Vandals glue doors shut at (Jacksonville) high school

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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.

[joesnuffy]

start checkin little paws for superglue they had to spill some to do that many
Check the hardware stores for large purchases of superglue

[Newbomb Turk]

Close call for some kids who were just screwing around and didn't think of the distruction they might cause.

I bet most people have done something like this which might have had unintended consequences.
God knows I did.

[warchild9]

We had an obnoxious biology teacher whose chair and desk ended up suspended five feet in the air, duct-taped to the water pipes which hung from the ceiling. That's as far as we went. A few years after I graduated, one of his classes got out of hand, and some "youths" carried him outside and piled him head-down in a dumpster. Today's young are not only brutal, but they lack subtlety.

[TankerKC]

Of course, with a "cute" little prank like that you are taking a chance at having your a$$ beat. :-(

[thatsnotnice]

…doors to their classrooms were found super-glued shut.

In my experience, super-glue (QuickGel, Krazy Glue, etc) isn’t the best thing in the world to use. Unless it’s double-bitted the pins are in the top of the lock and you can’t do much more than temporarily foul them up. (IOW, the pins aren’t glued into the cylinder – the bottom of the lower pins are fouled up in the plug.) You can often get a key blank and smack it in with a small ball peen hammer and break them loose.

They used to have some JB Weld-type two part epoxy that came in a double syringe dispenser. That sort of thing would be bad news and would require changing a bunch of locks. But super glue is light and runny and I can’t see how it’d require anything more than changing pins/springs at most - and probably nothing more than breaking things loose with a blank.

Then again, with labor prices it might just be cheaper to replace them. Sort of like how it’s cheaper to just replace a starter rather than farting around and replacing brushes/bearings, etc.

[Illbay]

HaHa.

Then, of course, you offered to pay for cleaning the interior of the guy's car (probably a couple of hundred bucks) or to buy him a new car.

Right?

[photogirl]

Okay, you caught me, but my computer made me do it.:)

[graycamel]

Glue them to the jail

[Illbay]

Oh, I have to. I thought it was "really funny" at the time, but fortunately our school administrators were diligent in their desire to teach us by holding us accountable.

I had to pay, monetarily and in terms of service to the school, for my little prank.

And my parents punished me too.

That's the way it was "back in my day."

[adx]

True, but they gotta know whodunit first. :-)

[Charles Martel]

I remember when someone flushed a seal bomb (a cherry bomb-like device used by lifeguards to scare seals off of beaches) down the toilet in the nurse's office.

It went high-order right next to the principal's private toilet, while he was sitting on it.

I thought this sounded familiar...

******************

Recess. Principal Skinner patrols the schoolyard, accompanied by his mother.
Bart shows the explosive to his pals, who ask him what he's going to do with it. Before he can answer, Principal Skinner arrives, and the foursome (Bart, Milhouse, Lewis and Richard) quickly line up and greet Principal Skinner in unison. Mrs. Skinner asks Spanky to introduce the boys, and he does so.

Mrs. Skinner: This is the Bart Simpson you're always talking about?
Pr. Skinner: Mm hm.
Mrs. Skinner: Why, he looks so sweet!
Bart: I am, ma'am.

Moments later, in the boys' room...

Milhouse: You going to flush it? [a cherry bomb]
Bart: What can I say? I got a weakness for the classics.

Mrs. Skinner pays a visit to the little girls' room (right next door) just as Bart flushes the cherry bomb. Obvious consequences ensue.

**************************

Like Bart, I, too have a weakness for the classics. And the tinnitus to match.

[tacticalogic]

I think it totalled the car. It was all up into the ventwork and wiring behind the dash. The entire interior would have to be disassembled, and all of the upholstery replaced.

[discostu]

Amateurs. You don't superglu the locks (which can be easily cleaned with nail polish remover, superglu really isn't that cool)) you E6000 the actual doors to the frame. If you're really good you do both sides the latch and hinge side of the door.

[Poohbah]

And just how do you know this? :o)

[Illbay]

Uh-huh.

And this was "funny" exactly how?

[Poohbah]

Yup.

Dry ice down the toilet is another classic :o)

[ironman]

The prank I remember from my high school was putting a bunch of sheep and goats in the court yard. It was hilarious seeing people try and round them up.

[adx]

The prank I remember from my high school was putting a bunch of sheep and goats in the court yard. It was hilarious seeing people try and round them up.

Wouldn't have gotten much response at my HS (the one I graduated from), seeing as how they have a big Ag Studies program. Polk County, ya know.

[Conservative4Ever]

Whoa.......after reading all the above posts.....I realize to my sorrow....so much I have missed :)

Red

[Poohbah]

The ones who are losers do **** like this.

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

Actually, some of the losers who do **** like this join the Marine Corps and become 0311s--infantry riflemen.

They're usually the ones you want to stick in a big box marked "IN CASE OF WAR BREAK GLASS," because they will make it their jihad to not only kill the enemy, but to **** with his head so that he is left in a state of helpless inability to do anything prior to the Marines delivering the Wrath of Jehovah upon him.

The problem is that in peacetime, they'll ply their humor on such humorless folks as the regimental Sergeant Major or the Division Chief of Staff.