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List of school pranks

List of school pranks
A school prank is any of several common pranks primarily occurring in an educational setting.

The effect and intent of school pranks may range from everyday play and consensual bonding behavior to hazing,
bullying or assault, including sexual assault.

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1 Common pranks Cleaning
1.1 Debagging
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1.2 Circle game
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1.4 Indian or Chinese burn
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1.5 Kancho
1.6 "Kick me"
1.7 Mooning Visit Site
1.8 Nipple cripple
1.9 Noogie
1.10 Shoe-lacing
1.11 Short sheeting
1.12 Spitball
1.13 Swirlie
1.14 Towel snap
1.15 Wedgie
1.16 Wet willy

2 References
3 Further reading

Common pranks
Debagging
Main article: Debagging
Debagging, also known as repantsing or "pantsing", "kegging" and various other names ["dacking" in Australia] is
the act of pulling down a person's pants and sometimes also the person's underwear, which reveals the person's
genitalia. The most common method is to sneak up behind the intended victim, grab the pants', shorts', or skirt's
waistband, and apply a quick downward tug before the victim is aware of the debagger's presence.[1] Note: In
some US states (e.g., Massachusetts), that is considered sexual harassment and can result in suspension and/or
expulsion.[citation needed]

Circle game

Example of person playing the

circle game
The central theme in the Malcolm in the Middle "Dinner Out" TV episode is the circle game (also known as hole-
tempting or ball-gazing), where by a person gets someone else to look at their hand while forming a circle below
the waist. If they look, the prankster gets to hit them.[2]

The Circle Hand Game can be traced back to 1929 when the 'brothers' of the City College of New York's Sigma
Alpha Mu Fraternity were searching for a new way to haze pledges without technically breaking CCNY's anti-
hazing rules.[3]

Flat tire or flat foot

The heel of the victim is trodden upon, which may cause the victim to stumble. Stepping on the rear portion of the
shoe as the foot lifts and thereby removing it is also a "heels" variant known as a "flat tire". A variant is to kick
their heel forwards as it lifts.[1]

Indian or Chinese burn

Known primarily as an "Indian burn" or "Chinese burn" in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand,
"buffalo skin" in India, "snake bite" or "Indian rub" in Canada, an "Indian sunburn" or "Indian rug burn" in the
United States (except in some midwest states such as Wisconsin where it is known as a snakebite), "Indian burn"
in France, "policeman's glove" or "hundred needles" in Hungary, "barbed wire" in the Netherlands, "needles" in
Bulgaria and "Brennessel" ("stinging nettle") in Austria and the southern parts of Germany, "thousand needle
stings" in the northern parts of Germany, "thousand needles" in Sweden, "Nettle" in Poland and Russia, "French
Cuff" in Denmark, "kuuma makkara" in Finland, this is a prank done by grasping the victim's forearm firmly in both
hands, and then twisting the hands in opposite directions about the victim's arm, causing the tender skin to
stretch, making it red and sore.[1]

Kancho
Main article: Kancho
Kancho is a prank played out in Japan;[4] it is performed by clasping the hands together so the index fingers are
pointing out and attempting to insert them sharply into someone's anal region when the victim is not looking.[5] It
is similar to the wedgie or a goosing.

"Kick me"
A note (commonly reading "Kick me") is attached to the back of an unsuspecting victim. This prank may be
performed with Post-it notes or other objects like paper and tape.[1]

Mooning
Main article: Mooning
"Mooning" is displaying one's bared buttocks to someone, so-called because the buttocks are generally not
suntanned, so resembles a full moon. It is commonly performed out of windows of moving buses and cars.

Nipple cripple
Also known as a "titty twister", "nipple twist", "ruby booby", "tweak", "nipple wrench", "nipple gripple" or a "purple
nurple", "purple herbie" or "diddy nip". It is the act of taking a person's nipple between the thumb and forefinger
and then twisting it around, often causing extreme pain for the victim. On August 8, 2005, a 15-year-old living in
Gold Hill, Oregon, was charged with a misdemeanor for perpetrating this act on a 13-year-old boy. The 15-year-
old was fined $67 and given three days of community service.[1]

Noogie
Sometimes called a Monkey Scrub, Hippo Handing or Russian Haircut, a noogie is performed when the middle
knuckles of the fore and middle fingers are rubbed vigorously against the surface of the scalp, stretching the skin
and pulling the hair. A headlock may be applied for more exact or prolonged execution. This will trap the victim.
An open-hand variant known as the Dutch Rub is performed with the heel of the hand.[1]

Shoe-lacing
This prank involves the tying of a victim's shoe laces together, typically while the victim is seated and distracted.
The laces may also be tied to a nearby object such as a chair leg. This may cause the victim to unexpectedly trip
or stumble when attempting to get up and move. This prank may be combined with a taunt or additional prank
designed to provoke the victim into getting up and running after the prankster, resulting in a more pronounced
effect. A related but more destructive prank involves secretly cutting the shoelaces with scissors.[1]

Short sheeting
A prank done at boarding schools, college dorms, camps or on excursions where children sleep in full beds (also
common in the military). A bed sheet is untucked at the foot end of the bed and folded toward the head, making it
look as if it is two sheets (an undersheet and top sheet). The victim will find that he or she cannot get into bed (as
doing this "shortens" the bed length). Also known as an 'apple-pie bed' in the UK.[1]

In a variant of the 'apple-pie bed', described in "The Reverent Wooing of Archibald," a story by P.G. Wodehouse,
the upper and lower sheets are sewn together and a spiny plant inserted in between to keep company with the
victim as he slips himself in between.

Spitball
A "spitball" is a clump of paper that the prankster has chewed and steeped in his or her saliva, to be thrown, spit,
or blown at a person or object. If not removed from some types of surface, they dry and harden into a sort of
paper cement. Small spitballs are often propelled by placing them in a straw or the shaft of a disassembled hollow
pen and blowing through the other end. Larger spitballs are sometimes flicked with the fingers, a flexible ruler or
through the use of a rubber band. Sometimes, whole sheets of paper are crumpled and inserted into the mouth
for a period of up to five minutes to form a large spitball that is usually thrown manually.[1]

Swirlie
"Swirly" redirects here. For the convicted child pornographer, see Christopher Paul Neil.
The act of holding the victim upside down with his head in the toilet bowl, and flushing. Typically perpetrated by
two or more older, larger individuals, this type of bullying can be dangerous as it can result in the drowning of the
victim. Instances of swirling have been prosecuted in courts.[6] More commonly known as bogwashing in the UK
and New Zealand, or dunnyflushing in Australia.[citation needed]

Towel snap
Also known as a "Towel Whip," "Towel Whipping," a "Rat-Tail," or "Rat-Tailing," the prankster twists a towel along
the diagonal (typically dampened to hold its shape), making it into a whip with a towel corner at the tip. The
prankster then "snaps" the towel as if cracking a whip, striking the victim with the end tip of the towel and causing
pain. This prank is usually performed in communal showers, where wet towels are plentiful and bare skin provides
opportunity to maximize the pain inflicted.[1]

Wedgie
Main article: Wedgie
A wedgie (sometimes also known as a "gotchie" or "grundy" in Canada or "melvin") is any one of a variety of
pranks involving pulling the victim's underwear up so that it wedges between the buttocks and may even be
performed to the extent that the victim's underpants are torn off. A wedgie may be performed by one attacker, or
by a group. On April 6, 2006, Fox News reported on an Albany, New York teacher who was arrested for
endangering the welfare of a child for giving a 10-year-old pupil a wedgie.[1][7]

In 2007, eight-year-old second graders Jared and Justin Serovich came up with "wedgie-proof" underwear at the
Central Ohio Invention Competition 2007 where their invention got them into the finals.[8]

Wet willy
Usually performed on a sleeping or otherwise unsuspecting person, the perpetrator of a wet willy wets his or her
finger with saliva and inserts it into the ear of the victim.

References
1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Greg Tananbaum and Dan Martin (2005). Atomic Wedgies, Wet Willies, and Other Acts of
Roguery. Santa Monica Press. ISBN 978-1595800008.
2. ^ Malcolm in the Middle: "Dinner Out" Original Air Date 11/15/00 on Fox Broadcasting Company
3. ^ The Game on Cracked
4. ^ "Kancho.org". http://www.kancho.org/.
5. ^ (Japanese) KANCHO across the world in Japan, Korea KANCHO What? Trendy Net
6. ^ "Hazing Investigation" (WMV video). WTLX. 2006-04-03. http://www.wltx.com/includes/buildasx_oas.aspx?
fn=http://wm.wltx.gannett.edgestreams.net//news/apr06/04032006_hazing_wltx.wmv&sp=http://wm.wltx.gannett.edgestreams.net/ads/sales/toyotacenter012307.wmv.
7. ^ Hume, Brit (2006-04-06). "Charges for Giving a Wedgie". Fox News.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190761,00.html.
8. ^ "Twins, 8, invent 'wedgie-proof' underpants". MSNBC. 2007-11-02. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21599350/.
Further reading
Steinberg, Neil (1992). If at all possible, involve a cow : the book of college pranks. New York: St. Martin's Press.
ISBN 0-312-07810-2.

v·d·e Bullying
In academia · In information technology · In medicine · In nursing · In teaching · In the military · In
the workplace · Cyber-bullying · Gay bullying · Hazing · Mobbing · Passive aggression · Peer
Types victimization · Psychological abuse · Rankism · Relational aggression · School bullying · School
pranks · Verbal abuse

Betrayal · Bystanders · Character assassination · Defamation · Destabilisation · Discrediting ·

False accusations · Gossip · Harassment · Humiliation · Incivility · Innuendo · Insult · Intimidation ·
Moving the goalposts · Personal attacks · Psychological manipulation · Rudeness · Sarcasm ·
Elements
Setting up to fail · Smear campaign · Social rejection · Social undermining · Taunting · Teasing ·
Whispering campaign · Yelling

Act Against Bullying · Beatbullying · Bullying UK · Kidscape · GRIN Campaign

Organisations

Andrea Adams · Louise Burfitt-Dons · Tim Field · Andy Hickson · Heinz Leymann · Gary Namie ·
Activists Kenneth Westhues

Anti-Bullying Day · Anti-Bullying Week · International STAND UP to Bullying Day · Anti-bullying

Actions legislation

Tyler Clementi · Ryan Halligan · Megan Meier · Phoebe Prince · Nicola Ann Raphael · Dawn-
High-profile Marie Wesley · Kelly Yeomans · Jeff Weise · Jim in Bold · Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold · Seung-
suicides Hui Cho · Jamey Rodemeyer

Abuse · Bullycide · Control freak · Complex post-traumatic stress disorder · Emotional blackmail ·
Just-world hypothesis · Narcissism · Personal boundaries · Personality disorders · Psychological
Related
projection · Psychological trauma · Psychopathy · Scapegoating · Self-esteem · Sycophancy ·
topics
Victim blaming · Victim playing · Victimisation · Youth subculture

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