After reading posts on website dedicated entirely to pranks and pranksters, I thought of some harmless pranks that would liven up any flight.
Of course I must first address the undebatable illegality of such actions, of which I, myself, would never partake. Still, I am compelled to share them with you for the sake of interesting conversation.
The first trick involves crickets, available at pet stores everywhere. A small jar full, released(to freedom) during the shuffle prior to takeoff, would fill the cabin with the delightful chirps of our little friends. Not to mention the occasional SHRIEK from a startled passenger, when she spies one rounding the lip of her chardonnay.
I cannot imagine that such an incident would evoke the pilot to delay or even cancel a flight, though cabin cleaners on the destination-end could possibly asphyxiate themselves with insect killer.
The second stunt is not quite as imaginative, IMO, yet it’s effects are potentially more debilitating. When I was at a church dance in grade school, someone let off a stink bomb, a small glass vial of ammonium sulfate that is broken, like an ammonia sniffer, to release the liquid(and smell). Anyway, it cleared the whole place; kids, chaparones, everybody. The stuff smells so bad it can induce gag reflexes.
I can’t imagine what kind of effect this would have on a full airplane flying somewhere over the North Pole, hours from an airstrip. They can’t just open the window(like you do when the dog farts). Nor does the smell dissipate quickly in an enclosed, recycled environment.
One thing’s for sure; there would be a World’s Record for the first airplane where everyone had their shirt pulled over their nose. And everyone has an air sickness bag, should those gag reflexes produce anything.
Well, have fun…and dont get caught!
In the immortal words of Mtv’s Jackass, “DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME…OR ON AN AIRPLANE.”
