It was our senior year. We had been terrorizing the neighborhood
with our TP raids but we all felt we needed to take our unique
brand of teenage hooliganism and vandalism to the next level.
We all had an intense dislike for the preppies and jocks at
the school, and Tony had a longtime dream to hit them where
it hurts - the big homecoming game. Tim had come into posession
of the special wrench that was used to turn the sprinklers
on and off and with an old bed sheet and some poster paint,
we set off for our night.....of SABOTAGE.
We all met at D-Bone's house and got ourselves psyched up
for the night's events. We got into Tim-Dogg's car and parked
behind the football field. From there we split into two squads
- Tim-Dogg and Tony were on field flooding duty and D-Bone
and I were on flag duty.
While Tim and Tony were turning on the sprinklers to turn
the field into a muddy pit by game time, D-Bone and I had
to create a flag to run up the flagpole - a flag so vicious
in its attack on the football culture that the players would
be stricken with humiliation and despair and would be forced
to call the game off. We decided to go with "FOOTBALL SUCKS".
And just to really twist the knife, we put the circle A anarchy
sign in the middle. Ha ha! Oh how they would cry and gnash
their teeth! We were true anarchists! Oh, and to keep the authorities
off our trail, we painted "SOCCER RULES" on the other side.
We were finishing up the flag underneath the bleachers when
Tim and Tony returned from their successful mission. Now all
we had to do was raise our flag of Morale Destruction and escape
into the night. We quickly found out that the flagpole rope
was knotted or stuck and we could only raise the flag to halfmast.
But it would still break their spirit! We piled into the car
and sped off into the night, chuckling maniacally and high-fiving
each other.
Aftermath: We never heard anything about
that night. Nothing on the news, nothing in the local paper,
nothing around school. I'm guessing probably an hour after
we left, the groundskeeper stopped by, turned off the sprinklers
and took down our flag.
But for one night - we were certified
bad-asses.
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