To some they are myths to others they are legends, but to all one thing remains the same, the basic concept of a senior prank. Senior pranks have been pulled for years and it is typically when a senior class pulls a practical joke usually on the whole school.

Some students find senior pranks not troublesome at all, but quite humorous.

“I think that it’s really funny when students pull senior pranks,” senior Lindsay Spence said. “They’re awesome!”

Senior Laurel Battle shares the same opinion as Spence.

“I think students who pull senior pranks are really cool, they’ll get really far in life,” she said. “Really, their legacy will live on.”

To some, some pranks are better than other ones.

“A couple of years ago the seniors stood on Manion St. and threw water balloons at passing cars,” senior Morgan Gibbs said. “That was pretty lame.”

On MTV a show aired that featured high school pranks.

“The pranks that seniors pulled on MTV were so funny,” senior Matt Coker said. “There were some students that super glued all the keyholes in the school so they couldn’t open. Then, they put beehives in the halls so when all the administrators walked in they couldn’t escape from the bees and get into any other rooms. That was funny, but in reality they ended up not being able to walk at graduation.”

Last year a senior prank was pulled at West Brook involving students placing Bruiser on top of the band hall. When caught, all students involved were sent to Pathways.

“I don’t think that punishment was very fair,” senior Alex Owens said. “To a certain extent some punishment should have been taken, but it didn’t hare anyone, and it really messed up graduation for those boys.”

Some feel that the punishment should be served as to the severity of the prank.

“It depends on how bad it is,” Spence said. “Last year it wasn’t really fair I thought because no one got hurt.”

Administrators are responsible in some part for students’ actions at school regarding senior pranks.

“Yes the senior prank pulled last year was somewhat funny but in all reality someone really could have gotten hurt,” assistant principal Nancy Flores said. “It wasn’t even them necessarily breaking a lock to get to the bear, but if the bear were to fall on them while putting it on the band hall, it could have seriously injured someone, and that is never a good thing.”

Senior principal Paul Shipman agrees with Flores about last years pranks, and pranks in general.

“If no one is hurt, no real damage is done, and its good clean fun then its not really a problem,” he said. “Its when students cross the line and something gets hurt does it create a problem and last year they did do some damage.

Some harmless pranks though are laughed about with administrators.

“One year seniors put a bunch of pink flamingos in the front yard. That was funny and harmless, they just had to pick them back up,” Flores said. “Another year students put real estate signs from all over Beaumont in the front yard. That would have been harmless bit it really upset some real state agents and the students had to take all the signs, sort them out, and then go put them back in every single yard.”

Shipman remembers a prank from his high school years.

“When I was in high school, and I was not part of this, the seniors shoe polished windows and put garbage can lids on a light pole, it was really funny.”