Pranks we pulled as kids

[dougie_monty]

Does anybody remember these? I don't mean anything harmful, but rather mischievous things we did as kids. (Cecil mentioned kids jamming a potato in a car's tailpipe.)

[Satan]

Not sure what the general question here would be, to be honest, but sure, I remember childhood pranks. As for if I did any, well, how do you think I came up with my nickname?

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[dougie_monty]

Let me give you two examples:

My older brother (still something of a smart-ass at 51) tied fishing line between two telephone poles on opposite sides of the street!! I guess he was waiting for a motorcyle to come by. A car hit the line--and the driver was scared to death!! My brother really caught hell from our parents for this.
About the same time, my sister (then age 11) went next door and, with a friend there, passed out Ex-Lax to kids on Halloween!!

[Jophiel]

Sort of like the above, but we used to all wait until twilight, get about 3 kids on each side of the street and then when the cars came by, acted like we were pulling a string across the street. About half the time, you could at least get a car to slow down that way which was always good for a laugh. Sometimes, the car'd stop and some irate motorist would yell at us and that was even better for a laugh. Anyone who just drove through was treated to a show of us all pretending to be thrown to the ground as our "rope" got pulled away.

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"I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn't."

[Babar714]

My best friend and I used to run and jump over fences and stuff when we'd see a car coming at night. They would always get real suspicious and slow down, or even fallow us. The most fun was the pretend to beat the other one up, and take his wallet and run just as the headlights caught you. The motorist would almost always stop and assist the 'victim'.

One I always wanted to try but never had the balls: Break the glass part of a light bulb in a bed room, dorm room, etc., and tie the fuse of a cherry bomb or M-80 to the fillament. Cover that with a paper bag filled with flour or any household powder, and wait. First person to enter room and flip the switch will get one hell of a bang. The blast is said to be powerful enough to shatter the windows.

[voguevixen]

We used to get great delight from "forking." Take about a million plastic forks and under cover of darkness stab them serreptitiously into someone's lawn (usually a teacher, or boss.) Sort of the same principal as TPing someone, but a much more surreal effect (imagine waking up in the morning to see an ocean of white stakes in your yard!) and easier to clean up, too. We would almost wet ourselves while we did this, it was that much of a hoot - piling out of the car, sprinting to the yard, stabbing furiously and hauling ass back to the car and speeding away while admiring our work. Ahh, memories!

[dougie_monty]

About the same time my brother pulled the bit with the fishing wire, and my sister with the Ex-Lax, I used to get the goat of the store owner down the street--a Mom and Pop store. There was a phone booth outside his door and I wrote down its number. I would peek out my front window, looking at the store, and dial the number. The store owner was a grumpy old man; we would dial the number and watch him run out to answer the phone--then hang up. :-D

[kanashimi]

Gee, does anyone TP anymore? Oh, did the mention bring back memories!

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"With enough courage, you can do without a reputation." - Rhett Butler

[Babar714]

Irish Spring soap can be made into a thick 'slime' by slicing peices off a bar and boiling it on the stove. Adding more and more soap, it thickens, and remains at that consistancy. Fun and easy to soap cars, houses, mailboxes, small yappy dogs, etc. It's easier than rubbing a bar of soap all over, and leaves you kitchen smelling clean, and fresh.

These are some of my favorites. Locker room pranks were always cruel and demoralizing. Here are a few of the best ones:

Body Glove. When the victim gets out of the shower is still wet, the perpetrator would run up behind him, and slap his back as hard as he could. This happened to me a few times. I remember having my friend Joe's hand print on my back when I went to bet later that night.

Flaming Locker. In the good ol' days, stick deoderant was alchohol based, and thus flamable. My football lockers in junior high and high school were made out of this kinda grated metal. When someone is still in the shower or not in the room yet, we'd take deoderant and rub it accross the grated locker like grating cheese. Then, the shavings would be ignited, emitting a wonderful blue flame. Good fun ensues.

Of course, we're all familiar with towel snapping. Some of my team-mates and I had towel snapping down to a science. We could actually make the tip of the towel...kinda, explode. It would shred, and towel peices would fly everywhere. Buttocks targeted by the the business end of a towel would always welt, and often bleed. Damn, that was fun.

Can't believe no one has mentioned the shave-cream trick: you (carefully) pierce the seam of a shave cream can with a small nail, holding the nail in once the puncture is made. Then you knock on the unsuspecting victim's door and, when he opens it, toss in the can and hold the door shut.

Or the burning bag of doggie-doo on the front porch. Ring the bell, run like hell, laugh yourself sick the rest of the night.

Or, how about the 12 gauge shell inserted in the tailpipe as far as you could get it? Much more interesting than some old potato.

Or, waiting 'til an unfriendly neighbor will be gone for a while, and slipping his garden hose in a basement window and turning it on? I did this once, figuring it would only get the neighbor's basement carpeting wet while he was gone on a week's vacation. I didn't know the guy had placed a plastic cup in his basement drain to use for putting practice.

[Babar714]

DIF, you rule.

[Moonshine]

Once, when a university friend went away for the weekend, I managed to get into his room and fill his sink with Jell-O. When he came back he scooped most of it out, but the remainder he removed by letting the hot tap run over it, leaving it to set in his U-bend. This was the same lucky guy whose carpeting we dampened down nicely and sowed watercress seeds onto. They take about the weekend to remove and will grow back if "mown". Apparantly if you use mustard seeds you can do the wallpaper too.

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It only hurts when I laugh.

[AWB]

One Halloween, my friend made a dummy out of some clothes, gloves, and a hat and hung it from his basketball hoop like it had been executed. After all the little kids had gone in for the evening, he took it down and a bunch of us walked around the neighborhood with it like it was a drunk friend.

One of us had the idea to place it in the middle of the road where there wasn't street lights. We waited for the coast to be clear, layed it across one lane (of a two-lane road), and hid behide a stone fence nearby. When the next car approached, we giggled with anticipation as the light from its headlights grew brighter. Then a heart-stopping "screech" as it stopped filled the air. I was dying to laugh, but my friends help stifle me. Then: blue and red lights began flashing across the house in the yard where we were hiding. We all had heart attacks.

The policeman searched with his spotlight, coming close to hitting us (it was a short fence). But he gave up and drove off. When we came out, my friend was pissed because the cop had taken the dummy. It seems he had used his good jeans and work gloves.

[J String]

In high school I injected super glue into the lock on a guy's locker. It had to be cut off.
Some other guys I knew went prowling around one night stole a "big wheel" three wheeler from one kid's yard, and some children's clothes from a clothesline in another. They stuffed the clothes and placed the newly made dummy in the seat of the big wheel which they pulled across the street with a rope when a car approached. They had to run like hell when they did it to a cop

[Persephone]

This was not a prank that I pulled, but one that someone pulled on me:

My best friend in high school was a boy named Eric. He was a year older than me. After he graduated, he went to college up north (Lake Superior State, in northern MI). Anyway, he came down for a visit, and called me the night before to tell me that he was coming in to school the next day to see me & some other friends. I, of course, am delighted. I get to school the next morning to find him & several others gathered around my locker. After exchanging hugs & stuff, I open my locker...to find it filled to the top with those little styrofoam peanuts. WHOOSH! They were all over the floor, and across the hall. To this day I do not know how he did it.

i called my mom that evening, to tell her all about it:
Mom:Oh, so he did manage to do it, then? (giggling)
Me:You mean, you KNEW?
Mom:Of course...he called me a week ago and asked if I could help him get some of those styrofoam things.
Me:You HELPED him???
Mom:Well yes! You know how much I like him, and besides, it was funny. Wish I could have seen it myself.

[AuraSeer]

Ever "penny" someone into their dorm room?

Sometime when you're sure the victim is asleep, take an accomplice and a bunch of pennies to his door. Have the accomplice push inward on the door, as close to the jamb as possible. This will open a small gap between door and jamb; shove a stack of pennies in that gap. Really squeeze them in there, as hard as you can.

The stack of pennies keeps the door slightly bent, which puts pressure on the latch, which freezes the doorknob in place. With most kinds of doors, there's no way to remove the pennies without outside help.


I've also got a story similar to Cristi's, except that instead of styrofoam peanuts, it was popcorn. And instead of a locker, it was a little foreign car whose owner had left the sunroof open. :D

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Of course I don't fit in; I'm part of a better puzzle.

[MrKnowItAll]

One my dad did as a kid:

At night, take some toilet paper (I assume the stuff was more durable back in the 50s) and make several loops between trees so that it stretches across a road right after a curve. Supposedly, at night when seen very suddenly with headlights, it looks like wooden planks.

Also, shortly after my mom and dad married, Mom's brother streched a length of bare wire that was fastened to a nail driven into a plank on their house's exterior. When rubbed with resin, it sounded like someone prying boards off the hosue.

As for myself...

From my dorm life: Take an LP cover and fill it with shaving cream. Slide the open end under a door. Drop a heavy book on the cover. This will shoot shaving cream all over a dorm room.

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Carpe hoc!

[Omniscient]

Oh, god I loved pennying people into their rooms. My friend who lived kitty corner across the hall apparently had bumped into a high school girlfriend at the bar, and decided to go for a roll in the hay. They were going at it in his dorm room so we felt it necessary to penny them in. We did it real good and a few hours later we hear them trying to get out. We crowd around and her her say "I can't get it open" then he makes a drunk attempt and after a few minutes of silence he figures it out and starts going apeshit. Apparently the beer she had drank was fully recycled and was filling her bladder. As he gets angrier, she has to pee worse, and now we don't want to let him out because hes so mad. We close our door, and the pounding brings the RA out. He tries for 15 minute to get it open and can't. Eventually he recruits some of us to help (we won't admit to doing it) and he gets out and threatens our lives. Apparently she was embarrassed and never talked to him again.

Forking yards is one of the funniest pranks visually. The victim must look out and wonder, yet appreciate the effort put in.

I gotta figure out how that seeding carpets works. i intend to do that next time my friend goes out of town.

[EnigmaOne]

{{{One I always wanted to try but never had the balls: Break the glass part of a light bulb in a bed room, dorm room, etc., and tie the fuse of a cherry bomb or M-80 to the fillament. Cover that with a paper bag filled with flour or any household powder, and wait. First person to enter room and flip the switch will get one hell of a bang. The blast is said to be powerful enough to shatter the windows.}}}---Babar714

Use 1 or 2 M-80s with extremely short fuses.

Don't use any sort of powder.....potentially very dangerous!! :(

Corn flakes work wonderfully!

The windows will be fine--unless you wire it up in something like a birdhouse with a picture window in it.

Don't do this to anyone who wears hearing aids or has a heart condition.

You didn't hear this from me.


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--Kalél
Common ¢ for all ages...
The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earth worms dizzy. It will however, make cats dizzy. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

[Omniscient]

So, whats the deal with the powder? Iquiring minds want to know.

[AuraSeer]

Flour and some other powdery substances, normally inert, will themselves act like an explosive when distributed through the air. This is why nearly-empty grain elevators sometime explode; at a high concentration, tiny floating grain particles are almost as volatile as gasoline fumes.

Metallic glitter probably won't explode, but it could melt or catch fire before being scattered about the room. This could seriously harm the 'prankee', or set fire to the building, or both.

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Of course I don't fit in; I'm part of a better puzzle.

[kellibelli]

not as vicious as the above, but here goes...

At university, a 'leaner' was when you filled a garbage can (small) with water and leaned it against the dorm door (which opened in..of course).

Well, this really noisy bitch- very popular too- lived above me. I complained once about the noise and it got really,really-REALLY bad, so I took a garbage can, a whole box of laundry soap and very hot water (to dissolve the soap) and made a real bitch of a leaner...they were still trying to get the soap out of the carpet 6 months later!

[torq]

The funniest one I've ever seen was a prank gone wrong.

One of my friends got mad at another guy in high school, and decided to trap his locker (our school lockers were notoriously easy to open if you got even close to the right combination).

On April 1st, he brought a water balloon to school. He opened the locker, and put it inside, on the top shelf, with a book propped up so that it had a nice ramp to roll down, then quickly closed the locker again.

The other guy showed up, and started to open his locker. However, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed my friend watching him and grinning. He wasn't quite sure what was up, but it put him on the alert so that when the locker opened and the balloon rolled out, he saw it in time to step aside out of the way.

It rolled out, hit the floor at his feet, and bounced. In fact, it bounced twice, over to a classroom door, where one of the teachers was coming out.

Of course, it picked the bounce right in front of HER to finally burst.

Fortunately for my friend, she was a younger teacher with a sense of humor and didn't get too mad about it.

[Mr Thin Skin]

I have three:

1) When I was growing up steel trashcans were quite common. We would go out late at night and steal a couple of lids. These would be attached to some fishing line strung across the road. When a car hit this, the lid would go banging down the road after the car. We found that 2 car lengths was about optimal for the confusing factor.

2) Saran wrap and toilets. seal the bowl. Sometimes you don't see it.

3) I did this to my older sister. She had braces, so she used a water-pic to clean her teeth. I would set the sprayer attachment up in a toothbrush holder, run some dental floss from the door to the light switch. Whe she would walk in, the light would turn on and the water-pic would spray her in the face.

[dougie_monty]

These are really funny! But Aura Seer is right: I went to grade school in the L. A. City school system, and the city fire department told us this chilling fact:
"One gallon of gasoline, in vapor form, has the explosive power of 83 pounds of dynamite."
As for powder--I had a teacher who told us that flour mills are built with the roof resting on the walls, rather than attached to them, so if a dust explosion occurred it would just blow the roof off rather than injuring the people inside or damaging the walls or equiopment inside.

[MrKnowItAll]

Almost forgot one, I can't figure out how.

The urinals in our dorm bathroom had a connector on the plumbing over it. If this is loosened and allowed to drop down, then a flush will cause a wide spray of water to spread over a 10' radius instantly. There is no escape! These days, I always check the plumbing before flushing a urinal.

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Carpe hoc!

[realm505]

I WAS THE MASTER OF TP


can you say 300 rolls of tp. 10 cans of shaving, cream 3 boxes of rice krispies (add water and it won't stop for hours)
and a flaming bag of shit at the same house at the same time.

I'M THE KING

[Heath Doolin]

Stand back fellow prankstars I regale you with stuff of legend:

-I pennyed doors all the time but made the extra effort to line up bottle rockets and shoot them off under the door jamb. 1/2 hour of continuous assault could get a man weeping.
-Replaced all my roomates (7 guys on my floor) new Hanes underwear with sizes too small, took his clothes and hid them ( I mean every single pair) then threw the fire alarm at 3 AM. Imagine 7 guy with 3 sizes too small underwear standing on your front lawn. The pictures alone are legendary
-Took a hoover vacuum(one of the push kind) and holding it over a drunk buddy, began to whisper to his passed out form. "Hey look at the dog...Its coming toward us! LOOK OUT!!! ITS GOT YOUR LEG!!!! Then turned it on and ran the runner up his hairy leg while making growling sounds. You have never seen a man leap sideways until you do this. Pissed himself too

And for my final trick-a tale of VENGENCE!

-Got fired by a administrator who was a real asshole and said and I quote "I did nothing for the job" THis burned me since Mr administrator ALWAYS decided to sack out in his office whenever the boss left for the day (which was often). So I hang out till his appointed naptime, go back in, pick his lock, and low and behold he is out like a light. I then began filling the big red plastic cups to the rim with water and loading every square inch of open carpet with them. I counted 105 by the time I was done (in 20 minutes!) and before i went I placed a call to the big boss to get back to the office because of a emergency. Now, I never got to see it but another programmer I knew did and relayed it. Boss storms in and find Mr Kissass asleep at his desk with his floor COVERED in water glasses. He now knows that A)Kissass has been asleep for a while B) Kissass cannot say he 'nodded off'- which he tried to use anyway! Kissass lost a promotion and knows who did it. And he cannot do a thing about it! I is evil when I has to be

[Chef Troy]

After exchanging hugs & stuff, I open my locker...to find it filled to the top with those little styrofoam peanuts. WHOOSH! They were all over the floor, and across the hall. To this day I do not know how he did it.

I knew someone who did a similar prank that may have some bearing on how yours was accomplished. My friend hosted parties fairly often, and on several recent occasions she had gone into her bathroom afterwards to discover that someone had been snooping in her medicine cabinet. she got a bucket of steel ball bearings from a pachinko-machine factory in our home town and had me hold a big sheet of heavy cardboard against the cavity of her open medicine cabinet while she filled it completely with ball bearings. We then closed the door and slipped the cardboard out.

That night at the party, we'd almost forgotten about the booby trap until one of her sorority sisters went into the bathroom and we soon heard the unmistakable sound of ball bearings hitting the floor. It was like a hailstorm, it was so loud. The girl fled the party without a word to the hostess, who was gasping with laughter and trying to scream, "Busted!"

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Live a Lush Life
Da Chef

[Chef Troy]

One we did at military school was the dreaded "cocoa bomb." If someone was in dire need of punishment, we would take a can of cocoa powder, load it into a couple of kleenex, and toss them into his room through these little transom windows over the doors. on impact, they would disperse their payload all over the room. If you've never tried to clean cocoa powder off a tile floor, it's nearly impossible -- you CAN'T sweep it all up because it's too fine, and if you try to mop up the remainder, it turns into chocolate syrup.

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Da Chef

[AuraSeer]

WAYS TO DRIVE YOUR ROOMMATE INSANE

Collect all your urine in a small jug, until it's full. When roommate is out, switch it with an identical jug full of apple juice. When roommate comes back, chug it.

When roommate goes to the shower, drop whatever you're doing, grab a towel, and announce that you're going to take a shower too.

The night before roommate's only day to sleep in, borrow or steal all the alarm clocks you can. Hide them in all parts of the room, and set them to go off at ten minute intervals.

Complain loudly about menstrual cramps. (This is only funny if you're male.)

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Of course I don't fit in; I'm part of a better puzzle.

[kellibelli]

you are a sick bunch...I'm proud to know ya.

[gorkamorka]

Sorry, but just had to save this thread. It's funny as hell.

[Sultan Kinkari]

Before I was born, my dad had a sailboat. So he always had coils of rope laying about. So when I was about seven I took the longest length I could find, about 100' and told my mom I was going to rappell out my two-story window to the ground below. I told her, "Nah, I was just kidding."

The next day, my sister and our babysitter were playing in the kitchen. I grabbed a pair of tuffskins and clumsily tied the shoelaces of my shoes around the ankles, and then laced the rope through the belt loops. I went downstairs and told them I was going to rappell out the window. "Yeah right." they replied.

I ran back upstairs and lowered the "body" out the window and danced it on the sill of the kitchen. They looked at each other and said, "Yeah right."

I have to give proper credit to my babysitter for this one: she said "We have to make it good." She took over the operation, stuffed lifelike parts into the pants legs and safety pinned the shoes to the pants, it looked totally real.

We waited until my mom came home and she went straight to the sink to do the dishes, right next to the window. I ran down and said "I'm gonna rappell out the window!", my mom replied "And I'll beat your butt if you do."

The trap was set, my sister and babysitter kept her busy with usual question. I ran upstairs and carefully lowered the dummy in front of the window, tugging life-like movements into it. My move froze, looked at the dummy, and bolted out of the kitchen and ran upstairs. There she found me, keeled over in the hallway, peeing my pants in laughter. Sorry Mom, had to do it.

[Gunslinger]

Originally posted by DIF
Can't believe no one has mentioned the shave-cream trick: you (carefully) pierce the seam of a shave cream can with a small nail, holding the nail in once the puncture is made. Then you knock on the unsuspecting victim's door and, when he opens it, toss in the can and hold the door shut.


Or, if you're in a hot climate with access to liquid nitrogen: freeze the can o' shaving cream in the N2, and cut off the can so you have a block of shaving cream. Toss it somewhere (parked car, etc) where it won't be noticed for several minutes. :D

[Tyklfe]

When my twin brother and I were freshmen in highschool we switched a class on april fools day. I went to his english class and he went to my science class.

The teacher that taught the class that he was in thought that it was all funny and laughed about it (she figured it out because she knew us personally)

However, the teacher of his english class didn't notice the switch but everyone in the class did. Later, a student told her what happened and she threw an absolute fit. She went screaming to the principals office and we both got saturday school for it, but it was worth it.

[Blueberry Buckle]

While in high school, a guy my friend had been seeing began "kissing and telling" everyone everything, and then some. Needless to say, we were a little miffed. Sooooo, one night we put vaseline all over the windows of his most prized possession: his truck. We are talking several tubs of vaseline. When he awoke to go to practice the next morning, we were laughing hysterically from my bedroom window as we watched him attempting to clean the mess up. I could imagine everyone in the next town could hear him cussing. He never spoke a word about my friend again.

[virtee]

Aside from the usual doorbell ditch...hmmmm

My step-brother and I decided to do prank calls with a twist. I recorded a message into a tape recorder (I was the oldest at 12 so, ostensibly, I had a deeper voice) saying, in my best Golden Throat, something to the effect that I was from the phone company and that technicians would be momentarily working on the lines in the victim's neighborhood. I went on to say that it was vitally important that the victim *not* use the phone for any reason over the next two hours since placing or taking a call would force a power surge down the line and electrocute the hapless technicians. Thank you for your cooperation.

About 30 minutes later we would call the victim back. As soon as they said, "Hello?" my brother and I would unleash a blood curdling scream and cut off our connection.

Whether or not this fooled anyone or had the desired effect is unkown - however, we thought it was damn hilarious.

[LilCutie]

I'm 16, so.. this was about a few months ago. Some friends and I were really bored, so we came up with this big idea. "Let's stage a kidnapping" So... we got out the video camera, dressed up in black and made up this big plan. One of our friends, are skinniest and smallest one was to drive to the movie theater, and make small talk with someone as they were waiting outside of the theater. Then, about 10 minutes later, we drive up, hop out the car and throw our friend into the trunk. So we practice it a few times, and then we set off to make it happen. The joke was on whoever our friend was talking to. Because imagine if you were talking to someone and then all of a sudden they are snatched, screaming and are thrown into a trunk.

Well we pulled it off. Got it all on tape. It was funny the person's face. At first it was shock, then it was "I wonder if anyone else saw that... I'm going to walk away now"

We did this twice that night, at another movie theater, and at a Grocery Store. It was hilarious. Funny, no one called the police

-Jenny*

[Booker57]

Putting card board boxes across the road. We painted them grey to look like concrete block. The first wall a driver saw would make them stop, get out of the car and check out the wall. When they came to the second wall they would stop slowly pull up to the wall and push it away. the third wall was two rows of real block topped by cardboard boxes. This prank was planned for a certen driver who would speed thru our sub-divison. He was asked many times to slow down, twice in writing. Some people have to learn the hard way. The car was damaged. Driver fine. Upset, but unharmed.

[FEotU]

A favourite when I was growing up was to get a large roll of strong twine, enter an apartment block (this was in the days when buildings didn't need security sytems), tie one end off at the staircase, and go to the opposite staircase, placing a few wraps around each suite's doorknob on the way. Then we'd each pick a couple of doors and start knocking on them while jumping over the twine. At the stairway, we'd almost pee ourselves as we watched numerous people try to answer their doors only to have their doors slammed shut as the neighbor tried to open their door!

[Mooney252]

Convertible (cabriolet) full of noisy teenagers driving E on a busy four-lane street, waving arms and atracting attention. All of a sudden one 'falls' out into traffic. Of course, it's just a dummy but it did rile things up behind them. One woman jumped out of her car screaming, after she'd run over the dummy.

If you can find a car with removeable hubcaps, remove and insert several stones. Quite noisy.

Filling a car with crumpled newspapers takes a while -- but is an even bigger nuisance to empty. Another alternative: fill the car with balloons.

Find a good, resonant public building -- schools are often excellent. Arrange with a friend to roll a bowling ball down the hallway. To the first floor, it sounds like thunder.

Potato stuffed into tailpipe. Car won't start. No long-term damage -- it's just the last place anyone looks.

The old favorite car trick: get in friend's car, turn EVERYTHING on (wipers, radio to full blast, heater + fan to high). When car is turned on, so too is everything else.

[curwin]

This one I heard from my father, thought it was great, and decided to try it for myself. I'm not usually the prankster type, but this one worked wonderfully.

A friend and I went to a bakery and found some really dark, chocolate chip brownies. They tasted great, but what made them perfect was when rolled between ones hands they looked just like human excrement.

We had both formerly attended a school, and no longer went there. Our new school started the day after this older school, so we had a day to just hang out. We decided we would go by the old school, and set up our prank in front of the entrance. There was really only one entrance to the school so everyone hung out there after school got out, certainly on the first day. So there must have been several dozen people there watching us.

Before school got out, we took a couple of brownies, rolled them up, and put them on the sidewalk. When everyone got out of school, my friend goes and steps in one of them, very obviously. Everyone notices, and starts laughing at him.

I say loudly to him, "You steppped in s--t!" He says, "No, I didn't, it was mud". I say that it wasn't mud, and he insists that it was. I then reach down, take my finger to the brownie, pick up a bit, put it to my nose, and say "It sure smells like s--t!" Everyone is agahst.

He then reaches down, picks up a bigger piece, and puts it in his mouth, and says "You know what? You're right -- it is s--t!"

The crowd went mad. For 9th graders, we were at the climax of our lives.

[FEotU]

Another favourite when I was in High School takes place in the Computer Science classes. This was in the days of programming in "Fortran" on punch cards; this really shows my age:( . Our school didn't even have an actual computer on the premises; just 1 punch card machine and a lot of cards you could use a dark pencil to shade in the appropriate boxes (your finished cards would then be couriered across town to the computer, dropped in, and the program would run and print out your task. If someone pissed you off, you would use the machine, punch 1 character at random, and insert this card into the offender's program, then he/she would have to wait about 4 days to learn their program didn't work.

[No Bones]

I got so sick of the "bed checks" at camp, where the councellor would flash on the lights to see everybody was in.
So I put an old screw-in flash bulb into the light socket(from a press photographer's camera. before electronic flash).
When he flicked on the lights he was blinded and staggered back into the dark, and couldn't find his way until his eyes readjusted.

[Cardinal]

In college some guys I knew were in a friendly feud with others on the opposite side of the dorm. There were stories about people tying doors shut and walking around on second story ledges, but my favorite was of going to Home Depot and buying the pint containers of lady bugs that you're supposed to let loose in your garden. The victims were finding them weeks later.

[Skerri]

Technically, I didn't do this... (insert silly smirk here.)

This girl had been dating my best friend for about 2 years. She apparently decided to fake a pregnancy, and get him all riled up about it. He was 16 at the time, and thought he was going to quit school and take care of her and the baby. She then picked a fight with him and told him that she lost the baby.

So, late one night, masked assailents (sp?) apparently forked her yard with 47 boxes of plastic forks. Then, the word "B*tch" was spelled out in bologna on the hood of her car.(The letters were actually cut out of the bologna.) Then, her house was tp'd, shaving creamed, and Coke cans put under all the wheels of all the cars present.

I would have paid to see the look on her face, but better yet, I would have killed to see the look on the guy who had to repaint the hood of her car. (Bologna acts like acid. It cuts through the finish, leaving bare metal.)

[Tricia Valentine]

C'mon, my mom's told some good ones I haven't heard yet!

If someone's door opens to the inside, you can cover the outside with saran wrap. Then you fill the space in between the door and saran wrap with something like popcorn, packing stuff. I guess it's a college variant, only much messier.

Another saran wrap- the actual toilet seat (not hte detachable part) in a girls' dorm. What a mess! Guys' wouldn't work because of the possibility of going #1 and realising it early enough. But it's still a possibility.

[TN*hippie]

Jophiel, the invisible rope trick was a favorite of my youth. Thanks for reminding me.

Many of the others I've done or at least heard of....but forking is new to me. Now I really want to do that to someone's yard. Actually, I can think of a couple of potential victims.






Jeeez....I'm 42 years old.



Peace,
TN*hippie

[Kaz]

As a recently graduated high school senior, with a full summer filled with nothing to do, I just got some great ideas....

[Sengkelat]

I took an electronics course, and everyone had their breadboarded project that they were working on, which plugged into the standard wall outlet. (I'm amazed they let kids play with something that dangerous) We'd take a hot glob of solder and stretch a tiiiiiny filament of it across the high voltage leads. When the victim plugged in their project, the solder would instantly burn up, >>VRAAP!<< leaving scorch marks and a nasty odor.

[DarkPrince]

I remeber this one from high school...

Take a gum wrapper (the foil part wrapped around the stick of gum, not the paper) and fold it over a few times until you have a long thin strip. Fold the long strip until it looks kinda like a tuning fork. Use the gum to stick it to the front of your shoe and wait for someone to walk by. The stick the two foil prongs into an electric socket. There's a loud pop and a flash, and afterward it would smell for a while. This was great to do during an exam and scare the hell out of everyone.

[Erika]

Another big fan of forking here...minimal damage, lots of fun.

Added benefit: we used to collect all sorts of random traffic stuff: cones, flashing lights, etc., shopping carts, lawn ornaments, and thuroughly decorate lawns. If you'd been "deocrated" you saved the stuff to add to someone else's lawn...much fun was had by all. ::grin::

[Nicklz]

Let's see pranks yep I gotta few.

As your friend sleeps take shaving foam (the shaving foam works best) and spray into palm of both hands. Then take feather and tickle under nose or eye lashes. Your friend then smears his face with the shaving foam.

Another is taking gasoline and pouring symbols or spelling out words in your neighboors yard, then lighting it. It'll be noticible for at least a month. But please try not to set yourself on fire, we had to put out one of my friends who was accidentally standing where we had poured gas.

Of coarse we acted stoned in high school in front of our teachers just to get the "your going to get expelled speech" it was always kinda funny when you weren't actually stoned.

Another good trick is instead of using rice crispies, use corn pops, they swell into kinda large balls, once it rains, and when you go to pick them up they just fall apart.

TP someones car then pour cooking oil over the car, make sure you get the window seals and windshield whipers, they will both have to be replaced or the victim will, suffer with this guuee grimy stuff for months and months on their windows.

Take smoke bombs and place in neighboors mail box (leaving door slightly open) light the smoke bombs (3 or 4 of them) then ring door bell.

And as far as the dummy tricks people mentioned earlier, what we did was one occasion we took the dummy and dropped it off a bridge onto the interstate below. Can you just imagine seeing what you think is a real person falling from a 200ft overpass above you to landing right beside the highway?

The best dummy prank ever though, was when me(age 16) and some friends saw a large group of people fishing, went up stream then proceeded to dump the body in the river, accompanied by a dramatized play that we put on for the witnesses, where as we argued about who's fault it was for Jimmy's death. Unfortunatly one of the people fishing had a cell phone, and before we had a chance to reach the main road we got pulled over. They really thought we dumbed our friends body in the river until a boat crew found the dummy like two miles down stream. By this time we were being interogated at the police station and we had already called our parents, so they were really mad. They ended up giving us a fine for littering, in which the judge made us do community service so we could pay it off.

Oh another good one is to take those little "snaps"(fire crackers wrapped in a thin paper, and when thrown at the ground they pop) Tape about five or six of these snaps at the bottom of a door frame then tell a friend to shut the door, they will think they were in the middle of a drive by shooting.

On a cold winter day, you can spray your neighboors drive way down so their is a thin layer of ice on the pavement, and when they return from work and turn into their driveway, they end up sliding into thier yard. This works especially well when your neighbor drives like a bat out of hell, like my neighbor. (-:

[Nicklz]

::::DISCLAMIER FOR ABOVE POST:::::
kids don't try these things mentioned
Of coarse I'm not recommending anyone try any of my above pranks, you could get into big trouble, if you get caught.

[amati]

my friends and i had this thing where we would only prank call people named bill smith. usually we would violently demand that bill return our lawnmower, but once we went with our "remember me from 'nam?" bit and we had the guy going for at least 20 minutes. he was inviting us over to his house for dinner before we finished.
we also played this game we invented called 'fetch' in which we took turns going out into the neighborhood on a bike with the intention of stealing something bigger than the last guy. loads of fun.
our second favorite was putting shopping carts in the dark intersection near our house and watching from a hiding spot. most people would swerve at the last second, but the best was when this truck slammed on his brakes, then backed way up and floored it, hitting the carts at full speed. turns out it was our friend.
beside that, there was always mailbox baseball. i forget what a malicious little shit i was...

[cblackhand]

One year for my friends birthday several of us "acquired" some constrution barriers with the flashing lights on top. We brought these to his party and hid them in his garage. Another of our friends, I'll call him JJ, found them and attempted to hide them down the street in a neighbors bush. We soon found them and brought them back. While several of us kept everyone else distracted three other guys drove to JJ's house and asked his parents for some help. They soon arrived back at the party and we carried in JJ's toilet and gave it to our friend as a b-day present.

Another toilet related story: Same friend another birthday party. This friend, Tyler, had a fetish about his toilet seat. He absolutely loathed people messing with his toilet seat. So what did we do? We removed his toilet seat and gave it to him as a birthday present. He went agro on us. He was screaming and hollering and generally making a huge scene. We then replaced his seat and brought up the identical one we bought earlier in the day. We came upstairs and proceeded to lick the new but identical toilet seat.

That's it for now.

[Kaz]

I just remembered, a couple of my friends and I got some big industrial strength and sized roll of Saran Wrap, and saran wrapped this girl's car. We went all around it, over and under, even over the antenna. She was pretty pissed, but it was totally harmless.

[dougie_monty]

About the time of the fishing wire, the Ex-Lax, and the phone booth, I tricked my sister at the dinner table. She had left the table for some reason, and while she was gone I sprinkled some pepper on her spaghetti. She hated pepper! She came back and finished the spaghetti and I asked her how she liked it. She said it was OK; then I told her I'd put pepper on it. She was ready to tear me apart! :D
My older brother likes boiled eggs. One time when he came out on leave from the Air Force, I added an egg to the tray in the refrigerator. Sure enough, that's the one he took out. He went crazy trying to crack it open! He felt really silly when I told him it was made of plaster and hard as a rock...:D:D