High jinks
A mate of mine went to a posh public school. Apparently there is a tradition there to play tricks on the new kids - what the Merkins call "hazing", I believe.

His particular ordeal was a corker: they grabbed him, rolled him in a blanket, kicked the shit out of him for a while, then carried him, still wrapped, to the top of a high staircase. They balanced him precariously on the edge, told him exactly where he was - over a sheer drop to stone stairs about 10 or 15 metres below - then pushed him off.

Or rather, they ran around for a while, then balanced him on the end of a bed, before making him *think* he was at the top of the stairs. So, for the split second between being pushed off the bed and hitting the ground about a metre below, he really thought he was plummeting to a violent, bone shattering end.

A year or so later he did the same thing to someone else. Which just goes to show, really.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 16:33, 1 reply)

Yes!
We used to do a similar thing, only we put the victim in a wardrobe/locker thing. The staircase was three tall floors up! One bloke flipped out and punched through the wardrobe door. Ah, school. Good times.
(SigourneysBeaver took off and nuked the entire site from orbit on, Fri 19 Jul 2013, 9:30, closed)