Harmless Pranks

[soFlaNative]

Good stuff in the Military thread, just thought I'd give the civvies a shot.
Just two for now

Back in jr. high me and a bud would scoot Mr. Milberg's desk back toward the wall 1/4 - 1/2 inch every chance we could. Ol' chrome dome was a bit weight challenged and within a few weeks he was having a helluva time squeezing into his chair.

Nowadays I'll put a large zip tie on a driveshaft.

 

[CajunBass]

We used to tell a new guy at the plant to take a plastic bag and walk up and down the aisle between the machines and get a "chimney air sample", seal the bag, fill out a lab ticket and take it to the lab. Picture a guy walking up and down the aisle with a plastic bag held over his head, swishing it around to get a good mix.

Or

Tell new guy to "Go write on the maintenance log to change the 'seperator roll motor'." Of course the seperator roll didn't have a motor, it freewheeled. The mechanic of course had seen this a million times. Two courses of action. (1) come chew the new guy out for falling for "the oldest trick in the book.", or (2) come check the equipment, and tell the newbie there was nothing wrong with the seperator roll motor, the chimney air is bad. Take a sample and carry it to the lab.

 

[NCTexan]

Never had the nerve to do it and live with the consequences...

But I've always laughed at the thought of putting Saran Wrap across the toilet seat before the wife and I go to bed at night.

Anyone pulled this and lived to tell the story?

 

[Brian41]

We had a real skeleton in a locker in Physical science class in high school. Another guy and I lifted up one arm so it would fall when the door was opened. Teacher had a pretty young girl bring the locker up front and open it and the fun began when the arm fell out on her. We caught heck for that stunt too.

 

[boatme99]

A timely thread. Start planning for April 1st!

One time, I lived near a restaurant that had a chicken wing Monday. There was an older, local gentleman who would always come in and order wings, but only the meaty drummies. He wouldn't take any of the end pieces.

One day, I bought 10 Turkey legs and boiled them. That afternoon, I took them to the owner and asked him to heat them up in oven.

The man came in and duly ordered his wings. By this time the whole bar was in on it and waiting semi-patiently.

When the legs were ready, the chef sent them out on a giant, decorated, polished stainless tray, complete with big bowls of Ranch dressing and whole celery stalks. He actually coated and quick fried them

He was sitting at the bar with his back to door, so didn't see the entrance. Everybody started clapping and hollering so he turned to see what the to-do was about.

Chef walked up to him and said "here's you're wings, Bud."

Bud turned bright red and started stuttering, almost on the verge of anger, then realized what was going on and started laughing.

The "wings" actually got completely eaten by the crowd.

 

[gdnagle]

Had a guy at work receive call from his wife all the time, I guess she didn't trust him, another guy answered the phone and hollered over to him Susan was calling again. His wife's name was Betty.

Then you had to call for the guy and they were told he didn't come to work that day.

Another guy would get calls all the time so the fellow would grease up the ear piece with hand soap and set it on top of the phone and tell him phone call, he would never look and always fell for the ol' soap in the ear trick.

Also had a guy that would set his lunch bucket on a shelf then go down to punch the time clock. He would then hall A-- and grab it on the way by so he didn't have to haul it around. We filled it with all the steel stock we could get into it. When he walked by and grabbed it, it stopped him cold in his tracts looked like his arm might have stretched several inches.

 

[Oldiron]

One that the boys pulled several times at scout camp was to take saran wrap and carefully stretch it across the top of one of the glasses. They got so good at it there wasn't any excess hanging around the lip. Made a great mess when someone poured in the bug juice. Everyone in my troop got to the point we would poke the top of the glass before we poured.
Larry

 

[Rustyt1953]

At the time Ruthie and I got married, I was a touring musician. On one of the rare times I played in Cincy, I got home around 0400. I slithered in as quietly as I could, crawled in bed next to her and whispered in a raspy voice, in her ear....."What time does Rusty get home?"

She hit me with the lamp.

I was thinking... If I dood it I get a whippin'....

I dood it.

Still carry the scar.

 

[Kanewpadle]

Not civilian, but when I was in the military, we used to put Saran Wrap over the top of the toilet bowl.

 

[30-30remchester]

In the oilfield we used a lubricant called pipe dope that couldn't be washed off even with gasoline. Catching a new roughneck asleep with his heavy leather gloves on, we would dribble some pipe dope on his gloves then slightly tickle his face with a weed. Without waking he would swipe at the annoyance with his gloved hand. When he woke, his whole face would be covered in pipe dope. It usually wore off in 3 or 4 days.

Another right of passage in the oilfield was getting greased. A new hand, many young newlyweds, would be gang tackled and a entire tube of grease gun grease was shoved down the front of his pants and emptied into the "happy region". When I first stepped foot onto the rig platform, I knew of this rite and loudly proclaimed there were not enough men on this rig to grease me as I was a large stout young muscled man. Was I ever WRONG.

 

[Brian41]

Rusty, your story reminded me of one my wife told me. She had a clock radio with a cracked plastic face I asked about. She told me it got cracked when she hit her ex-husband over the head with it. I've always watched my Ps and Qs with her especially once she became a black belt in karate.

 

[Abbynormal]

Take paper towel and toilet paper tubes. Cut eyes into them, stuff TP into the ends, spray paint flat black. Pull TP and insert activated light stick and replace TP.

Place under shrubs, in crooks of trees on dark nights!

 

[JM4151]

We had a new police officer on the force and one night on the midnight shift he received a call to return to hdqts for an important phone call. Somebody got a shovel full of horse manure, and dumped it on the hot manifold, of his squad car. He wasn't quite as much of a know it all after that. He turned out to be a good guy and spent 25 years on the force. He didn't have another car to use on that shift!

 

[carpriver]

Take clear packing tape it at face level to the door jams. Do it when someone is inside. Like doing this when I worked in mental health.

 

[steelslaver]

I had a young woman helping on a job where we where removing 1" plugs from fin fan tubes in a refinery. It was her first refinery job. When I removed the first plug some white calcium chloride leaked out. I swore and said this stuff is radioactive and asked her if she had had her radiation vaccination. When she responded with a very worried no, I told her she best go to safety and get one. After she left my brother and I laughed pretty hard till the safety guy showed up to lecture us.

 

[Bkreutz]

Late at night when you're stopped at a light next to someone you suspect just came out of the bar, put it in reverse and slowly back up. He will think he's creeping forward and will start to freak out. (Works better on dopers)

 

[turbo6]

One of my friends in high school got me pretty good with chocolate laxatives melted into ice cream and then refroze it and gave it to me...long story but I probably deserved it.

My favorite harmless prank gone wrong was with my friend at a seafood restaurant we worked at when we were younger. On opening day he thought it would be funny to do the Saran wrap the toilet prank, thinking one of the cooks would inadvertently splash pee all over himself.

Unknown to him, one of the owners was there and needed to use the bathroom before the doors officially opened for the day. But, he didn't have to go pee. He sits down and did his business, stands up and sees the horrifying mess that was created.

In a rush, he unwraps the toilet bowl and tries to flush it all away but instead clogged it up and floods the bathroom.

Needless to say that was the last summer we worked with him.

 

[Ματθιας]

Brake lights jumper wired to the horn. The horn goes off every time the brake lights come on. Hilarious when the driver can't figure out why the horn keeps going on "randomly" as they are driving.

 

[soFlaNative]

Worked in a shop for a time with the prerequisite hired on nephew. Some of the warehouse windows leaked so the first step was to remove the old caulking in order to reseal. I sent nephew to the hardware store for a vacuum powered sealant removal tool otherwise known as a caulk------.

 

[bagga]

a little oil under a new harley is good for some laughs.

 

[Alpo]

Take paper towel and toilet paper tubes. Cut eyes into them, stuff TP into the ends, spray paint flat black. Pull TP and insert activated light stick and replace TP.

Place under shrubs, in crooks of trees on dark nights!

That's actually funny, and might go pretty good at Halloween. You can get both green AND red lights. Or maybe get the little inch-and-a-half ones, use one of each color, with a TP plug between the eye-holes, so you've got one red eye and one green eye.

 

[Bib]

When visiting someone & using the bathroom I check to see if they have a bathtub with a selector for the shower that will stay on (some of the newer ones won't stay on unless the water is actually running). If so, I turn the shower selector on and angle the shower head a bit so that the next one to turn on the water gets a cold, wet head.....and naturally blames someone else who lives there for doing it.

 

[Odinkar]

When my son was small he was very active and a challange on car trips. One time I ran over the rumble strip on the side of the road. When he asked what that was I told him it was the monster in the road and he needed to be quiet so nothing bad would happen. Had a lot better trips til he figured it out.

 

[PALADIN85020]

Never had the nerve to do it and live with the consequences...

But I've always laughed at the thought of putting Saran Wrap across the toilet seat before the wife and I go to bed at night.

Anyone pulled this and lived to tell the story?

This is the oldest fraternity house prank in the book, next to short sheeting. And of course it always got the "OH ****" response that was hoped for.

John

 

[rimfired]

Used to send the new kid to the supply room to ask for a left-handed smoke bender......

 

[Abbynormal]

Sprinkle half a box of powdered sugar between the sheets of someones bunk. Remake the bunk and wait for morning. The victim looks like a glazed donut when they roll out of the rack.

 

[shouldazagged]

I've always liked pranks that don't hurt or humiliate, but baffle and confuse.

One I've wanted for years to do is too labor-intensive and expensive at this late stage of my life. Would have been lovely, though.

I planned to send someone, preferably somebody with an exalted view of his intellect and importance, a little Japanese miniature eggplant, anonymously. Then on the same day of the next month send one slightly larger. No explanation, no return address. Send it by messenger.

They would continue arriving on the same day of the month and getting larger until the poor chump is getting huge honkin' eggplant.

Then I would skip two months to lull him into a false sense of security. And resume sending them, smaller each month...

I figured it would drive him slightly crazy, and when he asked his friends, "Are you sending me eggplant?" they'd laugh their butts off.

If any of you would like to borrow the idea, feel free.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

In college I would send crabby and cranky or mocking letters to the school newspaper attacking one group-or several-and sign them with the name of a disreputable historical personage whose beliefs and attitudes were portrayed in the letter.
Several times I sent letters to the local papers and signed the names of people I didn't like, the letter would embarass them with its content.
Then there's the 1970s standard of placing a personal ad in a sex newspaper/swinger's magazine with the business and personal phone numbers of someone you don't like. A 1983 graduate of Parris Island said they had a E-4 who was bucking hard for E-5, decided the way to get was to be an arrogant you know the five letter word. He regularly received large packages at mail call-while they were at sea-that contained homosexual porn, along with "love" letters.

 

[mstem]

The local rural high school I attended and graduated from in 1972 opened in 1955. Every year a few of the seniors pulled a senior prank on someone. A few of us cooked up our idea. There was a locker on the front hall by the office, #427. It was one of the half lockers, one on top of the other. Sometimes during the year the guy that was assigned that locker moved to another locker and didn't tell the office staff. At the top of the the locker was a hole just large enough for a marble to fit through. So someone in our group bought this huge Master Lock, put it on the locker. No one noticed it and we started about the middle of the school year filling the locker with marbles. We got so many in it by the end of the year we were pushing them in with a pencil. When we had as many in it as we could we started leaving notes all over school "there was dope in locker #427". The second day someone found one and carried it to the office. I just happened to be in the library across the hall from that locker. Unknowing to us the principle we were trying to pull the prank on wasn't there. So the assistant principal had the janitor there with a bolt cutter cutting the lock off. The driver ed teacher saw the commotion and came to watch. The janitor cut the lock and stood back. Also there was the guy that had been assigned the locker to begin with. He was sweating bullets, he was known as the school dope dealer and later he told someone he thought he may have left some in that locker when he moved. Well, the assistant principle opened the door. Those marbles hit him in the chest. He closed the door as best as he could. With a priceless look on his face, like that didn't just happen. Then he opened it again & the rest of the marbles went everywhere! They bounced the length of the hall!. Talk about mad! His face was blood red & he yelled "when I find out who did this they will not graduate!" The driver ed teacher about died laughing as did the janitor. The dope dealer looked like his life had been saved. Then the driver ed teacher made us all that saw what happened and were die laughing pick up all those marbles. But it was worth it! After graduation the bunch of us that did it told the assistant principal we did it. He had cooled down and though it was the best senior prank he'd seen.

This is a rural area of Virginia. Our small town newspaper had a story about our prank in 2012, 40 years later. They had a few mistakes in the article. So I wrote them and corrected it. They were good enough to waive the requirement to be published a name was needed. It's still a big secret who was in on it. Did that bring back some great memories! Oh to be 18 again!!!

 

[islamoradamark]

at the tackle shop we would epoxy a quarter to the side walk and watch people try to pick it up . i know cheap thrills