So we've been putting up with a bunch of assholes above us who have like 8-man wrestling matches at night, making tons of noise and just generally annoying the hell out of us. We've asked them if they could tone it down a few times, but they never did.

Tonight (a week before the quarter ends), my roommates decided to pull a harmless prank on them. They got a a bucket, filled halfway up with water, leaned it against their door, and threw random junk at the door until they opened it and the water spilled all over the floor. If anything, we helped them clean their floors before move-out day next week

Anyway, one of my roommates attached a small camera attached to a fence on the other end of the courtyard, which was the downfall of this plan; they didn't have a way to get it back without revealing it was us, and it wasn't sufficiently hidden. The guys found it, so my roommates decided we should go try to get it back by offering to help clean up. They also managed to guilt me into going, because I knew about this and am therefore an accomplice.

Anyway, the guys above us basically said "go fuck yourselves" and didn't give the camera back.

(Their exact words were more like "I actually think we just got a free camera, and we already cleaned up, so I think you should leave before we beat your asses. 8 vs 3 doesn't look good for you".) Now, this is a Mormon school, so that's pretty bad, considering that he not only swore at us, but was actually serious about the threat

Now they've moved the benches from ours and another dorm in front of our door, tied them together with fishing line (which they also tied to our doorknob), and have spent the last hour or so throwing random shit at our door and stomping especially hard on our ceiling.

Now, personally, if it had been me getting pranked, I would've been like "hey, I have a free camera, why spend time pranking them back?", but now that they've threatened us, stole from us and pranked us back, I think we have the moral high ground here. So, if the dorm manager gets involved (and she probably will, given the amount of shit in front of our door and that we don;t even wake up until at least noon and won;t have a reason to clear the door before then), they'll probably get in more trouble than us, and my roommate will get his camera back.

My only regret is going up to apologize with them, since like I said, I merely knew it was happening and didn't participate. And while guilt by association happens in courtrooms, not exactly in a harmless college prank. Honestly, all those guys up there were bigger than me, and most looked like stupid douchebags, so I'm more worried about someone trying to start shit with me as I walk around campus than I am about getting in trouble. If you've been around the site for a while, you might remember my thread about my (admittedly self-diagnosed) mild-to-moderate paranoia, so I am actually fairly worried about it. I'm a pretty small guy, any one of those guys could easily kick my ass. I suppose I could make sure to carry my knife around with me all the time, but going all thug life and knifin' a bitch isn't exactly a good idea and will probably get me kicked out, not to mention the all the legal junk I'll be involved in