Vandals glue doors shut at (Jacksonville) high school

First Coast News - WJXX/WTLV Jacksonville ^ | 4.22.03

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Vandals glue doors shut at high school

Vandals sealed the doors at First Coast High

The vandals sealed 120 doors

Locksmiths are working to replace the locks

 

JACKSONVILLE, FL - Students at First Coast High found themselves attending classes in the schools auditorium Tuesday after the doors to their classrooms were found super-glued shut.

School officials discovered the sealed locks at around 6am and also found more damage including walls covered in graffiti. Locksmiths are now at the school working to replace the glued locks with new ones. Officials say that thousands of dollars will have to be spent to repair the locks and repaint walls at the school.

Authorities say that the school was empty from 6pm to 6am when the vandalism was discovered. According to one official, "More than 120 doors were glued. They [the vandals] not only did the classroom doors, of which there are at least 85, but they did every door in the building."

School officials say they hope that whoever is responsible for the damage will brag to their friends with word eventually getting to them so they can apprehend the vandals.

[GovernmentShrinker]

What's really unfunny is the malicious injury and destruction of young minds that goes on in public school classrooms. I wouldn't mind if they glued them shut all across the country.

[Trust but Verify]

120 doors? Sounds like more than a prank to me. Was some one trying to create a fire trap?

How do you create a fire trap if you can't get IN the room? Not being able to escape a room, I can see, but being locked out is just, well.....

[apillar]

I remember when I was in high school some kid saw the chemistry teacher give a demonstration how potassium would react/ignite/spark if a small sliver was dropped in water. Well the "genius" snuck in during lunch and took several pounds of potassium out of the chem lab intending to flush it down the toilet. What he failed to realize is that the potassium would explode as soon as it hit the water and he wouldn't have time to flush it. He managed to blow the toilet up and was taken to the hospital with minor injuries from the "shrapnel".

[The Black Knight]

I guarantee you that I know where the vandals got this idea. Not a week ago, MTV showed a program about ultimate pranks. The prank was superglueing the doors, then releasing a couple million bees.

These idiots didn't get the bees, but I bet my next paycheck that these idiots saw that on MTV, and said, "hold my cool-aid and watch this".

P.S. My girlfriend is still in high school, so she watches MTV all the time. I WAS NOT WATCHING THE CRAP! I was writing a paper for my POLSCI instructor! I didn't have sex with that woman! What is the definition of is?

[Petronski]

Topping the list of suspects: locksmiths.

[Search4Truth]

"How do you create a fire trap if you can't get IN the room? Not being able to escape a room, I can see, but being locked out is just, well..... "

That occured to me. But why sabotage the locks on 120 doors? I can understand a few, like Social Studies class :).

[myprecious]

then I probably shouldn't tell you about the incident with the exploding portable toilet!

I went to a small airshow near Dallas years ago. A great, big Huey came in for a demonstration. A Port-a-potty caught the backwash and tumbled end over end across the field. Poor fellow inside......

(Not actually a prank, but same level of humor.)

[js1138]

Was some one trying to create a fire trap?

I guess I shouldn't mention what can be done with half a dozen penneys to a dormatory door having a dead-bolt lock, or that four people can do it to a whole floor in twenty minutes.

[photogirl]

I just saw this prank on MTV this past weekend. Only those kids put 80,000 live bees in the hallways and caulked the hives to the floor and also super glued over 100 doors shut. They turned themselves in when one of the kids’ mother realized her bees were missing. I’m guessing these kids are just copying the MTV stunt.

[photogirl]

I just saw this prank on MTV this past weekend. Only those kids put 80,000 live bees in the hallways and caulked the hives to the floor and also super glued over 100 doors shut. They turned themselves in when one of the kids’ mother realized her bees were missing. I’m guessing these kids are just copying the MTV stunt.

[photogirl]

I just saw this prank on MTV this past weekend. Only those kids put 80,000 live bees in the hallways and caulked the hives to the floor and also super glued over 100 doors shut. They turned themselves in when one of the kids’ mother realized her bees were missing. I’m guessing these kids are just copying the MTV stunt.

[Chi-townChief]

I'm a little ashamed to admit it but I kind of like this one. I'm sure that if I was still 14 or 15, I'd say something like, "That's pretty cool, mannnnnnnnnnnn!"

[photogirl]

Soory, didn't mean to studder, computer froze up.

[Chi-townChief]

I thought maybe you were pulling a prank on us.

[hchutch]

As things go, this is pretty harmless.

[trebb]

The winners join the U.S. Marines, Air Force, Navy or Army.

Makes me feel better - I decided to join the Air Force in '74, because I didn't "know what I wanted to be" and ended up staying for 24 years.

[Orangedog]

A Port-a-potty caught the backwash and tumbled end over end across the field. Poor fellow inside......

He got off lite. About 5 years ago there was a port-a-potty accident at one of the facilities my department was putting together. The office park wasn't quite completed, so there were no suite numbers on the office buildings. An 18 wheeler stopped to drop off some equipment and had to go inside one of the offices to get directions. The driver didn't put his parking brake on correctly and while he was inside, the truck rolled backward, knocked over and then rolled over part of a port-a-potty...with somebody still in it. He lived, but spent a couple days in the hospital. Getting run over by a tractor-trailer is bad enough, but in the process to end up covered in everyone elses...well, you get the picture.

[tacticalogic]

Worst prank I ever heard of was taking cans of "Great Stuff" foam and freezing them in liquid nitrogen. The cans were then cut open and the solid slugs of frozen foam were dumped out and tossed into a car. Roll up windows, lock doors, wait.

[TankerKC]

Was some one trying to create a fire trap?

Well, since they lock folks out, not in...

[Charles Martel]

Woah! That beats the old "Limburger cheese on the exhaust manifold" stunt by a mile! Truly the work of an evil genius.