Prank/Joke Gone Bad

Appleseed wrote:

Cole_Trickle wrote: I have been arrested at a fimily dinner once as a prank. Didnt go over well with me.

You cannot start a post with that and not tell the story. Out with it.

It was Easter about 5 years ago. My sisters-husbands brother is a cop from a town about 2 hours away from where the dinner was. My brother in law wanted me to take him for a ride in my 350z. They live out in a rural area, so we tore it up down the back roads. All was well and we went back to the house for the meal. During dinner the doorbell rang and it was a cop (from that town) wanting to know who drove the red sports car. I said it was mine, and the cop asked me to step outside. I did, and the cop explained to me that multiple people saw my shenanigans and I ran a car off the road, causing an accident. The cop also said that a "good samaritan" followed me to this address while on the phone with 911. I was put in cuffs and sat in the car, with my whole family watching in horror (they were in on it). I then saw the arresting officer kiss my brother-in-laws, cop brother and start laughing. I was pooping bricks. Everyone else started laughing at me and I might have cussed out my family on easter...

4cylndrfury wrote:

pilotbraden wrote: This reminds me of a stunt a friend pulled often. Just after graduation from high school his grandfather closed his shoe shop. We would have big parties with bands there weekly. One of the old displays used what appeared to be concrete blocks. They were actually styrofoam. Moe would come down the stairs from the office carrying several blocks and "trip" throwing the blocks into the crowd. Screaming and scrambling away ensued.

my old man pulled that one on me one day when I was probably 10...I literally peed a little. The same gag works with a big cardboard box...walk along with your shoulders sagging and "trip" and toss it at someone...they will panic, you will laugh

Buddys family has a beach house, we were there one weekend and decided to open a bottle of wine. Victim didnt know they had acrylic wine glasses for taking to the beach, pulls one out and throws it over his shoulder "here, catch!" the reaction was what you might imagine.

Did the saran wrapped car, cubicle full of balloons, cubicle covered in tin foil, strip of tape over the mouse's optical eye, cubicle covered in saran wrapped, desk drawers full of packing peanuts and a rubber band balled mouse, plastered walls and dude's desk with a paper that was kinda like a personals ad/missing poster, plastered another girl's desk with pictures of AC Slater, tied a dozen balloons to a girls car, filled my friend's car with balloons on her last day here, terms of service infraction errors through the windows messenger, cubcicle full of trash (clean empty bottles and crumpled up paper) which was the one that kinda went bad cus the girl was a neat freak, I helped her clean up. We were good buddies after that, though.

On the flip side, I came back to work after a long weekend in Vegas to find my desk covered in Just Married decor and later came out to find my car done up the same.

EvanB wrote: Or with display car batteries, they look just like real batteries but weigh nothing.

I was gonna say that. When I worked at NTB, we had those in every size. Walk out into the shop and "trip" over an air hose and have it fall on a Lexus or BMW or something nice & expensive while customers and employees watched in horror. Be sure to let the customer feel the battery afterwords and check their car for no dents and scratches. Pretty funny though. Always had repeat customers of the ones I did it to. They were always great sports.

The Ctrl-Alt-Arrow thing only works on certain video cards that have the rotation feature in the driver.

I used to work for Habitat for Humanity.

Managing crews of volunteers always had it's challenges.

We were doing a blitz build in (30 houses in 1 week). I had a small crew of Irish students who I trained to install kitchen and bath counters, and our job was to do all 30 house in 1 day. The worst thing we could have done was to mess one up.

I had to run an errand, and left my crew in one house. I told them there was only one mistake they could make, and that would be to use screws that were too long (screwing up from underneath). I probably made a little too big a deal about it.

When I returned, my crew was very proud that they had almost finished the job. As I walked into the kitchen, I was horrified to see a half dozen or more screws protruding through the face of the Formica.

My jaw hit the floor, and they all just started laughing.

They had cut the points off several screws with a pair of lineman's pliers, and propped them up to look like they were sticking through the face of the counters. They got me.

In reply to SVreX:

That's a great one. I might have to remember that one.

We do minor things at work. A sticky corner of post it note under a laser mouse is a good one as the mouse won't move anything. Before they made our computer only work with an access card I used to add sounds to events and turn the volume up. Shut downs were hilarious. Shredded paper in your cube on your birthday was tradition. I got a new computer out of a prank someone tried to pull on me. While I was on a business trip, someone wrapped everything in my cube in plastic wrap and broke some connections on the back of my computer. Went from having the oldest, slowest computer to the fastest in the office because of that. Years ago when I was in the army we put someones running shoes in the freezer and filled them with water a couple times a day, platoon sergeant caught us, we told him they were someone elses shoes and we were pranking him. A couple days later the platoon sergeant figured out they were his, oops. Another platoon sergeant was short and always had his desk chair set to full up, we used to set it full down and set his desk on blocks raising the desk up. When he sat down the desk came to his chin. Good thing he had a sense of humor.

In reply to several people:

I realize unemployment is high, but we cannot fill positions. I've been trying to hire a EE with design experience (preferably in the nuclear industry) since November. Our group of 9 is currently carrying the workload that should be done by a group double our size. We have job security. The only danger is getting fed up and quitting because we have too much to do. There is no risk of layoffs or firings unless as long as you don't intentionally do something extremely stupid - and I don't mean missing training. All's well that ends well I guess.

A restaurant that I frequent in Bancroft ON, when I am at rallies, has glued coins to the floor. They get a good laugh everytime somone tries to pick up one of the coins on the floor.

pilotbraden wrote: This reminds me of a stunt a friend pulled often. Just after graduation from high school his grandfather closed his shoe shop. We would have big parties with bands there weekly. One of the old displays used what appeared to be concrete blocks. They were actually styrofoam. Moe would come down the stairs from the office carrying several blocks and "trip" throwing the blocks into the crowd. Screaming and scrambling away ensued.

Reminds me of way back when in college. I worked on the school newspaper and there was a favorite of ours to get the new people. While physically laying out the pages, there would be blue sheets spread around the room with articles, ads and graphics slowly getting pasted to each of them. We would wait till someone asked for an x-acto, then grab one and quickly twist out the blade then shout "Here ya go" while tossing it at them.

NGTD wrote: A restaurant that I frequent in Bancroft ON, when I am at rallies, has glued coins to the floor. They get a good laugh everytime somone tries to pick up one of the coins on the floor.

This reminds me of another one. The cooks at Outback would leave a quarter on the grill for a few mins, and then toss it on the floor near the servers with tongs. Nothing like burning your fingers on some change.

Conquest351 wrote:

EvanB wrote: Or with display car batteries, they look just like real batteries but weigh nothing.

I was gonna say that. When I worked at NTB, we had those in every size. Walk out into the shop and "trip" over an air hose and have it fall on a Lexus or BMW or something nice & expensive while customers and employees watched in horror. Be sure to let the customer feel the battery afterwords and check their car for no dents and scratches. Pretty funny though. Always had repeat customers of the ones I did it to. They were always great sports.

I would not be a good sport.

In highschool I completely filled my friends locker with balls of newspaper, i mean completely so that it was hard to shut. This was on his birthday and a friday the 13th.
At work a small joke to play is connect another mouse to a coworkers computer and occasionally move it. Sometimes takes a while to figure it out. We also have a program to share our desktop with other employees, called an Appshare, and there is an option to allow someone else to remotely control the computer so if someone left their computer unlocked we would set up one of these appshares and give ourselves the option to control the computer (they still also have control) then minimize the program so they dont know whats going on

fritzsch wrote: In highschool I completely filled my friends locker with balls of newspaper, i mean completely so that it was hard to shut. This was on his birthday and a friday the 13th. At work a small joke to play is connect another mouse to a coworkers computer and occasionally move it. Sometimes takes a while to figure it out. We also have a program to share our desktop with other employees, called an Appshare, and there is an option to allow someone else to remotely control the computer so if someone left their computer unlocked we would set up one of these appshares and give ourselves the option to control the computer (they still also have control) then minimize the program so they dont know whats going on

USB mouse+ laptop=shenanigans for all.

mndsm wrote: USB mouse+ laptop=shenanigans for all.

The "leave it and walk away" version: Phantom Keystroker

Don't even need to log in ;)

I always liked the classic zip tie around the driveshaft gag.

I used to have a rubber brick. I had a lot of fun with that one at home, I need to get another one.

Anyone ever tape down the receiver on a phone? That one is a quick prank to pull when it's busy and the phones are ringing.

Another favorite one of mine is wait til someone walks into the bathroom and block them in with a pallet of batteries or oil or whatever. I did this to one of my co-workers one night and let the pallet jack down so he couldn't move the 1000lb+ worth of batteries. The next week I did the same thing but with an empty pallet and left it so the jack could be moved. He busted the door open and flew out of the bathroom with the empty pallet jack 3 ft ahead of him going down the back aisles in the store.

I had to keep one eye on him for a week or so when he retaliated by pulling the same trick on me.

Ouch, nearly forgot the worst one I have seen: we had a courtesy van driver who went into the tech's bathroom once to do his bidness, and it was obviously going to take a while. One of the techs snuck into the bathroom, squirted a LOT of cigarette lighter fluid on the floor, then backed out, killed the lights and flipped a match all at the same time.

My office backed up to the bathroom, the din was terrifying. Man, I was SO glad I wasn't the service manager.

Second was two techs who were not getting along. There was a drop ceiling in the bathroom, one was perched on the throne and the other lifted a ceiling tile then emptied a dry chemical fire extinguisher into the stall. Again I was SO glad I wasn't the service manager.

Yeah, techs can play pretty rough at times.

An open bottle of gear oil or epoxy hidden in someones office can be fun for awhile while they try to find it.

We also had some odor killer spray that had an extremely strong scent. A large quantity of it sprayed into the parts manager's office and then closing the door will smell for a long time.

Or an empty coolant bottle with an air hose secured in the lid. Turn on the air and slide it under a car a tech is working on and wait till it bursts. That one never got old.

EvanB wrote: An open bottle of gear oil or epoxy hidden in someones office can be fun for awhile while they try to find it. We also had some odor killer spray that had an extremely strong scent. A large quantity of it sprayed into the parts manager's office and then closing the door will smell for a long time. Or an empty coolant bottle with an air hose secured in the lid. Turn on the air and slide it under a car a tech is working on and wait till it bursts. That one never got old.

say what??

It was some floral scent that was supposed to kill odors but it was extremely overpowering. Not a bad scent, just overwhelming.

Here is a list of some of the ones I've pulled. Flour placed on top of boxes stored above your head in a warehouse. Pull the box down and get a face full of flour. Wrapped a buddies car with wet paper towels and liberal coats of water one night when it was 6 degrees out. The paper towels were the brown continuous roll type found in public rest rooms. Two full rolls and two five gallon buckets of water. When he went out in the morning it was as if the car was incased in frozen plywood. Another time I duct taped his exhaust closed except for a piece of emt tubing. All of his exhaust gas had to squeeze out of a 3/4" pipe. He couldn't get his car to go over 20 mph without it stalling out. Took him over an hour and about 15 miles of back road driving to figure it out. He got me back by putting the roof down on my TR8 on night during the remnants of a hurricane. Grease on windshield wipers and door handles was a good one. One day at work we pimped out a guys winter beeter Corolla with palm tree "personal" stickers, neon wipers, crome hubcaps, and a big spanish flag sticker across the hood.

Really simple one that the wife will love - rubberband the kitchen sink sprayer so it is on. Point it straight outward. Your wife goes to the sink, turns it on, gets soaked, and you get a good laugh and a wet t-shirt show. Fun will be had by all.