The Workermonkey

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

twas the day before school.... 

# posted by ron @ 5/11/2004 10:14:00 AM

there was talk about getting in good with the administration our senior year. so the plan was to go and steal principal doonan's mail box and plant it at the school for all to see in the morning. especially with a fresh new principal in town, starting off the school year with a prank was just the thing.
with this idea we set off to execute it. my parents were home and the chances of getting a shovel without questioning was next to impossible. we said we were going to get som ice cream. next to macanuas's house. there we distracted him with some nonsense and stole a shovel out of his garage when he wasnt looking. there wasnt any room in the car for him anyway. matt had already printed directions to doonan's house so off we went to north branford. before going to his house we stopped at the local firehouse, drove around back and removed the rear lisence plate for good measure. with no tools in the car it was done with a keychain i believe. we found the house no problem on a dead end road and quickly got out to steal the box.
i have this vivid menory of ski just wresteling with this goddamn mailbox because it had one of those huge metal stakes on the bottomm of it and we were just bending it back and forth. finally got it out, it took 45 seconds or so. 30 too many by my book. the plan was nearly abandon because of the difficulty in getting it out of the ground and the fact that is was just about dusk and this neighbor hood was pretty densely populated. anyone looking out their window would have seen us clearly. the funniest part is when we were rusing to put it in the car that huge metal stake put an enormous scratch dont the side of matt's parents car. as soon at the mailbox was in the cabin some lights went on in the drive way. headlights that is. matt floored it and we drove about 70mph down this short dead end developement road to the main road, took a few random turns and lost the pursuer. everyone had this look of awe on their faces including mine. we had just stolen the pricipal's mailbox and we chased us down the road with his blazer. removal of the plate paid off.
after we deemed it safe to drive on major roads again we stopped, remounted the plate and went off to the school with our prize.
we got to the school and it was still a little light left in the day and there were some people playing tennis on the nearby courts. we got out dug a quick hole and buried the the thing. we attached a piece of paper to the front of it saying "principal doonan's mailbox". then we all took turns pissing on it and left to go to mcdonalds to get an aliby.
the next day we come to school and the mail box is still standing for a bit. it turns out that i think we got his neighbor's mail box instead of his. either way the prank was a success. can you imagine the conversation between doonan and his neighbor? "um, sorry about your mailbox, some kids from my new school stole it thinking it was mine". we broke the administration that year, and the mail box was the first step.

thats all i got. not too embelished. i dont remember all the small details either. i'm sure alot of these stories could be better written if we meet and talk about them. i'm sure someone will say something like. "oh yea then .... happened" and i or whoever forgot about it when they were writing it. like i dont remember if we got the shovel after or before. i'm sure someone remembers.
one thing i noticed after writing this, people reading this arent going to realize just how sketchy this prank was. it was pretty much still light out and there were people at the school when we put the thing up. this writing thing is going to take some practice before anythign good comes out of it.

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