Silly pranks

[ScottAR]

I work at a parts store. Stick a bunch of guys in a small building and see what kinda pranks you get.

We get all the standard stuff. Radiators for VW bugs and so on... Occasionally, we'll fill a co workers vehicle with non-staining garbage; Boxes and the like... Every parts house in town for the most part knows the folks at the others except for the newbies at the chains... They are the fun ones since they don't know much about cars or what they're doing.


The best prank to date (there's always tomorrow) was pulled by one of our seasoned pros who can keep a straight face and demeanor under most any circumstances. We'll call him W.

We learned one of the chains got a newbie and this was his first day and that the manager on duty was not one of the brightess.

Ring ring ring... W gets the newbie... "I'd like a MAP sensor for a '95 chevy truck with a 350. ...... Newbie " Ok, I have one and it's $25.00."
W "Does that work in all 50 states?" silence... W " I have some grandkids over in the mid west and I don't want to get lost." (Newbie stutters and stammers) W " Can you check the packaging to see if it works in all 50 states?" Newbie leaves the phone and returns with the sensor. Newbie "No sir, it doesn't say anything about it at all." Newbie asks the manager if he knows... Manager in background... "Maybe it's a GPS?" W "No, no.. it's a MAP sensor... I'll just have to see the buffalo in Kentucky the old fashioned way."
W thanks the newbie for his time... Click hangup..

Meanwhile, everyone at the counter is laughing hysterically... I still don't think they ever figured it out... Speakerphones are fun....

Oh oh... I forgot... We have stickers to put on one's windshield or rear glass. The regular ones say ford,chevy or harley etc. The fun ones say princess or queen etc... Slap it on a man's ride and let the fun begin.

Slightly more devious, Get some Pine tree air fresheners and stick em in the pocket of the door panel where the seat belt goes through. They will never be found and stink like crazy... Only use if you have been pranked as it takes forever to get the pine smell out...

 

[coachgrd]

I got one of the guys I teach with pretty good one time...

I made a fairly large sign for the back of his Jeep Grand Cherokee that said "Honk if you like bootscootin'. "

He came into school the next day and thie first thing out of his mouth was "You're an @$$." He said he had people honking, giving him the thumbs up all the way home and couldn't figure out why.

 

[wrangler6831]

I remember riding around in a friends 78 ford truck (automatic) that would start in any gear. Me and another friend waited in the truck while the owner ran in the store to get something and thought it would be funny to drop it in REVERSE and let him start it that way. Owner comes back and stands on the gas, hits the switch and the tires light uplike crazy going in reverse. I still can't help but laugh just thinking of the look of confusion on his face and him trying to get the thing under control before he hit something. Luckily he didn't.
I also worked in a parts store and a guy that rebuilt starters and alterntors would charge up condensors out of a distributor and bring them in and toss them to the new guy. It wasn't enough voltage to really hurt but it didn't take long to learn that if he threw something at you, you better side step it.

Rich

 

[hitekcountry]

There was a guy/investor that had contracted with a company that I worked for to design and develop a product that he of course believed was going to make him rich. He had invested all his net worth plus all he could borrow, and he had convinced many of his friends and relatives to invest their life saving in his venture.

The day came when we were to give the first demonstration of the completed system. Everyone who had worked on the system was there plus a couple of company big shots and of course the guy that had his entire future riding on the success of his product. The system was on one end of this long work bench and I was down at the other end.

Just as the system was being powered up, the engineer next to me (who was somewhat hidden behind the work bench) whispered to me "watch this" He started taking puffs on a lit cigarette and was blowing the smoke into a long piece of shrink tube that he had place along the work bench and into the back of the system card cage. In no time smoke began billowing out of the card cage. Now imagine the investor who one minute before was quietly standing there anxiously waiting to see his dreams of success come to life and who is now jumping up and down, waving his arms as though he's trying to fly, and screaming "turn it off!!! turn it off!!!" The poor guy just about had a heart attack, and the practical joker engineer was laughing his *** off.

The practical joker engineer and the investor were pretty good friends is probably the only reason the engineer wasn't fired.

 

[MarkV]

A friend of ours and her best friend college room mate had a long history of playing practical jokes on each other. The room mate lived at a Colorado sky resort and our friend lives in Georgia. The room mate was due some pay back so our friend recruited a group of us who were going skiing and did not know the room mate to be the pranksters.

One evening six of us pulled up to the room mate’s house with flowers, balloons, video cameras, lights, a microphone on a boom pole and a 2’x4’ check very much like one from a well known publishing company. It only took a minute or so, remember she knew none of us, before she was convinced she was a millionaire. We played the game for another five minutes or so before mentioning our friend’s name in the conversation. The look on the poor girls face and it is all on video tape.

MarkV

 

[EddieWalker]

About 7 or 8 years ago, I was working for Airborne Express in the SF Bay Area. One of the other drivers, and a good friend is a body builder who's competed in the Mr. USA body building shows, plus all sorts of others. He's just a massive guy, but he also has a pretty good sence of humore.

I taped a sign on the back of his delivery van that said, "I'm proud to be gay."

He didnt' see it until well into his morning as he didn't normaly open his back door. Of course, he had no idea it was there, but was having a great day until then because so many people we waving and smiling at him!!!!!!!

Eddie

 

[DANOCHEESE]

Here is a great one We bought a few GAY magazines and a playgirl. Made new adress labels with a certain gentelmans name on them. We then snuck them into the local doctors office waiting room and the barber shop. ( this was in a smal town) Of course you know what people do when they pick up a magazine they look at the adress label. This guy about went nuts trying to figure out who started the rumor around the whole town that he was GAY.

I did receive pay back in the form of a frozen can of shaving gell (minus the can), placed in my desk drawer.

 

[dbdartman]

I just remembered another one!

Way back when (probably 1976 or early 77), I was still in the USCG. One afternoon, we were underway & my Chief & I were on watch in the engineroom. A new kid that reported on board a day or 2 before, fresh out of boot camp & was assigned to the bridge crew, comes timidly down the ladder into the engineroom carrying an empty coffee cup. He comes up to me & yelling into my ear muffs over the din of the engines, asks for a cup of starboard running light oil. I knew one of the bridge crew was trying to prank us & the new kid, so, thinking fast I told the Chief I'd be back in a minute, then told the kid I didn't have any handy, that I had to get it from the store room & to stay put I'd be right back. I ran up to the galley, quickly explained to the cook on duty what was happening & he was happy to put a few drops of green food coloring in the cup for me. I filled the cup with water, took it back to the kid waiting for me & told him it was about all we had left, so he should be very careful with it, then sent him back to the bridge.

 

[LMTC]

dbdartman....we sell Turn Signal Fluid for just $8/gallon, and Heavy Duty Fill Air for tractor tires for just $5/rear tire and $3 for fronts.

Also left and right side tire lug sockets.

Have no need for starboard running light oil on a tractor..........

We've actually had some takers on the Turn Signal Fluid. Typical inquiry... "so you put it in the lens and it makes the bulb last longer, or what?" No, we haven't taken their money.

 

[KYErik]

Back when I was in college, I had a part time job working with the Southern Illinois University environmental health and safety center in the radiological control department delivering radioactive chemicals to bio and chem research labs, monitoring the labs for contamination and then picking up wates and storing them until they were decayed. We became well acquainted with most of the lab workers and professors since they had to take a test to certify them to work with the materials and also because we visited their labs at least once a month to check for contamination.

One Halloween, during working hours, my co worker and I dressed up in our emergency decontamination gear: yellow plastic suits, booties, gloves and respirators and drove over to the labs we monitored. We each carried a 1 liter glass beaker full of Halloween candy and walked down the halls of the research building (no classrooms) and passed out candy to the lab workers and the professors (the ones that could take a joke). We got plenty of stares as we walked the halls, but everyone was relieved when we offered them candy and reassured them that there was no spill.

We debated on bringing the Geiger counters along with a small radioactive source taped to the probe so that it would be clicking wildly, but thought that may be going a little too far.

Another prank between my coworker and I was to call the phone number for the department when the other was in the office, and with a foriegn accent exclaim something like, "I am professor X and think I may have spilled something that will need your immediate attention". We always treated those calls seriously because we didn't want to take the matter lightly in case it wasn't a prank call.