Senior pranks are often celebrated as a fun way for teenagers to release some harmless steam. They will blow up hundreds of balloons and fill the hallways with them or tie some cans and a "Just Married" sign to the cars of two infamous teachers. My high school was extremely against senior pranks of any kind. It didn't matter if it was as harmless as a school-wide whoopie cushion incident; If you were responsible for a Senior prank, you weren't allowed to walk across the stage and accept your diploma at graduation. As a class-clown type, I found this utterly repulsive. Why must pranks, which are harmless and fun by nature, be punished so severely? However, after growing up a little and reading about the incident in this story, I now understand this policy. Just because a prank isn't harmful intentionally doesn't mean it can't hurt people and damage property.