Capistrano Valley High School - El Gato Yearbook (Mission Viejo, CA)

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► IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! - Principal Tom Anthony manages to contain his well- known sense of humor after some anony- mous pranksters attempted to paint his famous green Porsche with toilet paper. ▼ TERRORISTS BOMB LOCAL OUT- HOUSE? — No! Merely TPers of the night who got carried away. Many students had TPing down to an art while those who were less fortunate and got caught had to clean up the dreaded mess.

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Dmt iqujsizc tU CluxnmM,, covm a luxue uiittt it! ro most people plastic forks, toilet paper, and Oreo cook- ies are just items on a shop- ping list. But to a teenager, such items are just begging to be used for pranks. Just ask senior Jen Sparano. To Jen and her friends a plastic fork is not just an eating utensil but a four- pronged implement of mayhem. During Christmas vacation around one o ' clock in the morning two or three of my friends went to the all-night Alpha Beta and bought about 1,000 plastic forks. We stuck all of them in our other friend ' s lawn and when she walked out of the house in the morning she freaked . . . and so did her parents! Forks aren ' t the only item on a prankster ' s shopping list, though. A four-pack of Charmin can easily turn a house into Mr. Whipple ' s dream castle. Senior Katherine MacDonald agrees: When my house got toilet- papered that one time I didn ' t really care because I knew it was a joke. I kind of thought it was funny because I always used to do the same thing myself! Even an innocent child ' s snack can be used to wipe out a house. And who ' s that kid with the Oreo cook- ie? How about junior Karin Saka- hara? We opened up the Oreos and stuck them on my friend ' s garage door just for the heck of it! she said with a grin. Sometimes, though, a prankster ' s tools won ' t be found in the express lane, but in the fast lane. Senior Me- lissa Kroll says, Brenda Himes, Mi- chele Rogers, and I took a dozen or- ange roadblock cones to Canyon Crest and dropped them on peo- ple ' s lawns and driveways just for a kick. Besides playing jokes on strangers and each other, students also en- joyed pulling pranks on their es- teemed educators. Chemistry teach- er Lyn Harvey relates this incident: Some of my students one night completely ruined my house. They covered my cactus with toilet paper and put a foot of shredded newspa- per on my front lawn. They also boarded up the doors and windows so I couldn ' t get out. Obviously pranks have become more sophisticated and have gradu- ated from the ranks of egging mail- boxes and buses to more deadly practical jokes. Traditional weapons like tacks and eggs have given way to more creative artillery, paving the way for unpredictable pranks of all kinds. So beware, because the joke may be on you! 4 YOUR MOTHER DRESSES YOU FUNNY — Forced to go to school in her birthday suit, junior Josea Walkingstick is a victim of one of the series of birthday kidnappings at Capo. Pranks 43