Do Kids TP Houses Much Where You Live?

[Luv Bunnies]

My DH and were just talking about this today since our neighbors got their house TP'd once again last night. I did my share of tossing toilet paper around other people's yards when I was in high school (OK, it was in the 80s!). It was a fairly popular activity back then. In the past 10 years or so, I haven't seen any houses get TP'd except for our neighbors. They do have two very cute, very popular teenaged daughters and their friends seem to be very into the whole TP thing.

Toilet paper in the trees and bushes is pretty harmless (unless it rains or the sprinklers come on). Once they did chalk on the driveway. But last night, I think they went too far and our neighbor wasn't happy. They stuck Oreos on their front door that had just been painted the day before. They also stuck Oreos on the garage door and white fence. They scattered cereal all over the lawn which is impossible to clean up. The Oreos left grease marks on the painted surfaces that our neighbor was trying to clean off.

Does this happen much where you live? I really thought toilet papering houses was a thing of the past until the girls started high school. I hope that's not what we have to look forward to with our boys!

 

[snarlingcoyote]

There's a older couple a three streets down from us who've gotten TP'd at least twice in the three years we've been in our neighborhood. They're teachers (institutions really) at the local high school and are apparently much beloved by their students. Somehow, I think the couple would prefer a nice card of appreciation or maybe a small token of esteem, like mugs that say "World's Greatest Teacher", but they take the whole thing with good grace and good humour. It's always JUST white TP that takes a few hours to take down though, nothing destructive.

I suspect the kids didn't realize what kind of damage they were doing, but there are reasons you stick to plain jane TP!

 

[katiebug86]

My sisters house got egged a few days ago. Ugh. That was a mess. We were at her house at the time watching movies and stuff. When we went to leave late that night all the cars were egged as well has the house. She just moved in a few weeks ago .. I don't think it was anyone she knew.

 

[Bareacuda]

Yup... still around here they do.

Mostly at the high school. It looks cool when you spray down the cactus. It
so hard to get out of those long needles.
It looks like a 10' sore thumb all bandaged up

 

[usnuzuloose]

I have alot of stories about t.p. I did it with my kids and there friends and I only allowed tp nothing more. I think now and I still

 

[NMAmy]

It was a common occurance when I was a teenager and we all did it a lot. DD's and her friends did it, as well, and dd's 19. I'm fine with it as long as it's just TP but I'd have been REALLY annoyed with the Oreo thing.

DH finds it mystifying because it wasn't done where he grew up.

We just had dinner a couple of weeks ago with two of my best friends from high school who are married to each other. The husband was reminiscing about me toilet papering his house. I'd had to come over and help clean up in the morning because he knew I was the only one who could have done it. His family had a doberman who "guarded" the yard but was the sweetest dog ever and most people were terrified of her. He asked how I'd done it on my own and I told him that the dog had actually retrieved the TP rolls for me when I'd thrown them.

 

[JerseyJanice]

We only see it happen the night before Halloween AKA Mischief Night.

I've never heard of "cookie-ing" a house though.

 

[golfgal]

It isn't done around here-at least that I have seen. In our old town if someone made it to a state tournament their house was tp'd, but not bad, maybe ONE roll of TP total.

It was REALLY popular when I was in high school. We had some friends that worked in a grocery store and saved up all the TP rolls that were opened by box cutters by mistake and couldn't be sold. We TP'd 4 NEIGHBORHOODS one night. We did a really good job if I do say so myself. We drove by one the next morning and it looked like it had snowed. We were there for probably 2 hours (there were 3 car full of kids-probably 20 kids). I can't believe we didn't get caught.

 

[anniemae]

No tp, but we got "ding dong and ditched" last night. I told my husband the kids must be bored already and they have only been out of school for a week!

 

[pixiefairy]

Around here they do around homecoming and at graduation. A neighbor around the curve from us not only had their house tp'd, but the grad's car was saran wrapped.

 

[DeluxePrincess]

Nothing wrong with a good TP every now and then, since it doesn't destroy property, but I think the Oreo thing is a form of vandalism, since it wrecked the paint.

 

[HelenePA]

I thought this only happened in the movies I've never heard of it being doing in real life around here... ever!

 

[4greatboys]

Very popular in my neck of the woods, esp during football season. I have only seen the TP though, no cookies or cereal.

 

[bigbabyblues]

The cheerleaders TP the football players houses here right before the last home game. Sometimes certain teachers/coaches get it too, but it's just TP and harmless.

We used to go 'forking'. We didn't TP, we stuck the cheap, white, plastic forks in the ground randomly. Only to people we knew, and usually related to an event or something.

 

[redwingfan3991]

We used to go "forking" in the 80's. Sometimes TPing as well

 

[Minnesota!]

I see it a lot in the fall. Right when football is in full swing. A few houses on our block got it last fall. But we drive through a bunch of neighborhoods on our way to work and I have seen it them, too....

 

[Dax]

No, honestly I wish the teens WOULD TP houses instead of what they do around my house...

They prefer to knock over mailbox's, deflate tires, and steal mail that is awaiting to be picked up....

UGH

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

TPing still happens here although I cannot compare its popularity to that in the 80s because I was born in 1987.

The more popular ones around here are forking someone's lawn and putting post-it notes all over someone's car.

You can also see the occasional bologna on someone's windshield.

 

[Dax]

TPing still happens here although I cannot compare its popularity to that in the 80s because I was born in 1987.

The more popular ones around here are forking someone's lawn and putting post-it notes all over someone's car.

You can also see the occasional bologna on someone's windshield.

Bologna!?!? Seriously?

What is forking?

 

[Katie's Butterflies]

I thought this only happened in the movies I've never heard of it being doing in real life around here... ever!

Same here.

The only TPing I have ever seen was on tv. I guess TV can be educational