High school seniors celebrate in a blizzard of their school papers
A group of high school seniors in Arizona just lived out the dream of every worker bee who has ever wanted to grab all the paper off a desk and shove it out the window.
Only these kids threw their homework, English papers and other schoolwork away, down a school stairwell, creating a blizzard of paper that left people on Twitter very jealous.
Jordan White, a senior at Basha High in Chandler, Ariz., filmed the paper storm on Friday and posted it to Twitter.
“People came with the boxes, suitcases filled, all sorts of things filled with paper and just dumped it out,” White told ABC 15 in Phoenix.
His tweet has been retweeted more than 34,000 times.
Cue the chaos.
Bhs we out!!!!! pic.twitter.com/VBsCtwyyXS
— Jordan (@jordanwhite649) May 26, 2017
Here’s another look.
The aftermath pic.twitter.com/EuCREXDR6W
— Dani Montes (@_dani_banani) May 28, 2017
The paper toss is an annual tradition for seniors at the school, according to KPNX in Phoenix, which noted the stunt has never gotten quite this much attention.
The Arizona Republic reported the senior paper toss has been around since 2006.
White posted the video about an hour after the paper toss, and media from around the world began contacting him over the weekend, he told ABC 15.
— Sunshine ☉ (@Leah_LovelyRose) May 29, 2017
That school needs more computers.
— Kyle Hill (@kaleazy) May 28, 2017
But while people on Twitter cheered, more people seemed worried about the school custodians.
When the janitor finds out he has to clean all that up pic.twitter.com/Mqvnd0N9Bq
— 〽️ike™ (@Thatb0ym1ke) May 28, 2017
The janitors running out the school like pic.twitter.com/Dr45RCcvNR
— Adl© (@adlknows) May 28, 2017
"Ok who's cleaning this mess up?"
— OJ Pimpson ♍️ (@youredrugsbaby) May 29, 2017
Me: pic.twitter.com/hrxtUi8VL2
— yani (@KeiyanaP) May 28, 2017
Janitor's gonna slide down those stairs too and walk right the hell outta there. https://t.co/1ObhJf1gyr
— jesse Williams. (@iJesseWilliams) May 28, 2017
I hate when they do something to make the school dirty .. guess who has to clean it?? HARD WORKING CUSTODIANS. Who don't get paid enough. https://t.co/Bf3byrKQT7
— Covfefe Jонииу (@_JohnnyAlvarado) May 27, 2017
The janitor: pic.twitter.com/ZgOMjCxcBx
— Dwight Schrute (@PrettyD1ck) May 28, 2017
Turns out, after the seniors leave the scene, garbage bags get passed out to the other students who clean up the mess under the watchful eyes of administrators, teachers – and custodians, according to the Republic.
(And yes, the paper is reportedly recycled.)
OK, then. But tweeters had one more concern about all those kids who flung themselves down the “slide” created by all that paper on the stairs.
Paper cuts. Ouch!
White said his fellow seniors escaped unscathed.
This story was originally published June 1, 2017 at 1:28 PM with the headline "High school seniors celebrate in a blizzard of their school papers."