First, I would like to say that practical jokes are reprehensible. They are the lowest form of entertainment. But damn, some are pretty freaking funny, right?
I once attached everything that would move on my bosses desk to a length of twine. I then ran the bits of twine under his desk and attached them to the back of his middle drawer. When he sat down to business he forcefully yanked the drawer open (as was his habit - the source of the idea) and everything flew off the front of his desk. The effect and his reaction was hilarious. ( I did get severance pay.)
In my high school I was a pioneer with the Universal Remotes. I would mess around with the VCRs while watching movies. I would only do it when the teacher was trying to do something to the VCR. You see, because if I hit rewind in the middle of the movie, they would catch on. So when the teacher went to hit play, or what have you, I would hit stop and rewind and so on. Or I would just turn the VCR off. That always got a good reaction. My senior year in my government class we watched movies a couple times a week and I think almost everyone in the class knew I had it. One day a girl switched into our class and she was put a couple seats behind me. We watched a movie her first day in the class, and the tempation to use my remote got the best of me. So the next day as I was heading into class I noticed the teacher was standing outside his room. As I walked up to him I noticed his face was nearly purple and he said “I found out about the remote.” Needless to say, I dropped a couple rabbit pellets. He said that he was not going to let me back in his class and to go see the counselor to put me somewhere else. Which would have been study hall because there weren’t any other gov’t classes that period. I was a tad shocked so I ended instead going to the principal’s office and asking for my counselor. I did end up in the V.P.'s office for the rest of that class. Long story short, I apologized to him, threw away my remote (on my way to the principal’s office), and was let back in the class. I had him again the second semester and we could somewhat laugh about it then. He said ‘you know, those NRA people are right. If I had only had a gun…’
Oh, and that bitch that told on my planted mariguana in her friend’s locker 2 weeks before graduation and was expelled.
I eat hot peppers like candy and drink cheap vodka like water.
Now, you really want to play a joke on me? Replace the vodka in my bottle with H2O!
OK, ontopic. My mom told me about a joke she and her dormmates pulled on one girl in college. This girl loved her some apple juice, and drank it all the time. So one night, after this girl went to bed, they emptied the apple juice bottle, refilled it with their urine, and returned the bottle to the fridge.
And these were all privileged young ladies of good breeding at a conservative university in the deep south!
Oh man, this is one of my favorite gigs and I’ve only been able to pull it off a couple of times. My favorite was when I went with my friend Bubba to buy his new mini stereo with a CD player and tape deck. He was as excited as a little kid and raced back to his place to set it up. He unloaded the component out of the box and was setting it up on the counter. I looked in the box and spotted the remote, took it out, stuck in the batteries and proceded to screw with his head.
He would turn the unit on, I would turn it off. He would open the CD drive, I would close it. He would hit play, I would hit pause.
Now, Bubba was at about 290 lbs at that time and had a temper that was legend. He was getting redder and angrier and was about at the point where the stereo was going to be reduced to plastic shards when I finally burst out laughing.
My favorite one was one that I played on my daughter when she was about 6. She was losing her baby teeth, and of course everytime she lost a tooth she expected to have the tooth fairy visit and leave her a coin which dutifully, the tooth fairy did.
About the same time we had a puppy and he also started losing his baby teeth. She found one and announced that she was going to put it under her pillow in hopes of getting money from the tooth fairy.
When she looked under her pillow in the morning, sure enough the tooth fairy had visited. She’d left a dog biscuit!
Where I come from, Belgium that is, its kinda custom when friends marry that while they are in church, you break into the house and mess it up and pull practical jokes.
An example
First you go buy two white mice in a pet store. you take a black felt-tip pen and on the first you write the cipher 1 and on the second the cipher 3. then you let them loose in the house and leave a message. FIND THE THREE MICE.
Sadistic isn’t it?
I heard a variation of that, sport. In fact, I may have already posted it in another thread…hmmm.
Anyway, a friend told me about a senior prank at her high school one year. Somebody had turned three greased pigs loose on the school and had them numbered 1, 2, and 4.
Evil stuff.
The funniest practical joke I ever heard involved dormitory hallways which were discovered to be VW Bug accessible.
A friend in HS always left his moonroof open on warm days… needless to say his car was the object of many pranks. Once we filled his entire car with styrofoam peanuts… another time we filled it with leaves (it was fall). Those were the “nicer” things we did to it.
I was in Advanced Theatre class my senior year in HS. My friend and I decided to play a prank on our theatre teacher. We had been taking heavy lumber and doors form the lumber loft for a couple of days, putting them in his truck, and driving the 3 blocks to my house. We would leave the supplies at my place and return to class. One night we were both working late finishing a set for our current production, so we decided to pull the prank. We went back to my place, picked up our supplies and headed back to the school. We finished up the work we were there to do, and proceded to construct an immovable door and frame nailed to the inside of the 2 doors to the class room. W slipped out the windows and left a hammer outside the back door to the classroom so the teacher could get in the room in the morning.
While it didn’t result in any disciplinary action, lets just say that he was less than amused the next day. And to think we had both discussed the very same prank with the theatre teacher not a week before, and he thought it was halirious then. He evebtually came around and saw the humor, but man, was he heated at the time.
Another senior prank was duct taping the door shut to the most hated Freshmen English teacher’s classroom while there was a class in session. Poor kids. They got out, but it took far more effort than one would have thought.
It would seem, in retrospect, that I spent far more time the 2nd semester of my senior HS year out of class than in.
They had a miniature house in their classroom that showed how electric wiring was laid in a real house.
One of the schoolmates father owned a shop for fishing equipment. What did they do before the weekend, they filled the little house to the roof with flylarvas. (if you are a fishingfan, you know they are great fishpray) and covered the larvas with some bags of sugar. On mondaymorning, when they opened the classroom door, the class was filled with flies. They had to call an exterminator to get them all out. the nice thing about it is they were not punished (exept for paying the exterminator bill) because the principal thought it was a good prank.
Our dishwasehr would stick mid cycle. My wife loaded it and went for a walk while I cut the cycle short, hand washed, put away the dishes and reloaded the washer. (5 kids; lots of dishes.)
She comes back and starts yelling I’d ignored the stuck dishwasher. When she pulled it open she sees it’s a different load.
