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Has anyone ever rolled a house or had theirs rolled?

Toilet paper everywhere? I drove by a beautiful home last night and it had been rolled. We have huge old live oaks in some of our older neighborhoods here. This live oak had many hanging ribbons of tp hanging from it and we had a nice little rain storm today.

Questions - is it a good thing or a bad thing to have your house rolled?
When I was in high school, it was 'cool' - usually having to do with sports related stuff. Is that still the same?

-just curious.

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The only time I've really seen TP'ing is for some Halloween pranks and at the end of the year during exam time when seniors come around and do a really small amount around school.

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As for houses it depends, if you are the nice people down the street then it is cool but if you are the crazy people... (that sit in the middle of the road at night and read... CRAZY).. then it is not cool.

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I have done it a few times ;) It has never been in a spiteful way. Most times it was just a fun prank for people we like and we help them clean it afterwards. I think it is a good thing to get your house TPed cause someone cares that much about you to mess with you. :D

Now a days I think that if someone wanted to be spitefull they could come up with much worse things then rolling your house.

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I've never seen it done, nor have I done it. Teenagers around my area do it when they're board (normally to their friends houses). But thats dying down around here. Now they go to the store and get plastic forks and put them in the lawns. I've seen the aftermath. It looks soo funny.

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I have done this also...the most we ever did was 1000 in one lawn.

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Spoonin' ATL.

That's all I can say.



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TPing is in good fun; forking the lawn, peanut buttering the doors & locks, saran wrapping vehicles and other mischevious deeds are generally spiteful and vindictive.
Of course there's more to be done, but if the innocents on CD don't know of them, I certainly won't poison today's youth.

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It happened to my house once.


I frankly didn't care. It was kind of cool actually.

My mom did care however. She made me take it all down, which was a huge pain. After that it didn't seem so cool anymore. Things like that aren't funny when it's you that have to clean them up.

So anyways, after I got all the paper down I rolled it up and put it in our bathrooms just to spite the people who did it! :D True story.

Not sure why exactly I thought it would help me get even with them, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. :D

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There is a good deal of it that goes on in my town but i dont see much of it sice its off the main road but some of my friends go out every weekend...any pictures of forking the lawn....ive never seen that before

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rolling houses was a team sport when I was in high school. My best friends house had palm trees all down the sidewalk as did her neighbors. We could form tunnels of TP. It was a sign of popularity in my school.

I'm proud to say my children have now joined the ranks but with a twist. Around here they take signs, only the ones that are posted illegally, and see how many they can fit in one yard. OR they get car window paint and leave messages all over their friends car windows.


AAHHH those were the days!!!!! Thanks for the memories Jane. (maybe THATS what we can do when you come down!!! tee hee)

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Haha, wow! That's definitely not a phrase you'd hear up here very often when describing a house. Except for the one guy who lives around the block from me...He has some banana trees lining his driveway...I always wonder how they survive our winters, though. :rolleyes:

In my neighborhood, we do it to each other's houses on Mischief Night...Other than that, we don't really see it all too often.

ETA: Up here, we call it "TP'ing" a house, not "rollin." ;)

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Likewise with Michigan...at least my neck of the woods...i think its a north thing

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Down here we call it both. Here sometimes friends will do it as pranks on each other, but usually people do it because they don't like some one.

When I lived in Alabama a while ago, I heard from some friends that becuase it was becoming such a large problem in our area, if you were caught, they would fine you $1 per sheet of toilet paper. It was probably a little myth.
To get it down, I have heard of people getting a hose and wetting it so it falls to the ground and then raking it up. I have also heard of people lighting it on fire and having a hose incase it started lighting the tree on fire.

I saw something about forking on that MTV show "High School Stories" where some kids got a few thousand forks and forked their school.

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Well, I must say that I have learned a lot about TPing/rolling.
One thing regarding these pranks is that they are usually on other people's property and someone has to clean up the mess.
Also, where I live, we usually live in a serious drought situation and the idea of taking down toilet paper out of a tree, usually near a house by use of fire is very scary and frightening. It would never be a good idea anywhere and I hope no one would consider that an option.

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Jane,
In my neighborhood, it is understood that your child is being called out for special recognition by their schoolmates. When we see it, we know the student who lives in that house has had a special event or award. Sports team members regularly do it to other team mates but it occurs for band, debate, etc. However, the honored student is expected to clean it up within a day and rain does make it complicated.

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I love seeing that in my neighborhood when I come home after working at The Haunted Graveyard on my birthday. (Mischief night = October 30th = Day before Halloween = My Birthday - for all of you who don't know. :) )

Same thing here in CT.

And as a side note, when I saw your post Jane, I thought you were talking about having your house moved via logs ala' Egyptian pyramid construction techniques since I had never heard the term "rolling a house" before.

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Where I'm from, thats the same opinion.

It was also done to an adult coach when something special happened (band wins regional, football team wins sectional, etc.). HOWEVER, my wife strongly feels that it is vandalism. So, I've warned the kids on TechnoKats that she may be ticked if it happens to us.

Up until this year, none ever did it.

We got to find out just how ticked she would get this year, as younger students on the team decided to TP our house the night we won the CA at Boilermaker Regional. Admittedly, they did a very poor job, only doing 2 trees out of the 20 or so in our yard. They even left 2-3 complete rolls in the grass (eh, rookies).

Since the timing was good, their effort was poor, and they wrote a nice note pasted to our front door, my wife was not mad at all.

Andy B.

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Here, houses and trees and whatnot usually only get toiletpapered on Halloween. Recently in Sharon, there has been a much larger presence of the police in town on Halloween, and it has occured less frequently during the past few years (mostly because of drug incidents which occured on the green in past years - also some incidents involving the usage of Nair instead of shaving cream to "bomb" other kids :ahh: ).

Usually though, kids decide to TP the green in the center of town, covering the trees in it and also spraying shaving cream on the trunks (I can't imagine that is too good for the trees). They also TP alot in Sharon Valley, where alot of kids live (I think they mostly do it to each other's houses), and occasionally they will TP a teacher's house. When it is a teacher, it's not usually done in the best of spirits - one incident I remember was when a bunch of kids decided to "bomb" my seventh grade teacher's house with TP in the trees, accompanied by obscenities written in chalk and shaving cream in front of his house. Of course, this is the teacher that I mentioned in my post in the Generation Gaps thread - he was the one who was always trying to be "cool" and fraternize with the kids on the same level. The kids would often tease him about his personal life and stuff, and he kind of asked for it.

More recently though, and more in the theme of this thread, I remember walking through the parking lot at the school after a robotics meeting and finding one of the kid's trucks covered in sticky notes. It was a more harmless prank, and was done in good spirits as a unique way of showing some affection. :)

And then there was that one time that I decided to put a bunch of Army recruition pamphlets on the windshield of my English teacher's car (he is notoriously anti-war and would be the last person to join the army). I considered actually putting the Army bumper sticker on his car, but thought that would be too much, considering that those stickers can be a pain to scrape off. One of my friends wanted to put the sticker on the door to the principal's office instead (it would have been ironic because our new principal is very strict about rules and regulations), but decided against it for the same reasons.

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2005 Senior Prank was forking the entire (and when I say entire I mean every square inch) grassy/dirt filled area of MHS. There was no green to be seen.

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My house was never toilet-papered, but it was egged. I don't remember it, because I was a baby at the time.

Apparently some high school senior was following my mom around, they were in cars and I was in the backseat of my mom's car. She pulled up to our house and so did the kid. He started to get out of the car, but my dad came out and yelled at him. So to get back at us, he egged our house on Halloween.

The end. :D

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around here in detroit area we have a thing calles devils night and thats where just about everybody goes out and tp's sombodies house...it has become a major problem so much so that there is people devoted to help stop it...

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I think you all should read this before you go TP'in again....


http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/08...m_plays_d.html


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