior prank as well, but they filled the car with sand once it was in place.

Senior Inconvenience.

The facilities director in my high school told me about how for his senior prank a bunch of guys from the football team picked up a teachers Geo and put it in a dumpster

Growing up in a rural area, kids had access to farm equipment and power equipment – senior pranks were a real mixed bag. Worst year someone chained several deer carcasses to each of the doors. They had to close school as it was a saftey hazard, both for health and fire escape blocking. Best year someone has access to a crane and moved the a goal post, portapoty, desk, chair, and the school counselor’s car onto the school roof. The goalpost had a sign that read “Mr. [insert counselor’s name] new office”. Said counselor (who was also the coach for several teams) thought it was *hilarious*, principal was pissed. The counselor went up onto the roof (school was L-shaped, so you could see it from most classrooms) and pretended to work up there. When the principal went to tell him to get down, he proceeded to get into the car and pretended to drive.

Ok, I fully believed you because I went to a few highschools and the rural two were wild, but then him pretending to drive made my brain go “This person is just an excellent writer” and you are, creative or not. I sincerely hope it’s true, I can picture the whole thing and it’s amazing.

No, he really did that. I’m fuzzy on the details because it was a long time ago. He was (and still is) fucking hilarious as a person. I wanna say I was either in 8th or 9th grade when it happened. It was a K-12 central school, so everyone was there. Part of me wonders if the counselor and principal staged their “argument” to get a good laugh out of everyone. I also wasn’t there when they moved stuff on the roof. I think they originally just wanted to move the portapotty up there, but things just kept escalating (pun not intended lol). Ultimately, no one got in trouble, but I think they did have to move everything back. Later on, another class tried to do something similar, but the town constable lived within view of the school, and he was having noneofit. Edit: Oh, and to add, later down the line the administration ask kids “pleasepleaseplease don’t move the goalposts anymore”. I guess someone at a neighboring school moved thiers and went under a power line and were badly shocked [news story](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZBgfB7saU).

> “This person is just an excellent writer” But with the (apparently common) exception of not knowing the difference between “Principle” and “Principal”

Fixed it, thanks. I had no idea they were spelled differently. I’ve always been *horrible* at spelling/grammar – You should see it *before* spellcheck lmao. I blame English being a terrible, non-phoenetic language. I still struggle with definetly vs. defiantly *every. single. time.* I’m usually more focused on semantics and “flow”, rather than syntax, but I always appreciate the corrections.

You’ve got a “pal” in your principal.

heh, the worst one for my school was when the seniors the year after me decided to stack tires all the way up the flagpole. Apparently they just tossed them from the roof. The school district had to hire a crane to get the tires off, so that kinda crossed the line. They “banned” senior pranks after that, but we all know how THAT goes.

> he proceeded to get into the car and pretended to drive. Absolute gold, what a legend.

I dont 100% remember, but I vaguely remember him making the “I can’t hear you” gesture, and rolled down the windows and screamed “What?” Think Chris Farley. The teacher told us to go back to our seats because we were all laughing so hard.

Bit extreme. Even assuming they stuck around to help get it back out it seems like a good way to cause damage and not even realize it.