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Governor’s Office is TP’ed
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Posted on Sep 02 2008
In what may be a symbolic political protest, a guerrilla-style art project or just one local prankster’s idea of a fun gag, the bushes outside Gov. Benigno Fitial’s offices on Capital Hill got wrapped in toilet paper over the weekend.
Passers-by first noticed the toilet paper on bushes near the front entrance of the governor’s office building sometime Sunday. The governor’s spokesman, Charles Reyes, said it was still covering some of them when he arrived at the office Tuesday morning and was also “strewn” on the grounds of the property.
“It was wrapped around the bushes in a kind of circular fashion,” Reyes said, laughing. “I don’t know if they were going for some kind of design.”
No police report was filed in the toilet-papering incident, Reyes said, and as of Tuesday afternoon most remnants of the prank had been cleared away.
Toilet papering is a time-tested—and almost cliché—prank that has long served college fraternities, disgruntled Halloween trick-or-treaters and summer camp counselors. Historically, TP-ers have targeted houses, college campuses and, in at least one instance, a major highway off-ramp, rarely causing any property damage.
According to the Web site Wikihow, prankster’s should consider a host of factors before TP-ing a building. Some tips:
1) Buy the necessary toilet paper before dark. Large late night purchases will arouse suspicion.
2) Pick a time that is late at night but not too late, so as to prevent one from falling asleep during the activity.
3) To toilet paper a tree or high object, pull an arm’s length of toilet paper from the roll and hold onto it while tossing the roll itself over a branch or other point where it might hang. The roll should unravel as it flies through the air.
4) Wear running shoes.
5) Be quiet.
6) Consider targeting the houses of friends, who will likely view the toilet-papering as a joke, rather than strangers who will probably see it as vandalism.
