Posted on 09/24/2011 6:19:55 AM PDT by MNDude
Whether at high school, college, or worplace, everyone has a story of pranks they witnessed. What are the best prank you've done or seen?
Get a bobbin of thread that matches the thread in your shirt or sports coat. Put the bobbin in your pocket and leave about 1/2 inch hangout out of the pocket. Wait for some anal-retentive type to attempt to pull the loose thread off. Sometimes they'll get several feet of thread before they give up.
Then cut off the excess, leaving a half inch, and wait for the next victim.
NASA Satellite falls on car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgTyiaDmytw&feature=share
Hey! I did that in the lobby of my workplace (law enforcement)about 15 years ago. A Newsday (Long Island lefty rag)reporter broke a fingernail trying to get it off the floor. She was madder than a midget with yo-yo! I laughed all day over that one.
I go into the electronics department of a store, find the clerk saying, “I have a question about the flat screen tv’s.” The clerk is instantly ready to display their knowledge. I ask, “Where does the cat sit?”
About thirty-five years ago, we had a minicomputer system that used 8 inch floppy disks for software and data storage. I discovered that you could messages on the software disk, and when the program booted you had to watch all of them scroll up down the screen before you could do anything. One night I put about twenty or thirty error messages on a program disk. The only person who used that program was the junior partner.
The computer room was near my office. I heard him go in one evening when we were all working late. I heard him boot the system. I heard him reboot the system, and reboot it again. Then he came into my office and ask if I had put messages on his boot disk.
You have to delete the messages one at a time.
It would get so cold in the town I grew up in that guys would pee on their classmates car doors in the student parking lot and freeze them shut.
Here are my greatest hits.
1. In high school throwing a cup full of pennys out the second floor, wait 10 seconds for the freshmen to arrive, then douse them with a trashcan full of water.
2. Call random girls in the dorm, and say that I am calling them because their number was on the wall at a sleazy bar restroom.
3. Call forward a dial prayer call to a co-worker
4. Call a alocholic friend, then identifying myself as a substance abuse counselor, wanting to set them up for an appointment, .... and they showed up.
5. Broke my kid of chewing on pencils several years ago by telling him he could get lead poisoning. Then have him look up the symptoms of lead poisoning , then watch him freak out.
6. Tell telemarketers to hold because someone is at the door. I once had one hold for over an hour.
7. Made calls IDing myself as dorm maintenance doing a survery of dorm conditons. Made them open every drawer, work every device, open every window, etc. etc.
My Dad can tell you stories about the pranks he used to pull that will literally make you laugh so hard you cry. Here’s one: He was raised in far West Texas where ranches are measured by sections, not acres. When he and his brother (later the family black-sheep) were in their early teens,they were assigned the job of taking feed daily to a bull that their dad had penned far away from the house and the other cattle. The Brahman bull was like a huge pet, even rideable, he was so tame. The boys hated the chore so much, and being boys, they goaded and teased the poor animal until you couldn’t get into the pen with him. Months later, their dad went to check on the bull and got into the pen with him, and the rodeo was on. He was shocked that the big pet he last saw was now a raging bull chasing him furiously around the pen. At supper that night, their bruised and sore father announced at the table that he would never pen another Brahman bull in solitary like that again, because he’d found it made them insanely violent. The boys never told him the truth about it.
Pranks are pretty common at he fire station.
Calling someones cell phone during training to see if they remembered to put it on vibrate.
Calling them when they are already talking on it.
Calling them when they are in the middle of telling a real good story or at a sales counter.
One or more rocks the size of baked potatoes in pockets. One of my favorites...
Pulling a large washer tied to a string under the bed sheets when they are almost sleep.
Expired IV bag hooked to needle sticking through ceiling tile right above face in bed. (sometimes the rats get it before it can be used)
Find old box that came UPS and put 4’ rat snake in it with post-it note that it is for them.
Any sort of wild creature let loose in their office or room.
Donut filled with Ass-Blaster Hot Sauce.
Switching out license plate frames on their car with ones from dealer they really hate and see how long until they notice.
I haven’t done this yet but only because I have never gotten the targets together, but the day will come...
Put a dollop of peanut butter on the bottom of a heeled boot and before class starts ask “who stepped in the dog poo,” and while people are looking, wipe some off your boot, lick it and say, “it must be me.”
Not a prank but the best way to deal with phone solicitors.
When they call and ask for me, I say: What is your credit card number? The cost will be $50 to talk to Binger. If they refuse I simply hang up saying sorry, you must pay to play!
One time a dummy actually gave me their CC number. I replied that it wasn’t valid and hung up.
I'm still laughing over the dog. Not on such a grand scale but there's a tiny little bird that always gives Mr. b heck when he's trying to fill the bird feeder. He likes the bird because he's a little Napoleon who fusses at all the other birds, even chases the big crows away from his feeder. Last week, the little guy was so busy eating that he didn't notice Mr. b sneak up behind him. When he turned around, he saw Mr. b a foot from him, he let out a squawk, fell off the perch with a couple somersaults and scrambled so fast to fly outta there that he lost a bunch of feathers. It scared him so much that he didn't come back until yesterday.
About thirty-five years ago, we had a minicomputer system that used 8 inch floppy disks for software and data storage.That reminds me...
I worked at a tech company once, and one time the boss was waiting impatiently for software from a vendor that was holding up his project.
We got tired of him constantly asking if the software had arrived yet, so we took a blank diskette (5.25"), printed an official-looking label and stuck that on the diskette, and then used a powerful magnet to stick the diskette to the metal door of the boss's office.
He nearly had a stroke when he saw what he thought was the floppy he was desperate to get being "ruined" by the magnet.
When I was in the Air Guard, there was this jerk sergeant that liked to bully the young airmen. Once he misplaced he jacket and began blaming everyone. We wrote a note that said “ your jacket is located in the first locker in the break room” and left it on his desk.
When he went to that locker, he found another note saying “actually it’s under the sink”.
He tried to tell the commander but he could care less. So he tried to act cool like he didn’t care, but when he thought no one was looking he’d go look where the next note directed him.
The dozen notes were scattered around the air base. We finally saw him carrying the final note that said “just kidding. Have no idea where your jacket is”
Once he misplaced he jacket and began blaming everyone.That reminds me...
My first job was in a factory with a locker room for everyone's work clothes. One of my coworkers always forgot to put his work shoes in his locker.
after tripping over them repeatedly, someone finally found a "solution".
They nailed the shoes to the ceiling.
Where I used to work, they were doing some work above the ceiling which required scaffolding. Well, one morning the boss came in to find that the scaffolding had magically moved into his office.
We had a young teen apprenticing who always started 15 minutes later, so we decided we'd start his day by reminding him of all the cougar sightings that had gone on in the last few months. We told him a neighbor had just seen the cougar yesterday, then sent him up to the peak to do "nail up some bracing".
I've never seen anyone come down so fast from the peak of a roof without falling.........
I like that one!
Son was at a business meeting, bosses and such, waitress comes to the table, puts the biggest beer he’d ever seen in front of him, would take two hands to lift - and straight-faced said “here’s your usual, what can I get the rest of you”. One guy at the table was a real prankster so he accused him (you can get in big trouble drinking your lunch when working). - No one would own up to it.
When lunch was over, as he was leaving he saw 2 guys from CHURCH giggling in the corner. They admitted it.
Someone did the Ex-Lax in brownies and gave them to our twirler. It started working during 2nd quarter so she was otherwise occupied during the halftime show.
We had a secretary who put a little bowl of Ex-Lax chocolates on her desk. They went quickly.
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