Silly pranks

[YanmarFever]

In the 60s we had a beach cabin and a neighbor who always pulled dirty tricks when he could.
One day he cleaned up his yard and put all the garbage in a 6x12 trailer.
Next he drove out to the beach at 10 pm during low tide and left the trailer for the tide to bury in the sand.
Well my Dad and I hauled it back at midnight with the dune buggy and parked it in his driveway around 3am.
You can imagine the look on his face the next day!

 

[Tororider]

This is more unkind than a prank.

Summer after high school watched one of the "I know what you did last summer/Scream" type movies with an ex-girlfriend one night. Obviously she was a little freaked out after the movie. She went to drive home from my house, and as soon as she left, I jumped in my car and was able to beat her back to her place. Ran and hid behind a bush right by the door. As she was fumbling with her keys I just rose up from the bush, needless to say she screamed and when she realized who it was, was none to happy with me. Took her like a half an hour to calm down before I could leave.

Not my finest hour, but it scared the living crap out of her.

 

[farmerjim]

we've done these at work mostly. big zip ties on the drive shaft of a vehicle. catfish bait under the seat in the middle of summer, boy did that stink. one of the guys in the shop wired the back up alarm into the brakes , dangerous to the public but it was kinda funny in the yard. someone else got their tools siliconed into their tool pouch, that was a bit too far.

 

[BigE_]

An office coworker went on sabbatical (60 day paid vacation every 7 years), and for his return, we decorated his cube.

First, we unlocked his cabinets, then wrapped everything up in plastic wrap (the heavy duty shipping stuff). Then we dumped a 30 gallon can of sawdust in his cube, in the drawers, filing cabinets, etc. (he's a woodworker, so staying in the theme). To make it so he couldn't just vacuum up the sawdust, we added a huge box of 3V CR2032 coin cells to the mix. (These will short out when jumbled together, causing a bunch of heat, which is not a good thing with sawdust). Finally, we covered the cube with 4x8' foam panels and topped these off with sawdust.

Took him over a week to clean up, and he's still finding sawdust.

 

[podagrower]

Being an electrician in new construction, people will typically take my lead when looking for power. I have a job-site radio that operates on either 120 power or battery. I really love plugging in the radio while it is operating on battery, and telling people there must be something wrong the tools they have plugged into a non functioning outlet.

Know someone overly concerned with their car, or dare I say tractor?
Throw a handfull of bolts underneath, and "helpfully" point them out.
A quart of transmission fluid under a car in a parking lot works well also.

 

[2manyrocks]

Hid lady's underwear in my roommate's laundry he took home for his momma to wash. His momma washed them and told him they were clean.

Gave my brother in law a plastic hide a key thing for Christmas that looked like real dog poop. He had two big dogs and told me that next time I came to visit, the house key would be hidden in the back yard....

 

[EastTnFarmboy]

One year at church camp a young adult counselor told a bunch of us boys that sulfur powder mixed with honey or molasses was a great cure for acne. Since most of us had already spent a fortune buying all the over the counter remedies that teenagers use, I decided to give it a try after I got home from camp to see if it really worked. Well, the taste was awful, and it was mighty difficult to mix and swallow. I never did see any results.

Several years later, my sister was at the same stage of life and I felt it my brotherly duty to pass along the tremendous tip that I had received a few years prior. We helped her gather the ingredients one Christmas Eve. It took a bit of coaxing, but she eventually made an effort to swallow the concoction. The look on her face was priceless. I am not sure if she has forgiven me yet. However, I will be interested to see if she passes along the "tip" to her kids in the future.

 

[thatguy]

I thought I was funny once... My wife and son might disagree, but, hey, funny, corny, it's the same

A buddy of mine wanted to go look at trucks. I drove him to a dealer. I was bored waiting for him, so I went to all the 4x4's and put the transfer cases in neutral. Then watched a couple salesmen, including the one with my buddy, try to drive off the lot... They eventually figured it out, but only after looking under the hood, under the truck, shifting the regular shifter in and out of gear...

I guy we used to buy hay from told a similar prank of one of his brothers that didnt turn out so well.. The prankee left the truck on top of a hill and the brothers (pranksters) forgot to set the parking break after shifting the transfer case to Neutral.. It stayed there for a while, but a nice breeze got it rolling and it was (literally) down hill from there.. They did confess up to their prank though..

brian

 

[MikeD74T]

My buddy's in the dirt business, site work, septic systems, etc. A couple of summers ago he was expecting a visit from a young man, a hunter that had purchased a nearby lot, to discuss site work. While waiting we prepared a 2 liter bottle of oxy-acetylene mix & stuck it on a sand pile 75' away. When the customer arrived we were shooting "at" the bottle with a 22. My buddy asked the customer if he could shoot & explained that none of us could hit the bottle. As expected he hit the bottle and it exploded with a deafening boom. The look on his face was priceless as he asked "What the H*** kind of gun is this anyway ???"

As a teenager in the 60's woodchucks were plentiful in our area & many evenings in haying season were spent driving around shooting them. Now, due to coyote predation, they're seldom seen out in the open. Been hoping to get one, skin it out, set up an exploding woodchuck ( with the oxy-acetylene soda botle in the hide) in the field in front of my camp, and watch the fun.

Suppose a deer hide with a garbage bag of O-A make a good poacher trap ??????? MikeD74T

 

[RobertN]

An office coworker went on sabbatical (60 day paid vacation every 7 years), and for his return, we decorated his cube.

First, we unlocked his cabinets, then wrapped everything up in plastic wrap (the heavy duty shipping stuff).
Took him over a week to clean up, and he's still finding sawdust.

That looks a lot like FM7... Aint, but looks like it

Surprised MR. Safety didn't from on all the dust Did a few rivals to that in FM3 in the day...

 

[EddieWalker]

This one just happened. A client of mine is finishing off a remodel that I started for them. They wanted me to get them along, then they are finishing it themselves. The husband was installing the lights and then checking to make sure they worked. All was going well until the hall lights with the three way switch. He couldn't figure out why it wouldn't turn on, so he climbed into the attic to check the wireing. He thought I had made a mistake when I ran it, but that was fine. Then he pulled out the switches and went of the diagrams that I had left for him. Again, he thought I must have made a mistake there, so he went online and looked up three way wiring diagrams, which turned out to be fine. The lights both have two bulbs in them and there are two lights in the hallway, so he just knew that at least one bulb had to be good, even though they were all brand new. But nothing else was wrong, so he took off the glass covers to discover that his wife had removed the bulbs on him as a joke. He spent almost an hour trying to figure out what was wrong and was about to call me over to help figure it out. He wasn't happy with her when he found out what he'd spent his evening doing after a full days work!!!!!

Eddie

 

[dbdartman]

Suppose a deer hide with a garbage bag of O-A make a good poacher trap ??????? MikeD74T

Not so much of a "prank" as a "stunt gone wrong" but a guy that worked for my father many years ago did something similar. He started & adjusted the O-A torch as usual, then shut off the tanks, then he filled a large plastic leaf bag with the "adjusted" gas & took it home for July 4 celebration. What they did was put the bag in the tree in their front yard & used some toilet paper as the fuse. Well, as can be expected, the bag exploded spectacularly! What they didn't expect was the explosion blowing most of the leaves off the tree. I'm not sure if the tree survived, but it may have. All I know is I was told it was a strange sight, the poor tree with almost no leaves on it in the middle of the summer.

 

[BigE_]

That looks a lot like FM7... Aint, but looks like it
Surprised MR. Safety didn't from on all the dust Did a few rivals to that in FM3 in the day...

That would be HF3. Mr. Safety got hit in one of the rounds of layoffs, and for some reason that position was never filled. Site services wasn't too happy about it though.

 

[Travelover]

Not so much of a "prank" as a "stunt gone wrong" but a guy that worked for my father many years ago did something similar. He started & adjusted the O-A torch as usual, then shut off the tanks, then he filled a large plastic leaf bag with the "adjusted" gas & took it home for July 4 celebration. What they did was put the bag in the tree in their front yard & used some toilet paper as the fuse. Well, as can be expected, the bag exploded spectacularly! What they didn't expect was the explosion blowing most of the leaves off the tree. I'm not sure if the tree survived, but it may have. All I know is I was told it was a strange sight, the poor tree with almost no leaves on it in the middle of the summer.

When I was much younger and even more foolish, we did this out back of a rental yard. We pushed two nails through a Brillo pad into the female end of an extension cord as the igniter. What we didn't count on was the force of the blast. It shook houses for several blocks around. We were darn lucky static electricity didn't kick it off - it would have taken us all out.

 

[BTDT]

Another quarter prank. Place a blank piece of paper on a table in front of you. Invite someone to see if they can do this. Then you hold a quarter between your two forefingers, and roll it down your forehead, down between your eyes and off the end of your nose. When you get to the end of your nose drop the coin. Tell them that they need to get the quarter to land in the circle (which you haven't drawn yet). When you roll the quarter down to show them how it's done, draw a circle around the quarter with a pencil (the graphite will get in the grooves) wherever it lands.. Now pick up the quarter carefully and hand it to them to try. Try to keep a straight face as they draw a line down their face. Get them to keep trying to get it to land in one of the circles (redraw around it wherever it lays, and let them go again)

 

[MikeD74T]

When I was much younger and even more foolish, we did this out back of a rental yard. We pushed two nails through a Brillo pad into the female end of an extension cord as the igniter. What we didn't count on was the force of the blast. It shook houses for several blocks around. We were darn lucky static electricity didn't kick it off - it would have taken us all out.

Years before we tricked the hunter the same buddy & I filled about 30 balloons, put them in his convertible, & drove around shooting them off one at a time. Getting bored fairly quickly we placed the last half of them in one place & touched them off. We'd had no idea of what had been in the seat behind us all that time !!! We still play with OA but in smaller quantities. A garbage bag full requires extreme caution. Another thing we learned the hard way, don't use a fuse (i.e. cannon fuse) that throws sparks, it throws the get-away time WAY off. MikeD74T

 

[silverdollar6]

An office coworker went on sabbatical (60 day paid vacation every 7 years), and for his return, we decorated his cube.

First, we unlocked his cabinets, then wrapped everything up in plastic wrap (the heavy duty shipping stuff). Then we dumped a 30 gallon can of sawdust in his cube, in the drawers, filing cabinets, etc. (he's a woodworker, so staying in the theme). To make it so he couldn't just vacuum up the sawdust, we added a huge box of 3V CR2032 coin cells to the mix. (These will short out when jumbled together, causing a bunch of heat, which is not a good thing with sawdust). Finally, we covered the cube with 4x8' foam panels and topped these off with sawdust.

Took him over a week to clean up, and he's still finding sawdust.

Can`t find the funny part.

 

[sellercreek]

We have a fairly gullible neighbor who commutes 80 miles away to work every day. He was also an avid weather watcher. When the big drought hit back in '06, a neighbor and so called friend would pour some water into his rain gauge a couple of times a week while he was at work. He got quite a reputation as he made his regular morning stop at the local convenience store and reported on how much rain he had the previous day when people who were there all day knew it had not rained a drop.

Things really got out of hand, though, when a 3" rain came up one afternoon and his gauge turned up empty. He finally got suspicious.

Kind of silly but is better than reality tv.

 

[Guywire]

In the '70s (back when things were quieter and safer) law enforcement used to leave their units unlocked when stopping for coffee. The common trick was to flip the switch on someone new's unit's siren so that when they came out to leave and turned the key, the siren would start to blare (startling at 3 AM if unexpected). The newbies learned to do a check before starting the units.

Roy

 

[Bird]

In the '70s (back when things were quieter and safer) law enforcement used to leave their units unlocked when stopping for coffee. The common trick was to flip the switch on someone new's unit's siren so that when they came out to leave and turned the key, the siren would start to blare (startling at 3 AM if unexpected). The newbies learned to do a check before starting the units.

Roy

That was very common in the early '60s, too. And in the early to mid-60s, the Ford squad cars had the gas tank spout and cap behind the license plate. Maybe some of you remember pulling the license plate down to put gas in the car. And in those days, attendants serviced the cars instead of the officer using "self service". And I remember when an officer put a dead snake behind his license plate for the attendant to find when he went to put gas in the car. That one resulted in a little mild disciplinary action.