Operation Red Fox: My Senior Prank.
Operation: Red Fox started as the brainchild of yours truly some months back. Their were several other canidates for a senior prank, but for one reason or another they were put to the side. Ideally, I would have had a small army of people helping me ochestrate this down to ‘t’ but it turned out to be just my brother and I. Everyone wants to be in on it, but nobody wants to be in the middle of it.
| Ideas that didn’t make it: |
| 1) A petting zoo where each animal would wear a name tag for the appropriate administrator. (I.E. Dean Brown would be represented with a Donkey) |
| 2) Gluing together an insane amount of FedEx boxes to create a wall blocking the entrance. |
| 3) 2 Tons of hay for $45 (Pickup Required) |
| 4) Hijacking the morning announcements. “Good Morning PMS” |
| 5) Fireworks from a roof. |
| 6) A banner from the clock tower. (Done to death) |
| 7) Making a Cancellations.com account and posting that school would be cancelled on Senior cut day. Then people would freak out about how they “Checked the website” |
 Painting “SENIORS ‘04″ in driveway sealant across the arched driveway. |
The night after Prom, I came to the understanding that it would be my last opportunity to do such a thing and have people see it. Graduation was the next day, and I knew everyone in the Senior class would be at school for ‘rehearsal’ at 9AM. So I told my brother what I was doing (At which point he insisted on helping) and drove to Walgreens. It was a good thing my brother came, he was the one to uncover a whole bucket of sidewalk chalk hiding under a kite.
After a quick ride to CHS, work began. Initially my biggest concern was cameras, but after scoping out the area before I began work, I saw their were none. I had a vision of what I wanted: Something grandiose and attention grabbing. I decided that writing “SENIORS 04″ and then “SEE YOU LATER SUCKERS” and after it was all done, I still had lots of chalk left. So I colored in all of the letters and added “<3 Steven Tenlo” and then I gave some shout outs.
My work was not unfettered though. I had my brother keeping watch, and at one point he says, “Cops!” So I dive into these bushes and try to tell him to stay still, as not to attract the peripheral vision of the cop driving down Parker. I don’t think I’ve ever felt a cop drive so slow in my life. And I wasn’t even doing anything that illegal. Trespassing … Terroristic Threats … Defacement of public property… All disorderly persons offenses. Except for threats, I think that’s a felony.
It took me about an hour to make my masterpiece. It was well worth the time. Hearing people talk before graduation, the student body was not that impressed, but then again, they didn’t spend an hour on their hands and knees diving in and out of bushes. Before the Graduation rehearsal was over, I noticed my work was hosed away. Unnapreciated: like most great artists.
