5 Kids Movie Pranks That Went Way Too Far Laura Donovan
Freshman year of high school, a police officer pounded on my
door after midnight, waking my parents and sending my sleepover
friends into a panic. For months, my best buddies and I had been
tormenting a rude neighbor named Gabe during sleepovers at my
house, and though we only intended to pull pranks on him until
he came outside and yelled at us in his boxers, one night he
decided to call the cops rather than tell us to shut up.  We
didn’t just “ding dong ditch” Gabe, either. The three of us
rubbed lotion all over his doorknob, did cartwheels on his lawn,
stuck paper up his tailpipe, threw tennis balls on his garage
door, and sang American Idol hits on his driveway. Though I
still think he needed to lighten up as a person, my friends and
I went way too far with “get back at Gabe”-driven sleepovers.
You could say we were just bored, no-good teenagers, and while
that would be true, we didn’t come up with our mean-spirited
ideas alone. We learned from the