I woke up Saturday morning to a little surprise. It appears that our youth group must have had Friday night Bible study in my front yard.
The Good News: My four year-old was so excited. He walked down the stairs declaring “Awesome, it’s Christmas.
What I learned: If you light the toilet paper on fire, it will burn all the way up. Also, I learned if it’s windy, you should have a hose in your front yard as you will likely catch your neighbor’s grass on fire in the process.
What I gained: Two years worth of toilet paper for the guest bathroom. No worries friends, this is soft stuff and we use only the best for our guest. I love it when rich kids roll your yard.
What I’m doing: Offering an undisclosed reward to anyone that can help me find, prosecute, and humiliate the kids at church who did this. Any guesses?
Do you remember your favorite prank you pulled off as a kid?
Uh oh………I hope and pray that my hubby’s youth were all accounted for at the lock-in. I will further investigate this and would love to know what the reward will be. Money definitely talks!!
Oh, and our fave prank was always either “rolling yards” or maybe moving someone’s car from one area to another in our school parking lot so they couldn’t find it!
I suppose we can all take heart in the fact that He knows who did it and that’s probably all that matters.
Funny! I was always afraid to “roll” a house. Mainly because if caught, my father would have grounded me for life.
I’ve rolled a lot of yards with teenagers and I must say, this picture is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Props to your students!
– I never thought of burning the tp out of the tree, great thought!
I’ve pulled too many pranks to list, but the funniest yard rolling I ever did was when I was a student and we got our youth pastor. We poured rice krispies in his welcome mat…made a triangle with forks in his yard and placed a trash bag in each corner…all kinds of stuff.
The call the next morning sounded a little like this…”You better come get this shhiijunk out of my yard!” I think we made him a little mad! Neighbors who saw it though some satanic group did it and left their mark in his yard (the triangle) It was great!
Great Post
Nick, that’s just cruel. I like it!
how do you know it wasn’t your four year old?
my favorite prank was telling someone i had a secret to share, putting my arm around them, while i stalled, and walking them right over doggy doo… then running away and telling all the other kids. it was wonderful…
Instant mashed potatoes in the yard. (The dew effect is glorious.)
On Halloween night we once drove around the neighborhood and collected probably about 60 or so pumpkins and then put them all in our youth pastor’s yard.
The most ignorant thing we ever did:
We put a friend of ours in the trunk of the car and drove around at night in a neighborhood until someone pulled up behind us at a stop sign. Then we’d pop the trunk and our friend would make like he was “escaping.” I’d jump out of the passenger seat with a baseball bat and beat him with it and throw him back in the trunk. The driver would speed away.
We had people lay on their horns, people chase us, etc.
Since this was in Houston, Texas, where everybody and their grandmother packs heat, this wasn’t so much a prank as a good way to get shot.
Oh, I should mention that the above story occurred before the advent of cell phones, so it probably wouldn’t work too well these days. You’d have people calling 911 immediately.
But I don’t advise the stunt in any event.
Update……….I have investigated and found that no one left the lock-in. My hubby has an idea of who the responsible party may be. Again, let’s talk $$$.
Lori, I just received my first clue via twitter. The message stated “it looks like someone did a BEAR of a job.” Light bulbs are starting to go off.
The youth group I was a part of collected FOR SALE signs and cornermarkers and put about 20 of these in one yard. The next week, someone did it to us! My dad made me call all of the realtors and tell them we had their signs…not as much fun on the receiving end.
Having been a Youth Pastor for many years I was the butt (no pun intended) of many pranks…especially being Tee-Peed. As a matter of fact, there are still rolls of toilet paper that the kids way up in the 25 foot blue spruce in the front yard of my old house that I was never able to get out.
The best prank they ever played on me was during the political races a couple of years ago. During the night the kids went around the neighborhoods and gathered up over 100 political signs and put them all in my front yard. I think my neighbors thought I was just a big-time political advocate…for both parties!
Brad Ruggles
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HAHAHAHA! That is awesome! You seem to be handling it with a great attitude! I love the fire trick! I will have to try that one in the future. I cannot believe that I have made it through Student Ministry having only been targeted with such a prank only one!
I pray that the kids in the youth group don’t read my blog. I just realized we are giving them ideas for years!
This is great! I’m sure the kids loved it. So how did you get all that toilet paper out of the tree? You seriously burned it? Holy smokes!!!
I hope that is double-ply in the guest bathroom…
I seem to remember a evening in the past that involved 2-liter bottles filled with a strange liquid, aluminum foil, a larger than expected explosion, men in uniforms, perhaps a member of the bomb squad… all in some pastor back yard.
Funny the things that go down in the large metropolis of Bellevue.
I think it was a kid named Chris and Brian…
actually, I don’t know anyone at your church, but if the delinquents end up being named Chris or Brian, I want my reward…haha.
Vaseline. Under car door handles and windshield wipers. Summer.
It’s the prank that will continue pranking for years to come.
TP the yard…awesome…old school and awesome…lighting it on fire?!! what the heck.
I found you via twitter..
Being a transplant here in Tennessee I have been looking around to make new friends, with positive energy.
Your post made me giggle and I will be daring and post.
I remember putting a small bag of dog poop on a mean neighbors porch, hiding in the bushes and lighting it on fire..
Who would have guessed that I would be cleaning dog poop the rest of my life:)
we would hide at my grandmother’s house and wait for one of our classmate’s parents to have their little pool party out back of her house…then we would sit in the front yard and launch water balloons over the house at them…they would never suspect the grandma’s house…!
hey! thanks for the comment.. i wasnt aware other people were able to find it and read it [ha, shows how much i know about the world of blogging]. i feel totally legit having a pastor agree with anything i say. sweet.
ps youth groups are the best…causing a ruckus and what not.
ps x 2- how did you post pictures?!?! i can’t seem to do that….argh.
have a good one, God bless
Just Saran Wrap all the toilets at church this weekend. If you get everybody then you know you got the guilty ones too!
My favorite prank was ductaping a college friend of mine (who happened to be sleeping naked in a sleeping bag), to a flag pole, taking pictures with him and then leaving them there all night (at least before we called campus security!).
Pete….
I’m absolutely POSITIVE that the night had nothing to do with a BEAR…
…I may have some ideas…
…depends on what the reward is.
We should collaborate. “Assemble the Five Families” if you will.
Ok…. I admit it….
I did it!
I was bored after Drive!
I’ve done too many pranks to remember the best off hand, but we used to tp across the road so people would have to drive through it.
that was fun. hiding out and waiting for the driver to get out and say, “I know you’re out there”.
ha, the teenage life…!
Wow Pete…..it happened to me last year…..our darn youth group decided to get “Spencer” because he didn’t show up to something. I think Braden was the most guilty……but who knows? I think Jad knows something! Jad ALWAYS knows something. Hey, Jad might have even participated in rolling my yard last year…HEY JAD…I NEED TO TALK TO YOU!!
KUDOS to the youth that pulled this off! As a youth leader, it has been my pleasure to accompany some of our youth to our Pastors’ homes in an attempt to re-decorate with large amounts of white paper. So far, we have never been able to get away with it at our Senior Pastor’s house, but we have pulled it off at our Assoc. Pastor’s house. Somehow they always now I was in on it:(
When you find the scoundrels behind this mass attack….please send them my heart-felt….WAY TO GO!
I must say that the Blood Brothers had no part in THIS prank, but thanks for the great ideas. Pete, you want a youth group that’s off the charts for JC??? Stand by!
Burn Center Tip #7,123,856: If you wake up and your yard has massive amounts of toilet paper…do NOT ignite it!
…You could always come visit and pray with the patients at the burn unit, but we do not need YOU as a patient! =)
@Jad, I loved the “five families” usage. I’m afraid it fell on deaf ears.
I’ve got one for you. Last week I returned from vacation in Costa Rica with my wife to find EVERYONE waiting for me in the reception area of our office. What were they waiting on? To see my response when I walked in my office.
Take a look at what they did HERE.
Over 4000 Post-It Notes gave their lives for this stunt. I think our staff needs a little more “adult” supervision when I’m gone.
wait a second.
you actually set fire to TP in a tree!?
hahaha!
yah, they have a tendency to burn when you do that.
I loved to TP houses when I was in middle school…it was all fun when I had a group of girls to help me clean it up…when I had to do it myself once I was over TPing
Well, ONE of the pranks I pulled was on YOU and I got in trouble for it….so I don’t do it anymore…
This isn’t something I did but I can tell you a time I was a leader at a weekend retreat and what the kids did to me.
To this day it’s one of the best pranks I’ve seen done.
They strategically placed all of their cell phones around my sleeping bag. They each set their phones where they would go off once an hour starting at 1:00am, with each cell phone going off 7 min later than the others. Basically making the cell phone alarms going off every 7 min for about three hours when I finally got up, took the battery’s out of each phone because I didn’t know how to turn off the alarm on each one. I became a little angry after hour number two came and went.
It was clever. I was actually impressed.
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oh my gosh!
THAT made me laugh.
Hahaha!!!!
I love it. I remember TP’ing our youth Pastor’s house and getting caught by the cops. I may have to blog about that one.
So, the fire thing…were you seeing if burning it would be faster than picking it up? Cause I would so try that!
My investigation is hitting a wall. I think Jad has information that I need. He’s a lawyer so I know he’s going to be a tough one to crack.
Um…I’d prefer clean, unused toilet paper when my family crashes at your place in a couple of weeks – let me know if I should bring my own!
Holly, it’s clean but slightly used. It’s good stuff, I promise.
Thanks for lightening up a rotten day. I’m laughing with you of course. I hope you nab the purpatrators!(not sure how to spell that!)
My granny taught me how to short sheet a bed and many other tricks…vaselin on the door handles…on the toilet seat. She taught me about putting clear plastic wrap under the toilet seat over the bowl…that’s a yucky one. It’s fun to fork a yard with plastic forks.
FYI- don’t use laundry detergent on the grass…it kills it. Not cool.
I find it humorous that you decided to light the TP on fire!!! I’m sure your guests will appreciate the recycling going on at your place!
For what it’s worth…I think you should TP the inside of your platform on Sunday…I bet when the kids (or adults) walk in they’ll be shocked and worried!
For all the pastors and youth pastors who are getting their houses rolled, this is a prime reason you must build relationships with key students in your ministries. That way they can inform you of the coming plot. You’ve always got to have a spy on your side!
I had a group of girls in my ministry who decided to “attempt” to roll my yard the night I had a group of guys over to hang out while my wife was out of town. The guys decided it would be best to be on my good side versus the girls side, so they put in a fake call to the girls that I was asleep, when the girls got there they were met with an ambush of eggs, water guns, and garden hoses…and I’ve got one exciting video that deterred any future attempts at rolling my house
My favorite prank was acually from my early twenties. Yes I am a victim of arrested development but we’ll save that for another blog topic. Anyway,
I was working at a manager of a retail outlet in our local mall and it was closing time on a cold winter’s evening. I should also mention that our phone number was only one digit off from Domino’s. Well as the story goes the weather had turned cold and snow and ice had began to accumulate on the roads. As we we doing the days paperwork after closing one of my employees answered the phone. I heard him say “No maam this is not Domino’s and he hung up. I asked what had happened and he explained someone had tried to order a pizza. We kinda laughed and about that time the phone rang again, same lady, same request. I told him if she calls again take her order. Well, she did and he did ending with the then famous signature line, “and we’ll be there in 30 minutes of less or your pizza is free”. We got a great laugh out of it and forgot about it. About 35 of 40 minutes later our phone rang again and you know who it was and she was MAD. We were all trying not to laugh. I told him to tell her we would try to check with the driver and see what was going on. (Now you must remember this was a long time ago and I have repented of a lot of things in my life including this unfortunate, halarious at the time, incident.) He took her number and when he called her back we explained to her that the driver had been in an accident and would be unable to complete her delivery. He explained that the driver was being attended to at a nearby hospital. He then explained to her that we were sending another pizza out and that it would be free. At that point we turned around and called Domino’s with her order. (God forgive us.) I have imagined for years what the conversation between that lady and the delivery driver must have been. I think the not knowing has made it funnier over the years.
Pete…
…not too tough to crack for the right reward.
@ Melissa. I toatlly plead the 5th. Email me anytime..my addy is on my blog.
Pete, we’ve got a couple of lawyers in our community group. I’m going to have to check on the statute of limitations, before I share too much from the past. But, it’s good stuff.
Wouldn’t it be funny if it was the senior’s (like citizens) small group that did this?
I had a teacher in high school that had an ancient fire extinguisher filled with cheap beer. He would douse everyone anytime they tried to TP his house….try explaing to your folks that yes, you were really out TP’ing and not drinking when you came home with the stench of skunky beer all over you.
I told the WaxyWife the best prank that never happened:
Freshmen year, University of Nebraska in our group of friends is a redshirt football player. Dude was big, 6’5 310 so with his help I filled up a trash can with water and he carried it down to the 2nd floor (we were on the 3rd) and placed it against someone’s door. If we had not been laughing the whole time they would have opened their door and you get the idea. Fortunately for them and for us they were able to get some friends to move the trash can away from the door.
Did the same thing to our pastor,,,w/ my youth pastor. He didn’t take it as well as you did. So we did it again the next week.
Hey Pete – if I ever visit I will remember to bring my own dunny paper!
When I was much younger (like 6 years old) as a prank to grow down my dad’s church I would open the back door of the outside toilet (used to access and remove the toilet can) then with a stick I would prod the ladies butt as they sat on the bowl. Where we lived snakes would often reside in these toilets and as a result people were tense about their visit to the outhouse. My antics of reproducing a snake bite on the butt only served to keep some members uptight, bound up and lacking freedom.
Andrew
I learned yesterday that we have some creative but mean people that read Without Wax. However, I’m still not any closer to solving the mystery.
Pete….
Although I am a dedicated and loyal youth leader who would lay down my life for my teenagers, I am also a poor graduate student with an empty pantry.
I also have a full address list and multiple ideas for revenge……….for the right price.
Sincerely,
Amanda
We must talk Amanda….soon.
You are loved!
toilet paper= $20
gas getting to your house= $50
getting pictures developed= $10
seeing the blog the next morning= priceless
by the way, thanks for all the tips people. they will be included in our next attack.
p.s.
amanda, you have yours coming if you squeel. you will be sleeping with the fishes
Dear Dark Hopper,
Your threats are meaningless……I do what I want!
And you still haven’t shown me the pictures.
Dark Hopper,
$50 for gas? My calculations would put you driving from Fairview. Uh oh, sounds like someone is already talking. No worries, Amanda said NOTHING.