View Full Version : help me pull off a prank at school :D
okay, so we all know those little pictures that you can put on ur window and they stick, made of plastic? we have a huge glass front(like I mean 3 stories huge) that I want to cover with one. problem is we hafta custom make it, so here's my idea. get a printer, mod it so it prints these, and have fun. I realize I'll probably need to grab a 36 inch printer of ebay and mod one of those since 8.5 x 11 is just to small, but w/e. here's teh question, can it be done, and if so, how?
Captain Slug
12-19-04, 05:58 PM
You mean vinyl clings? For that you need a decal printer.
any way to mod a bigger printer into one?
k3nshin
12-19-04, 11:54 PM
what about kinkos?
I don't think they print this kind of stuff
I'm kind of curious, but what picture is it you're using? Also, near my workplace, there's this shop that do huge printing. They mostly do it for business as blueprints and poster.
Yea I'd say the only way to go is through Kinkos or a somewhere that can print Decals. Whats this picture gonna be?
Pineabs
12-20-04, 11:18 AM
senior prank? those were the days.
TollhouseFrank
12-20-04, 11:30 AM
senior prank? lol. never did do one.
Senior Pranks at my school are either really lame or so overboard that people get arrested. One dude put super glue in all the door locks the night before the last day of school. He also caulked them together. He ended up getting caught and spending almost 3 grand having to pay the school back for everything.
At one of the highschools around here, kids broke into the school and set off fire extinguishers and threw paint all over things.. They also did some other stuff that caused alot of damage. About 20-25 people ended up getting arrested, and a few lost scholarship to Harvard..
seadave77
12-20-04, 01:06 PM
Yeah some kids down here spray painted the golf carts and gators and then poured bleach on the football fields. They got busted and had to pay for it else it was jail time.
As for your prank you would need to find a print shop. Could you use multiple banners instead?
Sentential
12-20-04, 01:10 PM
senior prank? lol. never did do one.
OOOOHHH ours was pretty f-ing good. Make a long story shot:
We uttrly trashed a "sacred" senior shrine of a rival / dip**** school.
We put instant potatoe mix in the lawn of the superintendant (pricipal) in the shape of "Class of 03". The sprinklers later came on that night :D.
In addition we used over 500 rolls of toilet paper to "roll" his house as well.
Finally he had a serious buisness meeting early the following morning:D
No one in the class ratted anyone out and everyone graduated despie how ****ING PISSED he was the following day:D..ie no one was ever caught.
[All of the above happend in *one* night]
k3nshin
12-20-04, 01:28 PM
I don't think they print this kind of stuff
they might, i know they make sign with the "big" printers that they have. i have a brother who works for kinko's
TazExtreme3
12-20-04, 01:38 PM
http://www.window-cling.com/
they do custom vinyl clings
Show your school sprit and pride :D
All of our printing materials come to us from our vendor on a roll that is 11.5” inches X 50 yards. We can not print any clings, decals or magnetic signs larger than the 11.5" in the one direction.
hmmm, well we're talking 3-5 stories worth of it, and the length of an entire building, was. this is college btw(MIT like prank ^_^) and if it works, it'll make the news. the photo won't be bad, but we havn't settled on one yet.
is there no way to mod a printer? I know they modded hp's to printer 3d with starch....
Hmmm...i wanna see this in the news. Make sure you psot a link if it is.
is there no way to get the chemical, heat it and shot it out onto whatever, some slick sheet(like cooking sheets) and wait for it to dry? or what about just getting clear stuff 'n modding the printer so that it uses a powederish stuff(the ink would pool 'n not come out nice)
?
any idea's?
k3nshin
12-20-04, 04:17 PM
http://www.misterinkjet.com/inkjet_vinyl_cling.htm
seadave77
12-20-04, 04:28 PM
Assuming one story is 20ft by 12ft then
one story is 34,560 square inches
one page is 93.5 square inches
You would need about 37 packs of the inkjet vinyl cling to cover one story which equals $370.
Can you syran wrap the window surface and paint on top of that?
Quattro
12-20-04, 04:30 PM
Wow... This is a funny prank! Hope it goes well.
Sounds like itll be a good one I hope it goes good as well. Too bad I go to school with a bunch of mommas boy sissies that would never dream of pulling off a senior prank because theyre too worried about getting out of school and going to harvard. Id love to pull off something like this.
well if I could get it in long rolls it'd be better.... it'd allow for easier deployement, but now I know it exists. ^_^
Wiseass
12-20-04, 06:58 PM
What about Rasterbation? (http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/)
Take teh image, upload it, rasturbate it (in color if you want!) and then it'll save as a pdf. Take said pdf to kinkos, friends with laser printers, etc and have them print it off.
I made several for my house and garage that I even had kinkos laminate.
Check out their galleries, some pretty cool stuff there :)
(oh yeah, probably alot cheaper then a big window cling, and jsut as easily removeable)
Posidon42
12-20-04, 09:27 PM
the easiest way to do this is to just print your image on transparencies and use water or water & soluble adhesive to stick the transparencies to the window. If you want easy removal, just use water and squeegee (spelling?) it to the window. I used to do this on my computer case all the time with my acrylic window. It was very easy to change designs when I got tired of the one I had. And just about every color laser printer will do transparencies... good luck!
uh, well we don't want it coming down if it rains(we'd like 2-3 days exposure :) ) 'n it's hard to get 3 stories high on sheer glass(I can repel down it, but I'm the only one who knows how to =P)
Posidon42
12-21-04, 07:19 AM
oh, didn't know you wanted this on the outside. In that case, I don't think the vinyl clings will work either.
threeme2189
12-21-04, 08:56 AM
try doing it like in miror image and stick it to the windows from inside!!!
easy attachment and rain wont be a problem!!
try doing it like in miror image and stick it to the windows from inside!!!
easy attachment and rain wont be a problem!!
but in order to do that we'd hafta break into the building =P
outside we're not really breakin any laws ^_^
mustanghull
12-21-04, 11:26 PM
This sounds so awesome. I really wouldn't know how to pull it off though. I know that there are places that create viniyl signs for cars and stuff. The place I went to in my twon custom designed me a running horse to go on the back window of my Mustang. Perhaps check a place that makes the Viniyl signs for your high school.. You know the ones that say your name, your school, and an activity like football or band.
Captain Slug
12-22-04, 12:24 AM
We talked over IM and to print a decal or banner that size would run well over $8,000.
I accidentally came upon a ghetto solution. Print dots.
You can turn an image into a scaled newspaper print dot image using this weird online program called rasterbator (http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/)
This would save alot of cost in printing, or you could do what inspired me to think of this.
Masking tape discs can be purchased from www.mcmaster.com in rolls of 2500 for $10 in various sizes. These could be applied systematically based to whatever material is decided up based on the rasterbator template. The masking dots themselves could act as the print dots. Or you could use them as a basis for painting the material. This would eliminate print costs entirely, allowing you to be pickier about what material is used.
seadave77
12-22-04, 02:05 PM
Well I want to see a mugshot or a newspaper article about how great this prank was. When is the day anyway?
well I still gotta pull a few strings to get it workin, but I'm sure I'll have this thread deleted a month before it happens 'n anything will be posted in GD so a simple google search dosn't turn me in :p
Sounds really good.
In Denmark we dont have those senior-pranks. But kinda funny to here about them.
It seems the more sophisticated and less damaging are the best ones. What would those stickers say or show?
nealric
12-22-04, 06:03 PM
sure you are not breaking any laws rapelling down the building?
At my school (colorado college) it is an $80 fine (we have lots of rock climbers who have tried it)
If you are, its not rocket science- you could teach your buddies. You can add a prusik knot backup if you are worried about it.
I'm not worried about the repelling, it's just to do it we'd need to be on the roof, 'n thats breaking and entering(we're gunna hafta do this around 4am) anyway, we've devised a system that will hopefully work using ground based rollers on telesoping arms. it should work...hopefull ^_^ just gotta still work on the vinyl pictures 'n all
buckbadly
12-23-04, 08:26 PM
This sounds like its gonna be awesome...hope to see some exposure on it. When I was a senior, our football team took the principals car(one of those late model novas, the small ones) and maneavured(sp?) it sideways in his parking spot, so it was setting perpindicular to the cars on each side of his :p . One being a van used for transporting the band to games and such, took a while to get the keys to move it...not sure whos car was on the other side. The look on his face was priceless :beer:
AMD Extream
12-23-04, 08:36 PM
if i did i senior prank over at my school they wouldn't allow the senior class to graduate, cause a couple years ago seniors cut off a bunch of chicken heads and let the bodies run loose in the court yard.
NASTY AIN'T IT!!!???
dude i got it, use shoe polish!!!!!!!
Nightingale
12-25-04, 01:52 AM
Couldn't you drop down a role of opaque material for a backdrop and use one of those holiday projectors and make a custom slide out of overhead printer paper for it to project your image onto your make shift screen? Something like this would take all of about 10 minutes to setup if you were quick enough.
Restorer
12-25-04, 02:15 AM
Couldn't you drop down a role of opaque material for a backdrop and use one of those holiday projectors and make a custom slide out of overhead printer paper for it to project your image onto your make shift screen? Something like this would take all of about 10 minutes to setup if you were quick enough.
It would also take all of 2 minutes for an unhappy administrator to take the picture down. The point of a great senior prank like this is to have the administrators standing outside the school, looking at the result, and scratching their heads wondering how to take it down, while all the students point and laugh. Think of the classic MIT car-on-a-roof hack.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that the spirit of a good senior prank is also that it causes no damage at all. You're supposed to give the administrators no reason to pursure you legally or monetarily. It should be a prank, not vandalism.
threeme2189
12-26-04, 10:32 AM
dude i got it, use shoe polish!!!!!!!
^^ thats a pretty good idea if you just want to write somthing on the windows...
buy a few buckets and use big paint brushes for easy aplication (lol) :beer: :beer: :beer:
btw what exactly do you want to put on the building?
"You would need about 37 packs of the inkjet vinyl cling to cover one story which equals $370."
Yeah and about $5000 worth of ink jet cartridges!
No matter how you print anything of that size it's going to cost bigtime. While I realize that "realistic" is a term seldom brought up when discussing cool pranks to pull on people, realistically is it worth it?
grimm003
12-26-04, 12:49 PM
I think the shoe polish might be a good way, depending on what you want on it. Seeing how u don't want it obseen, prolly a simplish cartoon drawing or something(or you can make it into a cartoon like drawing). Modify those telescoping arms to have paint brushes. As long as you know how to color a coloring book, it should be noticeable of the picture your trying to achieve.
gvblake22
12-26-04, 01:31 PM
btw what exactly do you want to put on the building?
Yeah, I wanna know too!!! :bday:
threeme2189
12-27-04, 05:30 AM
i think shoe polish and tooth paste is the way to go!!!!!
Senior Pranks at my school are either really lame or so overboard that people get arrested. One dude put super glue in all the door locks the night before the last day of school. He also caulked them together. He ended up getting caught and spending almost 3 grand having to pay the school back for everything.
LOL one of my friends did this exact same thing. I don't think he ever got caught.
Think of the classic MIT car-on-a-roof hack.
Fill me in on this one.
man_utd
12-31-04, 12:58 AM
This one is my personal favorite:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/pranks/rosebowl.html
xangelofdeathx
01-10-05, 09:32 PM
Hahaha, thats a good prank. People at my school pured beach sand and water in the gym. There was also a school that grabed farm animals and let them all loose in teh school along with setting up tp's outside and makign bon fires. Usually people also get arrested where i live.
It_The_Cow
01-10-05, 09:38 PM
Hahaha, thats a good prank. People at my school pured beach sand and water in the gym. There was also a school that grabed farm animals and let them all loose in teh school along with setting up tp's outside and makign bon fires. Usually people also get arrested where i live.I wonder why? The purpose of a senior prank is to make people laugh while not causing any damage. Once that happens, it becomes vandalism.
threeme2189
01-10-05, 11:55 PM
dont ask what went on in my school a few years ago...
Aphex_Tom_9
01-11-05, 12:01 AM
dont ask what went on in my school a few years ago...
so, what happened in your school a few years ago?
mbentley
01-11-05, 12:03 AM
one major problem with static clings is that it is next to impossible to get them looking right. you see those static cling signs hanging in the windows at mcdonald's? those are pain to put up... and when you remove them from the window, you get one hell oif a shock.... i can't imagine what a huge static cling would do... who knows... could be deadly...
subtotal
01-11-05, 03:02 AM
my dad told me when he was a kid they walled off all of the doors to one of the buildings with cinder-blocks
ghettocomp
01-11-05, 03:30 AM
dont ask what went on in my school a few years ago...
SOoo...... what was it?
ghettocomp
01-11-05, 04:25 AM
To pull off what you are thinking, the cheapest and quickest, easiest way would be to literally unroll your image.
Now what I am saying is this: large roll of something like the plastic painters use to cover floors and furniture.
lots of construction paper in a suitably constrasting color, opposite the main color of the windows.
double sided tape.
rasterbator image of appropriate size or just cut the construction paper by hand, rasterbator style ;)
unroll the plastic film in sections and begin to apply the "dots" to the plastic film using the masking tape or double sided tape to achieve the image or word you want to display.
begin rolling each section up and apply the tape to the other side of the paper to stick to the windows.
there may be some testing as to which brand will release the plastic and restick to the glass as it unrolls down the side of the building.
-or-
much the same thing: except, just apply sticky tape to the back side of the plastic, image taped (or even cheaper) painted to the front side.
either way, you have your big banner, but it is a lot harder to remove.
The first way could be harder to execute. since someone may need to actually press the paper/tape to the windows somehow.
however, if someone tries to remove the plastic banner, the paper and tape will tend to stay, again test the tape brands on that plastic film you use, some can act different
the second method is somewhat frustrating since they cant cut or just pull the banner down, it is completely taped to the building
hope this is clear enough..
as far as cost, it should be a lot cheaper and safer than window clings and having to rappel down glass to apply those.
gvblake22
01-11-05, 06:21 AM
one major problem with static clings is that it is next to impossible to get them looking right. you see those static cling signs hanging in the windows at mcdonald's? those are pain to put up... and when you remove them from the window, you get one hell oif a shock.... i can't imagine what a huge static cling would do... who knows... could be deadly...
LOL, wow, never really thought about that... :eek:
When I was in high school I used to **** off my computer 'teacher' by photoshoping embarassing images of him and replacing the startup screen with them. When the school switched to XP, I found a lonely NT box in the science lab just begging to have the passwords taken. I soon found that the passwords hadn't been changed in years. Armed with the temp user password, I was free to hide a program in a few of the computers that would open solitare at random intervals of five minutes. As useless as this sounds, I'm sure it sucked for other students when they got detention for playing solitare in class. I once broadcast a message to the entire school via net send. I don't remember what it said, but I remember getting caught. Being the teachers pet that I was, I never got in any trouble for any of it.
gvblake22
01-18-05, 06:32 PM
LOL, thats some creative programming:)
Updates on how the prank planning is going??????? :eh?:
I once broadcast a message to the entire school via net send. I don't remember what it said, but I remember getting caught. Being the teachers pet that I was, I never got in any trouble for any of it.
I use net send all the time at my school. the admin took out run in the start menu, disabled dos, and tried to restrict browsing files in a window, but that didnt work. :D found my way to system32 and a task manager that just happened to be able to have a run function in it :clap: End of the year, grade 9, broadcasted a "Happy end of the year! Now let's all go out and get trashed!" message to every computer in the schoolboard because all the catholic schools connect to the board office via proxy server and get their internet service from the board office. not actually at the school.. so this affords me interesting opertunities such as printing random things and pictures to various network printers at different schools. :beer: :cool:
When I was in junior high, my school had just gotten a set of shiny new mac's. I switched the home page from the schools ISP page to my own little website. I got caught, they suspended me from using the computers for the rest of the year. Luckily it was around april and after that year I was going to be a HS freshmen, so it wasn't that bad.
ghettocomp
01-19-05, 12:16 PM
When I was in high school I used to **** off my computer 'teacher' by photoshoping embarassing images of him and replacing the startup screen with them. When the school switched to XP, I found a lonely NT box in the science lab just begging to have the passwords taken. I soon found that the passwords hadn't been changed in years. Armed with the temp user password, I was free to hide a program in a few of the computers that would open solitare at random intervals of five minutes. As useless as this sounds, I'm sure it sucked for other students when they got detention for playing solitare in class. I once broadcast a message to the entire school via net send. I don't remember what it said, but I remember getting caught. Being the teachers pet that I was, I never got in any trouble for any of it.
some of the same here, but they eventually they started unplugging network connectons to the rest of the school, in each classroom I was scheduled to be in :rolleyes: not that they caught me, but there were suspicions...
LOL, thats some creative programming:)Updates on how the prank planning is going??????? :eh?:
yea!.. how is the planning/prank going MLMIB?
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