Glen Powell cricket prank story

    by Tufail: Glen Powell

    Glen Powell shared that he once released 3,000 crickets at school as a high school prank. He explained, “I went to the pet store because you can just buy crickets at the pet store. So I bought 3,000 crickets and then I hid them in the woods outside the school.” He added that he recruited others to help during the stunt.

    Transcript (en)

    The one that I get quoted about forever because I released 3,000 crickets in the school on the last day of school. And so it like. You released 3,000 crickets. On the last day of eighth grade. How did you manage that? Well, I. You put them in your backpack? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I put them. I didn't. I basically. How I did it was I went to the. I went to the pet store. And you get. You can just buy crickets at the pet store. So I bought 3,000 crickets. And then I hid them in the woods outside the school. And so then I got like guys to kind of like go during bathroom breaks and stuff like that to get the crickets, hide them in the ceiling. Then like the next guy would take them out of the ceiling. We had like a whole like operation. So right before the lunch bell would ring where people like flooded this one hallway, it was like a big like bottleneck area. I was like, this is where we got to release the crickets. I like released all these crickets. So everybody came out of the thing like heading to lunch and there were crickets just like everywhere. So I get quoted for that one a lot. That was a good high school prank Because I got in a lot of trouble for it What? They figured out I did it I mean, how would they not? I know, yeah Were you like, I did it, sorry None of my friends ratted me out Oh, good friends But it got back