Pranks

[jmendez29]

I work out of an office shared by several people. We mess with each other constantly.

We've hidden one of the cordless phones inside one guys computer case. He could hear it ringing, and it was coming from near his computer, but he couldn't find it.

Ran an extension cord to the power cord of a computer monitor at an adjacent desk. Plug the extension cord into a power strip and leave it on the floor under the desk. Whenever the guy at the adjacent desk is working on the computer, the guy at the other desk can switch the monitor off with his foot on the power strip switch. This went on for DAYS.

Before we left for the day, we took a radio and turned it up full volume and hid it in the ceiling tiles. Whenever someone on the oncoming shift keyed up their radio in the office, there was a bunch of backfeed and nobody could figure out where it was coming from. At least for an hour or so.

And this one was incidental. Before leaving for the day, I hid a coworkers cell phone under his keyboard. I figured he would throw a fit, damn near disassemble his desk until he lifted up the keyboard and found his phone, then calm down and wonder how his phone ended up there. It worked out precisely to plan. Except the part about lifting up his keyboard. And calming down. Apparently he moved the keyboard around but the phone somehow stayed under it. He blamed the rest of his shift for messing with his phone and even blamed a couple of them directly for stealing it. And by the time I came back in 12 hours later, he had even called up his provider to cancel his phone plan and order a new one. When I showed him where it was, I could see a momentary flash of rage, then all out humiliation as he realized how inappropriately he had overreacted in the past 12 hours.

 

[Homercidal]

When I worked in a factory snatching up pop cans was pretty popular with some people. You can get 10 cents each in Michigan so a quick walk around the factory could get you a couple of dollars a day easy. One old guy had a habit of picking up your pop can and asking if you were finished with it. If you said no he'd take a drink and ask again...

An older lady would collect cans for money to spend on her grandkids. Her and the Old Man did not always get along, there being that little bit of competition between them.

One day the old guy got pissed at her for "stealing HIS cans" and superglued the combination lock on her locker.

ok, not a great prank, but a pretty good act of vengeance...

 

[monkeyman1000]

I have a couple
1) Convinced a new receptionist at a SNF I was working for to page Amanda Hugginkiss over the PA.
2) At another SNF I put a plastic turd near the toilet where we practice transfers with pts. The aide came in and saw it and pointed it out to everyone. I put on some gloves and grabbed some paper towels and went over and picked it up, making sure she could see me. As soon as I picked it up I bit it. You could hear her scream all the way out to the nursing station.
3) Placed a note on a nurse friend of mine's desk in a home health office run by a real uptight clinical manager. It read : IAM SOFA KING WE TADID. She went around reading it to everyone asking what it meant. Love her.
4) Syringes filled with water are great to shoot other guys in the crotch with at the hospital. Paging Mr Pee Pants. My buddy got me so I put KY Jelly on his phone receiver. Unfortunately the Pulmonary Doc used the phone first.
5) Remote control fart machine. Used that everywhere. Backfired when I taped it to the bottom of the desk in the meeting room where all the managers and dept heads meet for morning meeting. The new administrator (and complete paranoid nutcase I found out later) sat where I taped it. The tape gave way and it fell into her lap before I could use it. She thought it was a tape recorder and the meeting was being bugged by the competition.
6) Fake nail through the finger gag at a construction site, plus fake snakes and rats and roaches.
7) My favorite resident/pt of all times at a SNF where I worked had recently lost her leg and got a prosthetic one. She came to therapy and I worked with her for a bit. We loved playing a gag on the other pts. I would have her lie on a mat and announce that I was going to stretch out her hamstrings. I had a low rolling curtain on wheels that I would put in front of the mat. I then would take off her prosthesis and pretend that was the hammy I was stretching out. You could see her head on one end of the mat and me and the shoe of the prosthesis above the curtain. I would take the leg up to about 90 degrees and hold it then pretend I slipped and bring the foot down by her head. she played along and started yelling and moaning in agony. Scared the **** out of everyone. She also liked to play WC bowling. I'd set up a bunch of bolsters and push her chair towards them. She would wave her arms and good leg and try to knock down as many as she could. Loved me some Shirley!!!
There are more but those are my favorites.

 

[Monkey-BB]

I used to love filling up an empty vodka bottle full of water and pounding it first thing in the morning in front of somebody and pretending I didn't see them watching me just see the look on their face.
I sure got some priceless "looks"

 

[DrunkleJon]

May have mentioned this already in the Messing with SWMBO thread. If you havent read through it I highly reccomend it.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f45/messing-swmbo-356492/

Rubber rat or better yet snake, placed in the microwave. Most people that use the microwave are in a hurry/on autopilot anyway. When you open the door and see a coiled snake less than a foot away from your face is enough to startle the crap outta most anyone.

And we can't forget the age old rubber band around the kitchen sink sprayer gag. Whoever turns the water on gets sprayed.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

I tried the rubber band around the sink hose thing one year. I managed to forget about it and ended up spraying myself.
Twice.

 

[kev211]

I worked at a bicycle shop during college. We pulled all kinds of stupid pranks on each other, like putting sale tags on employee bikes that said "Piece of S**t bike", sale "insert cheap price here"" but the best prank we ever pulled IMO was on TJ.

Tj was a guy who loved mexican food (we're in San Diego, who doesnt ), but TJ's stomach didnt like mexican food as much. So one day when he was enduring a post mexican food lunch on the porcelain throne we decided to have some fun... We used baby powder to help seat tubes inside tires, so had plenty of it around the shop. At the bottom of the bathroom door there was about a 1/4 gap (this is also a single person/toilet bathroom, just to set the scene). So, we decide to take a healthy portion of baby powder and lay a line of it at the bottom of the door. We grabbed the air compressor hose, and let it rip. Ill put it this way... I have never heard so much gasping for air, coughing, and cussing all mixed in together in a 5 minute span. We were dying laughing. Totally worth having to mop the walls of the bathroom to clean the baby powder up :rockin:

 

[DrunkleJon]

Another one I mentioned in the messing with SWMBO thread but too good to not do. 'Borrow' their iphone and change the shortcuts (Apple-speak for autocorrect) and change autocorrect on words to change it to something different.

A couple weeks ago a friends phone was changed as followed.

"Lol" became "I fart bubbles!"
"Yes" became "no"
"No" became "yes"
etc..


Others that are fun to do for computer dorks like myself is to go on someones computer, take a screenshot of their desktop and set it as the desktop background. Then go into settings and hide the icons on the desktop.
Tape on the bottom of the mouse (works on both ball mice and optical)
Partially unplug the video cable from the back of the monitor, you get weird colored hues to the entire screen.
Most computers with a decent video card have shortcut keys that rotate the desktop. For example on many you can hit control-alt-arrow key to rotate the display so that direction is up.

 

[b-boy]

I used to work with an older programmer named Bill. He was in his 60s and a little behind the times technologically. We were all in our 30s at the time. We gave him a lot of 'old man' crap. He was a really cool guy. Kind of an ex-hippie.

One of the guys built a small program that could be inserted on his PC. The program played random audio clips at random times. We created a network share where we put the audio clips and a configuration file. This allowed us to essentially control the program remotely. We loaded the program on his PC. It loaded at startup.

We could enable it by changing parameters in the config file. We could turn it on or off, control which audio clips were played, and control when they were played. We had fart noises, movies lines, explosions, etc... We made sure the tech suport guys knew about the joke so they wouldn't ruin it, and so we wouldn't get in trouble.

The we turned it on and watched the fun.

For a few weeks he'd come into our work area complaining that his PC was 'posessed'. It was making random noises and talking to him. We told him it was probably a virus and said to call tech support. Since they were in on it, they played dumb and told him the PC was clean. He got completely obsessed with the fact that his PC was talking to him. He called tech support daily. You'd hear him telling everyone about it in the hallways, and talking on the phone about it. Everyone knew about it, so we all just went along with it.

We turned the program off for a few weeks and let everything settle down. He stopped complaining and things went back to normal.

After a month or so we fired it back up again. This time we added sound clips that included his name. We had the Billy Balough clip from Caddy Shack, where Ted Knight says 'Billy, Billy, Billy, Billy'. We also found some other random clips with his name in them.

The absolute best part of the joke was when Bill came walking into our cube area with a crazed look on his face. He looked at us and said slowly and deliberately "It's back - and now it knows my name!"

We all busted out laughing. He immediately figured out that we had something to do with it. He was pissed, but he was laughing about it within a few days.

 

[Airplanedoc]

lessons learned as a factory supervisor

1. Always wipe the phone off, before placing it to your ear. petroleum jelly, and grease aren't so bad, but Prussian blue has to wear off.
2. Always close your email program, before leaving the desk, coworkers send happy grams to your boss, telling what a great guy he is.
3. Always keep a lid on your coffee.
4. Always check you stool before you sit.
5. Never pickup anything that looks interesting or unique, its probably a capacitor.
6. Routinely wipe across your ass, to be sure you do not have a bunny tail hung on your belt.

 

[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.