Pranks of the Schildbuergers are the antics of the citizens of Schilda, which are described in the German Schildbürgerbook. So - carrying light to the town hall, carrying tree trunks back up the hill only to have them roll down, mistaking a crab for a tailor and then sentencing it to death by drowning, dragging a cow up a wall by a rope to have it graze the top of the wall. Today in Germany as Schildbuerger pranks are often called decisions in politics and economics, which correspond formally to right and law, but appear practically nonsensical and out of touch with life.