Pranks

[black_belt]

I've done the autocorrect on a pc before. It's especially funny when you set word to change their name to something like "diapers." Best part is it worked on email.
Another simple one was popping out and switching the m and n on a guy's keyboard. He got locked out since his password used one of those keys.

 

[JonM]

I sent a prank email to a buddy, and he fell for it at home. He promptly circulated it around work and got plenty of takers.

The message included a sound clip that was supposedly a hacked voice mail from some celeb. The message warns that "Sound quality is crap." When the patsy plays it, it sounds like a woman describing some kind of party, but it's really quiet. So you turn the volume up to hear better. As the clip goes on, it gets quieter and quieter and the patsy keeps turning the volume up and up. Then, when the volume is full blast, it switches to a big booming voice that shouts "I love gay porn! I'm watching gay porn right now!"

Works great in a cubicle type office.

 

[illinoisbrassman]

We had a electromagnet where I went to college, we would take a guys tool box, and hold it up to the magnet and turn it on. Then set it back on a wooden bench. If the person was lucky he would find magnetized when he tried to get something out of it. If he was unlucky he would move it to a metal desk, then have a extremely difficult time removing it. Either way to demagnetize the toolbox one would have to load his tool box into the magnaflux machine and fill the box with solvent and metal shavings to while passing the AC coil over it.

 

[DrunkleJon]

I sent a prank email to a buddy, and he fell for it at home. He promptly circulated it around work and got plenty of takers.

The message included a sound clip that was supposedly a hacked voice mail from some celeb. The message warns that "Sound quality is crap." When the patsy plays it, it sounds like a woman describing some kind of party, but it's really quiet. So you turn the volume up to hear better. As the clip goes on, it gets quieter and quieter and the patsy keeps turning the volume up and up. Then, when the volume is full blast, it switches to a big booming voice that shouts "I love gay porn! I'm watching gay porn right now!"

Works great in a cubicle type office.

Had that happen by accident (i think) to a coworker a couple jobs back. He had his mp3s playing at his desk and we were all in the kitchen area drinking so he had turned his music up so everyone could hear. Things went quiet for several minutes and we forgot that anything was playing until all of a sudden, quite loudly "ATTENTION EVERYBODY! I AM LOOKING AT GAY PORN!" bellowed out of his speakers a few times and I have never seen him run so fast as he ran to his desk to turn it down. Apparently the artist had included the old style "Hidden" track where they leave dead space for several minutes tacked onto the last song.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I was relatively recently married, and had built up a reputation amongst my in-laws that I both was pretty well-read and knew a lot of stuff, and that I was pretty much honest and not a prankster.

So one day my wife's cousin emails me a picture that had been going around the forwards at her work... Looking back on it, I think it was this:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/family.asp

She wanted my take on it... To know whether it was legit.

Well, of course I play along. I tell her it's totally a new discovery, and I had seen it in the news. Freaky, but true.

She spends the entire day telling her coworkers that her cousin, who is always up to date on these things, verified it and that it's totally true. Basically making an ass of herself all day because she trusted me implicitly.

She (and the rest of them) learned that day that you can't always take me seriously

 

[MaxStout]

I was a co-host of a morning radio show back in the early '80s. On April Fool's Day one year we told people that the phone company was flushing out the phone lines that day and we recommended that people put plastic bags over their telephones, or there would be dust blown out all over the place from the procedure.

A few hours later we received a few calls from irate (and gullible) people who had turned around on their way to work and headed back home to bag their phones.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

Never been much for pranks myself (neither giving nor receiving) but like hearing about a good one and always thought one of the best was back in 1989 when billionaire Sir Richard Branson had a hot air baloon made to look like a flying saucer with blinking, circling lights etc and hired some midgets to be outfitted to look like martians and landed the thing outside of London, England.

From a description of the event ...
"The police had received a flood of phonecalls from scared motorists using roadside emergency phones as the balloon passed over the highway. One lady reportedly called a radio station to describe the UFO that she was looking at, not realizing that she was standing in front of her window stark naked. One of the policemen who had to approach the craft later admitted, "I have never been so scared in 20 years of being a policeman."

Here's a picture of the spaceship as it travelled over the countryside around dawn on that morning ... April Fools Day.

 

[harleybug88]

Probably the most funniest prank I ever pulled, happened years ago. Me and my good friend Mike, were parting one night with some girls. He ended up passing out from to much beer.
So, I thought it would be funny to draw a mustache and goatee on him with a black magic marker.
We then decided to go out for breakfast, ( this is about 2:30 am ) we wake Mike up and tell him "come on Mike we're all going out for breakfast"!
The looks we got at the restaurant were priceless! We could hardly contain are selves from laughing to hard.

 

[illinoisbrassman]

A guy in my dorm brought home a girl one Friday evening. He then proceeded to pass out naked, apparently before anything happened. She was somewhat pissed when she left, and left the door to his room open. The prankster on our floor saw this, and went in the guys room and drew a mustache, goatee, etc, and wrote all over his arms and forehead, shaved a eyebrow, and put chewed gum in his a$$ among other things. The whole floor was woke Saturday morning up to this guy screaming about the woman (not what he called her) he brought home. His commanding officer at national guard was apparently not impressed with his appearance when he reported for drill either. I don't think he ever found out it was not her who messed him up.

 

[harleybug88]

When I was a kid my Dad pulled a prank on our next door neighbor. ( they were friends ).
He had a car for sale, my Dad and his buddy jacked the car up and put it on blocks about an inch off the ground.
When it came time for a test drive it wouldn't move.
That was classic!

 

[Nova5]

I've always wanted to try this. Apparently, it works best when you put several in a particular room/apartment, etc. so the patsy never knows how to pinpoint the noise.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/b278/

A device of truely demonic purposes.. I have used them...

 

[masonsjax]

We would come in early to hide them in the neighboring office at work. Taped to the underside of a raised floor tile, or inside someone's computer case is always a good choice. It can really test a person's sanity.

 

[MaxStout]

Tomorrow is Zero Gravity Day. Jump for joy!

 

[gratus fermentatio]

Glue a quarter to the floor in a school hallway or even at the mall. Get a snack, sit back & enjoy the ensuing frustrations of others as they try to pry it up.
Regards, GF.

 

[brettwasbtd]

Glue a quarter to the floor in a school hallway or even at the mall. Get a snack, sit back & enjoy the ensuing frustrations of others as they try to pry it up.
Regards, GF.

This was literally me and some friends in high school every other Friday. Super glue and a quarter. We would glue the quarter to the floor on the first floor and then go watch from the second... Hours of entertainment all for $1.50

 

[Homercidal]

Glue a quarter to the floor in a school hallway or even at the mall. Get a snack, sit back & enjoy the ensuing frustrations of others as they try to pry it up.
Regards, GF.

Someone did this at work (factory) once and I bent down to pick it up. Soon as I saw it was glued down I whipped out my pocketknife and popped it right up and put it in my pocket.

They had a hot glue station right next to the aisle. Not too hard to deal with!

And I won $5 by betting a guy I could pick up a nickle with a fork lift.

 

[masonsjax]

I went through a lot of superglue in school. The best was a drop or two in the pages of a teacher's lesson book.

 

[Kwitty]

Some guys from our shop sent the new guy to pick up supplies and list of places to get them. He was told don't come back until you have everything on the list! Then they called ahead to those places and had them play along with this one particular item. They said they were out, it was on back order, all sorts of excuses. He came back looking like a beat dog! Thought he would have to tell the boss at his new job that he failed, but we all had a good laugh. The item...... A 50ft roll of fallopian tube!

 

[Kwitty]

Some guys from our shop sent the new guy to pick up supplies and list of places to get them. He was told don't come back until you have everything on the list! Then they called ahead to those places and had them play along with this one particular item. They said they were out, it was on back order, all sorts of excuses. He came back looking like a beat dog! Thought he would have to tell the boss at his new job that he failed, but we all had a good laugh. The item...... A 50ft roll of fallopian tube!

 

[drainbamage]

I only had a secondary role in this particular prank, but we had our "Aldo" in college too. He was kind of the stereotypical stoner/slacker type, and hardly ever went to class. 2nd semester of freshman year, he had dropped a couple of classes, so he was no longer considered a full-time student. We were all in the dorms then, so one of my friends called down the hall to his room phone, posing as the Dean of the College of Engineering. He explained to him that since he wasn't a full-time student, he had lost his rights to on-campus housing, and the university was giving his dorm to another student. He was told he had to pack his bags and be out of the building in 2 days.

On cue, he walked down the hall to the caller's dorm (where we usually hung out). He was explaining what happened and how he'd probably have to move to his brother's apartment a few blocks away, and one by one, people who couldn't hold a straight face anymore would slip out of the room to avoid laughing. Eventually it's down to just me and him sitting there talking about what to do (apparently I have the best poker face), and he decides to go break the news to his mom. He goes back to his room and we hear him on the phone with her, getting chewed out over letting his grades slip and dropping classes. My friend who made the call knocks on the door and says in the same voice, "Yes, this is Dean Wolcott..."

There was a brief moment where you saw the wheels in his head turning, until he finally sees us all standing there grinning and yells, "OH, YOU PR!CKS!"...at which point his mom proceeds to chew him out more for swearing.

He also always left his dorm unlocked when he went home for a weekend. Usually the pranks just consisted of the old favorite of setting his desktop to various forms of disturbing porn and hiding all his icons. One time the rest of us were grilling out while he was gone. There was one bratwurst that got left on the heat too long and got overcooked, so we decided to keep cooking until it was charred beyond all recognition and looked like a big crusty turd. It ended up in his fridge.

 

[1977Brewer]

Filling drink straws with Palmolive.

One twist tie, one paper towel, one lighter. Tie one end of twist tie to one corner of paper towel. Hook to the victim's apron string. Light. Hilarity ensues.

Mayonnaise under car door handles.

Flour in a/c intakes.

Anchovies on engine blocks.



The things you learn at The Pizza Place!

 

[feinbera]

This one turned out either better or worse than expected, depending upon whose perspective.

So, you know that one guy in your group of college buddies – always worried about upsetting the resident assistants, always has to leave the party or quit Mario Kart early because he's gotta finish a problem set in the morning – your basic anti-Aldo, we'll call him Odla.

Every night, before he went to bed, Odla would fill up his clear one-liter water bottle, and every morning, he'd chug it before getting out of bed – Odla was into hydration (shockingly enough). Odla was also rooming with those kids who had the beer fridge and the N64 – so, it was only a matter of time before, two or three pulls of plastic bottle vodka chased with High Life (forgive me, I knew not what I did) after Odla went to bed, we decided to mess with that water bottle.

It was a clear water bottle, so we decided something visually arresting floating in it would be the best bet. We were drunk and broke, so sculpting something out of the play-doh somebody had left in the dorm lounge seemed like the best idea since sliced pizza. Now, our sober selves would've immediately realized that something made of flour, salt, food coloring, and dihydrogen monoxide, left in a quarter gallon of water for several hours, would probably dissolve – but, we hadn't seen our sober selves in a while, so, we slapped together an artistically-interpreted "gin fish" whose hung-over visage would greet Odla in the morning, and in an operation owing more to the sleep-deprived coma in which most college students repose than to any particular stealth or daring on our part, we set the gin fish free in Odla's water bottle before retiring to our own sleep-deprivation (and cheap booze) induced comas.

I am generally a bit of a misanthrope who enjoys his privacy, but in having chosen to live alone that year, I regretfully did not get to witness first-hand the look on Odla's face when, upon sucking down about a third of that liter bottle, he realized that, rather than the water he was expecting, it was full of cloudy, floury, particolored brine into which our star-crossed gin fish had dissolved.