DUCK DAY!!!!!!
For those of you that don't know, Duck Day is a "July 4"-style celebration we have here at McCallie. It's never announced in advance (although they announced it to be on May 1st to keep people from interrogating the Krispy Kreme people for large, 1000-doughnut orders), it has a bunch of activities, and is mainly all-around chaos. Cottage cheese/hot sauce eating contests, water balloon fights, dodgeball wars... fun fun fun.
Fortunately, I've found a time to take a break from the madness and ask a question about something actually related to this forum:
When we were leaving chapel, I was one of the first ones out and unfortunately got pelted in the face with a water balloon. I was the famed Dead Duck, which is the first guy to get a taste of Duck Day. After I suddenly realized what happened, people started quacking everywhere and ran me over trying to get to the free doughnuts and the lake (it's a concrete pool, not a real lake).
However, since I was one of the last people out, I got caught up in another tradition: the fire truck. In short, everyone jumps up on the firetruck and tries to tip it over (actually we just rock it but it's still fun). I know this is unsafe, and that we were probably destroying millions of dollars worth of equipment (there were 3 fire trucks there) and the Chattanooga FD was pretty pissed, but what worried me was that the dumbass firefighter in the truck kept his lead foot on the Q pedal the entire time! I still can't hear out of my right ear (and my left ear is ringing badly) and this was about 2 hours ago. Along with the electronic 2x100 watt sirens, is this dangerous? (Please be aware that there were two more firetrucks next to each other - all sounding Q's and electronics full blast.)
I would have jumped in and demanded to see the siren and lights, but there wasn't enough time - they drove off to get ready for the water fight - they turn their hoses on relatively low pressure and run around campus soaking everybody.