Until I was almost 14 years old, we lived in a large house on a farm 2 1/2 miles out of town. As an Amish family we had horses of all kinds (my father was a horse trainer): draft horses, riding horses, trotting/driving horses so of course we had wagons, buckboards, spring wagons, carts and buggies, both 'double' buggies and 'single' buggies.

One year at Hallowe'en some high school boys drove out and stealthily maneuvered a single buggy out of our buggy shed and pulled it to town where they hoisted it on top of the main high school building. According to their account it wasn't an easy feat and they spent most of the night on the job.

I don't know many of the particulars but I know that the high school principal was mortified and came out to the farm hmself to apologize. My father thought the whole thing was very funny and he got a lot of mileage at the boys having to lower it to the ground and deliver it sheepishly home again.

Oh yes- a picture of it riding high in its glory was in the paper.