# Play a harmless prank with no expense spared **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 18, 2022, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445 "2022-10-18T16:24:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/81 "2022-10-31T01:25:35Z")
Yes, sight-reading. It’s a high-level band. I was trying to record it with a handheld camera with one hand, and play the kazoo with the other, so it’s not the best recording, but you get the idea. 🙂 I thought that my music arrangement wouldn’t have a life outside of that one occasion, but after we played through it, the conductor said, “Oh, we’re playing this at our summer concert,” and we did. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/82 "2022-10-31T01:59:48Z")
I hope the audience was suitably amused. In any case, I was, so your arrangement has had many “lives.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/83 "2022-11-15T19:07:38Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Many years ago I “kidnapped” a relative’s plastic cow from their front lawn manger scene on New Year’s Eve. I left a ransom note on the front door, complete with cut-out letters from magazines. I was tempted to commit a prank involving the manger scene that went up every Xmas season at our Catholic order-run hospital. It involved a giant venomous-looking rubber rat we had somehow acquired. It would have looked quite appropriate hovering over the Christ child. Potential complications involving getting caught by security cameras and losing our beloved Rattie dissuaded me. [This “harmless prank” idea](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KG6XHN1?ref_=pfb_spv01_6d8c7a3ed09f5e8a3dbec1964610dd64&tag=fbcmapntv-20&ascsubtag=pfb-NTA-P11-V01-O3-xrycuh-PFNKBA) (actually quite evil) popped up a little while ago on my Facebook feed. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/84 "2022-11-15T20:20:51Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Many years ago I “kidnapped” a relative’s plastic cow from their front lawn manger scene on New Year’s Eve. I left a ransom note on the front door, complete with cut-out letters from magazines. Many, many years ago MIT students “kidnapped” one of the Fiberglas cows from the “:herd” outside the Hilltop Steak House on Route 1 in Saugus MA and left it on top of the Great Dome at MIT. Now the Hilltop Steak House is no more (although its giant Cactus sign is still there, fixed up better than ever) and the cow is in the MIT museum. Plenty of other things got placed atop the Great Dome at MIT (Including the shell of an MIT Campus Patrol car, with blue lights flashing – the only such prank I['ve ever personally seen). ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/85 "2022-11-16T16:46:56Z")
one i heard of? Some people ordered a pizza. Hired the pizza guy to help them move some stuff, and then gave the house to the pizza guy. It was epic ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/86 "2022-11-17T13:16:46Z")
? 😕 ? ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/87 "2022-11-21T20:19:49Z")
I believe that was Mr. Beast. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2022, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/88 "2022-11-22T23:23:14Z")
Yep. It was. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/89 "2022-11-24T12:28:59Z")
? I still don’t understand. Moved some stuff and gave the house to the pizza guy? Umm… What? ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445/90 "2022-11-24T13:19:01Z")
Ok. Mr Beast is a guy online that gives away a lot of money. He bought a house. He and his buddies ordered pizza, and when the pizza guy came, they offered him a chance to make some extra money the next day by helping get furniture and move it into the house. They were intending to give him the house all along. So as they were shopping and moving stuff they got his opinion about the Furnishings they were putting in the house, then when everything was ready, they gave him the house, furniture and all. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sfv1QaRzJg8/maxresdefault.jpg "I Ordered Pizza And Tipped The House") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfv1QaRzJg8) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/play-a-harmless-prank-with-no-expense-spared/973445.md?page=4)