Toppled outhouses and trampled vegetable gardens soon gave way to more violent hijinks—like the time a Kansas woman almost died in a car crash after kids rubbed candle wax on streetcar tracks, for example—and these pranks escalated during the Great Depression.

倒塌的外屋和被践踏的菜园很快让位于更暴力的恶作剧——例如，一名堪萨斯州妇女在孩子们在有轨电车轨道上擦蜡烛蜡后差点死于车祸——这些恶作剧在大萧条期间升级。