Your best prank on someone?

[beerfilter]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

Anyone get the "Vasaline under the door handle" pulled on them? A classic that always works

We used silicone grease .
Also works on radio knobs , window cranks , gas lids , etc...
You left your truck unlocked at your own peril !

Vaseline also works great on tires , picks up ALL manner of leaves and trash .

 

[Mark_VTfisherman]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

Anyone get the "Vasaline under the door handle" pulled on them? A classic that always works

No, but I had given the business to rude patron at a bowling alley in Concord NH who had used an interesting mix of profanity and unique vulgarity when we had him paged. We were leaving, and he had parked his car about 6 inches from my vehicle and had boxed me in. We couldn't leave- so I had the car owner paged.

He didn't notice we were waiting there but was talking about us- my kids noticed. He was still being =unpolite= to us and to his wife. We waited...and waited. He went up to the passenger door of my minivan, bent over, and hocked a louie under the passenger door handle. He was disgusting and I told him I would appreciate it if he would stop his display in front of my kids (13 and 8 at the time).

His wife apologized, he continued ranting, and then drove off. I got his plate # and called the police. They found him, charged him with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace, and the last I heard was that he had paid the fines to avoid court.

Not a practical joke but entertaining nonetheless

Turns out it wasn't his wife, but a friend-date and her daughter. I imagine that was their last date....

 

[ezbtr]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

For the last few years, whenever I get a new guy at work, I quiz him on what a particular piece of hardware, that he is holding and inspecting. I'ts kind of a stainless steel ,4" "L" a tad rusty, six holes going through it with 3 screws still going through it - to "test" his mechanical aptitude......ALWAYS after a few minutes they guess incorrectly and then I tell them what it is......... "Why that used to hold my knee together".......No one has ever NOT dropped it in shock and quite a few screams........

 

[J. Mark]

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Been a long time, but back in high school, we used to steal a couple of cafeteria trays and place them under the back tires of a teacher's car (it has to be FWD though.

They would go to drive off and the trays would just slide under the car making the back end slide every which way. Not the most diabolical, but it was good for a laugh

 

[Bard1]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

I put a monster ziptie on the driveshaft of a friends new truck on a sat. night. He was freaking out over the thawp, thawp, thawp. On monday he went to the dealer not too happy, the tec. came out with the ziptie and a big grin. Boy oh boy was he mad at me!

 

[Tacklewasher]

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Not pranks, but quick thinking on my part

Phone rang one day. It was my brother in law (BIL). My father in law (FIL)was in the background.

Me: Hello
BIL:Hi. FIL and I were just switching phones lines so I just wanted to see if it worked.
Me: (without missing a beat) Hello? Hello?
BIL: (yelling) FIL. It's not working.
Me: It's okay. I can hear you.

I should have hung up and let him change wires and call back etc., but I didn't have the heart to do that to him.

Another time a co-worker (nice guy) came into my office. I was responsible for building stuff so this was not unusual.

CW: I'm trying to record a training video. Do you know this building hums?
Me: Yes. It doesn't know the words.

Best prank I ever saw. When I was an accounting student at a public accounting firm, a bunch of us came back from lunch. One guy picked up a message from the receptionist to call a Mr. Wright at the CIBC (a bank). Pretty normal message.

CW: I'm looking for Mr Wright.
Other end: well. We'll see what we can do. Tell us about yourself.
CW ?? Sorry? I'm looking for Mr. Wright.

Went on for a bit before the co-worker figured out the number was not for a bank, but for a gay dating service. His roomate had left the message.

 

[beerfilter]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

I put a monster ziptie on the driveshaft of a friends new truck on a sat. night. He was freaking out over the thawp, thawp, thawp. On monday he went to the dealer not too happy, the tec. came out with the ziptie and a big grin. Boy oh boy was he mad at me!

We still use zip ties for that same thing , being officially forbidden to use silicone grease in non-approved applications .
Seems the boss didn't like finding it on his radio mic ...

They are harder find if you can put them on the right front wheel where they smack the caliper .

We still use them to tie wrap the rope on a victims extension ladder .

A hoseclamp on the drive shaft unbalances the assembly .
Ever had a tire out of balance ?
Multiply it by 10 .
A lead sinker and several turns of duct tape are an effective substitute if you dont have hoseclamps .

A Coke can , hanging free on a string , suspended inside a void space between body panels , will drive the owner crazy .
They will hear a clunk when they slow down / stop , and again , when they start / speed up .
I drove my boss nuts with this .
They NEVER found the source the whole time he had the truck .

 

[beerfilter]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

Not pranks, but quick thinking on my part

Phone rang one day. It was my brother in law (BIL). My father in law (FIL)was in the background.

Me: Hello
BIL:Hi. FIL and I were just switching phones lines so I just wanted to see if it worked.
Me: (without missing a beat) Hello? Hello?
BIL: (yelling) FIL. It's not working.
Me: It's okay. I can hear you.

I should have hung up and let him change wires and call back etc., but I didn't have the heart to do that to him.

Another time a co-worker (nice guy) came into my office. I was responsible for building stuff so this was not unusual.

CW: I'm trying to record a training video. Do you know this building hums?
Me: Yes. It doesn't know the words.

Best prank I ever saw. When I was an accounting student at a public accounting firm, a bunch of us came back from lunch. One guy picked up a message from the receptionist to call a Mr. Wright at the CIBC (a bank). Pretty normal message.

CW: I'm looking for Mr Wright.
Other end: well. We'll see what we can do. Tell us about yourself.
CW ?? Sorry? I'm looking for Mr. Wright.

Went on for a bit before the co-worker figured out the number was not for a bank, but for a gay dating service. His roomate had left the message.

Thats classic !

I like messing with wrong numbers .
When they ask to speak to " whoever " I start add - libbing .
"Oh , she's at the jail , bailing out her boyfriend " , or , (sounding very grave.. ) , you need to call his parents , I cannot give you that information ..

DO NOT ANSWER THE PHONE IF IT RINGS AGAIN .

Before the days of caller id , you could get away with all sorts of heinous fun .

My favorite was to get 10+ people to call some one often , at ALL hours , asking for ( we'll say Bob ..) .
After several; days , maybe a week , some one would call at a VERY late hour , and , ask if this is ( name of target ) .
The target would reply , yeah , that's me .
The caller would then say " this is Bob , has anybody called for me ?

 

[fishrdan]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

A Coke can , hanging free on a string , suspended inside a void space between body panels , will drive the owner crazy.

Ha Ha on me A truck I bought had a knocking noise coming from the front end while turning, probably one of the reasons I got it cheap. After 2 trips to the dealership under warranty the service rep comes out with an old dusty beer bottle that someone left inside the front fender, friggin bottle cost me $70



Here's one that had the guys rolling. Out of high school I worked at a trailer truck plant and was on the floor jig where the cross members, front deck (kingping section, what ever they called it, it's 20 years ago gosh sakes) and flooring was all put together. In the front end of the extruded aluminum floor planks we had to stuff 2x2x4 foam blocks in the voids and then after assembling everything run a bead of caulk down each seam.

One day our foreman leaned up on the front of the jig that my buddy and I were standing on top of and shot the sh** for a few minutes while waiting for the line to move. In my hand I had a couple of foam blocks and the caulking gun... I looked over at my buddy and gave him the look and then proceeded to put a healthy dab of caulk on a foam block and stick it off center to the foreman's hardhat, this was followed up with another on the opposite side to give him a set of BUNNY EARS

Guy walked around for the rest of the day with everyone asking him all sorts of things about rabbits...

 

[HVSTRINE]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

I get up on Sundays...several hours before the 'bride'.

One Sunday, I glanced at the winning Lottery numbers in the morning paper...and ran down to the Piggly Wiggly, and bought a $1 ticket with those numbers.

Laura sits down for a cup of coffee, and asks if I had remembered to play the Saturday Lotto.

I (without looking up) replied...'yep...I think that I left the ticket on the dresser. Check it, if you want'.

You can guess the rest...she was running from one end of the house, to the other...screaming that we "WON"!

She has no sense of humor....

Now that's funny! Best yet. I think my wife would kill me.

 

[Bard1]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

We still use zip ties for that same thing , being officially forbidden to use silicone grease in non-approved applications .
Seems the boss didn't like finding it on his radio mic ...

They are harder find if you can put them on the right front wheel where they smack the caliper .

We still use them to tie wrap the rope on a victims extension ladder .

A hoseclamp on the drive shaft unbalances the assembly .
Ever had a tire out of balance ?
Multiply it by 10 .
A lead sinker and several turns of duct tape are an effective substitute if you dont have hoseclamps .

A Coke can , hanging free on a string , suspended inside a void space between body panels , will drive the owner crazy .
They will hear a clunk when they slow down / stop , and again , when they start / speed up .
I drove my boss nuts with this .
They NEVER found the source the whole time he had the truck .

Good stuff!!!!

 

[j_martin]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

Just before Y2K, I was checking the computers in the engineering department with a standard scanner. One engineer refused, said his computer was good to go, he had already checked it out and he didn't want any nobrains MIS guy messing with it.

Well, MIS has the keys, so over the new year's weekend I started his computer, copied his desktop into a graphics file, created a file folder and put all of his icons in the folder, then put the folder in a corner of the screen, mostly off the edge. I then made wallpaper out of the saved image, installed it, and shut it down.

If you didn't follow the procedure, the screen looked exactly as it did before, only it was a picture. Nothing worked.

He almost lost his mind after new years.

Another favorite of mine is Microsoft's "blue screen" screensaver.
available here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558.aspx?ppud=4

When it was used on me, I finally figured out that some of the "errors" were <Bright> and <S>hiny, and the disk light wasn't blinking. Had me going for about an hour, though.

And who says computer geeks have no fun.
John

 

[mthieme]

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Well, I work at a Police station which is synonymous with working in a gym locker room. One fellow who fancy's himself a jokester albeit rank ameteur managed to antagonize me enough when I first came on board to warrant my full and undivided attention...for the next 4-5 years! He loved his (unmarked) car. He would wash it every day. He added lights and other accessories.
Well, after securing a spare key the fun started. I did everything to that car from putting nuts and bolts down the exhaust into the muffler to saran wrapping it in the hot sun to parking it the chief's designated spot to hiding it a half mile away on Xmas Eve. This was the source of countless pranks over the years.

My best one was probably when I had a different cop served with nine years of back child support from his out of state ex-wife. He was beside himself when he got "served" at work. He could only sit down with his head in his hands as he say his paycheck going out the window for a very long time. I had invited all the brass for the afternoon's entertainment.
I did this the first week I started in there. With the above noted exception, noone screws with me to this day.

 

[captharv]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

Had a nerdy accountant who was 34 yrs old and lived with his mother. I am sure you can draw a mental picture. This was 1967.
One day at lunch, he announced that mom thought it was time for him to find a girl and get married, and was seeking advice from us younger guys, because we had no problems that way. So, tongue in cheek, we suggested he sell the VW, buy a Jag XKE or a corvette.
So he buys a shiny new XKE roadster, and was telling us how well it rides, and even went out on a date last weekend, etc
Now, all the other guys and myself are technical types Electronic nerds, if you will. We went to the sheet metal shop, got a piece about 6"X2", put one end in a vice and worked it back and forth until it broke off, leaving a ragged edge, painted it red, and drilled a 1/2" hole thru it, and put in a bolt and nut. ( didn't paint the regged edge).
This was placed under the edge of the car, near the drivers door, where it would be seen, and think a part fell off his car, which, by the way, was just about my yearly before-taxes salary
He called the dealer and demanded they tow his car, fix it, give him a loaner, etc. We let him off the hook. Didn't want the cost of towing to be incurred.
Never mess with technical types when it comes to practical jokes
He th

 

[beezee28]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

We worked in the computer tech department and there is the customer service department, me and my buddy lives in the same school district and the ladies at the service dept lives at another school district. This two school distrct are rivals when comes to football season. Our school district has their fight song and we somehow got a copy of it and uploaded it to all the computers in the customer service dept. The Customer service deals with a lot of people from the 2 district.

What we did was make the school fight song play when they start up their computer in the morning and again play the fight song at random times during the day. We also set the computer sound to its highest volumn. This drove the ladies nuts for the rest of the day and most of the customers who hear the fight song either say it was the best the heard or "it the other team" and those who don't know just smile.

After a few days we took the setting off the computer and now it is usually brought up in prank conversation and no harm done but brought a few laughter and smile all around.