Best prank you've pulled...

[jvencius]

A post in another thread got me thinking about practical jokes and I decided to see what some of your good ones were. For me, a couple memorable ones were:

- One time I wrapped a recently-dead carp in chicken wire and zip-tied it to the framerail of a buddy's truck. The stench was, to put it gently, HORRENDOUS in a couple of days.

- (Probably my all-time favorite) I got into the fusebox of a different friend's truck and ran a jumper wire between the horn and the brake light fuses. Every time he hit the brakes, the horn would blow and I just about pizzed myself laughing when he drove off and couldn't realize why his horn kept honking.

- In college a friend and I covered the floor, and every other horizontal surface, of a third buddy's room with Dixie cups 1/2 full of water. The only uncovered surface was the pie-shaped area where the door swung open. That one was great since nobody got hurt, nothing got broken, and nothing got damaged, but the prank-ee was PISSED since when he came home, he was with his girlfriend and didn't get any lovin' that night.

 

[Tail_Gunner]

Nearby, there is a butcher shop that makes many different flavors of jerky. It's excellent stuff but a little pricey. I was driving by one day and treated myself to a bag of several types. When I got home, I placed the jerky into a zip-lock bag, with a note on it saying "DAD'S -- KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF!!!" I then put it into the fridge.

The next day, I went to get a couple of pieces. I grabbed the bag and was very irritated to find that someone had disregarded my note and helped themselves to several pieces. I knew my teen aged son was the likely suspect, but decided to teach him a lesson vs confronting him.

That afternoon I had to run to the grocery store. While there I went to the dog food section and bought a package of doggy jerky treats that closely resembled by prized gourmet jerky. When I got home, I ate what was left of the good stuff and placed several pieces of the doggy stuff into the zip-lock along with the same note.

The next day I checked the bag and sure enough, a couple of pieces were missing. I confronted my teenaged son and he denied stealing my jerky even though my experienced parental eye could tell he was being "less than truthful". I told him I could tell he was lying, and asked him how it was?
With a sheepish look, he replied "it was rather nasty". Then I told him that it was doggy treats and he immediately started turning rather pale.

A couple of days later I returned to the butcher shop and got some more of the "good stuff". I again put it into a zip-lock bag in the fridge. Low and behold I got to enjoy every piece.

SCORE
Dad: 1
Son: 0

 

[hheynow]

I'm not really the practical joker type, but I have "Frenched" bed sheets before...when I was much younger.

 

[XTrmXJ]

When I was stationed over in Okinawa Japan, Crewing F-15s, the pilots would come out and do a walk around on the jet and look at things before hoping in to the seat to crank them up.. Well when the pilots are doing there walk arounds they would come up to the missles and beat on them (not hard) but they make sure that they dont jiggle on the rail system that they are mounted to, in hopes that they dont fall off.. ???? Anyways I had an Idea, later in the week my buddy had started to put a car alarm in his car but never finished hooking it up, so I took some parts of his alarm off and used them.. I had aquire 2 of those 6 volt lantern batteries and hook the alarm up and placed it on the other rail system not being used to hold a missle but right close to the outboard missles.. So its time and I arm it, pilot show up and starts his walk around, he comes up to the missile and beats on it, Alarm goes off, and the pilot takes off running in a hard sprint....... I died laughing

GOD I love new Luitenants..

 

[Tbar]

College dorm...............one 40gal trash can full of water leaned against a door............knock and run!!!


Tbar

 

[Roland_Jenkins]

I'm not really the practical joker type, but I have "Frenched" bed sheets before...when I was much younger.

That happened to Swany when he was in the Marines . .. he didn't notice.

 

[BamaSixGun]

That happened to Swany when he was in the Marines . .. he didn't notice.

OK, i have heard of this before, but i cant remember what frenchin the sheets is about.

please advise

 

[Roland_Jenkins]

When I was a kid I got some disappering ink. Mom was wearing a new white blouse. That was about the time I learned the words to all I want for Christmas.

Once and awhile on a tuesday we draw a couple of chalk outlines on the front porch and side walk. String some of that yellow crime scene tape and scatter a few watch tower's on the ground.

 

[Tx_Atty]

I deny responsibility or involvement but while in college we took the common bathroom door of a room belonging to a real jerk and filled the entire room from floor to ceiling with wadded up newspaper then put the door back on so that it would not push open. He couldnt get in until he got maintenance to take the door off again and he only then discovered what was amiss. Took the entire weekend to fill his room.....

 

[powerboatr]

near the end of a very long deployemnt our relief ship needed a specific skill set of which my boss (he was a peach to) had, it was a very odd school dealing with support equipment. they asked for volunteers and were in dire straits and needed a guy with this talent depseratly.
so i typed up a set of orders with official date stamps and reciepts, did his transfer package via email as if i was him, and had him paged to the personell office over the 1 mc( big loud speakers on ship that everyone hears), so off he goes to personell to get the bad news.
about an hour later he storms in the office all distressed and confused and upset cause he just cant tell his wife he will be gone another 8 months.... he is about to cry, so we egged him on till he went to see the chaplain and cry the blues, so finally all give up and our division chief figures it out as a hoax. and put his mind to rest...

he storms in the office and is P.O d at us or the prankster, but we couldnt stop laughing at him long enough to fess up.

years later 5 or so i ran in to him and spilled the beans, you know he was still pissssed about it, but by then i had rank on him suck it up BOY

best of all at his retirement ceremony i presented him with the very orders i had made up... :Budro
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