Drowning Out the Pissheads

To understand the reason for the drowning out, be sure to read the "babo bomb" story. Then read the memory about "senior detail." Finally, read the one about "Lurch."

I was sound asleep about midnight when a fish came into my room with a "senior detail".

Apparently, several fish (Buzzy, Animal, and Bear come to mind) were lamenting to Clarence (Lurch) Gore how badly the pissheads were treating us so we would give up who had babo bombed AJ and Sammy.

Lurch's answer was that we should teach them a lesson by drowning them out. Apparently, he recognized that several of us more level-headed types would balk at so drastic an action so he told them to tell us it was a senior detail. Common sense would have told us that a zip would never order something like this on pissheads - you just didn't cross class boundaries for things like this.

We were told to each take a trash can (the regulation cans each held eight to ten gallons), fill them with water in the showers, and prepare to drown out the pissheads. So, two fish, each holding a nearly full trash can of water were stationed outside each pisshead hole. When a whistle blew, we crashed opened the doors and threw our water on the sleeping, and unsuspecting, pissheads.

You can't image the pandemonium that erupted. Pissheads were beyond angry - they were in full rage. Image stepping into the midst of 15 or 20 hornet nests and you begin to get a sense of the emotions that were flowing. I'm quite sure we never stopped to think about the destructiveness of our actions and I know that we never dreamed of the punishment that would await us.

Now read the memory about crap-outs, and then the one titled, "Steam Showers."

Tom (TE) Schoolcraft

Yankus's addition:
I have a different explanation for Lurch's advice to us - he was a sadist, and knew that if we pushed the pissheads just a little bit more (more than just babo-bombing AJ and Sammy), that they'd crap us out something ungodly. And, second only to cussing non-regs and despising Maggies, Lurch enjoyed seeing underclassmen suffer. So he advised the guys who were upset about how the pissheads were treating us to drown them out. Then, when it happened, who should we see in the hall grinning ear-to-ear as the pissheads started the night of the steam showers, and who should holler out, "Christmas can be red-ass!" but Lurch Gore.

John (Yankus) Yantis