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Re: 'Rollin' A House'

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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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Re: 'Rollin' A House'

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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.
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. )

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Up here, we call it "TP'ing" a house, not "rollin."
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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Re: 'Rollin' A House'

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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.

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.

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Re: 'Rollin' A House'

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 ).

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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Re: 'Rollin' A House'

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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Re: 'Rollin' A House'

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.

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Re: 'Rollin' A House'

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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Re: 'Rollin' A House'

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

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There's an interesting piece in the Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise about a woman who got her house toilet papered and decided to hunt down the culprits. She didn't want to involve the police, reasoning that they had better things to do, so she took the following steps:

* She canvassed local stores to see which one had a run on toilet paper.

* She then got the manager of the store to show her surveillance videos, allowing her to see the personalized letterman's jacket of one of the purchasers, as well as the license plate of the vehicle they got into.

* Finally, she used a high school yearbook (matched to the school based on the letterman's jacket) and online databases to get the names, phone numbers and addresses of all the teens spotted in the store tapes.

To me, this is a bit more than a "talker" feature. One takeaway, IMHO, is that we're pretty far down the road to sheepdom when average citizens start thinking "well, everything's monitored all the time anyway - let's see if I can make use of that."

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


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