What's the best prank you've ever pulled or been on the end of?

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Sluggo

Lifer
Jun 12, 2000
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Hope I dont get bored typing this out.

A few years back my wife used to work for Enterprise Rent a car, she was the Asst. Manager at her location. I had to rent a van to move some bulky items around town, and had it for a few days. She went out of town for a few days while I had the van rented.

When she got back in town, I picked her up at the airport and told her in a very somber voice that I had some bad news.

I made up a huge line of BS that I had gotten pulled over for DUI while driving the van. I told her that my ex g/f was with me, and we both were arrested, and the van impounded. I told her that I got out of jail, and when I got home there was a message from her District Manager at Enterprise on the answering machine. I told her I had to go see him at his office and meet with him. I said that he wanted to wait till she was back in town, and he wanted to meet with the both of us concerning the events that had transpired with the van. I told her I didnt think she was going to be fired, but I wasnt sure.

The best part was there was a party at the District Managers house that night. I said that Jack, the District Manager, had said to go ahead and come to the party, and enjoy ourselves, but we were supposed to meet with him at his office on Monday morning.

She was completely freaked out. She called her manger,David, but being the sneaky bastard I am, I had expected this, and he knew what was going on. :) He played up the story real good, and said he was instructed not to talk about it the situation till it was resolved, she was really in a sheer state of panic now, but we had to go to the party.

We show up at the party, she thinks the whole company knows about this and that everyone must know she is dead meat. The only ones who know are Me, her manager David and his wife. She kept trying to corner people at the party and get them to tell her what was up, of course since nobody knew anything, all she got were blank stares which did nothing to help her disposition.

David and I were laughing our asses off and she was getting pissed. Eventually David went to tell Jack the story, and wanted him to play along a bit.

An hour or so later Jack, the District Manager, made his way over to where we were talking and told Michelle he had news of a situation that he needed to discuss with her. She was seriously about to puke from nerves at this point.

Jack quiets down the room of company employees and starts talking. He says to everyone in the room, I really dont believe your husband would pull a stunt like this, I knew he could do some wild things, but this thing will probably have some long term consequences for him. I really though my wife was going to puke on his shoes.

He says, I think your husband has been bullshitting you, I never heard of anything happening to a van. Jack goes on to tell everyone the story, and my wife is starting to realize this is all a huge prank, she is quite happy to know nothing bad happened.

It still takes us 20 minutes to convince her it is all a prank, and you have never seen a look of relief like she had.
 

Evadman

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Feb 18, 2001
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To make a long story really, really short:

A manager was moving on from home Depot to better places. Myself and another put his brand new "touch it and you die, park 200' from other cars" firebird in the overhead in lumber 16' from the gound just before the store opened. was not caught till after store opened because manager was "tied up" with other things. End of story? It was up there till right after we closed for the day.
 

bmd

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Let's see... just so far this year, my house (house = dorm of ~75-100 undergrads) has:

Stolen all the shower curtains from Fleming house and spelled out "phlegm" with them on the front of the library on campus.
Stolen all of the toilet paper from all of the bathrooms in Fleming.
Put up a huge banner in the Physics lecture hall proclaiming Ruddock's (my house) superiority.
Stolen the flag from Blacker house (their beloved emblem) and hanging it up high in the math lecture hall.

And just this morning we were pranked by Blacker... they stole all the knobs off the shower controls so we couldn't turn on the showers. Only problem was they missed one bathroom so we still managed :). We are currently planning our revenge, will let you guys know what happens.