# Nondestructive Car Pranks **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728 "2008-09-15T19:20:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/21 "2008-09-15T23:32:08Z")
> [@ChrisBooth12](#): > > Call the police and report the car stolen. This is an incredibly bad idea. Do not do this. Stolen cars get a felony stop from the cops, meaning drawn guns. Do not do this. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/22 "2008-09-15T23:34:36Z")
> [@riker1384](#): > > there’s one that was mentioned in another thread here, but it was destructive. Someone took some clear, but reflective tape and spelled out “fuck the cops” on the back of somebody’s car, resulting in them being pulled over. I wonder if there’s a way to do that without damaging the paint. You could write different things if you wanted to, not necessarily having to do with the police. Anyone driving behind them at night would see it. “Terrorist on Board” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/23 "2008-09-15T23:37:10Z")
Run a line of brown frosting along the seam between the windshield wiper blade and the windshield. It’ll be totally invisible and unseen, until the next time it rains, when the softened frosting will smear across the glass with the first pass of the wipers, totally blinding the driver, causing him to crash and die. Fun for the whole family! Oh, wait, maybe not _exactly_ what you were looking for… ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/24 "2008-09-15T23:38:47Z")
Not to mention all parties involved could very well end up in serious trouble with the law for a false police report. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/25 "2008-09-16T01:11:00Z")
\Or you could, y’know, just grow the fuck up and not get involved in petty pranks.\ ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/26 "2008-09-16T01:19:12Z")
You could cover the car in Oreos. (Separate halves, stick on with frosting.) If you want to be thoroughly nondestructive, limit yourselves to the window glass. If you want to be especially fast, separate your Oreos beforehand. I also like the idea of a super-lunatic clingy bumper sticker. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/27 "2008-09-16T01:31:58Z")
:sigh: I’ve tried all day to stay out of this thread. I hate to be a killjoy, but I don’t think you should do any of these things. Messing with _my_ stuff would get you thoroughly perforated. That said, it seems that you and the other team have a history of this type of behavior, so they are unlikely to be as pissed off as I would be. I like the Oreos idea, but then again that is a waste of perfectly good cookies. Don’t do anything that would compromise the safety of the occupants. Or get you arrested. Otherwise most of the suggestions in this thread are mostly harmless. Pick one and tell us how it goes. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/28 "2008-09-16T02:01:35Z")
I like the cans idea but you need to spread them around and tie them on with good twine. You don’t want them all in one place. Use your grubby clothes, crawl under the car and tie the cans on to every possible place you can tie them. At the very least, they will have to crawl under the car themselves and undo them all the next day which is a big problem on its own. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/29 "2008-09-16T04:18:14Z")
> [@Rapier42](#): > > I’ve heard that a jumper wire from the brake lights to the horn creates much amusement. I haven’t done it, dunno if it works, but I’m smiling thinking about… I’ve always thought it would be funnier to jump one of the blinkers to the horn. HONK HONK HONK every time they turn. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/30 "2008-09-16T04:48:50Z")
buy a toy horse, cut the head off and stick it on the antenna. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/31 "2008-09-16T04:52:35Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’ve always thought it would be funnier to jump one of the blinkers to the horn. > HONK HONK HONK every time they turn. I actually thought about this too. Might need a relay, not sure if a turn signal will handle the load of a horn. ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/32 "2008-09-16T05:15:51Z")
I don’t know if you get winter where you are, but I used to like taking a supersoaker and spraying water into the door joints. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/33 "2008-09-16T05:25:34Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > buy a toy horse, cut the head off and stick it on the antenna. I LOVE this one. You could add a note. Something about an offer you can’t refuse. Nobody has mentioned Post-It notes. They’re pretty cheap. There are LOTS of them in a package. And it’s not so wasteful as Oreos. Or you could cover the car in tinfoil… ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/34 "2008-09-16T05:29:03Z")
phony bullet holes on windows, a few pieces of glass on the ground with chalk around it, some police tape and a note on the window stating it’s a crime scene and the car is not to be moved. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/35 "2008-09-16T05:31:06Z")
> [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > \Or you could, y’know, just grow the fuck up and not get involved in petty pranks.\ The OP sounds like a high school student. You were a real pain in the ass in high school, weren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/36 "2008-09-16T05:33:04Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Nobody has mentioned Post-It notes. Funny you should mention post it notes because that led to my post above. It started out as an idea to post an apology for damaging the car which would drive them crazy looking for it. Somehow it evolved into a crime scene. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/37 "2008-09-16T05:36:35Z")
> [@Hunter\_Hawk](#): > > \Or you could, y’know, just grow the fuck up and not get involved in petty pranks.\ Oh come on. We had a lot of fun at work playing jokes on each other. The best was done to me by placing a bug inside my desk that randomely beeped about every 5 minutes. By the end of the day I had almost dismantled my cubicle. My boss use to throw spare change in his desk. It took him awhile to realize his desk was paying better dividends then most stocks. Pennies everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/38 "2008-09-16T05:42:11Z")
[Exhaust whistle](http://www.prankplace.com/fun_exhaust.htm)–need I say more? Better yet, get a weather balloon and put it on the exhaust pipe (I’m not sure if you could get the neck around the pipe though.) ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/39 "2008-09-16T05:56:21Z")
> [@Emergency911](#): > > KY Jelly under the door handles…don’t see it until it’s too late and by then it’s all over your hands. > > If you live in a rural setting, cow manure works too. > > If they have hubcaps, a couple of pebbles in them will drive them nuts. > > if you check on line, you can find several ‘cling’ type bumperstickers for next to nothing that can go un noticed for a while. > > several rounds of clear plastic wrapped tightly around the whole car, (watch going under the car if the engine is hot), can be pretty funny if they don’t have a knife or don’t notice it when they try to get in. Hah! My cousin put marbles in his father’s gas tank. Those are a real pain to get out. > [@cornflakes](#): > > ``` > Exhaust whistle--need I say more? Better yet, get a weather balloon and put it on the exhaust pipe (I'm not sure if you could get the neck around the pipe though.) > > ``` I wonder if you could pry the whistle off of one of those whistling Nerf footballs and glue it to the undercarriage? That would be really hard to find. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728/40 "2008-09-16T06:04:33Z")
Maybe leave a bunch of banana peels lying next to the tail pipe, with one skinned banana dangling out of the pipe itself? The trick being, of course, that that’s the _only_ banana actually “stuffed” in the exhaust—with only the IMPLICATION that the catalytic converter has been crammed full of daiquiri mix. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nondestructive-car-pranks/463728.md?page=3)