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Recently, Reddit assemblage members were asked to stock the wildest hazing ritual oregon initiation they've witnessed oregon experienced, and immoderate of them are genuinely truthful shocking. Here are the stories that volition permission you dumbfounded, surprised, oregon straight-up disgusted:
1. "I was portion of a fraternity initiation successful college. I was made into a 'cake' with my pledge brothers, wherever I was fundamentally covered from caput to toed successful flour, eggs, milk, and more, and past rolled astir unneurotic into the biggest messiness imaginable."
2. "It was 1987, and I had conscionable gotten retired of footwear campy and reported to my work station. That night, different caller feline and I were guests of grant astatine a barracks party. Being 19 years old, we drank WAY excessively much. The different guys enactment the caller feline and maine successful sleeping bags, zipped them up, and tied a enactment astir our ankles. They tied the different extremity of the enactment astir a enactment station successful the barracks. Then, they threw america retired of a second-story model and fto america bent determination upside down each night. In the morning, we saw the First Sergeant walking down the sidewalk with his clipboard. He looked up astatine america hanging there, shook his head, and yelled out, 'Sarge, chopped 'em down!' Good times!"
3. "My sorority had immoderate beauteous chaotic initiations. The weirdest 1 was astatine the extremity of Hell Week. All the pledges were handcuffed unneurotic for 24 hours — a full of 12 of us. It was the dumbest, astir ridiculous happening successful the world. My Big and Grand were beauteous weird, too. That archetypal year, they treated maine similar I was a child: gave maine a bedtime, checked my homework, 'disciplined' me, etc. It was benignant of funny, but it was ace weird astatine different times."
4. "I was surrounded by a clump of brew drinkers singing 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm.' They did a mates of regular workplace animals, similar a cattle and a pig. Then they got to whale, and erstwhile they did, they got a mouthful of brew and spat/sprayed it astatine me. Ah, bully times."
5. "In precocious schoolhouse ROTC, we'd spell to CiCi's Pizza the time we arrived successful a metropolis for a competition. We'd make what was called a 'Gauntlet,' wherever everyone would enactment the nutrient of their prime successful a cup. Someone caller would beryllium invited to instrumentality a bully sip. Mine had a sensation of vinegar and tons of absorbing textures."
6. "In precocious schoolhouse track, I got kidnapped connected a Saturday greeting and was forced to tally astatine the school, wherever they painted america head-to-toe."
7. "At an all-boys boarding school, my dorm had a hazing contented called 'Naked Bible Reading,' wherever the ablution doors are sealed up, and the showers are near to tally connected the hottest somesthesia to marque it steamy. Select freshmen were told to portion bare and enactment connected a towel. They were past led into the steamy bath and greeted by a fig of upperclassmen, besides clad successful towels. The Master of Ceremonies was typically a elder wearing the location overgarment and holding a waterproof, pinkish Bible. (The location overgarment is simply a neon paisley smoking overgarment that's handed down each year.) He'd past work a Bible verse — it didn't substance which one, arsenic agelong arsenic it was obscure and a spot disturbing. Then, aft a fewer seconds, the MoC would halt speechmaking and adjacent the Bible. The upperclassmen removed their towels and revealed they were wearing bathing suits."
"Meanwhile, the initiates kept their towels connected the full clip and were sworn to secrecy astir the existent quality of Naked Bible Readings. The recently initiated would past proceed to perpetuate the rumor astir weird, homoerotic rituals, frankincense ensuring that aboriginal initiates and different dorms are adequately scandalized."
8. "I was lone hazed once. The concern schoolhouse astatine the assemblage I worked astatine had hazed the caller administrative/support staff, but not the caller administrators oregon faculty. They did this during our probationary play aft enactment hours (unpaid, of course) and told america that attending 'staff initiation' was 'mandatory.' They made america bash a dumb creation choreographed by the Dean's idiotic woman and made america propulsion eggs astatine each other. All eggs were hard-boiled but one. I turned them into the union, and the Dean was taken to task implicit it. A twelvemonth oregon truthful later, the Dean proudly announced the continuation of the hazing parties, contempt national outrage, renaming it 'Employee Celebration.' I despised that place; the disrespect toward the unit was palpable."
9. "Someone ate marshmallows retired of my butt crack. I'll permission it astatine that."
10. "In subject school, erstwhile your unit's crest would get pinned, the upperclassmen would punch the emblem into your thorax without the backing truthful the pin would pierce the skin."
11. "When I was a kid, my person 'Jack' did a play Protestant retreat. Part of the closing ceremonial was that the participants would invitation a person to witnesser it, truthful helium invited my dada and me, and we reluctantly drove to the mediate of obscurity to the campground. They did a supplication work and invited each the guests to basal adjacent their friend. I said hullo to Jack, but helium ignored me. I tried talking to him, but helium kept ignoring me. Finally, I got mad, and Jack said to me, 'I can't speech close now.' After the ceremony, my dada drove america home. It was uncommon to spot him mad, but helium was successful a unspeakable mood, saying, 'Your person drags america retired to the mediate of nowhere, and helium didn't adjacent person the decency to accidental convey you?!' It was odd."
"The adjacent week, my person revealed to maine that I had unwittingly been portion of the retreat's hazing ritual. The participants were told to invitation their friends and beryllium 'they were focused connected Christ' by ne'er acknowledging their friend's presence."
12. "Our precocious schoolhouse lacrosse squad had a contented wherever the incoming freshmen would portion naked, enactment up hep to hip, and basal determination portion the seniors would instrumentality turns urinating connected each their backsides. It ended my freshman twelvemonth erstwhile 1 of the seniors refused to piss connected his younger brother."
13. "Carrot sticks were stuck up our bums. The past 1 to down a pint had to devour the carrots."
14. "Cricket. You had to walk 30 minutes wrong the changing rooms with a stack of newspapers, blistery pickles, a tin of canine food, a six-pack of the initiate's portion of choice, 2 liters of milk, Flaming Hot Cheetos, six hard-boiled eggs, a tub of Vaseline, random makeup, and a squad kit of cricket equipment. All nutrient and drinks had to beryllium consumed, and initiates had to portion down to their underwear and make a unsocial outfit from the newspaper. Then they had to slather themselves successful Vaseline and deterioration arsenic galore pieces of cricket instrumentality arsenic possible. Initiates were locked wrong the changing rooms arsenic the remainder of their team/club were outside, responsibly drinking portion making arsenic overmuch sound arsenic imaginable (banging connected the walls, playing large noises from a speaker, etc.). Following the 30 minutes, initiates had to tally done a gauntlet of carnal activity, cricket skills, and wide cognition questions. Punishment intoxicant was distributed based connected the show astatine each station."
15. "It was the aboriginal '90s, and I was successful precocious school. First, we were forced to tally laps connected the way with blistery sauce-covered marshmallows successful my armpits. Then, I was forced to devour them. Then, we had to resistance a full-sized transverse to 1 extremity of the shot field, wherever I was mock crucified (hung up connected it with duct tape) and near determination for a mates of hours successful the sun. When they fto maine down, idiosyncratic dumped a jar of maple syrup connected my caput and smashed immoderate eggs connected apical of that for bully measure. 0/10 recommend."
16. "I played rugby successful college. Our rookie initiation was that each 15 of america got locked successful a basement with a keg successful a kiddie pool. The kiddie excavation was filled with dirt. Two elder players were manning the keg, and they said, 'We're going to support the pat unfastened and support pumping. If determination were immoderate bedewed spots successful the ungraded aft the keg was done, you had to devour them. So, we lined up with our cups. As soon arsenic 1 cupful was filled, the idiosyncratic down them enactment their cupful under, and the archetypal idiosyncratic got backmost successful enactment and started chugging. We killed the keg and managed lone a fewer spills. Luckily, it turned retired the 'dirt' was crushed up cookies and cocoa powder, which wasn't delicious soaked successful beer, but was decidedly amended than existent dirt."
And past but surely not least...
17. "While I was successful the US Navy, my vessel crossed the equator twice. If you aren't acquainted with tradition, it's benignant of a large deal. When you are crossing the equator, determination are 2 kinds of people: those who've crossed earlier (Shellbacks) and those who haven't (Pollywogs). When the equator is crossed, the vessel stops successful the mediate of the ocean. Rank is suspended, and if you are a Pollywog, you person to implicit the initiation and hazing to go a Shellback. The time of the crossing, the Pollywogs get up and enactment their apparel on, with underclothes connected the extracurricular and zippers and buttons to the rear. Then, you spell to the aft platform and devour breakfast, which was spoiled nutrient that had been saved specifically for the day. After breakfast, you commencement to crawl connected your hands and knees from the rear of the ship, on the extracurricular passageways, to the front. The vessel I was connected was a tanker, truthful it was a agelong mode from the backmost to the beforehand — astir 654 feet."
That's capable net for today. What's the wildest hazing ritual oregon initiation you've witnessed oregon experienced? Let america cognize successful the comments, oregon you tin anonymously stock your communicative utilizing the signifier below.
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