'Rollin' A House'

[JaneYoung]

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.

[Adam Richards]

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.

[Morgan Gillespie]

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.

[Greg Needel]

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.

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

[Michelle Celio]

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.

[Greg Needel]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

. Now they go to the store and get plastic forks and put them in the lawns.

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

[Joe Matt]

Spoonin' ATL.

That's all I can say.

[Taylor]

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.

[=Martin=Taylor=]

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! 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.

[Bill_Hancoc]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

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.

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

[wendymom]

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)

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by wendymom

My best friends house had palm trees all down the sidewalk as did her neighbors.

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.

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."

[Bill_Hancoc]

Originally Posted by AtalanteStar25

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

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

[santosh]

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.

[JaneYoung]

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.