What is your best all time prank?

[sugarbush]

I want to hear what pranks people have pulled in their younger, or not so younger years I have never been one to iniciate playing pranks on somebody, but if they started it I would return the favor 10 fold. I am a very patient person so it could be weeks or months before I retaliated.

The best I ever pulled and did not get caught was on a guy I worked with who messed with me non-stop. So one day he miss placed his car keys at work and I swiped them and went to the hardware store and made copies. I then placed his keys in the bottom of his lunch box where he found them before the end of the day.

I waited 6 weeks so he would forget the day he lost his keys and then in the middle of the night I went to his house and stole his car. I took it down the street to the park and parked it in the fountain on the square. The police showed up at his house the next morning wanting to know how his car got there.... he missed work that day

[halfpint]

When in college, two guys removed all of our furniture and stuff from our room one evening while I was gone to a football game (I was in the band), and my roommate was out with friends. So to get back, we quietly stole into their dorm, and hammered pennies around the edges of the door. They had to get in/out through the window, and take the hinges off in order to get the door opened. They later stole all of my roommates underwear, then proceeded to auction it off. We again went to their room, but this time with them gone, and sprinkled baby powder under their door, then blew it in with a hair dryer. We heard that they had to wash things 2-3 times to get it out.

Dawn

[Karenrbw]

I guy that worked with my parents had a International Harvester Scout. He liked to get in my dad's car when he left it unlocked and turn the radio all the way up, turn on the wipers, blinkers, etc. One day he went to lunch with a coworker and left the Scout unattended. Since it was a hardware store, we had access to our supplies.
I took 200 feet of nylon rope and we laced it through everything imaginable in the car. We cut it into pieces so he couldn't just cut it in two and be free. From the inside, we tied the door handles together so they couldn't open, laced rope through the steering wheel, around seats, everywhere. It looked like a giant spider had taken over the car. We then filled the car with balloons. We turned all the stuff in the car on - blinkers, radio, wipers, etc and crawled out the back window. We slammed the back window so it would lock and he couldn't get in through there.
It took him over an hour to edge the door open wide enough to get a knife in there to start cutting the rope. It took about an hour and a half hours to get the door open. It took a couple more hours to cut all the rope out and just when he thought he was done, he started the car and got blasted by the radio, air conditioning, wipers, etc.
He never messed with my dad's car again.

[kentuckyhippie]

I put crazy glue on a guys pants zipper when he was passed out drunk and the next morning when he got up bursting to p from all the beer the night before he had to cut himself out of his pants

[Common Tator]

This was not meant to be a prank, but rather to honor a demand that wasn't reasonable or well thought out. And it wasn't me, but two little old ladies, my mom's cousins that did it.

Back in the 20's, my Great Grandparents bought 9 buriel plots. For themselves, and each of their seven children. The kids all married, moved, whatever, and none of them were buried there. Finally there were only two of the siblings left. My great aunt, mother of the two ladies, and her brother, a bossy cantankerous old toot that delighted in making life miserable for family. When the sister died, her daughters went to their elderly uncle and asked if their mother could be buried in the family plot. He sneered "she'll be buried there over my dead body!"

So they had their mother's remains cremated. One of them kept the ashes in her home. Five years later, the uncle died, and per his wishes, he was buried in the family plot. Then the girls took their mothers ashes to the cemetery, had a small service, as one of them was married to a minister, and he did the service. They took a shovel from the trunk of the car, and buried their mother's ashes, "over their uncle's dead body".

[blacksmithtech]

I do shifts at my Fire department and one night my buddy had his car's roof window open a couple of inches.

I rushed home and grabbed 2 full garbage bags of packaging peanuts I had been saving and poured them in.

It was a hoot watching him open the car doors and trying to catch peanuts all at the same time.

Never admitted to it out of fear of retribution!!!

[Darren]

It would probably be the one that involved a "borrowed" siren placed on a high rise roof and aimed at a police station that went off at 3:00 A.M. Since the access to the roof was locked, they had a problem getting it stopped.

Mine were all simple and direct.

When I was a boy my sister was awful for stealing and eating my candy. One day I decided I'd break her of it so I opened a pack of Sweet Tarts. I went to the persimmon tree and got a big green one. Mashed it up until it was juicy then carefully rolled every Sweet Tart in the juice then let them dry in the sun. Put them back in the pack and left them out in plain sight on my dresser. Sure enough she got into them. She never stole any of my candy again after that.

I used to devil my cousins all the time. The brown stuff inside of a pecan shell will make your mouth pucker something awful if you chew it up. I once collected about a hand full of it from inside a bunch a shells then ground it into powder. There was maybe a half-cup of Nestle's Quik powder left in the box in the kitchen so I mixed it in. Got three of my cousins in one go with that one.

My parent's friends weren't immune either. Back when screw off caps on beer bottles were new I realized I could fake the hiss of a fresh bottle of beer. So I took one bottle, filled it with water, a tablespoon of vinegar and an equal amount of baking soda. Screwed the cap on tight then shook it good and put it in the fridge. My dad unwittingly gave it to a buddy of his who drank several swallows before finally admitting "this beer sure tastes weak."

Another family friend and I had a minor insurgency going on for years of trying to trick each other into eating hot peppers. He was one up on me at the time of a birthday party so I waited until it had gotten pretty late to get some of my own back. He could pick a guitar pretty well, but had to be pretty well lit before he'd do it in front of anyone so I waited until he was into his third song and he told me to go get him a beer. I did. Even opened it for him. Of course I had taken one of the peppers he'd tricked me with (Florida grove pepper) and mashed it into a pulp before putting it in his beer. He drank about half of it in one long gulp. Set the beer down then slowly turned to look at me...

Cigarette loads were a lot of fun too.

It's a wonder that I survived to graduate high school...

.....Alan.

[sugarbush]

Originally Posted by Karenrbw

I guy that worked with my parents had a International Harvester Scout. He liked to get in my dad's car when he left it unlocked and turn the radio all the way up, turn on the wipers, blinkers, etc. One day he went to lunch with a coworker and left the Scout unattended. Since it was a hardware store, we had access to our supplies.
I took 200 feet of nylon rope and we laced it through everything imaginable in the car. We cut it into pieces so he couldn't just cut it in two and be free. From the inside, we tied the door handles together so they couldn't open, laced rope through the steering wheel, around seats, everywhere. It looked like a giant spider had taken over the car.

LOL....

cars are always the most fun.... a friend of mine came out of work once to find his firebird completely wrapped with pallet wrap....Not just the sides, but whoever did it took the time to wrap around it from the bottom up as well..... Only the tires where not wrapped up.... He still does not know who did it....nobody ever confessed.

I jacked up the rearend of a friends 4x2 ranger once and placed jack stands on the axle against the rear wheels so they could not be seen. The tires where just touching enough to spin and not move the truck....He later said he thought his transmission had gone

[sugarbush]

Originally Posted by A.T. Hagan

Another family friend and I had a minor insurgency going on for years of trying to trick each other into eating hot peppers. He was one up on me at the time of a birthday party so I waited until it had gotten pretty late to get some of my own back. He could pick a guitar pretty well, but had to be pretty well lit before he'd do it in front of anyone so I waited until he was into his third song and he told me to go get him a beer. I did. Even opened it for him. Of course I had taken one of the peppers he'd tricked me with (Florida grove pepper) and mashed it into a pulp before putting it in his beer. He drank about half of it in one long gulp. Set the beer down then slowly turned to look at me...

Cigarette loads were a lot of fun too.

It's a wonder that I survived to graduate high school...

.....Alan.

This reminds me of a coworker who told his wife he quit chewing and then was bragging that she did not know he was still chewing and he was leaving his poutch at work.

You used to beable to by capsaicin in a large box at the farm supply store... I bought a box and loaded his poutch of tobacco up with it one day while he was not paying attention..... That was funny.....

[Ardie/WI]

Itching powder sprinkled into someone's clean and folded underwear is great payback. :banana02:

[soulsurvivor]

I never did anything intentionally, but somehow it always looked as though I did. I was on a blind date and we had gone to a club to hear a local band play. At one point, everyone was asked to "flick their Bic" for someone's birthday. I did that and turned the flame up high. Put the lighter down and forgot about it. Later on, the date decided he was going to smoke one of those skinny cigar things and he picked up the lighter and whoof!... he burned about half of his waxed little goatee off... it really didn't help things when I splashed it with my drink to put the fire out....

[bloogrssgrl]

We went into a friend's house one night - he always left the door open - and rearranged all of his furniture, putting the bedroom set in the living room, living room in the dining room, dining room in the bedroom. He has since passed away and we never did tell him it was us.

Every once in a while we leave a banana on someone's porch with knife in it and a note that says "You". We only do this to people we know.

[big rockpile]

I don't know if it was my best or not.But I got a dried Snake out of the Grain Cleaner.Put its Head where the Guys had to reach up and get Tags for the Bags.It was great,they go to reach up jerk their Hand back.

Did the same thing with a Toy Mouse.Put it in a bundle of Pants that were being sewed,girl grab the Pants,Mouse comes off she is dancing and screaming.

big rockpile

[rickd203]

Originally Posted by sugarbush

I want to hear what pranks people have pulled in their younger, or not so younger years I have never been one to iniciate playing pranks on somebody, but if they started it I would return the favor 10 fold. I am a very patient person so it could be weeks or months before I retaliated.

The best I ever pulled and did not get caught was on a guy I worked with who messed with me non-stop. So one day he miss placed his car keys at work and I swiped them and went to the hardware store and made copies. I then placed his keys in the bottom of his lunch box where he found them before the end of the day.

I waited 6 weeks so he would forget the day he lost his keys and then in the middle of the night I went to his house and stole his car. I took it down the street to the park and parked it in the fountain on the square. The police showed up at his house the next morning wanting to know how his car got there.... he missed work that day

We did this with a guy at work except that every day or two when he was busy, someone would go out and move his car to another space in the lot. It really had him freaked out!

[Jim S.]

Not part of this one, but my neighbor came home drunk one night to find that a 1,000-pound round bale of hay was on his porch, pushed up against his door. Same neighbor had some friends sneak over and dump the tail end of a load of nitrogen pellet fertilizer on his yard one spring night when he was gone. He kept saying, "Man, all I do is CUT GRASS! That stuff just won't quit growing on my place." They would not laugh until he was gone.

One time, I was in on one at work where we used rubber cement to glue everything down on a guy's desk. He came in, couldn't pick up his pencil, pad, etc. "Oh very funny," he said, just as he got a phone call. When he picked up the receiver, the whole phone came with it! Nothing was damaged, as it was rubber cement that could be removed.

Another guy I know hated the boss, so he brought some Nevr-Seize compound to work. That stuff is silver-colored, and the guy smeared it all over the doorknob to the boss' office. By the time the boss realized his hand had been fouled, he had silver handprints on his clothes and desk.

Another guy hated this fancy boss we had, who had to have everything just right in his office. So every time this guy was called into the boss' office, he tried to get in there before the boss did, and he would move one of the pens in the 2-pen holder the boss kept at the exact front-center of his desk. Without fail, the boss would come in a first restore the pen to the proper straight position. Every time. But he never caught on to who was moving it. Just a little victory for the guy.

Another time, this old guy I worked with as a teen was going around telling us he'd quit smoking, but we knew he was going into the boss' unlocked office and stealing the boss' cigs out of the desk and smoking back there. So we sneaked some loads in them, pushed them in good with a paperclip. The old feller went back there, we were up front, and next thing we hear is POW! So we're cracking up, but we don't go back there. He comes out about 10 minutes later, doesn not say a single WORD; we are straight-faced, too, not saying a thing. We go back there later, and there is still some odd pieces of tobacco around where he'd tried to clean up all the evidence! Man, that was rich.

I can go on and on; these are the nicer ones. I have to admit, as a teen we did some really bad ones, too. Bad, and maybe even disgusting -- but funny! I'll keep those to myself.

But let me leave ya with this: My small town had a curfew if you were under 18. So when we were about 13 or 14, some of us guys backyard camped out one night and got an older friend to buy us some beer, which we sneaked into the tent. Then we took off about 2 a.m. just wandering around. We went to the house of one of the local cops, sneaked into his personal car parked in his drive, and stole a carton of cigarettes off the front seat. That was rich! We thought we were hot, but then we were seen walking down the street by a neighbor who just saw our shadows and could not ID us.

Well, we didn't know it, but a house had been burglarized in the area that night. Pretty soon, here comes a lit-up cop car, flying. We ditched it into an overgrown field, knowing the area well, and next we know, here is that very cop we stole the cigs from, IN HIS BATHROBE, on his personal Harley Davidson, riding through that field trying to find us in the tall grass! I guess they woke him up at home. His robe is flying, he's in his undies underneath it...oh Lord! And we had his cig carton in our hands!

We worked our way into another area where there was a bunch of cattails and watched him riding around over yonder looking for us. Oh man that was funny! Til we had to duck back down, cuz a cop car was rolling by with a searchlight. It stopped and played that light all over those cattails, but never did find us. Good thing, too -- THE MAYOR'S SON WAS WITH US! We waited them out, then went back to the tent.

Yeah -- I've had some times, back in the day!

[minnikin1]

I had a job once where we had to spend a lot of time driving around with the same car load of people. One guy always insisted on driving.

One day we tied a wire to the gas pedal, threaded it under the mat and to the back seat, where I could pull on it and make the car zoom -
I waited for just the right moments....

Then everyone in the car would scream at him for being such a lousy driver.
He kept insisting there was something wrong with the car. :banana02:

Another time I wrote a message on my neighbors lawn with Scott's turfbuilder.

[Ken Scharabok]

When I was in the Navy my youngest sister was still at home. Had a guy on the staff by the name of Robin. I had him start sending her holiday and birthday cards, but would give them to other guys going home on leave. Cards might be postmarked from WI, then OR, then TX, etc. Cards didn't include return address, just comments such as, "I thought we were friends, why don't you write?" To this day I don't think she figured out I was behind it.

[watcher]

I'm not big on practical jokes because they tend to escalate to the point of someone damaging something expensive or irreplaceable or someone get hurt. But. . .

Lots of fun can be had with a rubber mouse, snake, spider, etc and a piece of fishing line. Tie one end of the line to the critter and the other to something to be picked up and moved.

Nice black, dirty, used grease placed on the underside of lift up car door handles.

Wire from the distributor to where the driver will have contact can cause some chuckles. Works best with a car w/o after market seat covers.

The oldie but goody of plastic wrap over the toilet still works.

Same for the old one of nailing someone's shoes to the porch flood.

Blocking up the car so the tires just touch the ground then removing the valve cores.

Putting water in a car tire to freeze on a really cold night.

Rolling the all the car windows down then taking the crank handles with you.

Packing a sexy pair of the other sex's undies in the dirty laundry during a trip can cause some fun when the victim returns home to the other half.

Replacing a guys boxers with women's undies BEFORE the trip can cause all kinds of grief for most guys under 25 or so.

I may not really go for them but very few people play more than a couple of tricks on me before they cry uncle.

[PyroDon]

meanest or best ?
My older brother survived frozen marbles , charged condensors, and an electric fence charger in his bed at different times .

I got my mom very good one spring by attaching silk roses to her rose bushes before they even had buds . and one fall I planted crocuses in her front yard to spell out "I love you most" when they bloomed the nest spring she was very surprised .

for my sisters 50th Bday I had the firedept come rushing in with lights sirens and full bunker gear . "we're sorry we thought a house was on fire from the flames" ,Cancel the ladder truck its just a birthday cake.

back in the teenaged days I took a friend to a grave yard with a fairly new mausoleum with a lighted door bell , I told him to ring the door bell and see if anyone was home . I already new the button activated a recording.
So the kid thinking no big deal trotted over and pushed the button and was greeted by a booming voice from within the grave. he took off running so fast he threw gravel clear back to my car and had ran 8 blocks before I caught up to him

Now meanest has always been reserved for those who have seriously ticked me off.

first was a foreman who managed to cheat me out of a few hundred bucks .
I waited until the upcoming holiday week end and called all the utilities claiming to be him and had all the utilities shut off by 5pm on friday, It took six days to get them turned back on .

second was a supervisor.
Who some how got singed up on half a dozen Gay Love mailing lists requesting nude photos be faxed , to the company office fax number of course

The last was a plant manager who was stealing massive amounts of products,
He was a great manager and kept excellent records in his private computer which some how ended up being emailed to the head office and stock holders