craziest thing you ever done at camp

[coach1974]

I was curious as to what was some of the craziest things you all have done at camp. One night when I was a counselor and not a man in a position. My camp is on a working cattle farm, so about 3 in the morning we went looking for fresh cow poop for a prank. and one time on a saturday in between weeks some had an idea to streak around the camp at 2 or 3 something in the morning and we took off from there. I in a director like position now, but I think of my young good ol' days.

[Smudge]

Last year we filled the CDs yurt with over 400 balloons and in 04 we set up a shower stall in the entrance of the program managers cabin.

[KiwiCRB]

Haha this action itself isn't really that crazy but the results of it kind of were.

One night me and my co (who has also been my best friend for years) had all of our girls asleep (they were older so that makes this next part less bad) and we couldn't sleep so we decided to go play a prank.

Almost all of the other counselors were in one cabin together so they were our obvious target. We weren't very creative, all we did was go duck behind the cabin and knock on their windows and then again like 2 minutes later. Then we went back to our cabin and went to sleep.

The next morning those counselors were in an uproar over the "violent knocking" that had occurred on their window the night before. Apparently they were pretty scared and missed out on a lot of sleep because of it. We left footprints so they were checking everyone's shoes to see who was a match. Luckily, I was wearing my shower shoes when I went over there so they didn't catch on.

This went on for a week but we finally told the camp directors it was us and they told everyone else at the staff meeting at the end of the week. Haha they were not happy.

But that started prank wars 2006 so it ended up being a lot of fun. Who'd of thought a couple knocks on a window could do all that?

[Smudge]

You know the best thing about the shower prank was that no body ever believed that it was me - cos I tend to be a rules person rather than a prankster!

[Flower]

For Breakout for color war one year a bunch of us painted ourselves with red paint and glue so it would look like stuff was peeling off. We hid in the water for at least ten minutes cowering behind a sail boat waiting for the bell to ring and start break out. It wouldn't have been so crazy except that the lake was /incredibly/ cold. It was 65 degrees outside at the most.

[laurathistle]

This isn't that crazy but what happened kinda was.

In the lake at my camp has a small island that has a lot of hidden rocks in front of it. For years and years kids have been told that Killer Penguins live on it and this deters the younger ones from going too close to it when canoeing.

A giant game of who done it? was set up around camp, and the 'thing' that was supposed to have been 'done' was the kidnapping of a young penguin.

So as the game progressed it transpired that it was me and my co-reading teacher who kidnapped the penguin and taught him how to dance the Cha Cha slide.
So it was all fun and we were revealed as he kidnappers.

Except a lot of the younger kids took it all very seriously. The next day kids were yelling at us, one kid ran away from me and another (age 7) attempted to beat me up! It was insane. In the end we had to stand up at dinner and apologise to the penguins and the camp! It was nuts.

[Giggles]

hahahaha!! These are amazing, but especially the penguin one!!

So, sometimes there is steam that comes off of the water, usually from under the dock (I think this is because of the cold outside), and usually in the morning for polar bear swim. Well, the kdis never really want to get into the water for polar bear swim. At one point (years ago, before I was a camper I think!) they started saying that there were heaters under the docks to warm up the water. Well, this still occurs today. The older ones don't believe it usually, but I have gotten a few campers, up to 6th grade age, ask me if the heaters were on! haha it is amaizng because they do it even when there isn't steam! It just makes me laugh at how old you can be and still believe that there are heaters under water. The little ones believe anything- like fairies and such- so it isn't as comical then!