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...