What is your best all time prank?

Well, one of the few pranks I can admit to was this:

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(Note the date on the articles is 4/1/08. It's amazing the number of people who bought the stories.)

-- Leva

Well I used to bribe my brother with candy or money to mow around Momas bushes that I knew to have wasp's nests inside.Me and another little angel friend would get the store owners attention while the other one shook the bubblegum machine till the prize was ready to fall out the next penny that was put in. We used to deer hunt with dogs and from time to time I have taken a deer foot and made deer tracks across a dirt road and watch them old men scratch their head wondering why "Old Blue" wont take the track. Oh and don't want to forget all those snipe hunts we welcomed newcomers to the sport on their first safari holding a burlap bag in a ditch and whistling like I showed them to call them snipes. One time this friend of mine and his brother took an old neighborhood dog and tied cornshucks on the end of a long string so not to burn the dog, an lit them with a match. The dog run under their house and through the field setting everything on fire where he went. They managed to beat out the grass around the house but the field burned up to a ditch and went out. One time when my two sons were small (6 an 8) they walked down the road "trick or treating" The oldest was wearing a sheet like a ghost. Anyway I was hiding in a ditch when they were walking back home. I could tell they were scarred because the oldest was whistling. When they got right beside me I growled like a bear an they took off an the oldest hollared come on Sammy and that sheet he was wearing was poping and snapping like a flag in the wind. Eddie

My brother-in-law set it up to record the Wednesday night lottery drawing.
Turns out the winning ticket was worth 3 million that night. The next day he bought a ticket using those winning numbers.

The next week, he arranged to have the previously recorded show playing. It was dinnertime and everyone was gathered around the table when the lottery announcer read off the winning numbers. He pulled his "lottery ticket" out of his wallet, handed it to his mom and asked her to read the numbers.

After she read it twice it hit her that she was holding a 3 million dollar winning lottery ticket. Only problem was, that was last weeks winner. I don't think she's ever forgiven him for that!

On Halloween night Me and a few of my friends went to the Geometry teacher house and got his Volkswagen and brought it to the school. Then we drained all the fluid out of it and took the battery out of it and then took it upstairs to a janitors closet and put it in their on the rear bumper. The teachers son was in on it . The next day the principle came into study haul and called out our names and toled us to get it out of their . He knew who did it he even called out the right ones all 3 of us. The teacher was known for his practical jokes.

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God must have loved stupid people because he made so many of them.

Friends of ours set up their apartment just before getting married and then went on their honeymoon. We gained access to their apartment while they were gone and filled the bedroom up from floor to ceiling with wadded up newspapers. Also took all the labels off all the canned goods. To this day they don't know for sure who did it.

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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
--Thomas Jefferson

Some time ago, I worked with 3 guys who drank a lot, as a result, they sweated profusely. One summer day one of them ask why I didn't sweat very much. Out of the blue, I concocted a story about being in a drug trial, i was getting paid 25 dollars a day to take air conditioning pills. They scoffed, I explained how they work by raising your core temperature so that the air around you felt cooler. One of the guys said he remembered seeing something about it on the news, One ask me for an air conditioning pill. The next day, i brought him a tylenol PM, he swore that he felt cooler all day.....

There was a coin collector at work that was always wanting to look at everyone's change and get coins with more than face value for cheap. He was asked what coin he was searching for and responded he was looking for a 1943 copper penny, a rarity for certain. I got a commonplace 1948 penny and carefully modified the 8 into a 3 using a set of die files and a lot of patience. A few weeks later he was asking to look at everyone's change and I carefully permitted him to "discover" the newly created 1943 penny and he about exploded with excitement and immediately he wanted to buy the coin. I told him I would have to think about it. About every day he would ask about the coin. I was back at the loading dock one day and he approached me with the usual question about selling the coin. I told him that this coin was going to ruin our relationship and that I could not let that happen. I took the coin and threw it across the rail yard tracks into a huge thicket. He about passed out. For months afterward he would spend his lunch time searching the area for the "rare" 1943 penny. I never told him any different.

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Agmantoo
If they can do it,
you know you can!

I can't say this was my prank, but my father was a house painter, and had employees. My father asked a new employee to go get striped paint, the employee ran around for hours, looking for striped paint. Well everyone had a good laugh. And yes this employee worked for my father for 20+ years. But my father asked every new employee to look for striped paint. Still laugh today, as a painters daughter, I knew there was no striped paint. But everyone fell for it.

I grew up in a household that was forever pulling a prank (like locking my mother in the worse smelling outhouse ever on a camping trip...my dad made ME unlock the door even tho it was my older brother who did it and she came out screaming after ME).

MY latest prank (March 08) actually backfired on me. A coworker was having a birthday and kept saying she wanted to celebrate by going out to see the Chip N Dales (male strippers). I knew she was joking but thought I'd be able to at least get one of our maintenance men to sing her Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe style. I couldn't find any takers, so I asked one of the residents (80 years old...a real "character") at the retirement home that I work at to sing Happy Birthday. He was more then happy to comply. So as soon as he came to our clinic, I gathered up all the nurses/secretaries/physical therapist/supervisors/patients/etc. He walks in with a towel stuffed in the front part of his pants and starts singing.....

the hat comes off, then the business suit, then shirt...shoes...socks....tee shirt (at this point our supervisor walks away). Then he is standing there in his whitety tighties with dollar bills hanging from the front. When he turned around so did I, and all I could hear was screaming/laughing. I didn't even want to know what was in his grand finale.

Afterwards, my supervisor asked me and the birthday girl to come to her room (let's just say we were officially "counselled!).

I forgot some done to my city living cousins. I'd take them out to the bee hives and show them how tame our bees were by reaching down and picking one up. Of course they didn't notice the bees I picked up looked a bit different then the rest, they were a bit bigger. IOW, the ones I picked up were drones.

I'd also show them how harmless bees were by sitting in front of the hives and let the bees fly by and sometimes land on me. After insulting their bravery to the point they would sit down I'd give them a few minutes for their legs to get a bit tired then slap the hive good and hard and run.

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the police are just MINUTES away!

Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. . .Davy Crockett

I am not going to say who did each of these stunts but here they are:

1. a terrible neighbor in fancy subdivision annoyed everyone so much that two people stuck the end of the RoundUp wand thru the privacy fence and let it fly
2. someone received a load of "hand-me-down" clothes and in it found a pile of tiny sexy teenager size underpants (those thong things) with matching bras - and for weeks would toss one into the yard of a man who had reputation for pestering others about their morals
3. mix two cans of tuna fish with 1 gallon of cheap cooking oil dumped into big bucket / let it set in sun for several days / take it carefully and pour it all around the AC unit outside a house of victim / leave and later hear stories about the foul smell in the house
4. buy girlie magazines / wrinkle them up like they were read / place them in the truck seat of target when they are not looking
5. toss packages of rolling papers into the yard of target / preferably right at the end of the driveway so every one going down the street will see it /

A young friend of mine bought his first truck years ago. A used 2wd S10. He came up to show it off, it was in March and there was a good layer of hard packed icy snow on the road. So we talked for a bit then he went to leave. Standing on the bank I grabbed the box and yanked backwards and to the side making his rear wheel slip. He was totally stuck on the ice so long as I held on no matter how he gunned the engine. I let go and he finaly managed to get going cursing something terrible. I caught him 3 or 4 more times that winter........... then he bought a 4wd. Caught my brother with the old pound the side of the truck while he was backing up gag last year. We went to help a friend pick up a couch for his wife. Nice couch in a tres chic neighborhood, lots of BMW's and Lexus' parked on the road and in the drive ways. Well poor old bro had to back in and it was one of those dark dark nights WHAM!! I slammed the side of the door with my hand as hard as I could just as he cranked the wheel over and started back saying can you see anything??!! Thought he was gonna have a stroke! His reflexs are top notch though for an old guy!

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At work I would super glue a penny or nickle in the hallway outside of my lab. We had employees with high school to PhD education. I would watch through the double glass doors as the people would first try to pick up the coin and then kick at it with their foot to break the coin loose. Once they realized what I was doing they would then bring another unsuspecting co-worker down the hall. Sure enough the co-worker would try to pick up the coin. Didn't matter what the education level the people would try to pick up that penny or nickle. Finally the head custodian asked me to stop because the night janitors were complaining about all the scuff marks on the floor that they had to buff out each night.

took some old t shirts and long johns and stained the armpits and crotches with tea and hung them on my brothers clothes line(they lived in a real nice neighborhood) while they were gone on vacation. Wonder what the nieghbors thought!!!!!!!!!!

I chuckled and snortled and laughed for weeks anticipating the outcome of my best one.

DH can't hide a gift worth a hoot. I'm always accidently finding them while I'm just going about my daily life.

One year in early Nov I was cleaning out the hall linen closet and found a lovely bottle of an expensive liquor that I like hidden on a shelf. I knew dh had bought it and stuck it away for a Christmas gift.

Our friend owned a bar and I asked for the next empty bottle of that liquor and when I got it I hid the empty in the place of the full bottle.

Come Christmas morning and the children have had their gifts and dh and I exchange our gifts. But the one I'm waiting on didn't show up. I waited as long as I could and then said something off hand like "I'm surprised I didn't get a bottle of Amaretto this year because you usually always do get me one" DH slaps his forehead and heads out of the living room...I'm primed to burst out laughing because he's gonna find the empty!

He comes back with a new full bottle...What? Where ever did you hide that?

He'd hid it in the back of his closet shelf. Now what do I do? I snuck to the hall closet and checked...yes the empty is still there. I mulled it over all day before I finally asked him if he'd hidden anything in the linen closet. You could see the light bulb go on in his head..."That's where I hid it! I knew I'd bought you one but couldn't remember where I hid it so I bought you another one".

He went to the hall closet and found the empty. He thought I'd found it and drank it.
I went into the clothes closet and reached up into the crawl space and told him...nope, here's the one you hid, that empty is the one I hid and waited weeks for you to find!

So while my prank didn't work, I did have 2 bottles of Amaretto that year.

This is one that my friend's younger brother did to one of his buddies.

The victim was a very shy guy and had crush on a girl for quite some time. He finally got up the nerve to ask her out on a date. The poor guy made the mistake of telling his two friends about the date and that he was picking the girl up right after work.

On the day of the date - a rather warm summer day - the two friends got a pizza box and...um...did something very smelly in it. They put the pizza box under the seat of his car and rolled the windows up tight. The box and contents baked in the heat of the car and the poor guy had to pick up his date in his very smelly ride.

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Anne
Give me a sweet home set among the trees,
With friends whose words are ever kind and true.
-Phoebe Carey-

LONE PINE FARM
Barnesville, PA
Boer goats, Angora goats, Eclectic mix of poultry

Well, this wasn't really my prank it was my brother's. We both were in our church teen chior and one Sunday we were to sing and our cousin came to church with us. When the chior was called up to sing my brother told our cousin to come with him. Our cousin followed and I was looking strange at him and you can be sure the choir director was looking strange at all of us. Of course he didn't know the song but he did a good job of faking it. Both my brother and cousin are gone now but I bet where they are they laugh about that.

RenieB

My little bro wet the bed every so often till he was around 12. When he was13 he and my dad were spending the night in part of grandmas garage. I was 16.
I got some warm water, crept in unzipped his sleeping bag and poured. I ran out holding my breath.
A minute later I hear this "Uh Uh Uh"
Dad "Whats wrong?"
"My bed is wet!"
Dad starts chewing him out about being too old to wet the bed etc.
"But I didnt do it!!" Little bro claims.
The lights go on and dad is having a cow and poor bro doesnt have a leg to stand on.
Im outside with a pillow over my mouth laughing me rear end off.

One of our secretaries lightly sewed the end of the boss's jacket sleeves together. When he tried to put it on his hands would not come out. He said nothing just got his pen knife and removed the stitches. Later he came on the PA and asked if anyone had seen his wallet that was in his jacket pocket. She was terrified. He got her back!

A friend used to tease his son terribly. One day Ryan was in the shower singing to high heaven, thinking no one was home. When he finished and threw open the shower curtain there stood his Dad right up close. He screamed! His Dad would also come in from work and get down behind the sofa and jump out at Ryan. I think he loved to hear him scream.

Here's a couple, not all were mine though.

1) We had a hot shot engineer straight out of school that was head of his class thinking he was smarter than everyone else in the department. After several weeks, we had enough. So we sanded off the plastic and the paint on a steel tape measure and told him we needed the "exact" measurements between the posts of a heavy duty truck battery. The guys on the shop floor said he about cut a flip when it showered him in sparks. It actually welded the tape to the posts... for some reason he calmed down a bit after that and wasn't so smart after all. And we sent him for a sample of diesel fuel in a styrofoam cup.

2) We had another guy in the office that loved to play pranks on people. I owed him some so after noticing that he didn't type real well I changed two of the letters on his keyboard. The guy across the hall said the next day he threw his keyboard across the office against the wall cussing. Seems I got lucky and picked one of the letters in his password. He couldn't log in for about three hours, well not until IT brought him another keyboard that wasn't "broken".

3) A guy on the shopfloor had his tool box "stolen" out of the plant. He actually filed it on his insurance and got replacement tools and a box. No one said anything... a couple months later he looked up to the ceiling and noticed that someone had used a sissor lift to weld his toolbox to the steel roof decking fourty feet in the air.

4) Another guy had the luxury of going to his car after work where someone had jimmied open his car door and let three racoons loose at dinner break (second shift). After a couple hours in the car they were ready to come out and he didn't know they were in there until he was just about to sit down in the driver's seat. We to this day don't know which ran across the parking lot faster, him or the coons.

5) On some computers either control or alt and the up arrow (can't remember which) turns the screen sideways. We had one lady actually work with her head tilted to the side for a couple hours because IT didn't answer the phone to fix her computer. Eventually IT got tired of fixing this so they sent out an e-mail to everyone so they could correct the screen themselves.

6) We have a the office romeo that is just so good looking and is God's gift to women. So we hid a remote control fart machine in the plants at the break area. So he was chatting it up with a couple of the attractive women in the office and RRRIIIPPP.... I don't think I have ever witnessed anyone turning that shade of red in my life.

I will probably think of more but a little humor is great...