Practical Joke

[LS Tractor Owner]

I've seen that done a couple of times... at the self service gas pumps. Some people seem to think that it's clever to lock the pump handle open before replacing it into the pump housing.

Well, you can't fix stupid! Amazing that some people don't 'think through' what they may cause!

 

[Industrial Toys]

I used to go out at at opportune moment when a friend was staying over, let the air out of one of their tires and glue a huge ugly bent up nail, of which I had ground the end off at an angle, onto their side wall with crazy glue. Gave them a good WTF moment.

 

[Howling]

One practical joke I witnessed that WAS funny was a co-worker placed a smoke bomb in the engine compartment on a guy's VW that had just rebuilt the engine. He ran a wire from the hot side of the coil to a open filament Bosch fuse and the other end to ground. He stuck the fuse for the smoke bomb under the Bosch fuse filament so when it blew it would light the smoke bomb fuse. The look on the kid's face when he started the car and that smoke bomb went off was priceless.

We had auto foolers that attached to sparkplug wire. Gave a whistle, bang and smoke when the car was started.

I high school we went in early and removed most of screws on teachers table. A girl bumped it at beginning of class. Table flipped over with one leg sticking up. Girl turned bright red.

 

[Lnk]

I doubt that can cause a problem. Most gasoline nozzles are designed to trip at 7 psi of seating pressure. Also, the nozzle boot has a switch that is made whenever the nozzle is in the boot. The nozzle would have to be removed, release the handle to reset, and re-squeezed. Still doesn't absolve the person who would try a stunt like that of evil, but shouldn't cause a problem.

Lnk

 

[Bird]

We had auto foolers that attached to sparkplug wire. Gave a whistle, bang and smoke when the car was started.

The first time I ever saw one of those was shortly after my Mother got a driver's license. I think I was 8 years old. And Dad put one on our own car to give Mother a scare.

 

[k0ua]

The first time I ever saw one of those was shortly after my Mother got a driver's license. I think I was 8 years old. And Dad put one on our own car to give Mother a scare.

Why do people do things like that? And then laugh about it? I have never understood the practical joke. I have never seen any good come from them. I guess I was born "old". It is truly a mystery to me. Kinda like getting drunk on Saturday night. Never understood that one either. Why would you want to do that? Especially as an adult. Some of these stupid things we can tolerate in children, but adults?

 

[reb]

There were some innocent practical jokes at work.

Our desks at work had two sliding shelves. One morning one of the guys got in early and taped a file folder onto the bottom of one so it would fall when the shelf was moved out. He then filled it with litter from a hole punch and shove the shelf in. The boss came in a few minutes later to BS with the first employee. He pulled the shelf out to rest his feet on it and dumped the litter out. He ignored it.

Another time several of the junior employees got together and taped rubber bands to the back of the middle drawer of someone's desk so it would close when he released it after opening it. That got a laugh.

One time one of the fellows sent his wife all over town looking for a metric Crescent wrench. She got back at him by sewing closed the opening in his jockey shorts. He didn't discover it until he was at work.

 

[Jim Shooz]

My old man would be working under the bonnet (hood to you guys) of the car, with the engine running. He would carefully take off one of the plug leads making sure he was not touching the car. He would call one of us boys over and get us to touch the car. He would reach over and touch our shoulder. That completed the circuit, but he knew the shock was coming.
In one of the buildings I worked in,depending on your underwear (nylon or cotton) as you walked around you would build up a significant voltage of static electricity. One of the guys would build up a decent charge and sneak up behind someone who was head down and really intent on what he was writing. He would slowly put his finger closer and closer the the other guys ear lobe.

 

[tjkubota93]

We had auto foolers that attached to sparkplug wire. Gave a whistle, bang and smoke when the car was started.

I high school we went in early and removed most of screws on teachers table. A girl bumped it at beginning of class. Table flipped over with one leg sticking up. Girl turned bright red.

I had a flash one time as senior and brought a screwdriver to school and took all the screws out of the study hall teachers desk that was on a 2 or 3 ft platform. He would come in everyday and throw his briefcase on the desk making a loud noise. Everyone thought the desk would collapse when he did that this time, it didn't. A friend that was in on it went and asked a question, leaning on the desk. As he walked away it flipped off the platform and landed on the ground, all bent to h*ll. The briefcase flew forward too. Everyone went nuts laughing. After I got done laughing, I realized I could have hurt someone and was thankful I didn't.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

In HS, had an old substitute teacher. His chair had a 1" cushion. Someone put a thumb tack thru from the bottom, that would barely prick as he sat on it.