Silly pranks

[EastTnFarmboy]

My little brother is 17 years my junior. When he was about 10 or 11 he was really getting into hunting, fishing and so on. I found an old bottle of lady's perfume in one of my grandmother's cabinets one day. I think it was Avon, and it was in a bottle that was shaped like some kind of an animal. (And it STUNK really bad.)

That year at Christmas, I wrapped it up and gave it to him on Christmas morning. When he looked at me puzzled, I excitedly explained to him that it was scent attractant and he should use it when he went deer hunting to improve his chances of success. Some other family members, who had been let in on the secret, reinforced the suggestion and really played it up. He did eventually figure it out, of course, but it took him a while! It was hilarious. You know that an 11 year old just had to "try it out" before he actually went hunting. Oh how he stunk!!!

I still kid him about it when it's deer season. I will ask him if he needs me to pick up some scents for him the next time I go to town!

 

[Travelover]

Between high school and college I worked in a tool rental place. We had a lot of time and an endless amount of equipment to play pranks with.

One item that we rented was a 2" discharge electric submersible pump. I found that if you put one of these in a 5 gallon bucket of water, it would empty it in seconds - all over anyone nearby. We used to hide these strategically and plug them in at the "best" possible moment.

One day I found that I couldn't pick up my metal lunch box. I thought the guys had put bricks in it to get me back . No, they had used a power staple gun to put 100 or more staples through the bottom and into the work bench!

We also found that if you locked the trigger on a belt sander and coiled an extension cord just right, they would go like slot cars in the parking lot. We raced them and even experimented with the right grit for maximum acceleration. This ended when we escalated to floor drum sanders and found they had some major high speed handing problems.

 

[ragkar]

My dad told me how he and his friends would attach a fishing line to someone's screen door. Then they would hide and pull on the string causing the door to bang.

 

[Travelover]

Between high school and college I worked in a tool rental place. We had a lot of time and an endless amount of equipment to play pranks with.......

Another prank that we pulled was to put a bottle jack under other guy's rear truck axle, real close to the tire and lift it just enough to barely clear the ground. They'd go crazy trying to figure out why it wouldn't go any where.

Of course there was the ever popular "rocks in the hub cap" trick.........

 

[Bird]

Instead of a bottle jack, it was customary to used two coke cases. Some of you may be too young to remember when Cokes came 24 to a case and the cases were wood. Turned on their side under the axle, one on each side, they were just about the right height to hold the tires barely off the gound. And one I never saw, but heard worked well, was to put a large piece of watermelon rind under each rear wheel.

 

[Tororider]

Hitekcountry,
My aunt tells a story about having a crush on a guy in college. One day she left a note of his car, asking him to meet her in a local cafe, never did come, she was heartbroken and longs for him to this day.

You don't think? Naw.

 

[hitekcountry]

Hitekcountry,
My aunt tells a story about having a crush on a guy in college. One day she left a note of his car, asking him to meet her in a local cafe, never did come, she was heartbroken and longs for him to this day.

You don't think? Naw.

ROFLMAO!!!

 

[cityfarma]

I once worked as a tech in a software company. One of the programmers used to complain about small noises from his PC. One day he had his (ground floor) window open so we decided to put a hand held two way radio outside his window. The transmiter was then put next to a signal generator and the audio frequency varied. I was in an office nearby and fed back what was happening. As he approached the window, the sound was stopped. The confused look on his face was worth the effort. He did not catch on and this was good as I used to refer to him as "the axe murderer" because of his disposition.

Cityfarma

 

[motepoc]

A fellow mechanic and I had the oportunity to fool around with a female engineer (no not that way). She came into the shop and borrowed our strobe light so that she could check the speed on some motors in the area. She did this on a machine that was right outside our shop door window. We found the circuit breaker that went to the outlets out on the machine, inside the shop on the wall right next to the door. She plugged the light in and got it going and then held it up to the roll on the motor. We then cut the breaker off. She would take it down, check the switch and the plug in, and it still didn't work. She bumped it on the side, and as soon as she did, it started working again. She would put it back up to try to read the speed, but again, it would go out. She did this for about ten minutes, and then brought it back in the shop and told us it didn't work. We have never told her any different. We were smarter than that.

 

[RobertN]

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...

Another prank that we pulled was to put a bottle jack under other guy's rear truck axle, real close to the tire and lift it just enough to barely clear the ground. They'd go crazy trying to figure out why it wouldn't go any where.

Of course there was the ever popular "rocks in the hub cap" trick.........