Best Prank Ever Pulled?

[02ducky]

HoneyBadgers post about the high school student raising the Gadsden Flag got me thinking about this a little this morning. What is the best prank you have ever pulled on somebody?

[ruthabagah]

I pulled my best pranks when I was in the Army...

When I was doing my military service (Army, mandatory at the time), a minor accident kept me away from duty for a couple of days. In the meantime I was told to help with the integration of the new recruits.

(At that time, being in the Army was the first choice for new recruits because after 8 weeks of basic Training they had a good chance to be send close to home for their military service and spend some week ends with their families. The Air force was also ok, but the Navy sucked because of the deployments).

I was in charge of the "respiratory test" and would administer the test and write down the result on the recruit's report card. After a long day processing a batch of fresh meat, I got bored to death and started playing with the machine.... increasing the resistance by putting my thumb in the outflow port.... When a recruit would ask why it was so hard, I told them that since the navy was low in recruits, I just gave them the submariner test and that since they passed they would be transferred to the fleet! Some guys totally panicked and had such a high heart rate at the next station that I was kicked down the line to the "posture test". There we would check for basic ergonomic posture, and basic motor skills.... This guy arrived and was just an arrogant @$$, asking "why?", each time I told him to do a specific task.... I told him to get inside a empty container and we closed the lid for a minute before he panicked. when he asked why he was put in the container, I told him it was for the submariner test..... I got kicked out down the line to the administrative desk, where all the sudden there was an increase of transfer request to the Navy....

[Aloha_Shooter]

Wish I could take credit for them but I think the two best in college history were:
1. MIT placing a weather balloon in the middle of the field under the turf and releasing it during half-time of the 1982 Harvard-Yale game.
2. Caltech taking over the Rose Bowl scoreboard in 1984.

[ChadAmberg]

Before 9/11 of course...

Buddy called me and asked if I could pick him up from the airport. He's a guitarist for a metal band, and at the time he had really long hair, looked like the stoner type. Of course I said...
Grabbed my other buddy. Dressed up like feds, black suits, etc, complete with the earpieces and dark glasses. Grabbed a pair of handcuffs...
Met him right off the plane, 'arrested' and cuffed him, read him his rights, everything, and walked him out of the airport to my car. He played along perfectly, "You got nothin' on me man"... "She was dead when I got there!"

[MarkCO]

Love good pranks, especially pulling them off on April Fools day. Some of the better ones...

Took the coil wires out of all the cars in the church parking lot one evening, left them all in a big tub near the front door with a sign that said. "Free, take one only please."

Got a prior girlfriend good on the IRS one. Sent her a letter, it told her to "look her best", bring all of her paystubs, checkbook registers, etc. (she had 4 boxes) and arrive at 5:30 at the IRS office for a 4 hour initial review. Of course, they were closed when she got there. She was pretty mad the first day, but she cooled down. Yep, it was April 1.

Had my mom believing I had won the lottery and was on a 10 day cruise and was blowing money gambling and drinking. Also April 1.

This year, had my wife convinced I had taken a Viagra pill...worked out well for me. :)

There are some others I have perpetuated, and some with friends, probably better not to post on the internet. :)

[RCCrawler]

I do them all the time to everyone. One of the best was when I had moved out of my moms house, but my sister who was 17 still lived there. She had watched the Blair Witch Project and was totally freaked out about it just like all high schoolers at that time. So I snuck over to moms when no one was home and went down in the basement (my sisters area) and placed little figures made of sticks all over the place like in the movie. My sister got home way late and totally freaked ran upstairs and woke up my mom they were both totally freaked and didn't sleep at all. I went back and did it again a week later, but that time I told my mom about it so she wouldn't totally flip. When my sister finally found out she was pissed.


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[10mm-man]

Best prank was this last April fools; when I gave away a rifle, and everyone thought I was kidding....

[Aloha_Shooter]

Best prank was this last April fools; when I gave away a rifle, and everyone thought I was kidding....

Reminds me of something Heinlein wrote. To paraphrase, the second best way to lie is to tell the truth in a way that makes everyone think you're lying ...

[XC700116]

Senior year, we had an elitist prick of an English teacher. You know the typical libtard hippie type who's general college prep advise was to take a year off and travel, party etc and then ONLY go to a full on 4 year college. He then upped the ante and said all of us that planned on going to a tech program to start our careers would end up to be nothing more than glorified roto-rooter men.

Obviously we took a bit of offense to that, so we decided to sneek out to the parking area and pull the rear drive shaft from his brand new Dodge Ram. He parked on the back side of the school along the road right next to a deep ditch. We placed all the bolts, drive shaft, and U-joint collars in the bed of the pickup. (keep in mind this is a 4X4 pickup) He lived a total of about 5 blocks from the school, could have driven home in 4wd and fixed it easily (if he had the ability). So of course since he had a pretty good idea of at least a group of suspects, he promptly stormed down to the Auto shop and threw a full on tantrum until the shop teacher said he'd make sure it got fixed. We knew he'd be watching his truck like a hawk and would bitch out and haul us to the office if he caught us fixing it. So of course we fixed it in the same manor in which we had pulled the drive shaft. Lookout keeping an eye on him, 2 guys do the sneek in, and slapped it back in the truck in about 5 minutes flat.

The best part of the whole thing was, as we suspected, he fully planned to nail us on it when we went to fix it, and when he didn't catch us, he came back down to the shop and accused us of not fixing it (before checking for himself). The shop teacher simply told him to go check his truck again and grinned at him. Essentially, no proof of who did it, and the only thing the shop teacher would say is that having heard of the problem, he sent a couple guys out there to take care of it for the poor English teacher.

[asmo]

When a recruit would ask why it was so hard, I told them that since the navy was low in recruits, I just gave them the submariner test and that since they passed they would be transferred to the fleet!

I thought the 'submariner' test was something totally different, involving a 'hot bunk', 3+ guys, and a lot of lube.

[alxone]

electing a city alderman and a lawyer as president would probably be the best prank i can think of .......

[ray1970]

Sheesh. Where would I start. So many awesome ones over the years.

For or you office type folks, punch someone's chair in under their desk, tie some fishing line to the bottom of the chair and bring it up the other side of the desk and tie it everything on the top of the desk (stapler, phone, file rack type things, etc.) then wait for them to pull the chair out and watch everything go flying off the back side of the desk.

One of my favorite pranks is to put a rubber band around the spray nozzle thing on a kitchen or brake room sink and make sure it is pointed to where whoever turns the faucet on will get hosed.

Of course most of my pranks have been automotive related. Had a 140 decibel mini siren we would stick up under the dash and wire to things like window switches, turn signals, etc. Blowing up antifreeze jugs with compressed air is always entertaining if done in an appropriate time and place.

[HoneyBadger]

Sheesh. Where would I start. So many awesome ones over the years.

For or you office type folks, punch someone's chair in under their desk, tie some fishing line to the bottom of the chair and bring it up the other side of the desk and tie it everything on the top of the desk (stapler, phone, file rack type things, etc.) then wait for them to pull the chair out and watch everything go flying off the back side of the desk.

One of my favorite pranks is to put a rubber band around the spray nozzle thing on a kitchen or brake room sink and make sure it is pointed to where whoever turns the faucet on will get hosed.

Of course most of my pranks have been automotive related. Had a 140 decibel mini siren we would stick up under the dash and wire to things like window switches, turn signals, etc. Blowing up antifreeze jugs with compressed air is always entertaining if done in an appropriate time and place.
This reminds me of one... We got my boss good last year by taping an air horn to the cylinder of his office chair and raised it up a little. About 5 minutes after he sat down, he lowered the chair to a more comfortable height and then just about hit the ceiling when he jumped up. :D

[Lurch]

Senior prank in high school involved about 20 of us driving around and borrowing various farm animals. Saturday night we put them in the school with a couple of days worth of food and water. One of the guys mothers worked at the school so we were able to use her keys and alarm codes. Monday morning was pretty damn funny and pretty damn smelly. The cow on the second level was the icing on the cake.

[ray1970]

Put a dab of Vaseline in the center of someone's windshield. When they see it their first instinct is to turn on the wipers. Makes a heck of a streaky mess. Just be aware you could be the cause of a nasty vehicle accident.

[ray1970]

Senior prank in high school involved about 20 of us driving around and borrowing various farm animals. Saturday night we put them in the school with a couple of days worth of food and water. One of the guys mothers worked at the school so we were able to use her keys and alarm codes. Monday morning was pretty damn funny and pretty damn smelly. The cow on the second level was the icing on the cake.

We stuffed the neighbors cat in the mailbox once. Should have seen the look on the mail mans face when he opened the box and was attacked by a pissed off feline.

[HoneyBadger]

We stuffed the neighbors cat in the mailbox once. Should have seen the look on the mail mans face when he opened the box and was attacked by a pissed off feline.
Isn't that a felony? booby-trapping with the mail box?

Still gave me a chuckle though. ;)

[theGinsue]

Isn't that a felony? booby-trapping with the mail box?

Still gave me a chuckle though. ;)
Yeah, but what ISN'T a felony these days?

[ray1970]

I was under age at the time. Kids will be kids. What can I say?

[ray1970]

And for the record, my buddy and I got the worst end of that deal anyways. Apparently cats don't like being put in a mailbox. He didn't even put a scratch on the mailman when he was "released". Can't say the same for me and my friend. We almost needed another person to stuff him in the box.

[Irving]

Yeah, but what ISN'T a felony these days?

Weed bro!

[Gman]

Best prank was this last April fools; when I gave away a rifle, and everyone thought I was kidding....
I still feel good about my odds of winning.

[theGinsue]

Weed bro!
Oh yeah; I forgot about that stuff. Crazy, ain't it?

FWIW: Pot plays no role in my life so I never remember it.

[sniper7]

In High school, a chick was extremely drunk at a party and we got her to believe if she drank water topless from the dog bowl she wouldn't have a hangover.

Chained and locked a buddy's car to a light pole in the high school parking lot so he had to call his mom for a ride home.

baseball coaches went out drinking so we secured a key to their room, put red ants under the sheets, maple syrup in their shampoo and conditioning bottles, red pepper in their pillow cases, and soaked all their clothes they had laid out and in their bags.....we ran A LOT the next day after the game, then they got us back by soaking our bed with ice water and left a huge dump in the toilet with the handle disconnected and the toilet seat taken off....nasty!

We moved one kids mattress onto the roof of a house we rented for a baseball tournament, put his hand in warm water. Double surprise in the morning when he awoke on the roof, he had pissed his pants, and we locked the window.

deflated all the annoying people's car tires at a frat party in college.

[BPTactical]

Picked up a Honda Civic when they first came out and put it sideways in a carport(2-3 inches clearance on the poles)
I had a great boss at CDOT, he was a wiseacre and was pulling pranks all the time.
He left me in charge when he went on vacation and when he got back we went to breakfast to fill him in.
We jumped in the truck he usually drove and prior, we made sure the windshield was just dirty enough to warrant using the wiper/washer.
I had rerouted the washer hose into the cab under the column.
He never batted an eye and went to breakfast with a soaked crotch.
AntiSeize or Prussian Blue on toolbox drawer pulls was always entertaining.
When I was a fabricator/welder there was always a good supply of BlackCats in my tool box.
Loads of fun when somebody is welding and has a hangover, you don't even have to light them, always better when they are welding in a truck utility body or other confined space.
Rearranging plug wires was always fun.
We had a Cuban guy at a truck shop that wasn't the brightest bulb. Good guy and hard worker but he was pretty much a welder, technical things such as wiring were beyond him.
I taught him how to wire up a utility body for a truck, turn signals, back up alarm and lights etc. He was so happy he learned it and understood it! I let him wire up one truck by himself and he did well.
I was on a truck next to him and he was checking his work, turning on the turn signals and walking back to the rear of the truck.
Every time he he would get back in the cab and try a different circuit the back up alarm would go off.
He found this terribly confusing and was beside himself double checking his work. He came over and got me, told me what was going on and asked me to check his work.
His work checked just fine.
I went back over to the truck I was working on and he tested the truck one more time. Be damned the back up alarm would go off again when he hit the brakes, turn signal etc. He was so flustered he was almost in tears.
He never noticed me sitting on top of the other truck with a back up alarm.

[Bitter Clinger]

I got my boss this winter. I went all over the place and emptied out all the hole punches we have. Stuffed them all in his defroster vents, turned the fan all the way up. He locks his car now......

While on shore duty replaced one of my shipmates' "special" lube with Icy Hot.

One of our favorite family traditions is fvck with uncle mike at out of town car shows, seran wrap over the toilet and shower-head. Goldfish in the toilet. Buying VERY VERY large granny panties, drop them in the mud stuff them underneath the covers and remake the bed.

One of the best, a buddy was being a loud obnoxious a-hole at the bar one night, I went and bought a condom from the restroom and stuffed it in his beer bottle....he drank half of it before he found it.

In the Navy I drilled a hole into my squad leaders toolbox and put a zerk fitting in it, we had air powered grease guns, I hooked it up and left it on over night.

[TFOGGER]

Automotive pranks were always fun in high school.

A ported vacuum line from the carb run down the transmission dipstick tube results in James Bond style smoke clouds, but only after they start to drive away.

A wire run from the brake light switch or turn signal to the horn relay is also fun.

Antifreeze in the windshield washer bottle is just plain evil.

[GilpinGuy]

College:

Filled a garbage can about half full of water and leaned it on the door of the mark. When door opens...flooded.

Took a blow dryer and a bottle of baby powder. Blew the entire bottle under a door into the marks room.

Mark accidentally forgot to lock his door. When he came back everything in there was in one giant pile in the middle of the room.

Glued every item on marks desk to the desk.

Lots of silly stuff like this went on.

[Bitter Clinger]

We stuffed the neighbors cat in the mailbox once. Should have seen the look on the mail mans face when he opened the box and was attacked by a pissed off feline.

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[275RLTW]

I'm fond of replacing people's hand sanitizer with KY lube...

[SouthPaw]

I pretended to be an insurance agent after my mother backed into someones car. I called her on a work phone a few days after the incident and told her that the person she backed into complained that she smelled like a brewery (she does not drink). I told her that I would be notifying the authorities and that she needed to admit she was drunk. It went on for about 5-10 minutes with her eventually handing my dad the phone. They both got very heated about it to the point where my dad wasn't even listening to me when I kept telling him it was me.

[crays]

We stuffed the neighbors cat in the mailbox once. Should have seen the look on the mail mans face when he opened the box and was attacked by a pissed off feline.

Maybe that's why you're getting such crappy mail service these days...[hammer]

[davsel]

Knew a Staff Sergeant who pulled a lame prank on another Staff Sergeant.
He waited five months before getting him back by putting his house up for sale.
He took pictures of the house and created a professional looking ad. He then posted it in all the local newspapers, online, and hung flyers around the neighborhood on poles and community mailboxes.
People were stopping by daily and the Sergeant's phone rang for weeks. The hopeful buyers were pissed and often confused when told the house was not actually for sale.
He thought he'd removed all the ads, but people kept coming. He had to ask where they saw the ad and then run around to various bars, churches, Costco, Sams, PetSmart, etc. to remove them from bulletin boards.
He ended up having to change his phone numbers, and no one ever messed with the guy again.

[davsel]

When stationed in England, you had to ensure your dorm room was always secure.
The running prank was to catch a number of Muscovy ducks and leave them in someone's room for the day/weekend/week.

One Airman received an Article 15 for animal abuse or some such. He dipped bread in Vodka and fed it to the ducks until they were too drunk to fly. I must admit it was hilarious watching them attempt to get off the ground.

[BPTactical]

Drive 2 16D nails in the ridge beam of a roof, one on each end. Stretch .016 piano wire from one nail to the other, making sure it is nice and tight.


Random CL/Rocky Mountain Oyster ads with your marks contact info.


Pull the cotter pins from the front end of the marks Jeep followed by a liberal application of Liquid Wrench. Allow time to take its course.

Crimp front brake lines with electrical crimping pliers. Don't crimp them completely. It allows the brakes to work in normal circumstances but effectively kills them for a panic stop.

Tape a few washers to a driveshaft.

Pull off wheel weights.


I can neither confirm nor deny any such activity ever occurred and had it occurred I would not be at liberty to discuss such hypothetical scenarios.




Disclaimer: the above are noted for entertainment purposes only.

[asmo]

Don't know if this counts as a prank, but..


I my younger days I used to live outside of SFO. We had a friend going off to join the military so we all took him out for a goodbye outing. Our friend was a *very* handsome young man who had played football in college and had modeled in his recent days. After some drinking we found ourselves walking in the Castro and ended up outside a very happening bar that catered to the leather chap wearing crowd - and our friend was a tad bit homophobic. Long story short, there was a little mom/pop grocery store nearby and one of us snuck in and bought them out of saran wrap. We then proceed to hold down our friend and strip him down to his tighty-whiteys -- and saran wrapped him to the light pole outside of the club.


Much hilarity ensued - especially when the club goers got involved. He was there for a good 45 minutes before some bike cops came by and made us take him down.

[ChadAmberg]

For you office cubicle types, nothing like slightly opening a can of tuna and putting it behind a drawer in someone's desk.

[Irving]

Drive 2 16D nails in the ridge beam of a roof, one on each end. Stretch .016 piano wire from one nail to the other, making sure it is nice and tight.


Random CL/Rocky Mountain Oyster ads with your marks contact info.


Pull the cotter pins from the front end of the marks Jeep followed by a liberal application of Liquid Wrench. Allow time to take its course.

Crimp front brake lines with electrical crimping pliers. Don't crimp them completely. It allows the brakes to work in normal circumstances but effectively kills them for a panic stop.

Tape a few washers to a driveshaft.

Pull off wheel weights.


I can neither confirm nor deny any such activity ever occurred and had it occurred I would not be at liberty to discuss such hypothetical scenarios.




Disclaimer: the above are noted for entertainment purposes only.

I think the attempted murder thread is on another board...

[BPTactical]

I think the attempted murder thread is on another board...

The towing business was not a gentleman's game Stu, you play for keeps.

[Irving]

What?! All the tow truck drivers I ever encountered were nothing but gentlemen of the highest degree.

[BPTactical]

What?! All the tow truck drivers I ever encountered were nothing but gentlemen of the highest degree.

You obviously never met one that chased wrecks in the late 70's early 80's in Denver.
Impeccable gentlemen.

[Irving]

I heard a story about a tow truck driver on the East coast who tried to show up to a tow that wasn't his once, but that was just a single incident.

[OtterbatHellcat]

1982....Jr. High School cafeteria, eighth grade.

The principal was well known for wandering around the cafeteria..and asking students if they weren't going to eat something on their tray, ...and he would give that food to other students who were willing to eat it.

One day, pigs in a blanket was the entree.

I managed to get the hot dog out of the breading without damaging the "case". Installed one (1) unused condom onto the wiener, and managed to get the hot dog back into the breading, once again, without damaging it. As soon as Mr. Kelly walked to our corner of the cafeteria....(where unidentifiable food products were still stuck to the ceiling tiles in the general area).... I volunteered our specially prepared pig in a blanket for some unsuspecting individual.

Mr Kelly obtained the food product, and began cycling around the room, looking for someone who wanted another hot dog.......Then......... a bigger gal over in the center of the room, raised her hand. The suspense was unrivaled.

We sat and waited...while she socialized....and then, she started to eat it. The best part about the whole thing really, was that she ended up biting into the closed end of the "dog"....and the prophylactic slid out of it and smacked her in the face. She sat there for a few moments with a condom hanging out of her mouth, as the entire lunch room erupted in laughter!!!! We about pissed ourselves laughing through the whole thing.

I got suspended.........again.

[flogger]

1970, Thomas Jefferson High School. They had a drug awareness class on the dangers of marijuana, they passed around fake plant leaves, burned something that smelled like pot and passed around 3 fake joints, warning everyone not to substitute or steal them as they were fake. They ended up with 4 joints at the end of the line.

[gnihcraes]

small black binder clips on pens/pencils at the point, in the pencil cup, pull one, get many.


small piece of wire run inside the handset cord on phone, tie tightly on each end. Pick up phone handset, get hit in face with phone.


pull the wheels off rolling office chair.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

Best one I did?? [Muaha]

OK. At work we / Co workers. Got together as a group to put in for Lotto tickets. We called our selves the "Lucky Seven". Every night before the drawing, we would all put in a dollar and one person would buy that weeks tickets. We would take turns buying Lotto tickets at different locations to better the odds.

Well, low and behold it was my turn to buy the weekly tickets. The day before April 1ST!! So I bought the tickets. I get to work an hour early and check the tickets on line before any of my 7 show up. Noda. not a one # . But I write down the winning #'s on a piece of paper. But since I know we didn't win, I sift through the 7 tickets and pick 4 out of the 6 #'s. Knowing it would be a couple hundred $$............... If it were true.

As my 7 trickle in. I hand the winning, wink, wink, #'s and the Lotto tickets to my friends and say, I have to hit the head. Let me know if we won.

Hit the head laughing all the way !!!! I get out and 4 of the 7 are cheering. We got 4 of the #'s wholly crap!! So I wait until the rest of the 7 get in. [Muaha][Muaha][Muaha]

And I start cheering with them!!.......................................... I say Ohhhhh !!!!!!!!!!! BTW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Happy April Fools Day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dead, and I do mean, Dead Silence!!!!!!!!!!!!