Greatest Prank of All Time

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Are you a practical joker? Do you just wish it could be April 1 all year round?
Or are you the type that gets pranked?
When I was in school, I lived in an apartment for a year with two friends. One day, while our female roomate was at work, we went and attached thin fishing line to the handle on the toilet in her bathroom. We ran the line along the bottom of the wall and out her room. You couldn't see it. Late that night, when she was asleep, we pulled the line and started flushing her toilet repeatedly. I remember hearing her in the bathroom going, "WTF?"
It was pretty hilarious. I once tied my brother's bed sheets to fishing line, ran it out the window and up to my room. Scared the hell out of him late at night when he sheets went flying off the bed!

 

During my first year of university me and a couple of friends who lived in the same dorm as I did pulled off a few nice ones. My three favorites would have to be "Meet Your Neighbour Day", "The Dummy", and "Jack".

For "Meet Your Neighbour Day" we went into the guys bathroom (there was one communal bathroom per floor in the dorm) and removed all of the partitions between the toilet stalls. We taped up signs reading "Hello, this is meet your neighbour day. Please take the time to introduce yourself to the people sitting beside you." Finally, we had a bunch of toilet stall walls to dispose of so we snuck down to the girls floor and dumped them in the lounge.

I was not personally involved in setting up "Dummy" but I was in on the joke. One of my friends took some old pants that he bought at a second hand store and stuffed them with newspaper. He sat it up on one of the toilets and put a pair of really nasty looking old sneakers where the feet would be. He then brought in a magazine and put it on the floor of the stall in front of the feet, locked the stall, and slipped out through the 40 cm open gap at the bottom of the stall door. From the main area of the bathroom it looked like the stall was occupied by some guy who was taking his time and reading a magazine. Whenever one of us was in the bathroom we would flip a page on the magazine. It took three days for the first person to catch on and the dummy remained in place for almost two weeks before the cleaning staff removed it.

Finally, my personal favorite was "Jack". I brought a pumpkin to the dorm to carve a Jack O Lantern for Halloween. Naturally, on November 1st we were left with a somewhat useless carved pumpkin. We sat down in the lounge and were pondering what to do with it when we saw one of the guys leave his room and head into the bathroom for a shower, leaving his door wide open. Well, it took us all of about three seconds to get off our butts and dash into he open room and begin looking for hiding spots. We settled on the top shelf of the closet behind the guy's suitcases. We spent the next five months constantly asking the guy how Jack was doing and getting only dazed looks in response until one fine day in March when the guy came up to us and said something like "Hey guys I just ran into Jack, he was looking a little green, and black, he has a real B.O. problem and he looks kind of gooey!"

 

I hate practical jokes, but I'll share the one my friends pulled on me when I was younger (ie-11). I was, like today, a little, well, chubby, and they asked me to help them get their stuck shed door open so they could get a bike. They said that if I put my weight into it, it should do the trick. Of course, they had rigged a bucket of water onto the door (which wasn't stuck at all) and old Depaara got drenched. It was stupid then; it's stupid now!

 

Well, this is a lousy one when compared to the masterful ones pulled here, but it IS one of my personal favourites.

When I was a kid, we used to keep refined sugar in a glass on the table for purposes of coffee and such. One day, I took the glass away and pur a similar glass on its stead, filled with salt. You can guess the look on y uncle's face after he had put three spoonfuls of salt in his coffee...

(Stop. Running. Around. Without... EEK!)

 

Oh man, this reminds me of something that my dad told me he did in university. One of his friends had an incredibly small car, so him and a few friends picked it up, and left it in the deans office. Another time, that same guy lost his car in a snow bank, and then in the spring found it under a pile of melting snow.

 

During my first year in senior high, we super-glued a one dollar coin right infront of staff room door where many teachers pass in and out. It was the funniest thing (and evilest at the same time) to see people doing their worst try to take to coin. One physic teacher even used his large ruler to shovel it.

There is a assembly every Monday morning in our high school. Before one of the assemblies we sticked a fire cracker and a burning joss stick behind where our principle gives his speak. During the assbembly, the fire cracker went off and that scare the hell out of every teachers near that place.

During my college life, me and 2 other friends switched some road signs near the area that point to our college, including one infront of a police office. We did it around 5 in the morning when the police were slightly off guuard because 99% police are Muslims and they have to pray during that time.

 

I don't really have anything relevent to add, but that last post was dangerously close to stereotyping.

 

I don't know the truth of this story, I heard it on the radio, perporting to be a true confession:

Four brothers growing up had taken it in turns to be best man at the next older brother's wedding.

The third brother was getting married, and as the pranks had been getting worse he was seriously worried about what the others would do to him.

Well, the stag night went without any unpleasantries, the wedding, speaches and reception without a sign of any pranks. So the brother who got married called over the youngest brother (the best man and the one who wrote in to the radio show) and thanked him from the bottom of his heart. He was so relieved that they hadn't done anything nasty to him he was almost overcome with emotion.

As the evening drew to a close, the bride and groom retired to their suite for their wedding night as newly weds do. The following morning there was a knock on the door.

The voice outside the door: "Room service with breakfast for two."

A voice from underneath the bed pipes in: "Could you make that for three?"

 

How about backfiring practical jokes?

A buddy of mine is a salesman at a department store. There's this one female employee here that his entire department hates, she always drinks while working (it's against the rules).

Anyway, one day his department decided to play a joke on her. They took some superglue, ran it around the cap of the bottle, then put the cap back on. Unfortunately, she went to take a drink before the glue had dried. This glue bonds instantly to flesh. So basically, she had a glass bottle glued to her lips for a couple hours.

 

I would say that was a case of the practical joke working a little too well instead of it backfiring. If the jokester had managed to glue himself to the bottle then it would be a backfire.

Years ago there was supposedly a pretty hilarious backfiring practical joke at my old university. Personally I think it is just a story and I would not be surprised to hear that it was supposedly done at other schools as well. Every night at midnight the school radio station plays the national anthem. The story goes that a large group of students used this agreed upon signal to simultaneously flush all of the toilets in their student residence thus overloading the sewage system and causing the basement to fill with reeking sewage. It is said that it took quite a lot of time to clean up and that the residences stunk of raw sewage for months. Now that is a backfiring joke.

 

My dad tells me that he used to work in construction. In order to get certain things done, they had to have exact measurements of sections of road. So they used precisely placed, to the inch, wooden stakes. Now, at one point, they had gotten ahead of themselves and planted about 2 kilometres of stakes, all in the exact locations they should be. Apparently some teenagers thought it would be hilarious to sneak onto the highway at night and drive through the stakes, ruining them. It took Dad's crew three days just to replace them, as they had to be in exact locations. Well, on the third day at lunch, Dad went to a hardware store and bought himself a steel pole about 3 inches wide, and six feet long, and buried it so only a foot stuck out above the ground - directly behind the last stake.

The very next day, all the stakes were broken again... but the last one was surrounded by fragments of automobile, and oil puddles. The steel pole was bent almost 90 degrees. He felt slightly guilty, since the hooligans who did it almost definately had to have the car towed.

But it was worth it.

(BTW, reep. I didn't make this up. Ask him yourself.)

 

You're dad shouldn't feel guilty. That was a lot of hard work put to waste. Serves those pranksters right.

 

@JSSB: How the hell didn't your housemate smell the decaying pumpkin before then? They start to smell after a week or so.

In my uni residences there were small vents near the bottom of the door. Our plan was to blow cress seeds through the vent and water them regularly (through the vent) while my mate was away for a weekend, as cress grows pretty fast. However, we never got round to doing it.

We got his room another way. There were also windows in the pitched roof. He left it slightly open, so my mate sho is small and light climbed out onto the roof (which was wet and slippery), got in, opened the room, and we changed EVERYTHING about. The difficult bit was my mate getting out through the window again.

[ March 20, 2003, 15:16: Message edited by: Intentioner of the Damned ]