Silly pranks

[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.