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Bensalem High School students sell high school on Craigslist as part of "Senior Prank"

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Students Sell High School On Craigslist
Mike Berman

Senior Pranks have been traditions throughout America's high schools for a long time. They usually include covering cars with plastic wrap, water balloon and water gun fights, releasing animals in the school, dropping 1000s of little bouncy balls across the hallway, and even covering a school in police tape. Students at Bensalem High School took it to another level. They published the Bensalem Township School District Senior High School for sale on Craigslist for $2,016.

The students advertise the school as having a gym, cafeteria, library, cockroaches, asbestos, and no ceilings. They also included celebrity appearances from CNN's Anderson Cooper. The advertisement also uses the school's contact information as well. A clever prank was successfully pulled off by the Graduating Class of 2016. At this time, the students will not face any disciplinary actions.

The advertisement on Craigslist has even affected some of the speeches at the Commencement Ceremony at Bensalem High School Owls Memorial Stadium.

The students have made prior attempts to perform other prank options such as covering the school in plastic wrap, using police tape to lock down the school, and other various pranks. However, there was security watching over the school overnight which quickly shut down all of their attempted pranks.

Their big prank was to dance to the running man after senior Marah Sakkal finished her speech on using our abilities as the Class of 2016 to help make the world a better place to live. The idea was quickly shut down by Bensalem High School principal Bill Ferrera.

The senior prank of Pennridge High School has kept other schools on edge after students of PHS took their Ram statute and put it in a pond. Students of Pennridge have not faced any disciplinary action.

Previous senior pranks at Bensalem High School include covering all of the trees and foliage with toilet paper, having a party in a main hallway, releasing a large number of balloons in the hallway, covering the TV studio in VHS cassette tape, and covering an office in crime scene tape.

Seniors even hosted a "Slip N' Slide" party in the school parking lot and got help from a local fire company to supply the water. Students had several water slides and mini pools set up in the parking lot. With help from the fire company, it turned out to be a successful prank as well.

The senior pranks always get harder to pull off every year knowing that security is heightened, teachers and administrators remain vigilant, as well as how difficult it is to come up with an original prank every year.


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