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....

[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 .......

[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.

[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 ...