Do Kids TP Houses Much Where You Live?

[golfgal]

Bologna!?!? Seriously?

What is forking?

Sticking plastic forks in someone's lawn.

 

[AustinTink]

I have a new one for you.... someone "coked" and floured my husband's car. They poured sticky Coke all over it then topped it with what must have been bags of flour! I told him that's what he gets for driving an obnoxiously fancy car. Nobody ever touches my mommy mobile.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Bologna!?!? Seriously?

Lol, yep. I think it was started as an alternative to egging since eggs supposedly damage the paint. So bologna, or any kind of deli meat really, was used on the windshield instead.

 

[JulielovesDisney]

My town rarely gets TP'd unless it's Mischief Night.
Sometimes sports teams will TP all the seniors' houses or the coach. But that's about it.

 

[bookgirl]

There is some TP but mostly people Chalk houses.

 

[momof1princess]

i live in northeast alabama, and tp'ing or "rolling yards" is very popular here during the fall, from about the 2nd or 3rd week of september until november 1st. rarely do you see a rolled yard after halloween. we used to LOVE doing it as teenagers. there was one girl in my brother's class that i think he had a crush on, but he would never admit it-we used to roll her yard every year.

 

[DeluxePrincess]

There is some TP but mostly people Chalk houses.

Never heard of chalking a house. Do they actually write on the house with chalk?

 

[bookgirl]

Never heard of chalking a house. Do they actually write on the house with chalk?

No, they use sidwalk chalk on the sidewalks, driveways and front walks of a house. They go all out and write messages, drew pictures and sometimes even do the front porch if it's concrete. I've even seen kids do the streets.

Walmart also sells liquid chalk in really bright colors to do car/house windows. It's very bright and funny and it washes off with the hose or rain.

Although you probably could do a house, well maybe not a white house....never had anyone do a house. They just call it getting your house chalked. They also call it getting your 'walk chalked'.

 

[HelenePA]

This thread make me wanna go TP my brothers house or chalk it... he's the only one who wouldn't call the cops on me if I got caught..

 

[ilovejack02]

Kids don't tp around here much anymore, but they flamingo each other .

The high school has a fundraiser 50.00 and you wake up with a HUGE flock of flamingos in your yard. The flamingos pop up all over town.

I would imagine kids still egg, but my oldest is 21 and baby is 7 so I have a ways to go before hearing about that kind of thing again.

 

[powellrj]

Lol, yep. I think it was started as an alternative to egging since eggs supposedly damage the paint. So bologna, or any kind of deli meat really, was used on the windshield instead.

Bologna WILL damage the paint, don't ask me how I know this, but lets just say it doesn't do pretty things to the paint.

We have never been TPed, because we don't have any trees, but we have been Fiestas at least that's what I called it the morning I woke up to a yard full of streamers, confetti, gold chocolate coins and a huge Cinco Di Mayo sign on our front porch. Another time we woke up to find our yard full of signs. Realty signs, yard sale signs, for sale and rent signs. I was really mad about that one. We returned as many that we could find the owners of and it was very time consuming. I did go to the police station on that one so my kids weren't accused of sign stealing. Streamers and confetti seem to be the most popular because they have been done several times.

We have also woken up to find our windows painted with lots of different themes depending on who did the painting. Guys tend to use obscene caricatures while girls are more artistic. The very worst was the girl who left dirty underwear in our drive-way. That was a crush gone bad and she was scary!

 

[eowensby]

Oh Man! I loved going rolling! We did it a lot in high school, like the PP said, usually from labor day to November. Basically Football season. I am guilty of forking yards, cheerio-ing yards, tp-ing trees, bushes, mailboxes, etc... Tons of shaving cream inside an empty mailbox. We did a little flouring, too.

One time a friends house was getting rolled and she heard the crew and came outside. Just as she was walking around the corner of her house someone came running towards her and of course didn't see her. She ended up totally knocked out for a few minutes.

I think it's not as popular as it used to be 10-15 yrs ago. My parents never seemed to get mad when we were rolled. I just knew I had to clean it up. My Dad always helped with the tall stuff.

Ahh....this brought back a flood of memories. Thanks OP for making me smile tonight thinking of old times!

 

[Spacepest]

Where I'm from, TPing houses is a time honored tradition. Most of the adults would either sigh or laugh about it and then would help clean up, because, they too had TPed someone's house when they were teenagers.

As a teenager, one of my friends got a flatbed truck when he turned 16. After much practice, we had TPing down to a science...we would all ride in the back truckbed and throw rolls out. We could do an entire street in 5 minutes without even leaving the vehicle. Some nights, when we were feeling really ambitious and wanted to do several blocks, we bought all the rolls of TP from the local stores, emptying their shelves. (Now due to local laws and regulations if we tried this stunt we would be arrested not for vandalism but for riding without seatbelts. LOL)

 

[Disneyland1084]

Toilet paper in the trees and bushes is pretty harmless (unless it rains or the sprinklers come on).

12 years ago during my senior year of high school I tp'd this guy's house with ten other people. We did it just for fun. It was a nice night, but a little breezy. Well, a few hours later it started to rain. I felt so bad.

 

[Piglet4Ever]

I have never seen a Tp'ing here, but I was born and raised in OH ( suburbs of Cleveland) and it happend there all the time when I was growing up. It drove my dad nuts