What is the best prank you ever pulled (and didn't get caught)?

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ivol07

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Friends and I used fishing line and a needle to put the line thru an egg. We proceeded to tie one end to a pole on one end of the street and the other end to a pole on the other side of the street. It looked like the egg was just floating there. People would speed down the street and get an egg on their windshield. It was a great idea till some gangsters got hit with the egg. It was funny afterwards, but we almost had a good fight. I figured they shouldn't be speeding down a residential street, so screw them.
 

Lvis

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Years ago I worked in a restaurant. One of my coworkers was a kid who had really pissed me off.

So he comes into work, awhile before his start time, and orders a meal.

He wants a cheeseburger and a coke. I take his order, and tell him the coke machine is out of syrup and will send his drink to him with his burger.

So I make his burger, and put a puddle of hot sauce under his cheese. And a healthy amount in his drink, too. :evil:

Finally I take a glass, and preload it with hot sauce. It is behind the counter, where no one can see it. Right next to the other glasses.

So one of the gals takes his meal out to him, and it goes as planned. He takes a big bite out of his tasty burger, and the hot sauce squirts right into his mouth. :D

It has the predictable result, and he takes a huge drink of his coke......and finds no relief there, it just gets worse.

He runs to the counter, and begs me for a drink. I am happy to oblige, and he watches me fill his (loaded) glass with coke.

He takes a big drink, and I walk away...

 

kenshorin

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We used to play so many pranks back in the day, I don't remember them all. One of them that was hilarious though was back in HS, we put a bitchy teacher's car for sale in the Want Ads... she got rediculous amounts of calls on it, so many that she changed her answering machine message to say "The Honda Accord is not for sale, it was a prank by some kids!" Everyone got a laugh out of that message.
 

SupaDupaCheez

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Originally posted by: kenshorin
We used to play so many pranks back in the day, I don't remember them all. One of them that was hilarious though was back in HS, we put a bitchy teacher's car for sale in the Want Ads... she got rediculous amounts of calls on it, so many that she changed her answering machine message to say "The Honda Accord is not for sale, it was a prank by some kids!" Everyone got a laugh out of that message.

Now THAT is original! Funny stuff!

SDC
 

Doggiedog

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When I was in HS, the swim team would take this teacher's car, which was parked perpendicularly on the street, lift it and move it horizontally in between the cars next to it making it impossible for the teacher to move his car unless he hit them.
 

EmperorIQ

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My friends and I had an extra cone around, so we put it on a stop sign, right between the T and the O. So we sat in my car for 15 mins laughing at cars havnig to drive around it. It was sorta stupid, but funny at the moment
 

miniMUNCH

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Senior year in HS...me and a couple guys MIG (metal inert gas) welded the one and only administration office door shut late on a saturday night.

Locksmiths need not apply...they had to have a autobody guy come cut/grind the welds.


Principal and all the main office people couldn't get in all day.

We walked up on Monday morning and could hardly contain our laughter...Principal and staff milling about wondering what they were going to do.


BTW-- our HS had tradition of senior pulling pretty serious pranks last month of school...so this was imaginative but not excessive.

Previous classes did stuff like the tires over the flag pole, etc.
 

Evadman

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I helped put a manager's brand new truck in the lumber racking where I used to work, 16' from the ground.
 

ScottyB

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We weren't 'caught' because we waited for my friend to walk out so we could laugh. My friends and I were in a Taco Bell eating and one friend and I got a bunch of toilet paper from the bathroom and wrapped toilet paper all over one of my other friend's car. We shoved wads of tp in the wheels, wrapped the antenna, wrapped the spoiler, and wrapped the car. My friend came out laughing and drove it that way down the road.
 

EagleKeeper

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In HS chemistry class created "essence d' skunk"

A couple of squirts on the floor of each restroom in the building canceled school for a few days.
 

XZeroII

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Jun 30, 2001
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Not me, but in HS a friend told me about what they did in Soccor practice one day. Everyone would parallel park their cars on the road everyday by this big hill and the team would have to run up and down this big hill for practice. One person had to leave mid-way through, so they all parked his car in. Imagine about 30 cars all parked inches apart, so when the kid had to leave, almost the entire team had to go move their cars out of the way, one at a time. It was pretty funny hearing about.
 

Demon-Xanth

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How's this for potential prank action:
Tomarrow my work is going to be getting in a gallon of blood (yes, real blood) for some experiments that shouldn't take more than a couple of days. And the experiments don't use up the blood either.
 

azazyel

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Was drinking with some friends one night and one of my buddies got too drunk and passed out. So, me being Mr. Funnyman, I decided to shave one of his legs (he had shorts on). It was just from the knee down but was sooo funny at the time. Of course payback is always a b!tch.
 

propellerhead

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I bought this bumper sticker that reads "Can I borrow your boyfriend?" Then I got one of those magnet sheets and stuck the sticker to it. Then I stuck it on the rear bumper of my friend's truck. Everyone else at work knew about it. He didn't find out until the weekend when his wife saw it. He was driving around with the bumper stucker for a week.
 

NikPreviousAcct

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I know it's long, but it's my favorite.

I got a job at the local one-stop shopping center just down the street back in HS. The store was remodeling itself and they needed extra hands. This was in the nice-and-hot days of August here in OR. My first week there was my manager's last week. He was freaking cool. There were these two teenage girls over in grocery who would play pranks on him and who he would play pranks on in return. His last day, Friday, they decided to take a roll of shrink wrap and ran it a few times around his van. Ooooooooohhh... wrapped around twice! How scary!
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So he grabbed me and another guy from the R5 team and told us to get some shrink wrap. Lots of it. So I grabbed one of the partial rolls from the store floor where we were still wrapping product on pallets for temporary transporation while the isles were broken down and replaced. For the hell of it, I grabbed a brand new roll from the back as well. These rolls, new, were about ten inches in diameter and about a 12 or 14 inches long. If you know anything about shrink wrap, stretching, and heat, you can see where this is going. My manager decided to show them how to really shrink wrap a car. While on duty, about 10am, we left the store headed for the parking lot. Now, think of it this way. In a town of about 60,000 people, it's the biggest place to shop in the entire city. This place has a respectable sized parking lot and there were lots of people that day. So here we are. One guy with a white name tag and one new roll of shrink wrap. One guy with a white name tag carrying a new and a partial roll of shrinkwrap. And one guy with a black and gold name talk walking around in the morning heat leading the two around the parkinglot. We'd go car-by-car looking for their cars. When I asked wtf we were doing, the manager said that he didn't actually know which cars were theirs. :D Fantastic.

One of the cars had a college application face-up on the passenger seat with one of the girl's names on it. Bingo: mark one cheap red two-door hatch back import. The second car had a bags in the back seat with tags on them, headed for the airport. Bingo: mark one cheap off-white four door import.

The manager told this other guy to get on the other side of the white car, and they started sending the roll over the car one way, then under the car the other way, wrapping the doors closed. I stood there wondering what to do, but not for long. I took one of the new rolls, laced the leading end into their work and started literally running around the car, inter-weaving my roll with theirs. As the morning got hotter, the shrink wrap began to tighten up. After using up about half of their roll and half of mine, we stopped and laughed -heading for the second car. By this time, customers who were coming in and out of the parking spaces next to this gave us some seriously weird looks.

The second car started even faster with me not wasting any time zooming around the red car. By this time, I was starting to get dizzy but it would so be worth it. Just after starting, my manager goes "Oh sh|t! Take your name tags off!" and we did it, just in time. Some guy came up to us and asked what we were doing, dodging my lapping the car and looking up and down as the two guys on either side passed the other roll over the car, under the car, over the car, etc. Before I or the other guy could speak, my manager spoke up and told the guy that it's his last day and he's settling a few scores with other people who worked there and the gent seemed to lighten up before he left. Phew. The more we wrapped, the less we could see red and the more we could only see extremely light pink and then all white. Some guy drove up and didn't bother getting out but yelling "what are you crazies doing!?" That's when we realized that we couldn't really give the real response, so we ignored him until we came up with a proper response. This time, some old lady came by in an old beater and asked very sharply what the hell we were doing. We told her that we were picking random parking spots and that she needs to think carefully before she parks and goes in the store. She drove off yelling that if we touched her car, she'd sue. Hilarity!

When we were done, we picked up the thick empty cardboard tubes and slid one down each antenna and I kept the third. The three of us went back in (now about noon and the shrink wrap was so tight that it was almost like armor). We found both girls, one at a time, and had them come with us. Casually walking toward the door, they asked why I was carrying an empty carboard tube with me and my only response was "shrink wrap" which sent them screaming for the doors "WHAT? NOOOOO!!!!!" Stupid girls had their box knives on them and they started working on their cars and the three of us were ROLLING laughing.

Just then, the store manager came out with a flaming red face. She said that some lady made a complaint to the store that there were people outside damaging customer vehicles and that if it happened to hers, she was going to sue the store. This lady was a real bitch to boot, but it seemed like satan himself came out when she was pissed. I stood there frozen, still holding the tube over my shoulder (and not realizing it). She looked at me, the tube, and then my manager and goes "If I find out that you guys were involved, you're FIRED!" I knew I couldn't do anything about it so I just went with it -but my manager turned, took the roll from me, looked back at her, and said "why, michelle, I wouldn't know what you're talking about" and she stormed off. She got fired a short time later and nothing ever happened to us. :D
 

kenshorin

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Another one... we used to pull a lot of pranks in school, especially in lab. One time we took that really strong cleanser they use in the labs, and packed it into the drains on all the sinks. When the next period class came in and turned the sinks on, the stuff started foaming like crazy, overflowing out of the sinks and ended up leaving a lot of the desks covered in soapy foam.
 

XZeroII

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Jun 30, 2001
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FFM- That is SO funny :D:D:D

Wouldn't the shrinkwrap damage the car though? Wouldn't it shrink onto the car and stick to it?
 

NikPreviousAcct

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Originally posted by: XZeroII
FFM- That is SO funny :D:D:D

Wouldn't the shrinkwrap damage the car though? Wouldn't it shrink onto the car and stick to it?

Shrink wrap doesn't permanently stick, no -but I imagine it was a pain in the ass to cut it off the car... It's not sticky at all. After stretching, it shrinks and that's it. That's why it's called shrink wrap. :p Heat speeds up the process.
 

Deeko

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Freshman year of college, there was this little annoying kid on our floor. Every now and then he would get STUPID ass retarded drunk, on a random weeknight. One of these nights, wewaited for him up in the top floor staircase. A girl he had a thing for told him to go up there(I forget what reason she gave him to do it....I told her to use a sexual innuendo but she wouldn't do it). When he got there, we duct taped him to the wall on tape. We let him down right away cuz we felt bad....but it was hilarious.
 

MoobyTheGoldenCalf

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Back in high school, there was this one kid we used to razz all the time. Just a couple examples: His family went on vacation once and came back to about 20 "For Sale" signs in thier front yard including "open house" signs with directions and the day/time they were getting back posted all over town. Also, we had a buddy that lived not to far from him, so one winter night (felt like it was 10 below) me and about 6 other guys went to his house about 1am and very quitely shoveled now off the grass to build a snow dam at the end of his driveway. Then we went back to the buddies house and proceeded to get buckets of water and carry them over and pour them on the snow. We has a nice little system going and after repeating several times we ended up with about a 3 foot high wall of solid ice at the end of the driveway. And then if that wasn't good enough, we got more water and poured it on his car that was parked in the driveway. We must have been working on it for at least 2-3 hours. Soooooooo funny...
 
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here is a little spontaneous prank that a friend and I pulled when we were juniors in college.

We had been to a bar and had a few pitchers, when while walking home we saw a college cop pull up to the sidewalk curb near the gym. He pull up so far his front tires were up against the curb. Drunken thoughts began to spin a mighty weave and before you know it, I had my friend helping me move one of those portable concrete curbs that are used to keep people from pulling through a row of parking spots.

We quickly positioned the curb right behind the back wheels so that the cop car now had curbs immediately in front of and behind it. The fit was perfect on the rear wheels since the length of the portable curb was slightly less that the width of the cop car. It was dark, and you could not see the rear curb unless you looked from the back at a low angle.

Off we went, on our merry way. :D We got to the far side of the parking lot when we saw a traffic barricade with flashing lights! AhHHHH We should move that to a more convient location! Well, we were in the process of fung shueing the barricades, when we heard an engine int he distance rev up and die, followed by a loud BANG! Our giggling made up stop with the barricade and continue on.... Then wind carried a distant "What the FVCK!" and the sound of a slamming car door.

I don't know exactly which car got to us first, but soon we were sitting on the curb, basking in the red and blue lights of all three campus cop cars. Busted?!? NO! We admitted to moving the barricade (figured they saw us do that), but denied all knowledge of the curb thing. HAHA.... either they didn't car, or couldn't do anything without a witness, but they let us go on our merry way! :D