A few charter boat captains and sundry undesirables were having beers one night and a certain captain mentioned he hoped his battery's didn't die overnight, with a large amount of rain expected he knew his bilge pumps would need to be working. A plot was hatched. Early the next morning a boat was towed out of it's slip to a spot where it wouldn't be seen. Four cinder blocks were tied to the dock lines so they would be pointing straight down and a marine antenna was stuck in the mud, the only thing pointing out of the water were there should be a 30' boat. Then a phone call was made, "dude your boat sank". "I knew it, I knew it"! was all he could say until he was told everything was OK, then it was, "you bastids, you bastids".
A buddy of mine nailed me one time. A few weeks went by and I called him and impersonated a texas ranger who had found a load of cows with his brand at an auction in Houston.
A civilian Secretary and I used to play pranks on each other. One thing I loved to do was mess with her phone. It was such a big part of her job dealing with the phones that it drove her nuts. Just moving it to the other side of the computer could send her into fits
Well, one time I did just that. It was a ruse to get her to let her guard down. Of course she saw it right away. She worked on an elevated platform and could kinda see down to where we were. She glared and yelled down that I'd have to do better than that.
A bit later, while she was on break, I used some scotch tape to tape her handset down. That was to be the first of several little jokes I played that night.
What I didn't know, was when she moved the phone back to the correct side, she had inadvertently wrapped the cord around the base of the computer monitor. We're talking a late 90s tube style monitor.
As she's coming back from break, her phone is ringing. She literally ran to her desk and whipped up the handset. With the base firmly attached.
Which would have been funny. Remember that elevated platform she worked on? Yup, monitor flies off her desk and down the ramp that led down to my work area. Exploding into tiny glass and plastic pieces.
Whoops.
She never ratted me out either. Punched me, but never ratted me out. Tough old broad.
Years ago I was visiting some guys who worked for my same organization. They told me about a nasty prank they pulled on their boss a few months earlier.
One of the guys sat in a chair and smeared a gob of peanut butter on the bottom of his shoe. When the boss came in they started making small talk.
The other prankster finally said, "It smells awful in here. Did one of you guys step in some dog s--t?"
The boss looked at the bottom of his shoes and then looked at the shoes of the guy in the chair. He pointed and said, "There's where the smell is coming from."
The guy in the chair looked down at his shoe and said, "I'm not sure if that's what you think it is, but I better check it out." So he stuck his finger in the glob and then stuck it in his mouth and said, "Yep, you're right. It's dog s--t!"
They said the boss started heaving and gagging and had to head to the bathroom before he threw up. They both agreed that was the best prank ever!
There ain't nothing funnier than emptying out someones deodorant/anti-persperant tube and replacing it with creamcheese...... I never get tired of that one.......
Awhile back there was a thread about pranks on the fire and I heard some really good ones. I think it was a year or so ago. My dad had a friend many years ago who a total bleep to most people and didnt care who liked him and who didnt. At one time he lived in a rural area and two of his neighbors were feuding about something and he was feuding with one of them also. He was at the neighbors house that he wasnt feuding with and noticed that he seldom locked his door when not at home. One afternoon when his neighbor was running an errand, he quickly went over to his house and when nobody else was driving by, he removed the front door of the house and made off with it and disposed of it in a landfill or somewhere who knows. The guy comes home and finds no door and calls the police thinking he has been robbed. Police show up and nothing missing except the door. He immediately blames his other neighbors kids and goes to his house and confronts him, it got pretty heated and police came back and told both men to cool it and go home. Of course all of the other neighbors come outside to see what all the fuss is all about and start talking about who would do such a mean thing to someone. He later told my dad how he did the prank and said he got a heck of a laugh out of watching his neighbors almost fight each other in front of the whole community.
I have got a couple of easy ones pee in a flat bottom bowl and freez it then slide it in your enemys mail slot [ piss puck] or wrap a rubber band around the spray noozel of the kitchen sink when someone turnes on the faucet they'll get it secure the hootus that makes the shower turn on in the bath tub and point the shower head toward the victum
Little piece of tape over the laser on a person's mouse will frustrate them.
Also - place where my bro went to college, the dorm room doors opened to the INSIDE, so we would take a garbage can, fill it 1/2 full of water and lean it against the door. 4 am and start pounding on the door. Guy opens the door and gets douched with the cold water...
Someone a while back on here I think, posted about playing back a recording of a mountain lion growling at their deer camp. That'd be a good one to see.
A coworker moved to a new town... So as a moving gift he was sent several subscriptions to gay porn magazines... His name, but his new neighbors' addresses...
on one job a guy put never seize in the hatband of my hardhat. a little bearing blue on his hatband had him wearing a blue forehead stripe for a month.
another time a guy greased my truck seat. i pumped a latex glove full of hydraulic oil til it was as big as a pig and left it crimped off on his truck seat. I didn't oil his truck seat, he did...
A mate of mine has seen a bit of Loctite dabbed on a co-workers overall press studs at the start of his shift. The lad was wondering why he had an audience at knock off time.
A jolly rancher or other hard candy in the shower head is a pretty good one. The warm water will dissolve the candy and no matter how long they are in the shower they will end up being sticky.
I've seen or been a part so many pranks pulled on others and sometimes had pulled on me that I couldn't begin to list them all. Some were pretty hard core too.
One I remember we used to pull back years ago was whenever we knew a coworker was due a azz chewing over something we would get behind the boss where he couldn't see us but the coworker still could and try to make our coworker crackup laughing. If the boss happened to turn around we'd all be looking innocent and busy working.
Had an especially tough one to crack once. Our coworker's head was all trembling, biting his lip, holding his breath trying his best to not look at us. Finally we just dropped our britches and mooned him. That did the trick.
A "Giant economy Sized" box of Tide laundry soap used to be be just THAT,....a great big sucker.
A friend who worked at the local A&P put the gleep on one,.....and later that evening it went into NOLa's almost brand new "Mardi Gras Fountain".
A nice quiet section of the "lAKE SHORE", where we'd grown up had become a purple and gold lit circus, we had a plan.
That box of Tide, quietly and slowly dropped into the entire outer periphery of that monstrosity around 0200 had, by 0400 morphed into a pulsating "Blob" of internally lit SUDS, covering an area FAR wider than we'd even dreamed of. Sumbitch was THREE stories tall, if it was a foot.
High Phosphate , old school detergent ( the stuff that actually GOT your clothes clean,).........sent the grass surrounding the fountain into some pretty strange growth pattern, for months subsequently.
I'd know more about this, but am only masquerading as an American,.........somebody who grew up in Nawlins' would know more.
I worked at a farm supply store many eons ago. I always arrived early to make a big urn of coffee for the early customers. Our fuel truck driver often started before me getting his fuel deliveries started. One morning prior to my arrival he bedded a clean, new, and set mouse trap in the coffee with the scoop placed just above the buried trap. As soon as I touched the scoop, coffee grounds shot to the ceiling and I nearly s**t myself. I have to admit it was pretty funny. Didn't thinks so at the time but now 30 years later, yeah it was funny.
A coworker in Prudhoe Bay found a roadkilled arctic fox and set it to freeze in full attack mode with mouth wide open and fangs bared.
Placed in another operator's truck while several folks laid under the "office" building and called the target on the radio for help. Norm soon came out and jumped in his truck before looking down at the attack fox.
He lit out of the truck screaming like a girly-man...
worked in a dusty cabinet shop for a school district, had a fine ole cajun in there sharing workplace space with us.Probably about 60years old. He was in charge of small engine repair. Any he was down for anything and could take a joke, play one also.
We'd tack-weld his toolboxes shut, stuff pizza crust in his Snap-On cabinets, put chunks of 6x6 behind his work truck.
His revenge often was to wait till one of us went to the small bathroom, to grab the airhose 100 psi and shove it up under the door and blow sawdust and dirt all over the fellow seated on the crapper.
one day, the County Maintnc Director stopped by to chat, he asked to use our restroom. About that time, ole Mr U'Donn came in and seen that the privy was occupied. I told him one of cabinet guys was in there pinching a loaf. He dropped everything, grabbed the airhose and started in with a fury blastin sawdust all up under that door gap.
He was givin it hell, lmfao. The 'suit' finally came outta there, he looked like Pigpen from Peanuts comics. He was speechless.
One of the bosses typed by the hunt-and-peck method.
I thought it would be funny to switch the M and N keys and the P and Q keys. I did it near the end of the shift.
He was on his third password reset and madder than hell when I fessed up and switched them back. The fine folks in Banglor, India were about ready to write a repair ticket for him.
I did not know that he was trying to get out of work a little early and had a date with his wife and that he either an M, N, P or Q in his password.
The trouble with some pranks is that they get the target "better" than you intended.
Legend has it that a certain Officer of the Law had a small El Cheapo squirt gun that he would fill with REALLY El Cheapo perfume. the stuff that costs a buck a gallon and NEVER wears off. Said EVIL person would get into a small crowd and squirt a bit onto the bottom seam of any bosses' trouser leg. Said boss would have long explanation to make to his wifey about why he came to smell like a French Whore and who was his girlfriend. I disavow all direct knowledge of said escapades.
Two well known bums would invade every party, cookout or singing n drinkin' down at the creek.
They never brought anything, instead eating and drinking everyone else's goods, without even a simple thanks mind ya.
An ole Bud made THEM some x-lax hamburgers, I'm most sure it was a severe overdose of the prescribed amount, after about 3 hours or so those two were in the bushes hollering for t-paper.
Haven't seen either at any get togethers in 20 years.
Legend has it that a certain Officer of the Law had a small El Cheapo squirt gun that he would fill with REALLY El Cheapo perfume. the stuff that costs a buck a gallon and NEVER wears off. Said EVIL person would get into a small crowd and squirt a bit onto the bottom seam of any bosses' trouser leg. Said boss would have long explanation to make to his wifey about why he came to smell like a French Whore and who was his girlfriend. I disavow all direct knowledge of said escapades.
How did you keep the perfume from dissolving the plastic? Did you wear gloves?
I put an end to the lunch box thief at work with hollowed out sausages loaded full of cat shyt.
'bout drove our receptionist bat poop nuts with a board out of a smoke detector. Installed a dead battery on it and stuck it to the back of her printer stand with mounting tape. It took her a week and a half to find it.
A coworker in Prudhoe Bay found a roadkilled arctic fox and set it to freeze in full attack mode with mouth wide open and fangs bared.
Placed in another operator's truck while several folks laid under the "office" building and called the target on the radio for help. Norm soon came out and jumped in his truck before looking down at the attack fox.
He lit out of the truck screaming like a girly-man...
In high school a friend and I went to his dads place down in the valley for white-wing hunting. We had gone out on the town Fri. night. His dad had hit a possum with the car and balanced it on the top of the open inner main door. He had a string tied from it to the outer screen door. When Buddy opened the screen door that night an attacking opossum hit a terrified Buddy in the chest.
'bout drove our receptionist bat poop nuts with a board out of a smoke detector. Installed a dead battery on it and stuck it to the back of her printer stand with mounting tape. It took her a week and a half to find it.
Advances in medical science since I was in college. Back then you could not cure cherpes in 10 days. It was a life sentence.
Was hauling junk cars off the farm here for a stint when cars were paying 225 per ton. (We haul our old iron in unlike the [bleep] sandford&son enclaves I've seen out West).
anyway, I was processing several doe carcasses (since we can shoot 3 whitetails per day). I started stuffing the heads and hides into the trunks and engine compartments before hauling the hulks off just for Mexicans that run the hydraulic crusher at the junkyard. They probably enjoyed the stink, I was just trying to make things homey for them.
In college we had a few that nearly got us kicked out. One time we poured a whole bottle of baby powder onto a sheet of newspaper and slipped it under the door of our AR's room. Then touched it off with a hair drier. Every square inch of his room was covered in white dust.
I dated a female cop several years ago, she and another were the first 2 females on this small town force. The men were really giving them a hard time, tampons in their mag pouches, condoms over the barrel of the shot gun, and some things that Im sure would bring a law suit now adays. SO one day she sprayed pepper spray on the door knob of the mens room. The harassment stopped rather quickly.
At 19 I was the foreman of the high school gang for _ _ Johnson oilfield maintenance. Gary was a big all district football champ who was deathly afraid of snakes, but would catch and clean a young armadillo to take home for the family to fry in a NY minute. . We worked all over Quintana oilfields in south texas south of Victoria.
We all brought our sack lunches and ate where noon found us working. As boss I had free time while the crew was working. One morning I caught a small water snake and put it in Gary's lunch sack. When we sat down for lunch under the shade of a rail road trestle and he reached into the bag for his sandwich all kind of hell broke loose as the snake made its escape.
I've never done it but putting double face tape on the toilet seats in the ladies room. One summer one of my chums put a bottle of photo flo in the shallow duck pond at the local city park.
When he was in boot camp they had a guy who would come back to the barracks on a sunday after weekend leave totally drunk. He never made rollcall Monday morning causing them to loose the next weekend's leave privileges.
When they finally got their leave the guy repeated his drunk act. This time they tied his big toe to his male parts with a stout string. They then gave him a hotfoot on the other foot. In his stupor he used the roped off foot to put out the fire causing some severe brusing and who knows how much pain the next day. Needless to say that guy never caused them any loss of privileges again.
I once worked with a repair man in a auto factory that had a pissing match with a superintendent once. He would weave a thin single strand wire from a scrap wire harness through the cloth seat of the supers Cushman cart and attach it to the coil. The boss would come out of his office or meeting, hop on the seat, hit the key and fly over the handlebars all in one fluid motion.
Got this from a co-worker. A guy bought a new car and bragged about his fuel mileage, which he checked every week when he filled up. So while his car was parked at work his co-workers would sometimes siphon, sometimes add gasoline. Drove him nuts.
I worked at a Llama ranch and one of the llamas had an abcessed tooth that was oozing all kinds of white puss and needed to be drained twice a day. One of the two guys that was responsible for taking care of the critter got some white donut filling and made the 2nd guy think he was eating the puss after one of their sessions. Guy freaked out!
When I was 18 I got hired as a hod carrier so that the guy that had been doing the job could learn the brick laying trade. He was 33 years old & still held Illinois state powerlifting records in a few events 15 years later. He had arms the size of my head. But he took me u der his wing to show me the ropes & not let the brick layers over abuse me. Our foreman had been a rival of his since high school
The foreman s name was Allen & my benefactor was called pop
One day I had pop ' another bricklayer working on the front of the house & had Allen & another layer working on the fireplace Oh at this point I should mention that pop had an extremely volatile temper. No one messed with the guy
Anyway those damn Yankees were always givin me chit about being a hillbilly & how hillbillies were not trustworthy etc
I said bullchit , my word is good. Playing right into their hands. So Allen sez well we'll see if u can be trusted to keep ur word or not. If I tell u a secret u promise not to tell? You give ur word? Yep sez I like the dumbazz I was
Okay he says. I took a leak in pops thermos.! Wtf says I. He'll kill u Nah says the foreman he'll drink it & like it & if he notices it tastes funny we won't let on like we know anything about it. Now u can't say a word hillbilly or we'll know ur word is no good after all you promised.
Man I was sick the rest of the morning The only real friend I had on the crew & a guy I looked up to was about to drink our azzhole foreman s urine at noon break & I was powerless to warn him.
So noon break comes & we all gather inside the house to eat our dinner. I had no appetite. Everyone sitting & jawing while they eat. Finally pop unscrews the lid on his thermos as he's telling some tale & starts to lift the thermos to his mouth to parch his thirst I sprang outa my seat seat slapped that thermos from his lips & hand & sent the contents spilling out across the floor!
Omg I'd done it now. He grabs me by the neck and tosses me up against the wall & ill never forget his words
I don't know wtf has got into u kid but I'm fixing to beat it outa you!
My eyes are as wide as saucers as I know I'm gonna receive the beating of my natural born life. By this time the foreman & the other layer in on it are busting a gut rolling on the floor
That's all that saved my azz as pop was cocked & locked to hammer my insolent azz. He hesitated & asked me "what's going on". Told him I could t tell him. Chit
He drops me & grabs the other bricklayer ( not Allen) says talk or die ur choice
Whew he spilled the beans. Of course neither had pizzed in his thermos. They didn't have a death wish! But I was too stupid & naive to realize that
I offered him my thermos. And he just looked at me & said U were willing to have me beat ur azz vs going back on ur word. Told him I couldn't let you drink that stuff pop I believed they'd pizzed in it.
He got the joke & no one got beat on. But something changed a bit that day I believe. From then on pop treated me more as an equal instead of just the kid. Would take me to lift with him &'drink at his watering hole even had me over to his house for dinner later on. Thought the world of that guy. He was a mans man. Still do.
Zip tie on coworkers drive line. Open condoms and a 38F bra in customers truck. Puddle of gear oil under a trucks diff that coworker had a hell of a time with (came from a dealership, disassembled, and had the wrong bearing races installed, course they said it was all new stuff, they didn't have the right tools or a heavy duty guy ). They were going to pick the truck up that morning, he about crapped his pants when he saw the puddle and thought he was going to have tear it apart again. Beer cans stuffed in between dual wheels. Loaded/charged up condensers in the box. Air freshener wick stuffed down air vents of defroster. Add nuts and bolts to a guys magnetic tray on a big job. Shop bathroom has a sink inside, another sink on outside of wall. Wait till they start washing their hands and hit the outside drain with an air hose.
Tape a little air horn( the can ones) to the back of a clutch pedal. Pulled this one on my little brother at work this summer. Also zip tied a soda can to the drive line
When I was stationed in Korea one of the guys in my barracks would wait until everyone was in their rooms drinking and listening to music on Friday and Saturday nights. He would take a wet mop and lean it against your door and then knock on your door really hard, if you were tall the mop would usually hit you in the chest, if you were short the mop would hit you in the face.
A friend of mine grew up either in Newfoundland or on PIE, I can't remember which. His mom worked at either a hospital or blood bank. The story was he and a friend would swipe one of the big bags of blood that was past date and had to be disposed of, roll it up in a pair of jeans, and put in in a snow bank for the snow plows to hit. At first blush the result looked like the plow had just eaten someone who'd passed out or died in the snow.
I used to strap the handle on the spray nozzle at the kitchen sink down and point it out into the room. Geez that used to piss mom off.
My grandma bought me a rubber snake. Mom HATED snakes. It showed up "accidentally" in some of the strangest places. Medicine cabinet, in the stack of towels in the bathroom ... Eventually she'd had enough and I got "the word." So I put it away. A few days later, we were all in bed. We heard her door shut and saw the lights go off. Then a couple minutes later, an unhappy intake of air. "Tom, I told you not to put that snake .." etc. She'd reached under her pillow in the dark as she got into bed and found ... something. "But mom, I didn't, it's in the box under my bed." Geez you should have heard the scream. And from my sister's room, the quiet snicker. Sisters are evil.
I was about 26, newly divorced, new job in a new town, renting a small apartment in a big complex. The gal next door was 20 and married. I figured if she was married she was old enough to drink. Shouldn't have, but I'd pick her up a 6-pack now and then. On the way home from the store one night I saw something that gave me a bright idea. I took the beer out of the sack and ... well ... when I got home, I put the sack on her doorstep, then knocked and ran. She was NOT happy about finding that 3 day old road kill possum in the sack.
Dang, TOM that made me laugh about the snowplow, but I could imagine the drivers reaction when he at first thought he had killed someone. Also knew a guy in the Army that was getting short and bought a couple bags of bird seed and emptied out on tops of certain NCOs cars while we were running PT. Doves and pigeons had a field day and messed up several cars with crap.
Used to put a small slit in a ketchup package then place it under a dorm room door and stomp on it. Fill a cardboard soda cup with shaving cream flatten the end so it fits under a door and stomp on it. They make quite a mess.
Oh my poor old aunt. You could always tell when I had fed her little dog some long strips of casing from Texas Summer Sausage. She could really scream when he would start dragging azz on the carpet trying to pull a strip out.
We had a strange guy on our deer lease....one year we had shot a coyote that was as big as a wolf. Several of the members took the coyote, stuck a stick in its mouth to prop it open and placed it in this guys deer stand facing the door at night.
Early the next morning the guy road out of camp on his 4 wheeler to go hunt....you could hear his 4 wheeler long before you saw him coming back to camp.....slowed to about 30 as he drove it up the ramp of his trailer, rammed the front rail, jumped off and disappeared in his camper.
A bit later he came out, closed the ramp of the trailer and drove out of camp......never came back. I was in camp that morning and laughed so hard I felt sorry for the guy. His stand was only about 5 foot off the ground, but he was scared of things that went bump in the night.....or day and I bet he had to change his drawers.
In the old days, we would hit a possum with a stick and then stick it in a "target's" car with his tail held by the door (back door best). Usually when the possum wakes up he is not happy and will growl and hiss, but if you open the back door....you just never know which way he will go!!
Position a Van de Graaff generator near a door so the next person through discharges it.
Science geeks at their best.
We bounced lasers off a slow rotating mirror in the hallways.
When people walked by they would see the beam without really worrying, but we would wait till it got a few feet from them and yell, "Don't let it hit you!"
Fun to watch them throw their books and tuck n roll.
I heard this one from a customer of mine today who grew up in NYC. He would hang out with his friends in the evening on the steps of their apartment complex drinking beer, etc. and across the street there were several pay phones maybe 30 or 40 feet from the steps where they were sitting and one of his friends got the idea to smear dog doo doo on the ear piece of several of the phones and watch people walk up, insert coins, put the phone to their ear, and start cursing or suddenly drop the phone and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
). They were going to pick the truck up that morning, he about crapped his pants when he saw the puddle and thought he was going to have tear it apart again. Beer cans stuffed in between dual wheels. Loaded/charged up condensers in the box. Air freshener wick stuffed down air vents of defroster. Add nuts and bolts to a guys magnetic tray on a big job. Shop bathroom has a sink inside, another sink on outside of wall. Wait till they start washing their hands and hit the outside drain with an air hose.
Eventually she'd had enough and I got "the word." So I put it away. A few days later, we were all in bed. We heard her door shut and saw the lights go off. Then a couple minutes later, an unhappy intake of air. "Tom, I told you not to put that snake .." etc. She'd reached under her pillow in the dark as she got into bed and found ... something. "But mom, I didn't, it's in the box under my bed." Geez you should have heard the scream. And from my sister's room, the quiet snicker. Sisters are evil.