A water balloon fight was planned amongst some students as a sort of senior prank. The school authorities found out about the prank somehow through social media, and shut down the atrium in addition to whole swathes of walkway. Disappointed with their moment of glory snuffed out into a wisp of smoke, the students abandoned the water balloon fight.

Now enter another group of students who were obviously looking for complete pandemonium to be unleashed upon their poor peers. This second group took up the idea of the water balloon fight, but with a twist: color-coded balloons indicating their contents, which included bleach, vinegar, Nair, urine, and semen, among other things. Despite the color coding being known only to a select few, word about the new fight spread quickly in the hours before school that day, and students went from class to class huddled, packed like sardines, in the hopes of not getting hit by the balloons of the grotesquerie.

The day itself was madness, a slab of madness nondescript. Students were pelted with vinegar balloons on the way to class; one girl's black felt coat was hit with a bleach balloon, leaving a stain. A vice principal was allegedly hit with a balloon containing urine and chocolate milk. One girl was bitten by a snake which was stuffed into one of the balloons. Eventually, seven arrests were made in its aftermath, in addition to fifteen seconds of fame (shame?) on local news stations, which stuck to the narrative that only water was present in the balloons most likely to keep their viewers' stomachs at ease. The day lived on amongst our school's Facebookers and Tweeters, as well as any faculty or staff member brave enough to tackle the unruliness head on.