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.

[Wolferz]

The block I grew up on was a horse shoe shaped subdivision that intersected in two places with a main artery. There was a parallel street that bisected the horse shoe. Now on this street lived a friend of my brother's named Eddie who delivered newspapers. He lived on the corner of the bisection at the top of a small hill. Just down the hill on the opposite side lived a practical joker who liked to jump out and scare us when we assisted Eddie in delivering his paper.

One evening, we're in Eddie's garage just hanging out while he assembled all the sections of the Sunday edition. My brother started tying the rubber bands Eddie used to hold the papers together until he had a nice long rope of interlinked rubber bands. Then Eddie had a bright idea to get revenge on the practical joker. He fished around in a drawer and produced a very large steel washer that he tied to the end of the rubber band rope. Eddie sent my brother down to the guy's house to tie one end onto the scroll work of the aluminum storm door. Eddie stretched the rubber bands all the way to his house which was several homes away and across the street and sent my brother down to ring the doorbell and run. He did as instructed and Eddie waited a few seconds and turned loose of the washer. It literally whizzed as it flew through the air toward the door and it hit the thin bottom aluminum panel at the exact moment the guy opened his inner door. It sounded like a shotgun blast and the joker literally fell backwards into his living room. We all got a good laugh out of it. Even the practical joker who came out and yelled GOOD ONE!

The panel in his storm door had a huge dent in it but he didn't care.
He didn't bother trying to scare us anymore.

[Red October1984]

Oh....there was the time I strung fishing line up at chest height in the hallway...

Brother's reaction was priceless.

[Stealhead]

See the counter to that is to have a can of silly string you spray it at an area suspected of having a trip wire.That was an idea developed to help find trip wires on traps in Iraq but it works just fine in less hazardous places.

Another pretty good one is rigging an air horn under an officer style chair then you have the person come in serious conversation like...."sit down" HOOOOOONK!!

One that I have done to my wife is rigging that water nozzle most kitchen sinks have the one used to spray off dishes and such .Well you take a rubber band ideally a clear one and you wrap that round the spray handle so that the trigger is pressed then you put the nozzle back in its place with the spray gun pointed towards the future user when they turn the facet handle they get their water in a torrent.I have rigged my friends to do so this many times as well.The best part is the torrent keeps up until the water is shut off with the typical reaction to be to get away from the torrent and not to close the faucet.

[Betonov]

Sitting behind a friend in class.
Started making sonar bleeps. He found it amusing since he knew about my obsession with submarines. The bleeps were geting more frequent.
At that time I yell WASSERBOMBE and slap both of his ears.

He wears hearing aid

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

See the counter to that is to have a can of silly string you spray it at an area suspected of having a trip wire.That was an idea developed to help find trip wires on traps in Iraq but it works just fine in less hazardous places.

But you don't go doing that down every single hallway you walk.

One that I have done to my wife is rigging that water nozzle most kitchen sinks have the one used to spray off dishes and such .Well you take a rubber band ideally a clear one and you wrap that round the spray handle so that the trigger is pressed then you put the nozzle back in its place with the spray gun pointed towards the future user when they turn the facet handle they get their water in a torrent.I have rigged my friends to do so this many times as well.The best part is the torrent keeps up until the water is shut off with the typical reaction to be to get away from the torrent and not to close the faucet.

I'd have tried that...but our nozzle doesn't work anymore.

Originally Posted by Betonov

Sitting behind a friend in class.
Started making sonar bleeps. He found it amusing since he knew about my obsession with submarines. The bleeps were geting more frequent.
At that time I yell WASSERBOMBE and slap both of his ears.

He wears hearing aid

How evil.

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

How evil.

You know what's the really funny part ??
The friend I did this to is a Subsim member

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

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

We had a Sgt in the RAF who always worded his disciplinary posters with 'You have been warned'.

Well, obviously we set it to become 'you have been warmed'.

Originally Posted by Betonov

You know what's the really funny part ??
The friend I did this to is a Subsim member

Has he been back here since his hello post?