Silly pranks

[coachgrd]

My boss and I were talking yesterday about the relationship between his father and uncle (his Dad's brother.) Apparently these gentlemen were not only brothers but great friends. They also enjoyed playing pranks on one another, a couple of which my boss shared with me. I almosy bust a gut at these and thought you guys might enjoy them too.

One time apparently, one of the brothers contacted several media outlets in the area and told them that someone (his brother) by the name of _____________ had recently won the $1,000 A WEEK for LIFE Lottery drawing. The media began calling this man and he had the hardest time convincing them that he had indeed NOT won this lottery.

I guess it didn't take a great deal of thought to figure out who set him up and he responded with a little fun of his own. After a couple of months he placed an ad in the local paper stating as such:

Free firewood. Seasoned, split. Delivery available free of charge. I work odd hours, call after 3:00 a.m. Call____________.

From what my boss stated, the phone rang off the hook for days (at mostly 3:00 a.m.)

I thought those were priceless.

 

[ToadHill]

Had twin brothers who lived down the street. One came in late one night pulled a stocking over his face, and put his face almost on that of his sleeping brother,breathing very hard until the brother woke up. He almost had a panic attack.

In return later that week the sleeping brother took a Big Ben alarm clock the kind with big bells on it, set it for 4:00 am, put it in a steel bucket and wired it to the springs under his brothers bed. When it went off his brother fell out of the top bunk trying to get down to shut it off.

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

I remember years ago my brother and I were fishing this little trout stream in the middle of nowhere. We had a habit of passing each other pool by pool as we fished our way up stream. At one point my brother who was up stream came running down through the woods screaming BEAR! BEAR! RUN! so I dropped my pole and started running like crazy after about 75' feet I noticed my brother laughing and I had not seen any bear yet...he said the look on my face as he ran by me was priceless... I don't think I ever got him back for that!

 

[KubotaSteve]

I remember one time my older brother and I were shooting our .22 rifles (18 shot marlin semi automatic) at cans and targets. He waited until I set down at the picnic table and then set on my left side. I didn't pay it no mind. We started shooting and I kept feeling something hitting me in the head and I thought it was deer flies as they are horrible in that part of the mountain. I just would swat at it with my hand. After the 2nd or 3rd reload he was snickering and laughing, of course he wouldn't tell me what was so funny, but I figured it out when one of those shells went down my shirt!!! I looked around on the ground and there were .22 casings all around me and here I thought he kept moving away from me to get a better aim at the target.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I took a welding course through our county school system a few years back. The instructor had a few of his "buddies" in the class. Apparently they were there just to harrass the instructor and try to make him look bad. One evening, we all went out on break to grab something to eat. The instructor normally went with us, but this one night he claimed he needed to get something ready for our exam that was coming up after break. When we returned, he had a project set up at each work station. He explained our exam was to complete the project. He would grade us on speed and accuracy. "Get after it boys", he said, "First one done gets an A". Everyone started welding away! POW! -----POW!----POW!

While we were away, he hid firecrackers under the "projects" his buddies were working on. As they reached a certain point, the arc would ignite them. When we looked up, the instructor was sitting at his desk, literally shaking all over he was laughing so hard.

Everyone got an A.

We gave the instructor an A+ for creativity.

 

[dbdartman]

First welding shop I worked in professionally did stainless almost exclusively, but used DC machines with no high frequency start (scratch to light) & gas cooled Tig torches. Most of what we welded was 4' X 20' 16 & 18ga sheet pieces. The way the pieces were supported during some of the welding it was easy to push on one end of the piece & have the other end move nearly the same amount (flexing in the middle). A friend & I would take turns harassing each other by waiting until the other was at the end of a sheet, then we'd grab the opposite end & move it back & forth about 18" while yelling, "San Fransisco 1903!" The object was to keep welding while the sheet moved (he was better at it than I was).

Another prank there was to sharpen a piece of stainless fill rod, the same diameter as the tungsten, & slip it into someone's pack of tungstens. If you didn't notice the weight difference, you'd slip the stainless "tungsten" into the torch, strike an arc & the "tungsten" would ball up like the polarity was reversed. Thinking someone must have swapped leads on your machine, you'd swap the leads, install a new tungsten (real this time) & again it would ball up! This would confuse rookies easily, & for a while, plus it even got a couple of the old veterans. After the 2nd or 3rd time it would happen to you, (if you were smart) you'd learn to pull the "tungsten" & try to bend it before swapping your leads.

 

[Podunkadunk]

A good buddy of mine put 2-3 industrial sized tie straps on my driveshaft once. Every time I'd start driving off, click, click, click....

I got out, looked under the truck, couldn't see anything wrong. Got back in, drove off, same thing. Of course it did it in reverse too. I thought something was wrong with my tranny...

Called a tow truck to take it to the nearest dealership (truck under warranty still).

The tow truck driver was underneath the truck hooking up cables and discovered the "prank".

It cost me $75.00 for his service call and to get him to unhook!

I told my buddy to pay me back, "or else". He called my "bluff".

Back then (1998) there was a new internet service called Mr. Wakeup. I had him set up to be called via telephone every night at 0300 for 2 weeks. He couldn't stop it from calling again the next night

About the 4th day of that happening, he put 2 and 2 together that I was behind it, confronted me and then paid me the $75.00

He hasn't bothered me since!

Podunk

 

[AlanB]

When I was a kid, one of the things my dad was responsible for was many of the telephone towers in Central Florida. Hired contractors were painting the tower in Leesburg and dad came home and got me and took me to work, his office was almost directly under the tower and there was a break table just outside.

So, picture if you will, two guys that surely were named something like Bubba, and James Leroy. Suffice it too say that the term redneck applied.

So Bubba and JL are both wearing overall's or other similar attire, with 5 gallon buckets of paint on thier side and on one hand they have a car wash mit. They stick their mit hand in the bucket, and "paint" the round tubed tower with it as they hold on with their other hand.

At that time, and I think they still are, the Florida Tel towers were alternating orange and white.

So, you had Bubba and JL up there, one painting white, one orange.

Well, what made for entertainmnet was that these guys would slowly "paint" their way under one another,,,, then paint under the feet of their partner and sit back and laugh as their partner "slipped" on the rail.

Nope, no safeties, no tie in's nothing.

Dad said it had been going on for days.

If I remember right (and I am probably wrong) Leesburg was a 365' tower.

 

[chevyfan]

Here's a good one...
Take a 1960's model Ford truck with a 6cyl. and a three speed on the floor.
All of the interior is metal except the dash...pop the hood...take some 12ga wire and remove a spark plug wire from the plug....wrap the 12ga wire around the top of the spark plug and reinstall the plug wire...
Run the 12ga wire into the cab and on to the seat springs....
Put truck in neutral and let it roll out into the street.....
Call the freshman that owns the truck to move it....
As soon as he starts it....BLAM....he get's shocked....he can't open the door, shut it off or put it into gear because all of these are metal objects...
Hee...Hee...Hee...

 

[Richard]

I'm an early to bed, early to rise person.

Freshman year in college, I was STILL early to bed... everyone else in the dorm was up LATE everyyyyyyy evening making a big party out of it all and oblivious to folks like me who preferred to go to sleep and not stay up until 2:00.

The gall they'd have in the mornings if I was loud... how it infringed upon their ability to sleep in late...

One weekend, I was over it.

I had a pair of Klipsch LaScala speakers in my dorm mated with a 120 watt receiver.

I had a timer and set it for about 4:00 am.

I took the needle on my turntable, put Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the moon on. I found the spot where those (OBNOXIOUS) chimes are and set the needle down on the unmoving record.

I set the volume on about 11 and it was all set.

About 4:00 all freaking heck broke lose in my dorm room as these bells/chimes started clanging like Big Ben was in there doing the job itself.

Everyone woke up, scrambled out to the hall, banged on the door... the sound died. (timer turned off).

Oh...did I mention that I went home that weekend so I wasn't there



Though they were STILL rowdy the rest of the year, I think they finally got my point that we all need to live together and have SOME form of respect for each other.