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I was lucky enough to have 2

My first one was spent out all night dodging police and running amok at Black Hill, then a breakfast before venturing across the road to the school for our last day, with our uniforms in disarray and written all over.

Brother Calhill (or Satch, as we used to call him - R.I.P) almost had a heart attack as he was a uniform freak - and was quite often seen dragging kids by their ties into his office to confiscate jewellry that wasn't within the school rules. (BDP2 or Rog will back me up here )

My 2nd one, I actually just pulled an all-nighter at Jules with my best mate(as we were 18 then ) then met other school friends in town and did the old throwing of eggs and flour at other year 12's (and anyone else that got in the way )

There are other stories amongst those stories, but they're for another time

While I didn't participate in any of our muck-up day festivities, my year level had one of the best (and you can blame our principal for giving us the idea).

The week before we finished formal classes, our principal got all the year 12's together to warn us about muck-up day. She then told a story how at her old school, a group of year 12's decided to put a pile of chicken manure on the steps leading into the school's admin block and set the sprinkler on it. The manure seeped into the admin block causing some damage and a big stink throughout the school.

So a few of the other year 12's decided to take a leaf out of their book and spread chicken manure throughout the school. That night it rained so by morning the whole school stank! Needless to say the principal read the riot act to the whole year level that morning.

One of the other stunts pulled was some students broke into a local council depot, borrowed a few signs and started placing them around local streets, causing a bit of traffic chaos.

However, the school did sanction one muck-up day activity - they allowed us to charge the teachers admission into their car park (the price depended on make of vehicle - $1 for older makes to $5 for BMW's, which one particular teacher had), with the money raised donated to charity.

Ours was pretty bland - schools had got pretty tight on that sort of thing by then.
We had a breakfast.
Moved a classmate's mini on to the school oval by lifting it over a row of benches.
Did the writing on the shirts etc - there are some photos of me doing that stuff on facebook.

Two years later though, I had a friend who had a muck up night at Salisbury East High School and I went with her and her friends and took part in that. Stormy night being chased around Salisbury by cops, pretty funny.

I hardly attended year 12 so I didn't even attend "muck up day" and to be brutally honest it all seems to be very much a waste of time/eggs/flower/toilet paper. Even then I didn't much care for such shenanigans.

Booney wrote:I hardly attended year 12 so I didn't even attend "muck up day" and to be brutally honest it all seems to be very much a waste of time/eggs/flower/toilet paper. Even then I didn't much care for such shenanigans.

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I went to a strict Catholic high school (now closed) so the extent of our muck up day was extremely disappointing. The headmistress at our school was a frightening lady who few of us dared to cross, unfortunately. A few eggs, a bit of toilet paper was about as far as it went before we heard the ominous "clip clop" of her shoes across the quadrangle.

LMA wrote:

Booney wrote:I hardly attended year 12 so I didn't even attend "muck up day" and to be brutally honest it all seems to be very much a waste of time/eggs/flower/toilet paper. Even then I didn't much care for such shenanigans.

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Yeah well it wouldn't be so bad if it was just eggs/flower/toilet paper etc - might be fun harmless things - but it's no longer just these things - and SOME kids of today just take it too far and have no respect for others.
Unfortunately.

At our school they were doing some works so there was temp fencing and building materials everywhere...

Because of the works there were only 3 points of exit onto the oval, two were on the extreme outskirts of the campus and the other one through the middle. Me and a couple of mates built a double brick wall in that central exit about 1.5m high.

caused headaches for everyone which was the desired effect.

had the obligatory all nighter and closed off all car parks with a bbq in the main car park.

someone managed to pinch all the whiteboard markers too which went down well...

all good harmless fun...

Dogwatcher wrote:

LMAO - About as far from the truth as it can be. My feeling was, once I was "free" my plan was to get the **** out of there and not go back!

We didn't have to attend "Muck Up Day", so I didn't even bother going to school. Another excuse for pointless vandalism.

My school had cracked down on muck up day pretty hard by the time i reached year 12. All we did was sign our uniforms (handprints on boobs seemed to be the "cool" thing to do ...not so cool not that i look back at photos ) and arm ourselves with water guns for the day.

A few years before my time however, the year 12s had wandered the neighbourhood the night before and had taken all of the garden gnomes from the surrounding houses... then placed them on edge of the gutters around the perimeter of the main building. Pretty funny sight to see so i've heard

We got told if we did anything wrong we would be excluded from being about to sit exams at our own school and have to find another school that would let us sit it there...which would be pretty much impossible...so we didnt even have a muck up day...this was in 2005.

LMAO at today's pre-planned and organised, supervised rebelliousness. I mucked up every day ha ha.

regards,

REB

One of my mates went the 'slow burn' prank and emptied blue food colouring down one of the down pipes.

Made for interesting drinking water the following year apparently.

I'm not sure thay'd been invented by the "hospitality" trade when I finished secondary school. If they had I didn't notice.
But I was responsible for a few minor pranks during the year like a small container of mercaptans, with a loose lid, mysteriously entering a class room through an open window.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiol

Our muck-up day was pretty tame. One thing we did was put sweet chili sauce around the seats of all the toilets in the school - too bad only Year 12s were allowed to leave campus, so we could all go to the toilets at Macca's on Glen Osmond Rd, only a minute's walk away. Other pranks included porn stuck up on the walls and the usual eggs/paint/flour crap. One bloke, though, sent the principal an envelope with icing sugar in it, and this was right after that big anthrax scare in 2001 so the school was evacuated. He had to sit his exams at Marryatville. Everyone was shocked because he was the nicest bloke you'd ever meet, plus he was a good student, good at sport, etc. etc. and you couldn't picture him doing something so completely idiotic.

Like CK, went to a Catholic High School, but ours is still there.

Chicken Champagne breakfast on the beach, then a couple of hundred Year 12 kids walked to school. No real disruptions in the way of vandalism, etc. But everybody had a good time.

hackham_hawk_3 wrote:We got told if we did anything wrong we would be excluded from being about to sit exams at our own school and have to find another school that would let us sit it there...which would be pretty much impossible...so we didnt even have a muck up day...this was in 2005.

Ditto.