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A senior prank is a type of organized prank pulled by the senior class of a school, college, or university to cause chaos throughout the institution. The pranks are usually carried out at the end of the senior school year as a going away mark on the school, and in some cases have become something of a tradition. This is known in Australia and some other countries as Muck-up day (probably bowdlerised).[citation needed]
The pranks are often planned out very well before they are actually done in order to work out details such as not being caught or blamed for the disruption they cause. Often these are harmless and more often hilarious pranks, but sometimes the pranks can be taken too far, causing serious problems such as damage to school property and resulting in arrests and large fines.[citation needed]
Examples of pranks are putting small polystyrene balls in the air conditioning, thus making it 'snow' in the building, prank public announcements, chalk graffiti, filling elevators with hay or spreading bird seed in the staff parking lot to attract birds that then defecate on the cars.[citation needed] One popular prank is known as the "Pig Prank" which was first created by a group of New Trier High School students.[citation needed] The pranksters gather three pigs, or other farmyard animals and label each 1, 2, and 4. The staff, not necessarily knowing there are only three pigs, will then spend the rest of the day searching for pig #3.
One of the more notable senior pranks occurred in 2008 in South Colonie, New York. A group of seniors vandalized buses, using spray paint to draw graffiti on the buses, as well as banging fire extinguishers against the bus. This resulted in buses not being able to pick up students, and one day was missed off school. Field days had to be canceled, and final exams had to be made up.[1]
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