Dirty deeds done dirt cheap

[Wolferz]

I'm talking practical jokes and the like.
Got a funny story of your practical jokes? Put 'em here.

I'll start with,

THE GAS MASTER...

In my neighborhood we had a fellow who was always bragging about the gas mileage his vehicles provided him, to the point of obnoxious. He was always meticulous in tracking his Miles Per Gallon. So we set him up right after he had purchased a new car. When we stopped by to admire his new ride, naturally, he steered the conversation toward the gas mileage.
So we devised a plan to frustrate him to no end by first, adding five gallons to his tank under the cover of darkness every day for a week. Gasoline was $0.30 a gallon in those days. That Saturday he took the car to the filling station like always and it only needed a very small amount to fill the tank.
He was ecstatic and crowed about the mileage to anyone who would listen. Then, we stopped adding extra fuel. Within a very short time he had the car back at the dealership complaining that the car was guzzling gas after it's initial MPG WOW factor. It was all we could do to maintain a straight face when he related his troubles to us and complained that the shop, who found nothing wrong with the car, was staffed by morons that couldn't find their butts with both hands.

[BrucePartington]

I remember two from my teenage years.

-- On a Friday night I took my friends for some street fun.
I smeared some lubricating grease on the inside of a public telephone handle - the telephone itself, not the door
I wish I had a camera then, it really was Candid Camera night, live!
The phone booth was in a park, near a busy street. Many people going out with friends, dates, etc.
This well dressed guy wearing a suit and carrying a bouquet goes straight to the phone in a very determined and manly manner. He froze like a robot when he felt the grease squeezing through his fingers. He then turned the phone handle very carefully to see what it was, ever so gently approached his nose, and finally realized what it was. He then cleaned it very well and proceeded, securing the handle very gently between thumb and forefinger.

A few minutes later comes a loud woman. Feeling the grease between her fingers she throws it all up in the air and leaves, cursing until out of sight.

There were other victims, but not as funny.

-- One summer evening, I took a roll of toilet paper with me, and stretched a band/line across the end of an uphill, winding and narrow tunnel. It was one end of an old street, and this end was an under passage loop that went under the buildings, before merging into a larger street.
We hid and waited.

The first victim came driving a van. He stopped and then painfully drove back in reverse, and went away.

Later on comes a lady driving a small sedan. As the summer breeze hints at the fact that the "police" band/line was not that tightly stretched, she very carefully drives underneath it, ever so gently as not to damage it. The toilet paper line did not break.

Now comes a cab/taxi. He stops, takes a long hard look at it, and finally gets out to ascertain what it is.
Him being a taxi driver, it is no surprise how pale the two old ladies were at his rich and eloquent vocabulary, which could be heard at the other end of the street.

As teenagers we tend to do the silliest things, out of boredom.
Having nothing to do can sometimes be a very dangerous occupation.

[Red October1984]

I like messing with my friend in the computer lab.

Last year, we sat at the same computer (we do this year too...but I don't have any new ideas of what to do)

I changed the Microsoft Word autocorrect to change his name to "Loser" whenever he typed it for an assignment.

And of course I screenshot the desktop, set it as the background and hid the icons...

His reactions are priceless.

Next, not really a practical joke...but I'm going to go to McDonalds and buy a drink...but I'm going to pay only in pennies. Can't wait to see the reaction.

[BrucePartington]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

And of course I screenshot the desktop, set it as the background and hid the icons...

[Stealhead]

We pulled millions of pranks on each other in the Air Force.A favorite of mine was to open someones locker I would take some para-cord and rig up a bucket that was full of water the rig was set up so when the door was opened it would tilt the bucket and dump out the water.

That one was very sneaky because there was no way to tell that the door had been rigged.I know because I got the same people more than once and people did it to me a few times.

In Germany in the dorms there was a way to get into a locked room if they had the window tilted back(European style windows you can tilt them or open them like a door.)Well if you had long arms you could reach in and open the other window inwards like a door and get into the room even if they had the rolladen down because you could just go under the rolladen(they where plastic) .Germany also has lots of wild ferrets so you catch one of those then you get into someones room and you let the ferret go.Then when the intended victim comes home from the bar crawl he sobers quick,fast and in a hurry when he is greeted by a ferret.Works even better if he brought home a date.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Germany also has lots of wild Dowlies so you catch one of those then you get into someones room and you let the Dowly go.Then when the intended victim comes home from the bar crawl he sobers quick,fast and in a hurry when he is greeted by a Dowly.Works even better if he brought home a date.

Fixed

[Sailor Steve]

Neal Stevens is famous for his April Fool jokes. He hasn't done one since the best, three years ago.

This link will let you see all of them:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=166903

And this will let you read all the threads the last one generated:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=254

[Wolferz]

With an invisible rope.

A bunch of us bored guys would setup an imaginary road block on the busy street in front of our house. half of us on one side of the road and half on the other. When a car came along we all assumed a pantomime position of pulling a rope tight across the street. When each unsuspecting driver stopped for fear of hitting our barrier, we would all fall down and roll on the ground laughing.

Most motorists laughed with us. Some cursed us. Which only made us laugh louder and point at them.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

We pulled millions of pranks on each other in the Air Force.

Good god, don't get me started. Being in CE circles, i saw pranks that ranged from the simple turn of a knob, to involving heavy equipment.

Some examples off the top of my head:

- turning a radio knob up all the way after shutting off a work truck.

- a large zip tie borrowed from an electrician that was fastened on the drive shaft of a truck. Makes it sound like the U joint is out.

- Fire crackers thrown into the catch tray while wielding or cutting something. Once the splatter hit's it, the fire crackers go off, scaring the bejesus out of you. The smaller "chinese firecrackers" can make it sound like your having a flashback going into the gas lines of a cutting torch, which REALLY scares the crap out of you.

- Coming back from lunch and then finding your tool belt suspended 30 to 50 feet in the air from an I-beam.

- Finding your tool box glued to the floor with a tube of Henry's adhesive.

- Oxy-acetelyne bombs by using either a hospital condom, or an AAFES cup. Makes a large boom to scare the crap out of everyone.

- During an exercise, duck tape a sound sleeper to their cot and haul them outside somewhere and leave them.

etc etc.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Good god, don't get me started. Being in CE circles, i saw pranks that ranged from the simple turn of a knob, to involving heavy equipment.

Some examples off the top of my head:

- turning a radio knob up all the way after shutting off a work truck.

- a large zip tie borrowed from an electrician that was fastened on the drive shaft of a truck. Makes it sound like the U joint is out.

- Fire crackers thrown into the catch tray while wielding or cutting something. Once the splatter hit's it, the fire crackers go off, scaring the bejesus out of you. The smaller "chinese firecrackers" can make it sound like your having a flashback going into the gas lines of a cutting torch, which REALLY scares the crap out of you.

- Coming back from lunch and then finding your tool belt suspended 30 to 50 feet in the air from an I-beam.

- Finding your tool box glued to the floor with a tube of Henry's adhesive.

- Oxy-acetelyne bombs by using either a hospital condom, or an AAFES cup. Makes a large boom to scare the crap out of everyone.

- During an exercise, duck tape a sound sleeper to their cot and haul them outside somewhere and leave them.

etc etc.

One that we used to pull a lot we would wait for someone to finish up their reapirs on a unit then when they went it to have a supervisor sign off on it we would either disconnect a fuel line or a battery while they where gone.Of course the thing would not run and they sit there for a minute or two trying to figure out what went wrong.

I used to wait for someone to park a truck then when they left it unsupervised I would hop in and change the channel on the two way radio turn it up full blast I'd set the wipers to full speed.

Sometimes I would only change the two-way radio channel that was more of a dummy test in our job you should get calls regularly so if you have brains you notice that something is up fairly quickly.I had one guy come in two hours later and he was happy about how slow it was that day.I said "hey buddy attention to detail what channel are you on?"

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by BrucePartington

It's sad to see one like that.

Don't worry, it was fixed up and back on the roads about eight months later.

[Oberon]

My Dad told me of one he pulled at school, he and a mate stacked all the chairs in the assembly hall up on a stage in a manner that they all leant on one stack of chairs, which he then attached by string to the door leading into the room. Then he and his mate went up into the rafters above the hall and waited. Eventually someone would open the door, and the entire load of chairs would come cascading down off the stage.

As for myself, I've not done many, but I did once create a series of folders within folders on one of the school computers, with the top one named something like 'Killer Virus 2000' or something like that. The next day I go into the library and find the computer shut down with a note on it saying 'This computer has been infected with a virus'
Then at college I renamed icons on the desktop, I called Internet Explorer 'Bob', Publisher became 'Pub Crawler' or 'Down the Pub' and so on, well, someone in the IT department must have cottoned onto the theme because one day every single internet explorer icon on every networked computer was renamed to 'Fred', and I didn't do it!
I've also been almost caught out at work by the old 'cling film over toilet seat' trick.

[Jimbuna]

Once saw a police dog taken from an air conditioned van outside a station and taken indoors.

The look on the handlers face was priceless when he returned to the van and wondered how he'd explain he'd lost his dog.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Oberon

As for myself, I've not done many, but I did once create a series of folders within folders on one of the school computers, with the top one named something like 'Killer Virus 2000' or something like that. The next day I go into the library and find the computer shut down with a note on it saying 'This computer has been infected with a virus'
Then at college I renamed icons on the desktop, I called Internet Explorer 'Bob', Publisher became 'Pub Crawler' or 'Down the Pub' and so on, well, someone in the IT department must have cottoned onto the theme because one day every single internet explorer icon on every networked computer was renamed to 'Fred', and I didn't do it!
I've also been almost caught out at work by the old 'cling film over toilet seat' trick.

My school superintendent is stubbornly refusing to use any browser other than Internet Explorer.

I was going to change the shortcut to go to Google Chrome every time...or even restart the computer....

But...sadly, the computer restrictions are being strictly enforced this year and I won't get away with that.

[Sailor Steve]

I was wondering if I had ever played a practical joke on anybody. I had to go way back. When I graduated from eighth grade several of us picked up our favorite teacher's VolksWagen and stood it on its rear bumper, leaning against a fence. Of course once he had seen it we got it back down for him.

Many years later I did the same thing to a friend I worked with. He had a reserved parking space for his Porsche. It only took two of us to pick up the rear end and pull it across the parking lot to a different space. It wasn't like it was gone or anything, just...not where he'd left it.