Outhouse Banditos
I spent most of one summer during my high school years visiting a buddy named Keith in Arkansas in the hills near Little Rock. We stayed on his grandparents farm and helped work the fields for a $1.00 an hour plus room and board. We also helped out part-time at his fathers new Suzuki motorcycle shop, meaning we got to ride lots of cool motorcycles and we also did a lot of motocross racing every chance we got. We even got to help build a motocross track that his father’s shop sponsored with races every other weekend. We also had an incredible amount of fun cruising around, getting drunk, taking double dates to the drive-in and other assorted mayhem.
The area was extremely rural and many farmhouses still didn’t have full indoor plumbing, meaning they had an outhouse somewhere in the backyard. Keith had a couple of friends that often hung out with us and one day one of them got the bright idea to “steal” someones outhouse that belonged to someone they didn’t like.
We were drunk and of course anything like that is going to sound like a good idea to a bunch of high school kids. So the next night we loaded up in Keith’s van and went out to this person’s house late in the evening and snuck around back to where the outhouse was. Now, for those that don’t know exactly how an outhouse works, basically all it is is a small shed with a shelf with a big hole in it that you sit over and directly below the seat area there is a hole or small pit dug in the ground to hold the waste. Very simple really and usually the shed itself is not permanently attached to the ground to make it easier to move it to different locations around the backyard when the pit gets full. Once it’s full the pit can be covered with dirt and the waste is allowed to decompose back into the soil.
When we “stole” an outhouse we really didn’t take it far, all we did was pick it up and move it back about 5 or 6 feet, exposing the pit which is now directly in front of the door. The idea was that anyone coming out to use it in the dark would step into the pit! I have to admit that we thought this was absolutely the best prank ever, we really laughed our asses off hoping someone would fall for it. Of course we had so much fun with this that we had to do it again and again and we actually made the local town’s newspaper.
Outhouse Bandits Strike Again!
was on the front page with a warning to bring a lantern with you if you went out at night. I think we did it about 5 time overall.
What was the best prank you ever pulled?
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I’ve never done anything THAT severely good…
…I’ll ahve to think…when i stop laughing!
Nothing that good!! That rocks! Oh, I finally got a few pics back from my trip to NOLA. I’ll try to send those along to your e-mail soon.
I would not have been able to help move it because as easy as I laugh I would have been hysterical even before we got to the location to play the prank.
That is funny shit…
Se7en you bad, bad boy
I’ll have to think about my best prank and get back to ya…
I never do pranks. I do find them funny though.
Kool Aid in my college roommates shower head. She was pink for a week!
ROFLAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve played a lot of pranks, but I think you have beat me on this one. I’m cracking up here!!!
Have a fabulous weekend. *hugs*
THat’s awesome. I had a penchant for stealing road signs - the kind the indicate a sharp turn that you can’t see coming. Evil - I know.
To this day I hit the brakes every time a hill or a curve limits my field of vision on rural roads. It drives my husband nuts. I try to explain that I’m destined to come across a 15 mph hairpin curve without proper signage, but he still thinks I’m nuts.
To remedy the situation, he drives and I get drunk and close my eyes!
Back in my hockey playing days some team mates and I headed out for a few “pops” after one of our games. On the way home, (I lived in Montreal, Quebec at the time) we were walking by the local newspapers building. A courier stopped by to make a drop off leaving his little car sitting there idling. Well as brazen as we were, primed by our alcohol level, we proceeded to roll the car until we got it on its hood. We squared it up nice and neat then waited across the street. The guy was beside himself with anger when he came out of the building. To this day it still makes me laugh.
I don’t think I was ever a prankster kinda girl. Although I DO remember making mud pies for my sister to eat. Yes, as in actually putting them in her mouth, swallowing, and then saying, “Mmmmmm!”, as was her proper little sister duty.
I’m not telling. I don’t know how far the statute of limitations runs on putting a horse in my high school.
Seven, I just KNEW you were a bad boy! Just had to wait until you admitted it.
I don’t do pranks because I know I would get caught. I’m a horrible liar. And, I hate the smell of poo.
I had a t-shirt a friend of mine hated, and happened to be wearing it when he asked me to bring him cold medicine. Instead of just putting another shirt on, I put a really tight shirt under it.
When I got to the friend’s house, predictably, he bitched and I said, “What, I’m supposed to just take it off?”
The dumbass said yes, so I whipped the shirt off over my head in front of a roomful of people, including a sixteen year old boy.
The worst part was seeing that kid’s eyes light up, then fade when he realized he wasn’t going to get to look at my boobies.
I’m with Gene; there’s a statue of limitations ya know..
LOVE the outhouse tale, glad ya blogged it for all.. tho now that you’ve had some Tex(New)Mex experience, I woulda titled it ‘Banditos de Los Banos” hehe
Big hugs, handsum…
LMAO!!!! Too funny!!!!!! You were a hellion:)
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You potty pranksters! I would hate to step in that hole. Ewww. But hey, you made the newspaper. What is it they say? Any publicity is good publicity. Even if it’s bad publicity. Or something like that, I’m sure I really butchered up that quote
OH and p.s., Seven, thanks for my Gravatar! You’re too cool!
That’s a good one! Did you ever hear if anyone actually stepped/fell into the hole? Yukkkyyyy…
outhouse bandits….lol! that is definitely a good prank!
I’ve never been much of a prankster myself. I prefer to sit back and watch other people get themselves into trouble.