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.
Of course I don’t fit in; I’m part of a better puzzle.
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!
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.
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.
Saran wrap and toilets. seal the bowl. Sometimes you don’t see it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!”
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.
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.)
Of course I don’t fit in; I’m part of a better puzzle.
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.
Or, if you’re in a hot climate with access to liquid nitrogen: freeze the can o’ shaving cream in the N[sub]2[/sub], 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
