This Never Gets Old

Never.

Kids Using Drano Bombs Again!

NBC 10 told us a week or so ago that raves still existed, and now a fad from even earlier in the 1990s is apparently still around: Drano bombs! Okay, so “kids” and “blowing shit up” is a pair that’s been around for millions of years. Whatever.

The Horsham police are calling them “works bombs,” but that’s probably just a hip new term. “Works bombs” are a combination of tin foil and toilet bowl cleaner; the two mixes produce a gas which, when capped, will eventually explode.

Apparently kids in Horsham have moved on from knocking over mailboxes with baseball bats to blowing them up with bombs. Frankly, that shows some real dedication to chemistry. Maybe it’s for extra credit?

Update: It’s a crime wave! The bomb-in-a-mailbox prank has spread from Warminster to Upper Moreland to Doylestown to Horsham, The Intelligencer writes. And, please, be careful: “Police advise anyone who finds a soda bottle in a mailbox not to touch it and to call police immediately.”

Horsham Police Warn of Mailbox Pranks That May Prove Dangerous [KYW 1060]

Chicken Prank Surveillance Video!

We now have a surveillance video from The Great Northeast High Chicken Prank, and… boy… is it sure… there. Okay, so the surveillance vid doesn’t show much beyond a couple blurry figures dressed in black spreading chicken feed around.

Meanwhile, Action News calls the prank “cruel and dirty.” And the Daily News has an article with so many puns even I’m cringing.

Your Chicken Prank Roundup

Ahh, yes, the chickens. Yesterday, somebody let 85 chickens loose in Northeast High School, leading to much hilarity and a bunch of kids writing “167″ in the PWD comments. (Is this the 167th class or something?)

Everybody did a nice job reporting this important news story. NBC 10 talks with the school and confirms this was most likely a senior prank. The station also talks to students, who do Tweety Bird impressions for the camera:

“I actually did see a chicken, I did, in the basement. It was running and the security guard was chasing it,” senior Satoria Bell said.

The floors were covered with chicken feed and chicken waste. Officials called in a farmer to help round up and remove the birds. Some witnesses said the chickens were laying eggs all over the building but most students said they didn’t see anything.

“I didn’t see any chickens,” one student said.

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Chickens Loose At Northeast High!

Pranksters, you are going to have to do a lot to top this one. The prank of the year: 50 live chickens were let out in the halls of Northeast High School.

Some time this morning, someone broke into the school and released 50 live chickens and chicken feed into the school. Maintenance men discovered the chickens just before light this morning. A school spokesman said: “At this point, we don’t know when someone broke into the school but someone did break into at the start of school this morning and dropped off fifty or more chickens into Northeast High School and spread chicken feed all over the school.”

Someone is going to have to put penguins in Audenreid in order to top this, honestly. I think we have a unbeatable front-runner right now.

50 Live Chickens Set Free Inside NE High School [KYW 1060]

Prankster Delays High-End Shopping By Up To 5 Min.

Black Friday morning, a freedom fighter — and possible Buy Nothing Day activist? — went down Walnut Street and glued the locks shut of a bunch of stores, causing a whopping $200 worth of damage at each store. An assistant manager at the Gap said this is the third time her store’s locks have been glued shut.

The shops affected were in the 1400-1600 blocks of Walnut Street. The Inquirer notes that “[t]he prank failed to hurt business because retailers usually arrive an hour early to open the stores before admitting customers.” Those tricky retailers!

Despite the damage, business opened as usual. Business also boomed for a very lucky locksmith:

The locksmith “just went from store to store popping the locks,” [a store manager] said.

Note to self: Enroll in locksmithing classes and buy some glue. Cha-ching!

Glue-filled locks on Walnut Street [Inquirer]

Pranks A Lot

Oh yea? What if the prank was to break her neck? You ever think of that, Mr. Smarty Headline Writer?

Prank Gone Bad: Store Worker’s Neck Broken [AP/NBC 10]

Keep Your Bubbles Back At Home, People

Sometime yesterday morning, some totally awesome people did the most totally awesome thing in the history of the world: They poured bubbles in the Love Park fountain.

Yes, someone saw two men pour a box of detergent into the Love Park fountain yesterday morning around 6 a.m., spreading bubbles all over the park and sending people into a frenzy. NBC 10 is all over it:

If you walked by Love Park early Monday morning, you might have thought it was snowing.

It wasn’t snow filling the fountain; it was soapsuds. [...]

While this may look comical, not everybody was laughing.

“I don’t think it’s fair to the city or to the tourists who take pictures here at Love Park,” said Blayney Stukes, of North Philadelphia.

The Fairmount Park commissioner isn’t laughing either. He said it could cost thousands to cleanup the fountain, a bill that taxpayers will have to pick up.

“Keep your bubbles back at home. That’s the signal I’m trying to send to you,” maintenance worker Melvin Fortune said.

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Quickies: Best and worst

• Hey, the little gay movie that could Brokeback Mountain got eight Oscar nominations. Although Crash — which was just okay — got six nominations, so who know what these things are worth nowadays. [AP via Philly.com]

• In a list of award nominations that are totally accurate, Son of the Mask got a whopping eight Razzie noms. Upper Darby’s own Jamie Kennedy cries a single tear. [AP via CNN.com]

• With Lynn Swann proving to be a tougher-than-expected challenger for Gov. Ed Rendell, the downside for Pennsylvania Republicans is a larger turnout in Southeastern Pennsylvania, which means more Democrats at the polls. And those are just the live ones! (Rimshot.) [Washington Post]

• Okay, somebody fess up: Needles in food products in a Lehigh Valley supermarket? What the hell? Who even has time to mess around with pranks like that when there’s so much to do…. in Beth..lehem… okay, maybe it makes sense. [AP via Philly.com]