[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Burmeister #279

I think we might have access to the tower that is in the middle of the school building but it's ~5 stories high ( 2 above the closest roof ) and i've never seen a ladder/stairs/access to it.

The high school I attended has a tower that is something like 65 feet tall, with a convenient spire on top. According to my uncle and my father, around 1950, some person or person unknown somehow inflated a truck inner tube to enormous proportions and dropped it over the spire. The school had to hire a professional steeplejack to remove it.

I have no idea how my uncle and father would know this, but they suggest that two war-surplus weather balloons could have lifted the inner tube up there -- but neither will talk about how they could have known that.

(I was the third generation of my family to attend Huntington Beach High School. My uncles, mother, father, and great-uncle all went there. Our senior prank did not -- unfortunately -- involve the tower.)