With hand and foot pumps. That will take up a little of that penned up energy.

I did a lot of stupid shit at that age. I say they spend the summer working around the school cleaning .

I say you need to learn the difference between 'too' and 'to'....

When I was a freshman I threw a chocolate milk across the cafeteria and pegged a kid in the head. I got 15 mornings of coming in at 6:30 and helping the janitor clean. I threw it because he talked shit to a girl I liked. His parents wanted me arrested

I never, ever made a mess of the cafeteria again.

It was junior prank night (to transition to being a senior)
When I was a kid we "borrowed" 2 cases on napkins, a case of toilet paper and 2 gallons of white paint. Then equipped with socket sets and brads we proceeded to take the stairs off 8 portables and pulled them out into the middle of the football field, we painted FUCK UNITED on the black tar roof of the gym, the place looked like it snowed from the napkins and TP and we put a brad in every lock. The next morning it rained
One of the guys got busted and ratted us all out so we had to reimburse Wesly Gardens for the supplied we borrowed and that was it!
Fuck United was on the Gym 1/2 of the next year until United called an complained. I still laugh about this and my 40th reunion is this summer.
It was a prank and the school didn't punish us at all but we were on probation for our entire senior year.

No damage by these kids, it's too harsh!

I disagree.

The school district had to cancel school for the day. That means that the district probably paid lots of wages to a lot of people for NOTHING that day, and it also means that there were a lot of kids left unexpectedly at home . . . which means that many parents stayed home from work that day, which caused a lot of disruption to companies and probably some lost wages for the parents.

Yes, there was significant damage done . . . even if it wasn't physical damage to the buses.

And they need to use a bike tire pump to make it happen. That should be punishment enough.

I would consider this victimless.

So, as is standard operating procedure with such "crimes", ruin their life. Put them in jail for a decade.

/sarcasm

When I did stupid shit as a kid, I was punished by manual labor.. And not the fun stuff. I agree with the others on here that a LARGE amount of community service needs to be performed. Say goodbye to Summer Vacation.

I'd make them wash and wax, by hand, every single bus. Then they can vaccuum every single one of them out. After that they can pay, out their own money, the cost to fix the flats on every bus. Then, and only then would they get their diplomas.

No, six months would be too much. The threat is nice though. Sad part is that this prank was pretty lame. They should be punished just for that.

I don't know how they 'pulled' those stems. If they cut the stems then every tire will have to pulled off the bus, broken and restemmed. If they are tubed tires all the tubes will have to be replaced. That could be pretty expensive.

You can screw the core of the valve stems out.

By blowing on the valve stems with their mouths.

Other than cancelled classes, what real damage was done? Make them pay the cost of the Service Call from the local equivalent of Les Schwab and make sure they are sufficiently humiliated among their peers so they don't pull this kind of stunt again.

Jail? I'm a big advocate of tossing criminals in jail for a long time but these dipshits don't rise to the level of criminal ------yet.

Why cancel classes for the whole day? Why didn't they just do a 2 hour late start? It takes about 30 seconds to screw a Schrader valve into a tire. Then pump the tire up. School districts that own busses have lots of mechanics who could have gotten things fixed quickly.

Sounds like overreaction on the school's part. That said, those kids definitely need some kind of punishment and most of the service suggestions here sound good to me.

If the bus tires are anything like the tires we had on our Army trucks, if the inflation level was below a certain amount you could't just air them up. The tires would have to be taken off, and aired up in a tire cage. What they did is going to be expensive, but I don't believe jail time is called for. Community service is what's called for in this case.