Harmless Pranks

[hangnoose]

PRANKS

Dorm prank: One night the 2 nerdiest guys on the hall were "getting lucky" with 2 girls nobody would want to be caught with, but that most had been with, Nanook & Dirty Debbie. We pried the door, and wedged it tight with penny's so they were trapped inside. It had been raining for a couple days and we lived on the second floor. The girls had to relieve themselves so bad, they jumped out the window into the mud at app 3am. What a sight, they actually came back to the floor to use the bathroom & let the guys out of the room. That's the first reported WALK OF SHAME.

 

[msinc]

We used to always send the new mechanic in the shop out to the auto supply store to get a metric crescent {adjustable} wrench...it's even funnier when we would call ahead and tell one of the parts salesmen. He would pull out a crescent wrench and say "sorry, we only got this english one."
The building industry is full of these too...roll of pipe threads, brick bender, sky hook.

 

[hangnoose]

HOSPITAL PRANKS

SO MANY IT'S IMPOSIBLE TO LIST ALL. If you can pull off a good Indian accent, pretend to be Dr Patel, every hospital has about a dozen, call another department and schedule a ridiculously obscene/made up procedure with an equally absurd Pt's name. Pray for the day when NEW telephone operators arrive, it's amazing what you can get them to overhead page. Betting a small person they can't fit into a box or mail bag, then tape it shut. We ate a lot of take out, so over a period of time we took the Chinese food menu, left the outside the same & replaced the food names with some really crude/vulgar, yet clever names & had new interns phone in the dinner orders. It's not especially fair to those where English is a second language & kind of like shooting fish in a barrel, BUT funny as heck. An old classic is to send a new nursing student in to bathe & dress an expired PT, some never realized it. I've been had good. NEVER have a surgery where you work! I had to get my tonsils out at 33 y/o and instead of waking up in the recovery room I was in Labor and delivery, feet up in stirrups with balloons and "CONGRATS IT'S A BOY" card. The very first Pt I ever put a stethoscope to was handpicked and had severe sleep apnea, where his breathing & heart would regularly stop for 15-20 seconds, I heard ba bump, ba bump, - - - -?, I checked my watch & stethoscope before almost calling a code blue. I HOPE things have become more PC by now.

 

[CajunBass]

We used to always send the new mechanic in the shop out to the auto supply store to get a metric crescent {adjustable} wrench...it's even funnier when we would call ahead and tell one of the parts salesmen. He would pull out a crescent wrench and say "sorry, we only got this english one."
The building industry is full of these too...roll of pipe threads, brick bender, sky hook.

We had a young female supervisor working with our crew of 30ish guys for a while. We all loved her, but didn't hesitate to "mess with" her. One of our gags was telling her we need some metric channel locks. She wrote it down, and put in a requistion for them.

We'd also call her, and wave her over to where we were, then ask, "Where would you be if we hadn't called you over here?"

We were starting up a new plant facility. There were a few feral cats in the old building that were as wild as a march hare. We were all standing around a pallet of empty waste barrel one morning, and got to talking about how mean and wild these cats were. The young lady was looking all around with her eyes about the size of saucers. One of the fellows started to "meow...meow...meow" when she wasn't looking. She jumps...where is that cat? I looked down between the barrels and said "There's that so and so!" I reached down into one of the barrels, and started beating my hand back and forth inside the barrel, while making a POed cat noise...wherrreee,snarll, whereeeee!!! Supervisor screamed. She just knew that cat was ripping my hand to a bloody pulp. And this at a company who's moto is "Safety is our No 1 product" or something like that. She just KNEW she was going to be writing reports for the rest of her career about not only how it happened, but why she let it happen.

I thought she was going to kill me if the cat didn't.

But she did turn the tables once in a while and spoil our fun.

We thought we'd get her one day. Got the secretary to write a note and leave it on her desk. "Tell Wayne, Diane called." There were two of us named Wayne, and both our wives were named Diane. We figure this would really confuse her.

She fooled us. She came in, pointed to both of us and said "Call your wife." Drat.

 

[hangnoose]

CAMPFIRE PRANKS

THE OLD RUBBER HAND. Can be used for many pranks. Pretend to be really drunk and reach into the fire to light a cigarette until the fingers start melting. While preparing dinner "accidently" cut off a finger, etc.

 

[CajunBass]

Thirty-seven years at the string factory are coming back to me. This is not good.

There was a sub-basement area that was used to store stuff. This area was seldom visited, and poorly lighted. A couple of fellows found a big wooden box down there, about the size and shape of a crude coffin. They got to hiding a rubber fright mask in the box. Then they'd wait until they picked their mark, and figured out how to lure them down to the box. The most common story was that the box was full of unmarked blue jean jackets, just there for the taking.

Then one of them would rush down, crawl into the box, put the fright mask on, and pull the top over the box. When the mark opened the box, there would be a roar/scream as the person in the box sat up and reached for the mark. People would actually wet themselves. Then they would swear the victim to secrecry so THEY could watch for the next mark. This went on for weeks.

Then the victims decided to turn the tables. As they watched the setup for the next mark, one of the previous victims, raced down to the box, put on the mask, covered the box. The unsuspecting "boogie man" came down, opened the box, reached for the mask, only to have it set up, screaming at him. He cried like a little girl, victim of his own prank.

 

[Bekeart]

GREAT PRANK - Unfortunately I was not responsible for it.

Long long ago, (late sixties) a college friend had gotten revenge by this method.

Write a complimentary letter on tablet paper with a pencil to a radio preacher telling how you appreciate his work and enclose a dollar. Telling that as time improve you will send more money. Send to ten or twelve different radio preachers.

The victim will NEVER get off of the mailing lists.

Bekeart

 

[skrazo]

At a "gathering", find a gullible person, show him a funnel and a coin, and some money. Bet him he cannot put the funnel in his belt, the coin on his forehead (head tilted back), and drop the coin into the funnel without using his hands. When he tilts his head back preparing to "drop" the coin, pour some water in the funnel. Be ready to run!

 

[steelslaver]

Take an empty snose can and cut a hole on one side of the bottom your "signal" finger will just fit through to the middle joint and fold over. Place some toilet tissue in it around the finger. Carefully add a little catsup. Fold the finger over so the lid will go on. Hold with rest of fingers around base. Now go up to a safety guy and tell him you need to show him something you found and remove the lid.

 

[Odinkar]

mstem's prank reminded me of one myself and another officer did to a fellow cop. Our briefing room was on the 2nd floor above our records. Our lockers were homemade out of wood and had the screws for the hinges on the outside. We took the door off and placed a sheet of cardboard inside so there was a gap of about an inch or so. We filled the space with about 100 golfballs and then put the door about on. When the officer that we called Koko after the chimp that learned sign language opened the door about half the golfballs feel onto the tile floor. They bounced down the strairs while Koko just stood there. Then he grabed the cardboard and shook it so the other half fell. It kind of reminded me of the old Cpt. Kangaroo show when the ping-pong balls would fall on the moose. The best part was that we blamed it on a Cpl. on another shift. Goodtimes

 

[Abbynormal]

Office Cube farm with 2 book cases above desk with vertically opening doors.

1. Empty said bookcases
2. Remove bookcases from slip slot frame
3. Fill bookcases with packing peanuts from open rear of bookcase
4. Replace bookcase
5. Wait until victim opens bookcase and packing peanuts flood out.
6. Best part was it took victim an hour to clean up peanuts
7. When he opened the other bookcase just as he got done SURPRIZE!

 

[Abbynormal]

Weekly trap shoot

Intentionally miss almost all birds during 1st round

Insert "special" shotgun shell into gun

Ask friend/frienimy/local azz to try your gun as you can't hit anything

Watch look on their face when

a. Bird bomb
b. Dragon's Breath
c. hand loaded round with no shot and cut down wad with no powder/primer only, sparkly foil glitter payload. (Spectacular at night shoots)

Goes off and their standing there knowing they've been had.

Go to indoor pistol range and wait until every one (including yourself) is shooting .22's
Pull out one or 2 .44 magnums, with hot hand loads that throw flame 15' and sound like a cannon going off (W-296/H-110 or 2400)
Dump a cylinder as fast as you can and look back behind the partitions at people in shock


(I'm a bad, bad boy!)

 

[speedyquad]

zip ties on a drive shaft

in college, i worked in a grocery store. my now wife's little brother was in highschool and wanted some help in pranking one of his friends. on our magazine rack was a magazine called out. it was for the lgbt people. we procured a subscription card or two and signed a few of his friends up. their parents had questions.

 

[carpriver]

I worked in mental health clinic, one of the therapist went on vacation. While she was gone we filled her office with shredded paper. we filled the room up to the base of the window.

A new young female therapist had a habit of leaving her keys in her car. She was remained that is was not safe to continue. My buddy and I took it upon ourselves to train her. On a Friday afternoon we moved her car from the front parking lot to the back lot, took the keys and put them in the office door. She had to leave right after work to meet her family. 5: o clock comes she goes to get in her car she can't find it, after a while she found the car in the back lot she gets in no keys. now she is no longer a happy camper. She walks back to the office and sees the keys in the door. She told her mother and her mom said those men told you is was not safe to leave your keys it the car.

the old bucket over the door trick. used glitter. took months to get all the stuff out of the carpet.

Put the Saran Wrap on a urinal it works, put several layers of clear tape over the lock in a door knob.

 

[cv540]

Pranks

Simple pranks:

-Leave a few pennies on the top of the blades of the ceiling fan when visiting friends. When they turn the fan on they think for a moment that it is pulling out of the ceiling.

-Rubber band on the sprayer of the kitchen sink.

-When coloring eggs, slip one unboiled one in, then pack your wife's lunch the next day for her crack the "special egg" in front of her co-workers.

-If a co-worker is leaving for another job and you have enough notice, fill out a couple advertiser's index cards in the back of a magazine with their name and a promotion. One their first day, they will walk in to be handed a large stack of mail to "Captain Smith."

-For cops, peel off the car numbers on a squad and turn car 54 into car 45.

 

[skrazo]

WHEW! I'm gonna do my best to keep you guys from finding out where I live, work, or what my real name is!

 

[shouldazagged]

I worked in mental health clinic, one of the therapist went on vacation. While she was gone we filled her office with shredded paper. we filled the room up to the base of the window.

At one treatment center where I worked one of my fellow outpatient therapists went on vacation to Cape Hatteras for two weeks in August.

When she came back to work I had completely decorated her office for Christmas--tree, tinsel and evergreen garlands, lights, the whole deal. She nearly wet her pants laughing.

 

[EQGuy]

Several years ago my buddy and I were Elk hunting and noticed a lot of Elk "sign" and had an idea for a practical joke to play during the next years deer hunt in California. I bought a box of junior mints for the upcoming prank. My buddy and I and his wife were out hunting and I noticed a pile of fresh deer "sign". J palmed a couple of mints and faked picking up some of the deer sign and placed a mint in my mouth and stated that I thought the sign had been placed earlier that morning and was piping hot. His wife told where to go as she was not falling for that stunt. Later their 12 year old son joined us and while the wife was not in the vicinity I pulled the same trick only this time my buddy asked for some of the sign and he proceeded to disagree with me and told me it was much fresher. The look on his son's face was priceless as he was horrified and thought surely we had gone completely bonkers. My buddy fessed up right away as he did not want to harm his son's psyche. His son is now in his 30's and that is one of his favorite memories of the hunt.

 

[Eagle 477]

Years ago before we had air conditioning in the house. One hot humid evening after a few beers and other adult beverages I decided I would get even with my brother for all the **** he used to blame on me... I sprinkled 3 packs of unsweetened grape cool aid on his bed sheet. He woke up the next morning looking like a Smurf..

When my niece (same brother) was 2 I sprinkled those chocolate covered raisons in front of her Easter Basket after she ate most of them I told her that the Easter bunny left the basket for her but I think she just ate Easter bunny Poop....

 

[Ogandydancer]

We used to always send the new mechanic in the shop out to the auto supply store to get a metric crescent {adjustable} wrench...it's even funnier when we would call ahead and tell one of the parts salesmen. He would pull out a crescent wrench and say "sorry, we only got this english one."
The building industry is full of these too...roll of pipe threads, brick bender, sky hook.

How about left handed pipe bender and wire stretcher? Those were always good for a laugh when I was in Maint.

 

[DeadAye]

When I was an apprentice at US Steel I was on a call with 2 Craftsmen (actual job title).
One says *I told you it wouldn't work* the other says *OK you win - send the apprentice for the right tool*
So they sent me for a left handed Crescent wrench
Knowing better, I headed over to the cafeteria, had a nice early lunch and went back and reported that I couldn't find one.
They had a good laugh (Me too )

Fast forward MANY years -
I buy tools at flea markets -- At one, whilst looking at stuff, I absentmindedly picked up a Crescent wrench and
<low and behold!>
it was (and is) left handed!!!! I still have it

 

[cv540]

Rigging a car

Take the "punches" from the bottom of a three hole puncher and put them in the upper vents of a co-workers parked and non-running work car. Push them in far enough so they are not in view when the driver gets in. Angle the vents upward, turn the heating system to "Vent" and put the fan on "Hi." When the driver starts the car, they get a surprise.

For a bit of extra mental overload, turn the wipers on Hi, and turn the radio on loudly (if you were to have cassette or cd with parade music it would be even funnier.)

 

[twobit601]

Some I heard of about 4o years ago. ....
1. Instead of papering someone's house with toilet paper, sprinkle five pounds of dried pinto beans all over their nice front lawn. In a week or two bean plants will sprout everywhere.
2. Railroad tracks went thru town next to main street. Once saw a black plastic garbage bag full of fresh horse manure hung over the tracks at about the level of the train headlight. splat!
3. Live armadillo locked in the trunk of a car.

 

[mtgianni]

I have worked a couple of jobs where people were into "harmless" pranks. One retaliated by putting the pranker in the hospital with his fists. What someone thought was harmless wasn't.
On a second occasion Boss came out and said " I pay you guys $25 an hour to work. X & Y go find another job, you aren't coming back here".

 

[XD40inTX]

This wasn't intended as a prank but I've gotten a lot of laughs from telling it over the years.

Back in the 'Sixties I washed out of USAF pilot training but ended up with a civilian commercial pilot's license. (I was fine as long as there was a propeller up front. Things in a jet happened a little too quickly for me to keep up with.)

Anyway, I picked up some side money as a charter pilot. The local FBO had a Cessna 310 he could pull the 4 back seats out of and haul freight, and one day he got a call to transport a body in a casket. Offered me the flight and I took it. We strapped the casket down and installed a curtain behind the front seats to separate us from the casket. The funeral home sent a young guy with the casket, so he rode in the copilot's seat.

We stopped to refuel and the young guy went to the restroom. While he was gone a soldier in uniform approached me and asked if he could catch a ride to Memphis, which is where we were headed. I told him he'd have to ride in the back with a casket, but he said that would be okay. He climbed in, stretched out on the floor, and I closed the curtain. The funeral home guy came back and we took off.

You probably see this coming. We're cruising along at 10,500 feet when the soldier pulled back the curtain and said, "Man, it's hot back here. Can I leave this curtain open?" At 10,500 feet and 210 mph, the funeral home guy tried to get out and walk home.

 

[O2Guy]

A few years ago on April 1, I left a note for a guy in our office to call Mr. Lyon and gave the number for the local zoo. The guy called and asked to speak with Mr. Lyon. The guy at the zoo asked him to repeat it and he again asked for Mr. Lyon. The guy at the zoo told him that someone had pranked him and laughed and said, "This is the zoo. Our Mr. Lion doesn't talk."