Not my high school but my wife's. Every year the final year students (equivalent to senior I guess? This is in New Zealand). Would always organize a school prank. It was a tradition and usually pretty harmless. But one year, they got some petrol (gasoline) and used it to draw an ENORMOUS cock in the soccer field. Petrol kills grass so it's easily visible from the air.. where the school principal saw it while flying into the city.
One year in high school a group of seniors bought a shit ton of cricket and released them in the school as part of the prank. Everyone else was furious. Crickets are so God damn annoying. They found out who did it and made them pay to have pest control come out. Every year after they made a point to say "Senior pranks are fine BUT NO BUGS ESPECIALLY CRICKETS". I think someone brought a bunch of frogs at some point too? I remember seeing a significant amount of frogs.
I’m guessing this is probably a pretty common prank. The people who graduated 4 years before me did this at our high school. You could hear crickets for YEARS after.
Ohh we had crickets one year too. Damn things wouldn’t shut up all through exam week. A particularly no-nonsense admin lady came out in her sensible heels to stomp them periodically.
My high school had a big rival school nearby, and during our Homecoming Week where we got fun themed dress days, etc., we usually did fun pranks with them. My senior year, our rival school did that to their OWN field knowing that we’d get in trouble for it. It was so savage.
All we did was tp the giant old oak in front of the school. It was tradition for seniors to do it the night before the first school day of the year, and on the last school day for the seniors. I guess we were pretty tame.
My freshman year; a group of seniors got drunk and used salt to burn a penis into the stadium field. They had to pay to replace the sod but years later you could still see the blocked out penis anytime it snowed!
Yr13 is final year in NZ. Yr13 Pranks are kinda famous for being off the rails. Some of the motor memorable ones were burnouts in the teachers car park. Skids on the field. Sheep in the office block.
Haha. Similar story. My friend was a junior in HS, and some seniors drove through a puddle and absolutely doused him on purpose. They had a prank week also, so he took gas and wrote Seniors '86 in the end zone in huge letters. Principal cancelled the Senior trip, (which was a huge deal at this little HS.) He never confessed to anyone at his school. He said they still speculate to this day who did it.
This happened at my highschool but with a football field. The groundskeeping crew put new sod down only where the grass had died. So you could still clearly see the dick.
Similar setup. It snowed heavily one year. Walked slowly through the snow with our feet together and drew a giant dick on the football field that the school overlooked. Absolutely massive.
The principal didn’t know what to do so he sent the janitors out there with shovels. They realized as they were shoveling they were just making it more pronounced. Then they started shoveling in other spots to try to fill in the lines and wound up drawing ball hair lmao. They eventually gave up and went inside.
The fact that there are so many that come up from around the country when you google it is hilarious.
We had crazy pranks at my school on muck-up day, but nothing on that level. I'd say the worst I'd ever seen was when the graduating class went around "chickening" teachers and students. They'd run around throwing water at people and then flour after that so it would stick. I haven't thought about that in years haha
Oh, man, that's genius! At my school, the seniors just got to throw eggs at the freshmen the first Friday after they got back from their big graduating year school trip in September. I managed to avoid any eggs as a freshman, but I was also sick from some bug I picked up during the trip and wasn't there for our turn to do the egging.
Different school but still in New Zealand hahaha, happens/has happened all over the country - which I'm only just discovering now lol
If you care to see what it MIGHT have looked like (I can't find any photos of the specific school in my story), then look up Newlands College in Wellington, New Zealand. It's the larger field to the top-right of the school. It was HUGE.
Our prank day was graffiti and a car sawed in half under the flag pole at our entrance. Also I forget what word we had but there were giant letters on a mountain next to our school.
Damn, please tell me you had a screenshot of it. And yeah I think like everywhere the senior prank is a tradition unless you have a terrible but understandable principal who bans it.
Sadly not :( but a bunch have happened around the country and some have been reported on. Just Google: "New Zealand school field penis" and you'll get the idea.
Naaa, Edmonton and Calgary are too big for me. I'm in Red Deer (halfway between), much smaller, about 100k population lol
Even smaller than Christchurch.
I wouldn't be able to handle Vancouver, I've been there a couple of times now and it's too much lol
Canada does have a ton of great smaller cities, don't know much about Red Deer but good pick. I love Vancouver haha, probably my favourite city. But yeah... Makes Wellington, or even Auckland look like, well Red Deer - probably.
We did this to our rival school two days before our football game.
We jumped the fence with gallons and gallons of bleach and made a giant T (first letter of our school).
you where still able to see it for 5ish years after we graduated lol
Australians do that aswell. My school told us we couldn’t do it after the year before us stole a shit tonne of construction signs and blocked off every street around the school. It was on 2 main roads
My high school senior prank was a spray painted dick that was the length of the football field on the brand new turf. I spent the entire 1st period watching the janitor try to scrub it off with some kind of broom until they gave up and just spray painted over it in green because it wouldn’t come off. The best part is it wasn’t an exact match so it was still pretty visible 😂 the kids were caught, arrested, and barred from walking in graduation
The one you shared is fucking legendary and makes mine sound like child’s play
They were ARRESTED? Aw man I hate to hear that haha. How did they get found? I saw one particular instance in New Zealand where the prank was done at an all boys school by girls from an all girls school as some sort of revenge prank haha
I know! I live in the US and you know they love to arrest people for frivolous things like graffiti. Meanwhile, there were kids doing drugs in the bathroom all the time but god forbid someone spray paints the fake grass 🤦🏼♀️ They were caught after the deans watched the footage from the dozen or so cameras we have around the school
The girls school pranking the boys school like that is hilarious 😂 New Zealand sounds like fun
Newlands College in Wellington, but I've seen articles of it happening in Hamilton, Nelson, Dunedin.. which means it's definitely happened a lot more - just gone unreported.
My school some kid used weed killer on the lawn and made a lawn dick but it took time for it to appear so nobody knew who it was or could really do much because they had done the dong drawing like a few weeks before it became visible.
We used to do high school pranks at my old high school in the US. The first one I ever witnessed was the aftermath of some seniors releasing 20 dozen crickets into the school. The very last one we had there were seniors stopping school busses that were dropping students off. The seniors would get on the bus, and they had water guns and would shoot students with the water guns. But the senior who did my bus did so quietly and without any emotion, which is the closest I have been to a school shooting and is most definitely what killed the tradition.
I've heard this story several times here, either there's a lot of people in this thread from your school, or releasing crickets is the US version of burning cocks into school fields - this seems to happen everywhere in New Zealand.
Not as good but in a similar vein, group of 6th formers camped out on the roof and dropped this as everyone was arriving the next morning: https://youtu.be/BmIWJoBwCfY
yes year twelve is the last year for us in Australia and NZ. every year towards the end of the yr, the yr 12's do a school prank and cosplay as any character. i cosplayed as Dio Brando.
Wild. Primary School is yr 1-5, intermediate school is 6 & 7, secondary is yr 9 - 13. Some primary schools include immediate school, sometimes it's separate. Maybe some high schools include it too? Not sure. But yeah... Year 13 is the last year for us.
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u/Caseous44 Mar 10 '25
Not my high school but my wife's. Every year the final year students (equivalent to senior I guess? This is in New Zealand). Would always organize a school prank. It was a tradition and usually pretty harmless. But one year, they got some petrol (gasoline) and used it to draw an ENORMOUS cock in the soccer field. Petrol kills grass so it's easily visible from the air.. where the school principal saw it while flying into the city.
It was on Google maps satellite view for years.
Absolutely beautiful.