Friends foil Olympia man's home

The Olympian ^ | January 7, 2004 | Heather Woodward

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A lone book titled "Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends" was untouched. But nearly everything else in Chris Kirk's downtown Olympia apartment was encased in aluminum foil when he returned home Monday night from a trip to Los Angeles.

The walls, ceiling, cabinets and everything in between now shimmer with a metallic glow, thanks to a prank by Kirk's longtime friend, Olympia native Luke Trerice.

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The individually wrapped quarters really made me laugh. That and the toilet paper. This isn't exactly hot news but it made my day.

There are more pictures at the source.

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Hope you enjoy.

[FeliciaCat]

Very Cool.

[MediaMole]

Wow, I must take note of this in case my stylish hat no longer protects me from the satellites.

[alancarp]

The ultimate tin-foil hat.

[Ronin]

This is great. Especially the last line.

I love this kind of cheerful insanity.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Curses! Foiled again!

[Lazamataz]

I need a friend like this.

We can one-up one another.

[Junior]

Once, in the eighth grade (more than 20 years ago), a bunch of us rearranged a teacher's classroom during a break; we turned everything around, erased the board and wrote the information in mirror writing, moved the teacher's desk to the other side of the room, and even flipped the globe upside down. It wasn't much but it was worth the look on the teacher's face when she returned.

[annyokie]

This is hilarious! Thanks!

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For almost forty years now, my mother has been picking up my Dad's books and turning them a page forward or back. He will sit down to resume reading and get this very confused look on his face, and page around until he finally finds a place he remembers reading. He has never caught on.

[dakine]

hahaha, I've been doing that (turning pages back on books) for years, then sitting back and quietly watching the reaction...

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

At my university, they played a prank on the new President a few years ago.

Construction was already an ongoing project on the Presidents floor during his first week. The night before his third day, the construction guys apparently did a pretty professional job of sealing up his office door. It looked just like the rest of the wall. You could not tell that a door had ever been there.

The poor guy showed up and looked extremely confused. He could have sworn this was where his office was!!!

[evets]

400 quatloos on the newcomer

[ElkGroveDan]

One year when I lived in the dorms at college I had everyone on my floor except my target save their empty soda cans for two quarters. After he had gone to sleep we covered his door in newspaper, then we stacked row upon row of the aluminum cans in front of the door, dropping a penny in each one (for the sound effect) and holding the m in place with a strip of newspaper and tape.

Eventually we had half a pyramid 8 feet high and 10 feet deep completely blocking his door. We then propped open the door to the stairwell that faced his room.

When he woke up the next morning thinking it was just a newspaper prank he kicked the paper sending an avalanche of cans (with pennies rattling) across the hall and down the stairs. It sounded like a plane crashing.

That was the best such prank I've ever done.

[cake_crumb]

Forwarded. Some things are too good not to share.

[Cooter]

The Disappearing President's Office

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During the 80s a group of Ryerson engineering students put an Austin Mini on the roof of a building on campus. Two days later, while the administration was still trying to figure out how to move it, the architecture students built a garage for it.

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During the '70s a group of CalTech students, who stayed on campus over Christmas break, decided to have some fun at the expense of a wealthy fellow student who could afford to fly home for the holidays. They spent their vacation disassembling his Corvette and reassembling it in his dorm room. When he returned and opened his door, there it sat, engine running....

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Your prank was better, though much more laborious than (but that's the fun, isn't it?) the one we used to pull: Fill a 30-gallon trash can half-full of water, lean it against someone's door, knock, and run....