Posted on 09/24/2011 6:19:55 AM PDT by MNDude
Whether at high school, college, or worplace, everyone has a story of pranks they witnessed. What are the best prank you've done or seen?
I really, hate those speed cameras where I live, and so do some teachers.
It seems the kids at a nearby high school have been taking photos of teachers license plates, printing them out life size on a copy machine, then taping them to their cars.
Then the kids race thru the speed cameras and the teachers get the tickets.
Its terrible, rebellious, and awful funny ...
At work a long time ago, a guy put a chainsaw together without the chain. He started it, and with it running at full throttle, swung it into another guys’s chest. That was pretty crazy.. Not something I’d advocate. But I did see it happen.
They had hinted that they wanted to get a stripper for me, and I told them that I wouldn't stick around if they did so.
So, they went to a female coworker and had her call me, claiming to be the receptionist. She said that she was trying to reach my coworker (the one who had hinted that he wanted to get me a stripper), but couldn't reach him. She then said that someone had to come to the reception area and do something about the inappropriately-dressed woman standing there.
Well, I hit the roof! I grabbed my stuff and started walking out. My coworkers, laughing wildly, ran after me and stopped me, and admitted that the call was just a prank.
The best part of the story, which I learned later, was when they went to the female coworker and started the conversation with: "We have a favor to ask. We told John that we were going to get stripper-". That's as far as they got. She jumped up and yelled, "I WILL NOT!". Then they had to calm her down before they could explain that they only wanted her to impersonate the receptionist on the phone. THAT she was happy to do.
Late one night in college I arranged the folding chairs in the choir room so their back legs would drop down into the gap in the risers at the slightest touch. Had humanities class in the room the next morning - first class of the day - so got there early to watch the humanity.
Too bad that girl sat down with a warm beverage in one hand. The basketball player didn’t look too graceful, either. I just kept my eyes on the text book as if nothing was happening.
Then there was the year I decided to jump out of the bushes and scare kids one Halloween. That lasted until some kid with a cudgel indulged the natural response of self defense. I didn’t know what hit me.
Convinced a co-worker that he someone else had been assigned to co-habitate his office. We moved another desk and chairs in there (very small office - very crowded). We would periodically leave a note - something along the lines of “am on business travel - please water my plant”, and would make comments like “I just met your new office-mate. Oh, you haven’t met him yet? You just missed him!” We kept this going for several weeks before someone spilled the beans.
Convinced a co-worker that he someone else had been assigned to co-habitate his office. We moved another desk and chairs in there (very small office - very crowded). We would periodically leave a note - something along the lines of “am on business travel - please water my plant”, and would make comments like “I just met your new office-mate. Oh, you haven’t met him yet? You just missed him!” We kept this going for several weeks before someone spilled the beans.
1. Back in the days of the rotary phone, I told a co-worker (lovable but dense) that the phone company had called about an issue with the lines. The lines had dust and they had to blow them out. The phone company had instructed us to put the receivers in a paper bag, tape the bag to the receiver, and leave it on until they called back with the all-clear. After about 10 minutes, I told her they had called back and said it was safe to take the bag off. When she took it off, she looked in it to see if there was any dust.
2. In the days before cell phones, I had a manager who was a micro-manager. If she was out of the office she would call her employees constantly checking on things. She had a pager, so they could always get ahold of her.
One week she was working a charity golf tournament. About mid-week while her employees were at lunch, I paged her and put the number of the local Hooters restaurant. About 10 minutes later, I heard the phone of guy #1 ring. Then guy #2. Then guy #3. Then my phone rang; I answered. ‘Where are they?!?!?!’ ‘At lunch.’ (of course) ‘Tell them to call me the minute they get in!!!’ ‘No problem.’
She had called the Hooters and had them paged. To this day she believes one of them did it, even though I told her otherwise (several months later).
Now THAT is funny. I didn’t do this prank myself, but I know some guys that took a screen shot of the person’s Windows desktop. Then they made that the background image and deleted all the desktop icons.
The guy came in, and of course, double-clicking on any of the desktop icons wouldn’t work (because they weren’t icons - just part of his new desktop wallpaper).
I was taking the "System Analysis" class at college, and we were working on our final projects, and everyone was on pins and needles. The final project was putting together a technical project proposal, and then presenting it to the rest of the class. It was a team project with groups of three, but there were 16 of us in the class, and I volunteered to do the project as a team of 1 (I preferred to work on my own anyway).
The first presentation was about to start, and that team passed out copies of their proposal to the class. I started looking through mine, and on the first page was a dirty cartoon out of Playboy. For whatever reason, I thought they had accidentally included the cartoon in everyone's copy, and that made me completely lose my composure. I had to step out of the classroom for about 5 minutes before I could get my laughing under control.
Afterwards, I found out that they had only added the cartoon to my copy, so no one else had a clue why I completely lost it.
My dad was a part-time coin dealer. One friday night, when I was about 16 years old, we had all of his coin inventory packed in cases on the living room floor ready to go to a coin show the next morning. It was Halloween.
There was a knock at the front door, and someone was calling my dad’s name in a disguised voice. We were terrified. We didn’t have a peep hole back then, so we looked out the bedroom window, but we couldnt see who it was. It was two adults in costumes and masks. The man was wearing an 1890’s suit and a straw hat. From the window, the cane he was carrying looked like a gun. My brother was trying to draw a bead with his BB gun, but he couldn’t, so we called the police.
When the police arrived, we opened the door, and the man announced who he was - a local coin dealer and his wife. This dealer was a friend of ours, and was friends with most city cops, and knew the one who responded. He was also known for his practical jokes. My mom invited them all in for coffee.
My dad got him back. At a coin show my dad’s table was right next to this dealer’s. The dealer had a collection of sterling silver teaspoons with the replicas of the heads of all the Presidents on the handles. My dad slipped a regular teaspoon in the pack when the guy wasn’t looking, and, of course, made a very public display of finding that spoon in the pack.
My dad was getting tired of a guy at work bumming cigarettes from him. So, he threaded a hair through a cigarette, and the next time this guy asked for a smoke, my dad gave that one to him. He never bummed a smoke from my dad again.
As a cashier, I check bills for counterfeit and then (trying to keep a serious face) ask the customer, “Do you have a real one?”
I know you have some stories for here
This happened to my dad.
On Halloween my dad was going to do his nightly routine at the farms outhouse and his friends had moved it 2 ft. back.
You figure the rest.
Gross but still makes me chuckle.
My college roommate was a mooch. He would eat anything as long as it was free. He was offered a chocolate bar, which he woofed without even looking at it. It was a whole bar of Ex-Lax, nine pieces, more than four times the recommended dose.
My pledge class’s pranks (only 3 of us):
- taking ALL the silverware in mid-morning and putting it in one of those large stew pots filled with water and sticking it in the freezer (commercial size); the Brothers had to wait to thaw it out before dinner could be served
- getting the cook to put some “methyl blue” in the cake dessert; makes anyone who eats it pee a green color for a day or so
- slipping some ex-lax in the chocolate cake batter when the cook wasn’t looking, and then secretly saran-wrapping the tops of all the commode bowls in the house
We had some fun!
Why people fell for this one on April 1, I’ll never know:
Someone taped a sign to one of the copiers in the office of a company where my son works, over the control buttons that stated “Copy machine converted to voice command. State the number of copies you want”. He said people were shouting commands and getting perturbed when they couldn’t get their copies.
Back in the day, before HR moved into the building when we could get away with pulling pranks in our office , we performed many. One of the funniest was pouring all the paper dots from a hole-punch into the victim’s umbrella, choosing a rainy day course. It was a gas watching the person leave and then get showered with paper dots.
Problem with pranks though, you often get a negative return on your investment.
My dad was getting tired of a guy at work bumming cigarettes from him. So, he threaded a hair through a cigarette, and the next time this guy asked for a smoke, my dad gave that one to him.Hmm... I can't imagine someone else's hair would put off someone who smoked cigarettes. However, that reminded me of a cute prank:
Take a piece of wire and insert it into a cigarette or cigar. Then, smoke it in the presence of someone who's anal-retentive. Handle the cigarette carefully, and the wire will keep the ashes from falling off. You can end up with the whole cigarette being one long piece of ash. Some people will kill themselves trying to get you to bump the ashes off the end of the cigarette.
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