My friend got suspended...

[Trinadad]

So, today was the last day of classes and of course one of my friends wanted to do a prank. I had class, so I couldn't help, but on spare he decided to do something.

The intercom system in my school is sorta fucked up.. the senior and junior school are connected, but the middle school and the music building are on two different things. So a couple of days ago, he figured it out, but he didn't realize that it would go to the junior school as well.

So during second period today, he went to the art room and played this pre recorded voice (like the saw voice) and played it over the intercom... mid way through rick roll would play though.. it was pretty funny when you could hear it (he had sent it to me the night before) but just at the beginning of the period we had a fire drill. Because of that, the fire marshal was still walking around the junior school when he started.

The voice is relatively scary, especially to little kids, and they apparently thought that it was the police, and they called a Code blue (which is where you hide from the windows and everything) and someone from the senior school had to go tell them that it was just a prank.

But it was mid way through it that they burst into the art room and zerged him and was instantly suspended... on the last day of school.

So his mom (Who albeit is pretty much a midget) went in and pretty much dueledthem... she's highly leveled... I really wondered what happened.

So yeah, kinda retarded... my school's somewhat stuckup (but I'm pretty much out of the pos, thank god)


Anybody else have pranks they did in high school? I wish I did something, but I'm not really one to do those sorts of things.. my stomach churns.

[japanat]

My high school had a small courtyard in the center, and my brother's class took a VW Beetle apart, lifted it over the building at night and reassembled it in the courtyard. Teachers came to school the next day and there was a working 2000lb car in the courtyard, and no way to get it through the doors.

The next year, a guy dumped a truckload of manure against the front doors of the school during class time, and nobody could get in or out.

My class stole every street sign in town and posted them all in the courtyard. The town fathers got a little pissed about that one!

But all this was back when schools were places to learn and nuclear fallout shelters, not the home of ZT and psychotic teens with guns.

[riona]

The senior class at my high school's "prank" this year was putting sporks all over the front lawn. SPORKS. They stuck sporks in the ground and giggled at them.

[mamba]

We set up a full size inflatable assault course, hid fish in various parts of the ceiling throughout the various buildings. Got really drunk in the morning before going in, put crickets in the collection trays of the vending machine. let some sheep loose in the school, the usual really. oh and cordoned off the front gates with police tape and drew some chalk outlines and some fake blood.

[Pierrot le Fou]

During drunk times in uni I'd have a habit of taking big things from one place, and putting them in front of people's doors, or try to barricade the Deans' building's door shut.

I was never too successful, since the doors all open IN, but, it was the effort that counted.

[Decade]

This wasnt exactly our prank, but it caused as much a controversy in my school as any other kind of prank.


In my state, there's a game for Seniors that's a tradition. I know its been done for at least a decade as I heard a bunch of kids did it for years. The name differs from town to town, but most people knew it as either "Assassins" or "Water Wars."


The game was essentially this:

You and a friend become a 2 man team and pay 5 bucks to play. Using water guns or other water squirting devices (I guess different toys like Spiderman webshooters or something?), you're assigned to "Assassinate" another 2 man team secretly by the game organizer.

At the same time, another 2 man team was assigned to assassinate you, but you have no idea who until they make their attempt. In order to advance, you and your partner had to survive AND take out your assigned targets. You cant advance unless you take out both targets, and when you get one you have to get the other in 2 days or their partner is back in the game and you have to start from scratch.


The game keeps going until only one team's left, and they win all the entry money (which is usually at least $500).

However, you can NOT go after people on school grounds, at their jobs, OR go into their houses without their prior permission. As such, its intense and FUN!


Anyway, the main road to enter my school every morning is usually pretty heavy trafficked, so one team decided to play a great prank on their buddy, who was their target. They dressed up with camo clothes and camo paint (obviously water paint they bought at KB toys) and waited by some bushes on the road with their visible pink Super Soakers.

Keep in mind, PINK Super Soakers, with SUPER SOAKER! clearly visibly written on the guns in rather large font.

A lady looked out her window, saw them and thought they were terrorists and so called the police. By the time I got to school that day (which was about 1.5 hours later cause I had senior privilege), the school was in lockdown. The douchebag principal then made us have a private assembly, JUST for the seniors with the police present and said, and I quote

"Any kids found with water guns will be immediately arrested."

We all went nuts. The dumbass even tried to suspend the two kids for at LEAST 2 weeks, but they were back no longer than 3 days from the incident because their parents threatened MASSIVE lawsuits since they did nothing wrong on SCHOOL property and broke no laws.

The principal and the police were at a loss. They tried to bluff us with rules and laws and lost, seeing we wouldnt be played by their bullshit.

I still have my super soakers, and come to think of it, now that its summer, Im gonna play with em as soon as I get back home :D


Anyway,

[harper]

On my last day of high school, somebody had the bright idea to drop an M-80 down a toilet. It caused quite a mess and they weren't allowed to attend graduation. I don't know if there were any other penalties.

The seniors at my high school have occasionally had a senior prank at the end of the year. My favorite was my first year when they took all of my desks, tables, etc. and arranged them on the roof in a classroom setting. They didn't take the computer, refrigerator, or anything else that could be damaged so it was fairly amusing. A few of my classes wanted to hold class out on the roof since it was a beautiful day, but we had to bring everything back in for safety reasons. Another year, the seniors spread tons of feathers all over the room of another teacher and also set a live chicken loose.

[Soli]

Wow, that stinks that your friend was suspended Trina! But he sort of deserved it for scaring the kids even if he didn't mean to.

Our seniors had 3 pranks this year. One was for all of the seniors to ride their bikes to school. They road on all the major roads and stopped a lot of traffic. XD We all thought that was it, but then they dumped huge buckets of skittles down all the staircases. It still smells like skittles. The last sort of prank was to have a volleyball game. They poured sand in the school parking lot to form a court, brought food/drinks/music and stuff. They started about 6 at night and were going all night and morning. o.o

[CrazyAce86]

We didn't do much, really. Put the school on eBay, lol. I think it was sold for a buck. Master Beatty (the principal) was not impressed. Of course, he didn't find out until we had all graduated and were free and clear. Muahaha. Plus he couldn't prove which of us did it. ;D

My Spanish class pranked a fellow classmate. Long story short is that she brought in powdered donuts and left them in her homeroom (the Spanish classroom) to keep them safe until lunch. Spanish class rolled around at second period and we were bored and hungry, so we ate her donuts. Our teacher then asked us what we planned to do, so we made up this story about a family of mice that ate them all. (The girl wasn't too bright, so it didn't have to be to believable.) We got Sra. Layton in on it-- she's great at pranks-- and one boy even chewed a corner of the bag off, lol. Andrea came in to get that for lunch-- we Spanish kids took our lunch to the room to watch movies and stuff, so we were there for it-- and Sra. Layton had her completely convinced that a family of mice ate the donuts. :rofl:

This prank kept going. Our teacher got a dead mouse off of one of the other teachers and showed it to the girl. She told her that it had ate too many donuts and died.

Ended up that the entire senior class was in on the joke and we never told her until graduation. XD She was so pissed when she found out.

Another time, my Spanish class helped Sra. Layton invent a country and make up a PowerPoint presentation complete with pictures of the a trip she took there and its "cultural" aspects. Every other class she had she presented it to very believably and they all were fooled. XD The younger kids were even trying to find the country on the world map!

The only time it didn't work was when a former student came back to visit and we tried to do it, but it was just too funny and we all cracked up and ruined it. :rolleyes:

[Random]

The day before the last day of school we all got a fifteen minute lecture about how we'd better not do anything, whatever we did would be reported to the police, we'd get banned from taking our final exams, wouldn't get letters of recommendation for uni, all the shit the school could throw at us.
Didn't stop anyone, half the year was drunk when they came in and pissed when they left, someone covered the lockerbase in flour, and for my part I got access to the computer screen under the main stairway which usually shows the menu and the day's events.
By the end of the day, half the year knew how to edit it, and there were thousands of stupid messages on it, the menu had been utterly retarded (fancy some BBQ Baby for lunch?) and the admins had no one to blame since most people used other people's accounts anyway. It was great fun.

[4letterwords]

Psh, kids pranks suck these days.

We oiled up 3 pigs, labled them with 1, 2, and 4, and let them loose in the school. People were looking for 3 all day. Greatness.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

I'm planning on running through all 3 levels of the hallway while spraying a mix of Axe, Tag, and whatever kind of bodyspray.

Of course, I'll be wearing crappy clothes so I can take it off once I'm done and switch to different ones.

Plus, I'll be wearing a mask, so yeah.

[ParryDat]

My high school had a small courtyard in the center, and my brother's class took a VW Beetle apart, lifted it over the building at night and reassembled it in the courtyard. Teachers came to school the next day and there was a working 2000lb car in the courtyard, and no way to get it through the doors.

The next year, a guy dumped a truckload of manure against the front doors of the school during class time, and nobody could get in or out.

My class stole every street sign in town and posted them all in the courtyard. The town fathers got a little pissed about that one!

But all this was back when schools were places to learn and nuclear fallout shelters, not the home of ZT and psychotic teens with guns.

This really happend?You guys couldn't climb out of the windows to get out?The school sounds like a fire hazard.

[Random]

I'm planning on running through all 3 levels of the hallway while spraying a mix of Axe, Tag, and whatever kind of bodyspray.

Of course, I'll be wearing crappy clothes so I can take it off once I'm done and switch to different ones.

Plus, I'll be wearing a mask, so yeah.
A V FOR VENDETTA MASK. MAKE IT SO.

and take pics

[Pierrot le Fou]

My Spanish class pranked a fellow classmate. Long story short is that she brought in powdered donuts and left them in her homeroom (the Spanish classroom) to keep them safe until lunch. Spanish class rolled around at second period and we were bored and hungry, so we ate her donuts.
Oh my God, WHAT A PRANK!

You stole some poor girl's lunch, and then lied to her about them!

That was a GREAT one!

Ha-ha!

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

God, it'll be so hard to see in that V4V mask; our school has dimly lit lights, so it'll be twice as impossible..

[Random]

I don't see how that matters.

[Radiance]

Psh, kids pranks suck these days.

We oiled up 3 pigs, labled them with 1, 2, and 4, and let them loose in the school. People were looking for 3 all day. Greatness.

That one is pretty good. :D All we did was let looks mice, geese, ducks, lizards... thats about all I can recall. Yours is better though. :X

[Decade]

We oiled up 3 pigs, labled them with 1, 2, and 4, and let them loose in the school. People were looking for 3 all day. Greatness.
We were gonna do this during graduation. Then some loser animal rights activist junior punk pulled the cord on it during the ceremony.

Bitch. :bang:


THEN, the NEXT year, that same class who ruined our prank released rats all over the school, one of them actually ended up biting our poor new vice principal right in her hand.

Very, VERY stupid prank.

I'm planning on running through all 3 levels of the hallway while spraying a mix of Axe, Tag, and whatever kind of bodyspray.

Of course, I'll be wearing crappy clothes so I can take it off once I'm done and switch to different ones.

Plus, I'll be wearing a mask, so yeah.

Wow that sounds....totally pointless :boggled: I fail to see the humor in that. Seriously, you gotta do better than that man :meh:

And for the record, good chance if someone tried that in the STATES (yes, I understand you're not in the states), they'd get taken down hard and possibly arrested for some terrorist bullcrap.




Seriously, get a better prank.

[Radiance]

I'm planning on running through all 3 levels of the hallway while spraying a mix of Axe, Tag, and whatever kind of bodyspray.

Of course, I'll be wearing crappy clothes so I can take it off once I'm done and switch to different ones.

Plus, I'll be wearing a mask, so yeah.

No offense, but i'm going to call this one a -bad- idea. A lot of people have strong (end up in the hospital or worse) allergies to those body sprays. If the wrong person caught a lung full of it you could wind up in some really big trouble.

[CrazyAce86]

Oh my God, WHAT A PRANK!

You stole some poor girl's lunch, and then lied to her about them!

That was a GREAT one!

Ha-ha!

Did someone replace your coffee with decaf or something? Bitchy, bitchy, bitchy. :rolleyes:

I never said it was a good prank or even a real one, it was simply something done out of boredom. My school, despite having rules out out the fucking wazoo, pretty much let us run wild. Hell, I knew boys who drove to school in trucks with gun racks-- yes, guns in them-- and no one cared. *shrugs* Pranks kind of lost their amusement when you could get away with dropping cherry bombs down the toilets. And even if you were caught, you just simply skipped Saturday detention and that was that.

Most of what the kids did was resort to beating the shit out of each other and vandalism. My cousin, a former classmate, and a friend of theirs from a nearby town took baseball bats and bashed in the windows of the school office. We had cameras, but no one knew how to operate them, so they were pretty much useless. The school also was too lazy to fix the windows, too, so they stayed that way for the entire year. What was amusing was none of them went to the school. Mikey and Jason went to Manito, the "correctional" school, and the other guy was from out-of-town.

We weren't really organized to pull off a good prank. Too many of my classmates were drunk, stoned, didn't give a shit, 'above such things,' or complete idiots and therefore untrustworthy. We'd come up with good ideas, but lacked any real ability to see them through. *shrugs*

[Pierrot le Fou]

You stole a girl's lunch and found it funny. It's bullying, not a prank. Now you're going back on what you said:
My Spanish class pranked a fellow classmate. Long story short is that she brought in powdered donuts and left them in her homeroom (the Spanish classroom) to keep them safe until lunch. Spanish class rolled around at second period and we were bored and hungry, so we ate her donuts. Our teacher then asked us what we planned to do, so we made up this story about a family of mice that ate them all. (The girl wasn't too bright, so it didn't have to be to believable.) We got Sra. Layton in on it-- she's great at pranks-- and one boy even chewed a corner of the bag off, lol. Andrea came in to get that for lunch-- we Spanish kids took our lunch to the room to watch movies and stuff, so we were there for it-- and Sra. Layton had her completely convinced that a family of mice ate the donuts.

This prank kept going. Our teacher got a dead mouse off of one of the other teachers and showed it to the girl. She told her that it had ate too many donuts and died.

Ended up that the entire senior class was in on the joke and we never told her until graduation. XD She was so pissed when she found out.
Yeah. sure it wasn't a prank. Honest. You never said it was a prank at all.

You stole a girl's lunch, lied for a year, and got everyone else -- including the teachers in on it, because she 'wasn't too bright.'

That's crap.

Shit in my coffee? What made you tease a 'not so bright' girl for a Goddamned class year? Jesus.

[MNJetter]

My cousin, a former classmate, and a friend of theirs from a nearby town took baseball bats and bashed in the windows of the school office. We had cameras, but no one knew how to operate them, so they were pretty much useless. The school also was too lazy to fix the windows, too, so they stayed that way for the entire year. What was amusing was none of them went to the school.
Wouldn't that just make it plain old vandalism and not a prank, then?

I have never been a fan of school pranks. Some can be funny. I laughed at the one with pigs numbered 1, 2, and 4. Also, in my freshman year, a group of seniors released 20 backpackfuls of golf balls in the 2nd floor hallway. That was just good fun, and I still have two of them.

But in my junior year, I got fed up with them. Some group of students thought it would be funny to release smoke bombs in the hallways. Kids with asthma were being sent to the hospital, a teacher got 2nd-degree burns on his leg when one of the bombs backfired and shot sparks across the hallway, and a whole lot of damage was caused when the sprinkler system went off, soaking my final art project, among other things. Not funny.

Or the next year, when someone else decided to see what would happen if he rigged a can of mace to keep on spraying, and snuck it in the ventilation system.

I've never seen how "vandalism" or "bullying" can be equated with "prank." Pranks aren't supposed to hurt anybody. They are supposed to make everybody (except maybe one or two people) laugh. I love the idea of the fun prank, but the dangerous prank is something that has become one of my pet peeves. And I agree with PLF on the bullying of that poor girl.

[Hatsumomo]

I would have to agree with PLF as well. It would have been one thing to make up the mice thing and then tell the truth after a few minutes and replaced the doughnuts you stole. But an entire class and teachers kept it up for a whole year, taking it to extremes. That's just bordering on cruelty.

As for my high school, one senior class did the oiled up pig thing (and since half the county is farm country, it wasn't too hard to get a pig). Another class put goldfish in the toilets. Most, if not all, died. My senior class did nothing because we were slackers who were the reason for why there's now traffic lights at the intersection where the school's entrance is. Our plan was to get a panther (since our mascot was a black panther), but we didn't follow through.

[CrazyAce86]

*shrugs*

Maybe because she was finally getting a taste of her own goddamned medicine? She treated everyone like shit. She thought she was some kind of goddess that world needed to fall down upon its knees in presence of her.

Thankfully, she wised up. She got sick, got ditched, and realized just how bad she had been. She healed and grew up. She's a nice girl now. Smartened up, said fuck off to everyone, and moved to Utah to go to school. She's graduated now, gotten married, and is happy. Kind of have to admire her for that.

Was it bullying? Probably, but what comes around goes around. I know it's not the respected thing to say or the smart thing, but it's true. Shit like that's going to come back and bite ya in the ass. She bullied us, we bullied her. Now it's our turn to get bit. I'm working at Exxon making minimum wage and living off of booty calls while she went to school and married a rich Mormon.

I say things have evened out.

And, for the record, I never said I was a nice person.

[Kusoyaro]

all this shit took place in the last 1 half, 2 months of highschool:
put fish in the ceiling, lubed all the handles of every single door with ky and gel deodorant, dismantled all the toilet stalls in the mens and womens, let crickets and mice loose in teh caf, went streaking 5 days in a row with 20 other guys through the entire school and campus while being chased by guidance councillors, during my valedictorian speech made comments about how one of our teachers used to be a pornstar (and got sued for it), changed the valedictorian lineup to include the worst and most violent/crazy students, gave one teacher 2 black marks in 2 days, built a tomb and dressed as a pharoah and scared the shit out of the staff room, filled the in-box of some teachers' with omlettes and bacon, got this one teacher fired after we revelead her to be a crackhead, and completely RUINING graduation

[Plekto]

Oh, there were some really good ones growing up...

- My class, we took 10,000 paper cups and a stapler, plus a watering can. They filled the teacher's area/lounge(half of the teachers offices were there) wall to wall with stapled cups and then filled them with water, carefully)

Of course the idiots didn't use a staple remover. Water was still pouring off the balcony (this was on the second floor mind you) three days later.

- Another was the pigs. Three story building. Now, the thing is, pigs LOVE to climb up stairs but are mortally afriad of going *down* them. No way, no how will they do it. And when they are scared(being chased) they go all over the place - in both ways.

- Another one was they put tires up to the top of the flagpole. It took the school months to figure out how it was even done. They had a guy climb the pole with a small rope as a "lead", then use that to pull a large rope and tie it off.

Then they climbed on top of the school and hoisted 20 tires up with a grappling hook from the third floor(8-10 feet). And slid them down the rope onto the pole(this part took 3-5 minutes). Total time was under thirty minutes. It took them hours to get them off.

- And of course, they also did the car reassemble thing.

- I also knew a guy who did the M80 in the toilet thing. He used a foot long waterproof fuse, though, and the thing blew out half of the school's toilets.. They never did figure out who did it - heh.

[Pierrot le Fou]

*shrugs*

Maybe because she was finally getting a taste of her own goddamned medicine? She treated everyone like shit. She thought she was some kind of goddess that world needed to fall down upon its knees in presence of her.

Thankfully, she wised up. She got sick, got ditched, and realized just how bad she had been. She healed and grew up. She's a nice girl now. Smartened up, said fuck off to everyone, and moved to Utah to go to school. She's graduated now, gotten married, and is happy. Kind of have to admire her for that.

Was it bullying? Probably, but what comes around goes around. I know it's not the respected thing to say or the smart thing, but it's true. Shit like that's going to come back and bite ya in the ass. She bullied us, we bullied her. Now it's our turn to get bit. I'm working at Exxon making minimum wage and living off of booty calls while she went to school and married a rich Mormon.

I say things have evened out.

And, for the record, I never said I was a nice person.
Oh, I get it now. So when you said it was a 'prank' you really meant that it took an entire class and a teacher to get even at a student who you didn't like.

Cheers, good show on that one.

Now I entirely understand and support your decision to be a right cunt to another human being in a Biblical justice sort of way.

No, wait, the Bible was an eye for an eye.

In exchange for the eye, your class removed her entire right side, and stole her lunch to boot.

Honest, what the fuck?

[japanat]

The next year, a guy dumped a truckload of manure against the front doors of the school during class time, and nobody could get in or out.This really happend?You guys couldn't climb out of the windows to get out?The school sounds like a fire hazard.Well, of course there were plenty of other doors and windows. But these were the main doors, right outside the office, where all the school buses lined up and the student parking lots were.

CrazyAce,
"for the record, I never said I was a nice person"
We've probably all done mean things, maybe even hurtful things (I did, more than once, as a kid), but what bothers me about this statement is that you seem to revel in it. That particular sentence can be used to justify a world of hurts. Jealousy does not give justification.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

This one Socials teacher all the guys particularly got fond of (she even claims herself that Todd Bertuzzi once made a move on her) was pranked by my friend...

He recieved lubraicant from his Planning class, and wiped it all on the doorknob of her classroom door. People were just staring and wondering why she couldn't open it.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

completely RUINING graduation

What exactly ruined the grad? The revealment of her crackwhoredness, or what?

edit: crap, double-posting. mein bad.

[Decade]

built a tomb and dressed as a pharoah and scared the shit out of the staff room,
See, THATS creative :rofl:

I do think some of the other stuff was a little bad though

No, wait, the Bible was an eye for an eye

Is that really in the bible? :confused: I remember learning about King Hamarabi in High school, but its been a while since I heard bible stories of any kind :confused:

[CrazyAce86]

CrazyAce,
"for the record, I never said I was a nice person"
We've probably all done mean things, maybe even hurtful things (I did, more than once, as a kid), but what bothers me about this statement is that you seem to revel in it. That particular sentence can be used to justify a world of hurts. Jealousy does not give justification.

Sometimes I do, especially in a certain mood. I really do mean that I'm not a nice person. I can be friendly and kind, sure, but I can also be very mean and violent. *shrugs* For good or bad, that's the way I am. I don't regret doing that to Andrea. None of us do. She got her medicine, learned from it, and moved on. We all have. So what does it matter now?

This thread was about pranks, so I said of the few pranks I knew about, simply that. My school didn't go much for pranks, like I said, we were more into vandalism, harassment, beat-downs... One of the funniest things I've ever seen was two crackheads beating the shit out of each other. Should I be sad over a sight? I suppose so, but I wasn't. Hell, the one kid was a cousin of mine named Skippy. (So named because he ate Skippy dog food.) He lost the fight, too. Adam may have been stoned out of his mind, but he could still throw a half decent punch.

Ah, high school in Bumfuck, Egypt. Such great memories. [/sarcasm]

[Soli]

One of the senior pranks last year was to get combinations of all the freshman lockers. Then they put alarms in all of their lockers to go off at a certain time. My sister said it was funny because no one really knew how to turn the alarms off, or they couldn't find them.

All the senior pranks at my school have to be approved by the principal. I think the safe but creative pranks are the best.

[Radiance]

One of the senior pranks last year was to get combinations of all the freshman lockers. Then they put alarms in all of their lockers to go off at a certain time. My sister said it was funny because no one really knew how to turn the alarms off, or they couldn't find them.

All the senior pranks at my school have to be approved by the principal. I think the safe but creative pranks are the best.

Now see... your school embraces it and encourages the students. THAT is a smart idea. Wonder why none of the others seem to understand that.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

Solitudity, what kinds of pranks were accepted by your principal?

[Soli]

The ones I mentioned before (skittles, bike riding, etc.) he approved.

Just safe ones that aren't offensive or cause damage. Our principal knows that people are going to do it anyways, so he'll at least get a say in what they plan to do. I've heard he even gives tips of what to do.

[MNJetter]

That's awesome, Soli. My old high school needs to take a lesson from your principal. The more my old school tries to threaten suspensions and no-graduations and summer school and any number of other things, the more the students go insane, and then the pranks get dangerous and quit being fun.

[ミュー]

NO. They need to do the stupid things and get kicked out of school. Honestly, do you want those sort of bastards fucking up universities? If they're smart enough to get away with it, they'll at least learn how to succeed at shady business.

[MNJetter]

Even if they didn't get expelled, I seriously doubt that any of the idiots thinking up dangerous pranks at my high school had plans to move on to a university. No worries there. :D

[sakana]

The seniors this year did nothing. I was disappointed.

Last year they pasted all of the teacher's heads onto porn and then posted tons of pictures all around the school. It was pretty hilarious watching all of the teachers scramble to pick it all up.

[Dead Sexy Vocab]

.... THAT IS GENIUS!

I remember in my PE class one guy brought a porn mag to class, handed it to the teacher, and said "thanks for letting me borrow it".