Child hood pranks

Tim-Gabz

Tim-Gabz

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I was having lunch with a subcontractor who, some 35yrs back, used to work for my old man. One of the things that came up was the office party at our home.

My brother and I had turned the other partner's 4.2 Jag into a two tone. We reamed some potatoes and fitted police whistles in them before forcing them into the dual exhausts. At departure time there was a spluttering Jag whistling away.
 
Sounds like me and my brother and my dad ! We have played jokes on other family members for years , my brother used to hide one of our cousin's , his wife's shoes in the freezer at get-togethers , for Moms' day dinner I handed my brothers father in law a peanut shell with no peanuts in it , my brother has taken my cell phone and changed the language to Czech , in retaliation I grabbed his cell phone , took a pic of my nude bottom and set it as his desktop.

Pranks make life more enjoyable. :D
 
My favorite was firecrackers on a time delay fuse back in the school days. I would rig up firecrackers- cherry bombs being a favorite to a birthday candle using some putty to hold them together. Then place it stragically someplace- like behind the toilet in the school bathroom.

Then wait for the blast, it could be heard through the whole school. There was more than one poor kid sitting on the pot when it would go off. With the cement walls they were loud and echoed.
 
My best was when my cousin and I placed a bunch of powder out of shotgun shells into both the candles on the altar at church between morning services. We watched the two altar boys with their candle lighter thingies go up to the altar and ignite twin ten-foot towers of flame at the start of the service. Laughed our asses off at the back of the church and made ourselves scarce. My Dad always suspected us, but never could prove it. I told him we did it about 20 years later... I figured it might have gotten funny by then.:D
 
When I was around 20 years old I worked out of an industrial park where there was some type of food service supplier. They sold enormous, and I mean enormous, bags of plain popcorn for just a couple of bucks. A couple of guys and I bought some and used the popcorn to completely fill the car of a guy we worked with - completely full, right up to the roof. It was hilarious. Unfortunately the guy didn't have much of a sense of humor and was so pissed off that we never admitted we had done it. Killjoy! It's not like the popcorn was buttered or anything.
 
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Bufford said:
My favorite was firecrackers on a time delay fuse back in the school days. I would rig up firecrackers- cherry bombs being a favorite to a birthday candle using some putty to hold them together. Then place it stragically someplace- like behind the toilet in the school bathroom.

Then wait for the blast, it could be heard through the whole school. There was more than one poor kid sitting on the pot when it would go off. With the cement walls they were loud and echoed.
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I did the exact same thing! Except I didnt have cherry bombs but I would take strings of firecrackers and hook it up to a burning cigarette a few minutes before class was over then wait. Everyone would be headed to the next class when they went off. It was great. One day the principle and a few teachers were standing right outside the bathroom and they went off. They all ran inside thinking they had caught the mad bomber and then came out scratching their heads. It was so beautiful I had tears in my eyes.

We used to also take pages out of a porn mag (gay were better; for embarassing not to look at!) and place them in friend's folders and books so when they got to class and opened them up they would fall on the floor in front of everyone.

Also would take feminine products and ketchup and place in strategic locations.

Once hooked up a siren inside the duct work of a roommates room. Turned that baby on in the middle of the night after coming home from drinking. We went into the living room later where he was curled up on the couch with his dog thinking the devil was after him (strange I know; I guess being drunk and religious will make you think bizarre things)

Of course there were the cigarette loads in the uncle's cigs. That really made him a nervous wreck the weekend I first used them.

Did some other not so nice things in retaliation to other people.

Salt on the lawn makes for one mean brown spot.

Removing valve cores on tires can sure ruin an afternoon when you need to be driving.

And there were some others done during a misspent youth that don't need repeating.
 
One of the fraternities was having their big annual bash. I bought 25 dollars worth of crickets and jimmied open a window early in the morning

That was a -lot- of crickets....
 
About 20 years ago, when the cicadas hatched out, I put one into an ice cube tray, covered it with water, and left it for a random person. The Executive Officer got it. I poured a cup of water into a co-worker's ventilated foam-rubber seat pad. I also loved to run a black phone handset earpiece across a black ink pad, and then page the person to pick up a phone call.

My roommate and I considered soaking sponges with urine and hiding them in vents, but we decided (thankfully) to draw the line at that one.
 
At university res (bedsits) I removed the trap at the bottom of my friend's basin then left a bucket of water perched on his door. Yep he saw the old bucket on the door trick and carefully removed it and emptied it down the basin.

Cling rap over the toilet bowl was a classic larf.

My brother reamed out our school chapel candles, cut up some fireworks and poured in the contents before resealing with wax, the effects were delayed 30min when everyone was looking.

The Chapel bell was one of my coups. Knicked a large funnel from physics, cut down the side and on the roof slipped it around the bell rope and into the rope hole going through the roof. Tipped the bell up side down and filled with water. The Alterboy was drenched on ringing the Sunday service.

We clippered the Housemasters Afgan hound into a vague dark brown poodle (mud from dam).
 
All the "classic" summer camp pranks. But it's really fun to watch a guy wake up at the crack of dawn and spend about 20 seconds figuring out that's he's still in his bed.....but on the roof of the dorms!!! (Or wake up with the bed hung to the rafters with rope...if he was especially hated nobody would help. We'd just throw him a pocketknife.)

I'm young enough that firecrackers would have got you expelled from school...likely wind up in juvie too if you didn't have the right parents.

Flexall in the shampoo at camp.

And while it's not really a prank, this one takes the cake. Two years ago me and my buddies still lived in the "residential colleges" (dorms) at college. One kitchen per floor. We were in the kitchen around around 3:00AM frying bologna and hot dogs in a skillet. "Big Jon" as we called him (Campus Policeman who was an easy 6'5" 350-400lbs and whose name tag said Jon something or 'nother) came by on his normal rounds. We start talking about this or that, cutting jokes about "meat" and "bologna ponies" and what not. The fire alarms go off. 10 minutes later SEVEN FLOORS of college kids are out in the yard cursing the fire department for a having a fire drill at 3:00AM!!!! We kept quite, and apparently so did Big Jon.

And we left a dead possum at the post of the sign that read "No Animals Allowed On Property" I'd given a good sum of money for a camera two days later when it had "ripened":D


P.S. Water balloons CAN and WILL break windows at 100yards...trust me...I think that one took a few years off my life.


jonesjp@surry.net said:
One of the fraternities was having their big annual bash. I bought 25 dollars worth of crickets and jimmied open a window early in the morning

That was a -lot- of crickets....
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I had to right this one down. Sadly $25 of crickets may not be all that much anymore. It's been a decade since I've bought crickets. Gosh...the sororities don't even have houses...just "suites" that are ALL CONNECTED!!!!!
 
I disconnected the headphone on an abrasive colleagues desk phone. After receiving a few calls with no voice he started swearing at other subsequent callers. It got a bit out of hand and a bit of a witch hunt occured after a several complaints arose.
 
You guys are pretty hardcore. I haven't done any things like that.

One time at work, however, someone turned the heat in my office up as high as it would go and shut the door. When I opened the door, it was almost 100 deg. The chocolate candies on my desk were all melted. I found out who did it later, and waited for a nice rainy day. I climbed under his truck and secured one of those big HVAC cable ties to his drive shaft. When he went to leave work, all he could hear was this horrible noise as the cable tie end was banging off the underside of his truck. He got all wet and PO'd as he tried to get it off.

A couple other small ones that happened in our office:
Someone put hand lotion all over the earpiece of someone else's phone.

Someone also removed a wheel from the chair in someone's office, making them fall over when they sat down.

On the job site, someone's lunchbox was filled with drywall compound.


Glenn
 
Best Prank I ever pulled was in college. The guys in the dorm room next to mine left their door unlocked. We rewired their speakers into my stereo by leaning out of the 4th story window and snaking speaker wire from room to room.

When they came back hammered, we let them go to bed and then blasted the theme from Star Wars. They started yelling at each other, and we would shut off and turn on the stereo at random the rest of the night, even after they unplugged the stereo. One of the guys ended up sleeping in the hall the rest of the night.

We also set a suitemates clock ahead four hours and we all were all up acting like we were getting ready for class when his alarm went off. He got dressed went outside and not until then realized it was only about 4:00AM.
 
What do you mean childhood? Just yesterday I duck taped someones sneakers together while they were sleeping. Not exactly the height of comic genius but it was good for a few chuckles.
 
Decades ago one could easily purchase the key ingredient in "contact explosives" from a pharmacy; that mixed with a common household cleaner, stirred then decanted in a coffee filter yielded a substance that looked like brown, kind of runny putty. As long as the substance was still damp it was safe, but when dry it would explode. A very small amount would produce a nice crack, or pop when dry and disturbed. I booby trapped a number of areas, two of the most noteworthy were my high school chemistry lab (bottom of stools, an odd cabinet door or two), and my father's bedroom (clothes hangers and bed springs). The former got me an informal suspension from being a chemistry class aide for a week or two (the teacher really liked me, otherwise there would have been no stopping the vice principal who hated me), the latter a sharp curse word or two out of my father every time he would trip one. It was great! Damn lucky I didn't blow myself up.
all da best,
rats...
 
Soilarch said:
The fire alarms go off. 10 minutes later SEVEN FLOORS of college kids are out in the yard cursing the fire department for a having a fire drill at 3:00AM!!!!
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We had some wise-ass set off the fire alarm around 3-4 am during Finals Week. I hope the guy who did it lived through the night, but it's doubtful.

Funny stuff, so far. Keep it coming.

DD
 
This was before Christmas my freshman year of college. My roommate & I filled a 3-foot high trashcan with water, leaned it against an apartment door (they always open inwards, you know), then left a Christmas-wrapped present in the hallway. A female friend called the apartment to tell them about their "gift from a Secret Santa".

Click goes the lock, then "whoosh" goes about 20 gallons of water.

Remember to use warm water so the outside of the trash can won't be covered in condensation, which would leave a trail of water spots on the carpet. Urinating in the trash can before filling it is definitely optional.
 
Found a bulldog that had been run over- skinned and BBQ'ed it. Apple in the mouth and all. Gave it to a rival fraternity as a peace offering for one of their keggers. Told them it was a roast pig. I couldnt even stand the smell of it cooking and some of those dumbasses ate it before they figured out that pigs dont have fangs.--
 
My parents told me of a prank dinner party that they put on. They had a cake made of plaster that was iced and ready to serve. They had an elaborate spread with lasagna with cooked cardboard inside, drinks with salt in it and all the rest. One guest, not to admit he was duped, calmly ate everything he was served.

I used to have a laser back in high school (a real one, not just a pointer), and I brought it to a band trip in Florida. From the high window of the hotel we were staying in, we could see a competing band warming up under the street lights in a nearby parking lot getting ready for the nighttime competition. By hitting the electric eye on the streetlights with the laser beam, we were able to turn all the lights out, one by one, until they were completely in the dark. :D Fun times.
 
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