Your best prank on someone?

[fishrdan]

So what's your story,,, here's mine...

I was talking to my buddy today and the subject came up of the time...

He was getting married and for the bachelor party I made a "ball and chain" out of an eye bolt epoxied into a bowling ball, with 5' of 3/8" chain attached. My plan was to give his bride the lock key so she could unlock him after our night of debauchery, so I handed her an envelope with the key and told her not to open it until the party was over, she was confused

At the beginning of the bachelor party we gave him the option, put it on like a good boy, or we will put it on for you (get used to it bud, this is just the beginning). So he clasped it on, Ha Ha, and we headed off to a few unsavory establishments in the seedy part of town. All was well and every time he complained, this thing is too heavy, it's bugging me, my ankle hurts,,, we just reminded him this was only the tip of the ice berg... Our adventure ended in the wee hours of the morning and we told him to check with the bride to be as she had the only key to the lock.

This is where an odd twist to the tale came about. Some how I got the lock keys mixed up and gave his bride-to-be the wrong key, when they tried to take it off, the key didn't work. He said to heck with it and left it on for the rest of the night... Morning came and he called the house to get the contraption off, but we were long gone (golfing, fishing, can't remember) so he was stuck with the thing.

When we hooked up later in the afternoon I had no idea where the key was, must have tried 20 different keys, but none of them would work? His fiance was getting irate at this point as she thought he was going to stroll down the isle with the "Ball and Chain",,, (well he was, but not the one latched to his leg...) so we broke out the dremel and set him free. Any complaints from him during the removal procedure were quickly met with a "get used to it" comment that sent his fiance into a tizzy.

Oh, you just gotta love friends...

 

[gonfishn]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

Well this one not only punished me in the hey nanny nanny area but i was reminded of this for months afterward.
I have a home on the a lake in Northern Minnesota. For those who have fished there with me will know where i am at. Because of the wilderness you also share with Bears,beavers etc that come with the territory.
My wife is a nurse and her idea of camping is air conditioning,fish from the store and all the other things that go with city living. After we got married i convinced her to come North with me and experience the great out doors.

Took her fishing with me but when i pulled in a fish she scolded me because i was hurtn the fin. I really got it when i baited my rig with some live bait. She told me how would i feel if someone put a hook in my mouth

Well this went on for a couple days. We had told her that there were bears but they never came near the cabin.

I have some bear replicas that you kinda stake in the ground with her two cubs. After dark i went out and put them up about 20 feet from my suv. We have a light on a pole which from a distance they look kinda real

I asked her to go out and get my map for me because we were going on the tourist thing the next day. Next thing i here is this blood curling scream then quiet. Figure i had better go out and see how she was. Went out andcalled for her and she responded from the inside of our out house. Its in the summer and you know how those outhouses can get a little ripe shall we say. Believe it or not she had never been in an shanty before. For those of you have seen my out house is it a bright canary yellow with purple poka dots. Needless to say i now get to go North now as she stays home. I say pranks are ok as long as you are not sleeping with them. Life was h... for quite some time. Ten years later she still remembers.

 

[Rocky_Road]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

I get up on Sundays...several hours before the 'bride'.

One Sunday, I glanced at the winning Lottery numbers in the morning paper...and ran down to the Piggly Wiggly, and bought a $1 ticket with those numbers.

Laura sits down for a cup of coffee, and asks if I had remembered to play the Saturday Lotto.

I (without looking up) replied...'yep...I think that I left the ticket on the dresser. Check it, if you want'.

You can guess the rest...she was running from one end of the house, to the other...screaming that we "WON"!

She has no sense of humor....

 

[eaglejim]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

My sister(Terry) went with my 2 other sisters and a couple of cousins on a gambling cruise Terry always plays with 20.00 she won a 100.00 that night.so I called her using my best accent I could come up with(island accent) I played the part of Mr.Hightower he was in charge of the video that made sure no one was cheating long story short I asked her to come down to the office to review the tapes she hung up on me 7 times and told me that she was going to buy furniture.That all took place for over a half hour

 

[Bob_VT]

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When I was stationed in Germany I worked in the S-3 as Operations NCO.... people would constantly call asking the dumbest questions so ...... it was not our job to tell them how dumb they were...... we gave out the telephone number to get the answer. It was a very quick way to expidite the problem and the telephone number was to the Post Chaplain. This was a never ending source of amusement and everyone in the Headquarter's started doing this...... it was harmless.

Then one day it happened..... I got a new roommate and one Friday night we headed to the NCO Club for a beer. My roommate was tired and said he was having a busy week. I asked what do you do? He said he was the Chaplains Assistant and the dam phone NEVER stopped ringing..... people with the dumbest questions were told to call that number. Yup I started laughing ..... beer through the nose...... eyes tearing ...... I had to tell him. Of course I blamed it on another office.

 

[CN Spots]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

I took a screenshot of a computer crash alert screen and pasted the file in a coworkers start-up folder.

Took him about a dozen reboots before he figured it out.

 

[Frankhanhart]

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1957 thereabouts my old man shot a tiger (in Indonesia when nobody had heard about conservation as yet). It was proudly displayed on the porch in the morning but put into a shed in the afternoon because every dukun in the area tried to sneak some wiskers off (for magic...sort of old viagra stuff). A soundsystem with an old Grundig taperecorder was rigged up with tiger-grunts at 10 second intervals(close copies anyway)to scare off intruders. Nobody told my mom who went into the shed to get some eggs. We had no eggs with diner that night, could be we had no diner at all and I guess the temperature was 20 degrees below zero for about 2 weeks. And it wasn't a prank at all!!!

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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One Sunday afternoon, my 2 kids and I returned from a 3 day weekend from a resort. Being winter, my kids had a blast at the indoor swimming pool. The kids were very tired and took a nap when we got home.

It got to about 6:30 pm, I put on my work uniform, made breakfast, and woke them up. When they woke up, they saw me in my uniform and proceeded to engage their morning ritual for school. They ate breakfast, got their lunch money, picked up their school work and headed out the door to catch the school bus. After about 20 minuets, they knew something was wrong because usually it is getting daylight when they board the school bus. This time it seemed to be getting darker. Then finally a neighbor asked why they were waiting for the school bus on a Sunday evening.

Now that they are both in their 20's, we still get a big laugh about the time they were going to go to school on a Sunday evening

 

[i386]

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My boss at my last job had a piece of crap computer. One day it needed the power supply replaced. I removed the computer from under his desk and took it back to the bench to replace the power supply. It was then that I had an idea... His PC was of the generic "white box" variety, and we had a few more cases laying around just like his. So I grabbed one of those, casually tossed in an old 486 motherboard, bad hard drive, bad network card, and a few other junk parts I had laying around. Then I put the side cover on with out any screws. I walked into his office... Here ya go boss... Pretended to trip and dropped the PC in front of his desk. The side cover came off and all the contents spilled out into the floor. The look on his face was horrific.

 

[rndn]

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Back in the days of answering machines and not voicemail, my brother called me and told me he had just bought the latest and greatest machine that didn't even need a tape. A couple of weeks later I tried to call him but he wasn't home and I decided not to leave a message. A few minutes later I get an idea. I called his number back and just when his machine started to give his outgoing message I recorded it on my machine. I then left 5 of his outgoing messages on his own machine.
A few days later he told me the trouble he had had with his new machine and that he had returned it to the store for a replacement. Days later when he was on his way to my house I did the same thing again.
Again he tells me of his issues after he takes it back to the store yells at them for selling such crap machines and buys one that costs $50 more because he didn't want to have the same issues.
The same thing happens about a week later except this time instead of returning it he called me and asked me if I was playing around with his answering machines, to which I replied heck yes.
This was years ago and whenever this come up in conversation he still asks for the $50.

 

[Fu-Inator]

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OK, bear with me because I have to set this up a bit. Think back to that movie Airplane II, cue up court room scene:

Pilot: Striker was the squadron leader. He brought us in real low. But he couldn't handle it.
Prosecutor: Buddy couldn't handle it? Was Buddy one of you crew?
Pilot: Right, Buddy was the bombardier. But it was Stiker who couldn't handle it, and he went to pieces.
Prosecutor: Andy went to pieces?
Pilot: No. Andy was the navigator. He was all right. Buddy went to pieces. It was awful how he came unglued.
Prosecutor: Howie came unglued?
Pilot: Oh no. Howie was a rock, the best tailgunner in the outfit. Buddy came unglued.
Prosecutor: And he bailed out?
Pilot: No. Andy hung tough. Buddy bailed out. How he survived, it was a miracle.
Prosecutor: Then Howie survived?
Pilot: No, 'fraid not. We lost Howie the next day.
Prosecutor: Over Macho Grande?
Pilot: No. I don't think I'll ever be over Macho Grande.

Now? One morning a few years back my wife was talking about her work schedule over a holiday weekend:

Wife: April and I have to work Monday but Greg works Tuesday, Andy has it off.
Me: Who is working on Tuesday then?
Wife: Greg is working.
Me: I thought you said he had it off?
Wife: No, Greg works Monday and Tuesday, Andy has Tuesday off.
Me: How can Greg work Tuesday and have it off at the same time?

LOL? this actually lasted almost ten minutes and I?m still chuckling about is as I write. It was just one of those off-the-cuff opportunities to have a little fun. She was sooooo mad when she figured out was I was doing?lol.

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

An office girl once bragged she didn't have much to do now since the new time card machine was installed. It was one of those computer type that would read a magnetic strip on the back and print out the time/date on the card. Two days prior to close out, her disgruntled boyfriend would swipe all the cards over a magnet erasing all the data. He did this for 3 months, numerous service calls, and 2 replacement machines before he got busted. It did make her a bit more busy for that time tracking down schedules and personnel.

Same place and machine, one of my employees had a grudge against one of the bartenders. He put several of those magnetic refrigerator magnets in the slot where the bartender kept his card. Each time they would change his slot, test the card, and it would be okay until my employee (being the first to clock in of the day) He then would move the magnets to the bartenders new slot. Of course it would erase each and every time he used his card. The bartender had to go to his bar manager and then to the general manager to have his written in time initialed. He wasn't a happy camper

 

[jay_merrill]

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I didn't do this, but worked with a guy who did ... the prankster and some of his colleagues, targeted another coworker. Very slowly, over time and with a gradual increase in frequency, they asked "the mark" if he was feeling well. They would do it with no obvious intent or urgency. They described him has looking pale, a bit under the weather, etc. As time went on, they stepped up the campaign, eventually allowing some sign of "being srongly concerned."

After a couple of months of this, the target of the "goof" actually went to the doctor for a complete checkup! They actually made him believe that he was sick!

 

[OldePharte]

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Oldies but goodies:

Coming on board a US Navy ship can be daunting enough for newly minted seamen. But then, the newbies get sent to obtain several feet of shoreline from the bos'n mates or relative bearing grease from the machinists.

For new boy scouts on their first camporee or summer camp, they get sent out trying to find left-handed smoke shifters. They would go from troop to troop trying to obtain one, but everyone forgot theirs. They do get a round of applause at that night's campfire for being good sports.

 

[slasmith1]

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years ago when I was home on leave from the army and bored I spent an entire day teaching my mom's bird to tell the dog to "get the kitty" this resulted in years of quality entertainment every time my mom would complain about it

 

[SuzukiChopper]

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Back in elementary school (grade 7) we all went on a camping trip. Well more like a stay at a camp that had cabins with bunks. I was always considered the 'nerd' and was never a trouble maker. There were about 8 of us kids in each cabin and had one adult per cabin to supervise. These cabins have a very large window at the front beside the door. Well one night ended up being pretty rainy and a little stormy. My cabin's supervisor and one of the others decided they were going to drink some beer and let us be for a while. That's when the stories started to fly around and some of the guys deciding to switch bunks. The best story had to do with an older deranged man that would come by the cabins at night with an axe in hand and peer throw the windows of the cabin looking for his next child victim. Apparently kids went missing and there were theories as to who it was, but no one knew for sure.

Well as luck would have it, I had to go use the facilities during this story. Was a bit of a walk to the outhouse and on my way back I had an epiphany. I got back to the cabin, flashlight in hand but turned off and quietly made my way to the patio of the cabin and knelt just under the ledge of the big window. Once in position I turned on the light, slowly stood up and pointed it into the cabin and glared. All 7 of my classmates screamed, commotion erupted and I even saw one guy dive into his bunk. Was the funniest thing I've ever seen. Of course I was grilled pretty good the rest of the trip and jabs were taken at me whenever possible but I'll never forget it.

 

[wildmaninal]

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My dad found a deer tail in an old single wide trailer that we setup for storage, I knew nothing about it until he threw it at me and said "here catch". It did sort of scare me.

Same deer tail I tied it up to some fishing line and I layed the deer tail under my mother's bed and ran the fishing line from her bedroom to my bedroom to my computer desk. I waited until she went to sit at her computer desk and I started reeling it in. All I heard was mom holler my name, and she did say that she lifted her feet up on to the chair. Now that deer tail is my cat's favorite toy.

My brother is easy to scare.....Back years ago I was (young) short enough to hide under the dining room table which had a table cloth that hung down pretty far. I waited till he passed by and I barked like a dog he jumped and drew back like he was getting ready to hit somebody.

My cousin played one on me years ago. I was 8 and was fishing off the peer with my makeshift fishing rod with a string and hook tied to it. My cousin gets a 3 pound bass out of the fish basket swims over and hooks it on. I thought I really caught that bass, kept thinking I caught that bass until a couple of years ago I found out the trueth.

Back when I was working at Tyson Foods my supervisor borrowed a USDA hard hat and just showed his face in the window of the office. Got us all stirred up and running out to see what was wrong. This supervisor that pulled that prank got pay back. He was affraid of spiders and so another supervisor hung a fake spider up over his chair and dropped it down on him. Have you ever seen a 400+lb man go nuts? We did. I wished I could remember more of the pranks we've pulled at that job. I was a lead man on 3rd shift for a good while, so I got to see some crazy stuff.

 

[Shizzy]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

A female coworker came in to my cubical and asked if I had anything for a headache. I said sure and handed her a pill. She took it and went back to her desk. I waited about 15 minutes and walked up to her desk with a fearful look on my face. she was on a phone call so I just stood there with this look on my face. I then asked her what the pill I had given her looked like. I then asked her if it was a big oval white one with a letter on it. she said yes and I gave her the deer in the headlights look and said "you didnt take that one did you!?!?!"

she about lost her mind thinking I had given her something "interesting" accidentally

she caught on about the third time I said in a very concerned voice. OH MY GOD I GAVE YOU ACETAMINOPHEN!

 

[beerfilter]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

This was a collaborative prank .
No names will be given , to protect the evildoers and the victim .
It is long !

There were several of us pulling a weekend shift at the recue squad , when we see this other member pull into the parking lot .

Being very bored , AND , very devious , we all ran and hid in the back office .
We have a controller for the front keypad lock on the front door . We turn it off .

After about 15 minutes , we hear him banging on the front door , and him yelling " the @#$%&** controller is broke , let me in " !

We let him rant out loud for a few minutes , then we turn the controller back on . One of my associates calls his cell phone , and asks him if he can run by the squad and pick up some spare radios , as we have a search in progress , and we need more radios .

The doofus replies " I am at the building right now , and can't get in the door " .
My associate tells him the keypad has been flaky , try it again .
His code now magically opens the door .

Seeing no one up front he walks to the bunkroom . No one there.
He walks furthur back into the kitchen/dining area . Again , no one there .
At this point he walks into the vehicle bay .

He sees nobody there , either , but notices the Command post van is missing , along with the Suburban . He checks behind the building , once again , nobody home .

He goes to the back office , tries the door and finds it locked .
We have the lights out he doesn't suspect , although we are now having a hard time keeping from laughing .

At this point , my OTHER associate calls the front phone (we have multiple lines ..) , and Doofus runs to answer it .
My other accomplice can immitate the County EMA director , dead on , and proceeds to rake Doofus over the coals about not being notified about ANY search in progress , and issue dire threats to any and all involved .
He rakes Doofus over the coals for a good 5 minutes before hanging up .

Doofus is now in a full bore panic , when I call his cell phone .
I tell him we now need the rest of the High Angle gear ASAFP , the search is now a rescue with multiple patients !

Doofus is now almost crying and tells me about the EMA director chewing his arse , and he doesn't have the key combo for the locker .
I give him a bogus combo and he runs into the bay , and frantically tries the bogus combo .
Doofus has now lost his mind , and is yanking on the lock , and screaming curses out loud .

The three of us are now almost in tears , from trying not to laugh .

I call the Doofus again , he tells me the combo doesn't work , between sobs .
I tell him I don't care WHAT it takes , GET THAT GEAR HERE NOW !

Doofus , clinging to his last shred of rational thought , rushes out of the building , to grab his bolt cutters .
There was a set in the Extrication truck ...
I call his cell , and tell him to forget it , the rescue is now a recovery , no rush .

We exited the office and sat down in the dinning area , turned on the tv , and acted as normal as we could manage .

We decided to NOT turn off the keypad this time , Doofus had been through enough ...

After about 15 minutes of standing outside , staring blankly into space , Doofus comes back in without the bolt cutters .
Doofus sees us all sitting calmly , watching tv .
Doofus has a very puzzled look on his face , and says " I don't know where you guys have been , but I just got my arse chewed by the EMA director !"

He does a double take when he sees me , but before he gets another question out of his mouth , my 2nd associate asks a " do you mean THIS EMA director ?" .

Doofus has his mouth open , stares at the guy for a full minute , then blows up .
He goes into 1 of the best screaming/cursing fits I have ever witnessed .
He ends with " THAT WASN'T FUNNY !!"
I respond with " no , that was freekin' HILLARIOUS !"

Doofus stalks out of the building , slams the front door , hops in his truck and smokes tires out of the parking lot .
We all fall out laughing , and are still laughing when Doofus returns for the trauma bag he had come by to get in the first place .

He again repeated his loud exit , smoking tires again .

Doofus never spoke to any of us again , not5 that we cared , he was Doofus after all ...

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

Re: Your best prank on someone?

Anyone get the "Vasaline under the door handle" pulled on them? A classic that always works