A favourite when I was growing up was to get a large roll of strong twine, enter an apartment block (this was in the days when buildings didn’t need security sytems), tie one end off at the staircase, and go to the opposite staircase, placing a few wraps around each suite’s doorknob on the way. Then we’d each pick a couple of doors and start knocking on them while jumping over the twine. At the stairway, we’d almost pee ourselves as we watched numerous people try to answer their doors only to have their doors slammed shut as the neighbor tried to open their door!
Convertible (cabriolet) full of noisy teenagers driving E on a busy four-lane street, waving arms and atracting attention. All of a sudden one ‘falls’ out into traffic. Of course, it’s just a dummy but it did rile things up behind them. One woman jumped out of her car screaming, after she’d run over the dummy.
If you can find a car with removeable hubcaps, remove and insert several stones. Quite noisy.
Filling a car with crumpled newspapers takes a while – but is an even bigger nuisance to empty. Another alternative: fill the car with balloons.
Find a good, resonant public building – schools are often excellent. Arrange with a friend to roll a bowling ball down the hallway. To the first floor, it sounds like thunder.
Potato stuffed into tailpipe. Car won’t start. No long-term damage – it’s just the last place anyone looks.
The old favorite car trick: get in friend’s car, turn EVERYTHING on (wipers, radio to full blast, heater + fan to high). When car is turned on, so too is everything else.
This one I heard from my father, thought it was great, and decided to try it for myself. I’m not usually the prankster type, but this one worked wonderfully.
A friend and I went to a bakery and found some really dark, chocolate chip brownies. They tasted great, but what made them perfect was when rolled between ones hands they looked just like human excrement.
We had both formerly attended a school, and no longer went there. Our new school started the day after this older school, so we had a day to just hang out. We decided we would go by the old school, and set up our prank in front of the entrance. There was really only one entrance to the school so everyone hung out there after school got out, certainly on the first day. So there must have been several dozen people there watching us.
Before school got out, we took a couple of brownies, rolled them up, and put them on the sidewalk. When everyone got out of school, my friend goes and steps in one of them, very obviously. Everyone notices, and starts laughing at him.
I say loudly to him, “You steppped in s–t!” He says, “No, I didn’t, it was mud”. I say that it wasn’t mud, and he insists that it was. I then reach down, take my finger to the brownie, pick up a bit, put it to my nose, and say “It sure smells like s–t!” Everyone is agahst.
He then reaches down, picks up a bigger piece, and puts it in his mouth, and says “You know what? You’re right – it is s–t!”
The crowd went mad. For 9th graders, we were at the climax of our lives.
Another favourite when I was in High School takes place in the Computer Science classes. This was in the days of programming in “Fortran” on punch cards; this really shows my age:( . Our school didn’t even have an actual computer on the premises; just 1 punch card machine and a lot of cards you could use a dark pencil to shade in the appropriate boxes (your finished cards would then be couriered across town to the computer, dropped in, and the program would run and print out your task. If someone pissed you off, you would use the machine, punch 1 character at random, and insert this card into the offender’s program, then he/she would have to wait about 4 days to learn their program didn’t work.
I got so sick of the “bed checks” at camp, where the councellor would flash on the lights to see everybody was in.
So I put an old screw-in flash bulb into the light socket(from a press photographer’s camera. before electronic flash).
When he flicked on the lights he was blinded and staggered back into the dark, and couldn’t find his way until his eyes readjusted.
In college some guys I knew were in a friendly feud with others on the opposite side of the dorm. There were stories about people tying doors shut and walking around on second story ledges, but my favorite was of going to Home Depot and buying the pint containers of lady bugs that you’re supposed to let loose in your garden. The victims were finding them weeks later.
Technically, I didn’t do this… (insert silly smirk here.)
This girl had been dating my best friend for about 2 years. She apparently decided to fake a pregnancy, and get him all riled up about it. He was 16 at the time, and thought he was going to quit school and take care of her and the baby. She then picked a fight with him and told him that she lost the baby.
So, late one night, masked assailents (sp?) apparently forked her yard with 47 boxes of plastic forks. Then, the word “B*tch” was spelled out in bologna on the hood of her car.(The letters were actually cut out of the bologna.) Then, her house was tp’d, shaving creamed, and Coke cans put under all the wheels of all the cars present.
I would have paid to see the look on her face, but better yet, I would have killed to see the look on the guy who had to repaint the hood of her car. (Bologna acts like acid. It cuts through the finish, leaving bare metal.)
C’mon, my mom’s told some good ones I haven’t heard yet!
If someone’s door opens to the inside, you can cover the outside with saran wrap. Then you fill the space in between the door and saran wrap with something like popcorn, packing stuff. I guess it’s a college variant, only much messier.
Another saran wrap- the actual toilet seat (not hte detachable part) in a girls’ dorm. What a mess! Guys’ wouldn’t work because of the possibility of going #1 and realising it early enough. But it’s still a possibility.
Jophiel, the invisible rope trick was a favorite of my youth. Thanks for reminding me.
Many of the others I’ve done or at least heard of…but forking is new to me. Now I really want to do that to someone’s yard. Actually, I can think of a couple of potential victims.
Jeeez…I’m 42 years old.
Peace,
TN*hippie
As a recently graduated high school senior, with a full summer filled with nothing to do, I just got some great ideas…
I took an electronics course, and everyone had their breadboarded project that they were working on, which plugged into the standard wall outlet. (I’m amazed they let kids play with something that dangerous) We’d take a hot glob of solder and stretch a tiiiiiny filament of it across the high voltage leads. When the victim plugged in their project, the solder would instantly burn up, >>VRAAP!<< leaving scorch marks and a nasty odor.
I remeber this one from high school…
Take a gum wrapper (the foil part wrapped around the stick of gum, not the paper) and fold it over a few times until you have a long thin strip. Fold the long strip until it looks kinda like a tuning fork. Use the gum to stick it to the front of your shoe and wait for someone to walk by. The stick the two foil prongs into an electric socket. There’s a loud pop and a flash, and afterward it would smell for a while. This was great to do during an exam and scare the hell out of everyone.
Another big fan of forking here…minimal damage, lots of fun.
Added benefit: we used to collect all sorts of random traffic stuff: cones, flashing lights, etc., shopping carts, lawn ornaments, and thuroughly decorate lawns. If you’d been “deocrated” you saved the stuff to add to someone else’s lawn…much fun was had by all. :
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Let’s see pranks yep I gotta few.
As your friend sleeps take shaving foam (the shaving foam works best) and spray into palm of both hands. Then take feather and tickle under nose or eye lashes. Your friend then smears his face with the shaving foam.
Another is taking gasoline and pouring symbols or spelling out words in your neighboors yard, then lighting it. It’ll be noticible for at least a month. But please try not to set yourself on fire, we had to put out one of my friends who was accidentally standing where we had poured gas.
Of coarse we acted stoned in high school in front of our teachers just to get the “your going to get expelled speech” it was always kinda funny when you weren’t actually stoned.
Another good trick is instead of using rice crispies, use corn pops, they swell into kinda large balls, once it rains, and when you go to pick them up they just fall apart.
TP someones car then pour cooking oil over the car, make sure you get the window seals and windshield whipers, they will both have to be replaced or the victim will, suffer with this guuee grimy stuff for months and months on their windows.
Take smoke bombs and place in neighboors mail box (leaving door slightly open) light the smoke bombs (3 or 4 of them) then ring door bell.
And as far as the dummy tricks people mentioned earlier, what we did was one occasion we took the dummy and dropped it off a bridge onto the interstate below. Can you just imagine seeing what you think is a real person falling from a 200ft overpass above you to landing right beside the highway?
The best dummy prank ever though, was when me(age 16) and some friends saw a large group of people fishing, went up stream then proceeded to dump the body in the river, accompanied by a dramatized play that we put on for the witnesses, where as we argued about who’s fault it was for Jimmy’s death. Unfortunatly one of the people fishing had a cell phone, and before we had a chance to reach the main road we got pulled over. They really thought we dumbed our friends body in the river until a boat crew found the dummy like two miles down stream. By this time we were being interogated at the police station and we had already called our parents, so they were really mad. They ended up giving us a fine for littering, in which the judge made us do community service so we could pay it off.
Oh another good one is to take those little “snaps”(fire crackers wrapped in a thin paper, and when thrown at the ground they pop) Tape about five or six of these snaps at the bottom of a door frame then tell a friend to shut the door, they will think they were in the middle of a drive by shooting.
On a cold winter day, you can spray your neighboors drive way down so their is a thin layer of ice on the pavement, and when they return from work and turn into their driveway, they end up sliding into thier yard. This works especially well when your neighbor drives like a bat out of hell, like my neighbor. (-:
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kids don’t try these things mentioned
Of coarse I’m not recommending anyone try any of my above pranks, you could get into big trouble, if you get caught.
my friends and i had this thing where we would only prank call people named bill smith. usually we would violently demand that bill return our lawnmower, but once we went with our “remember me from 'nam?” bit and we had the guy going for at least 20 minutes. he was inviting us over to his house for dinner before we finished.
we also played this game we invented called ‘fetch’ in which we took turns going out into the neighborhood on a bike with the intention of stealing something bigger than the last guy. loads of fun.
our second favorite was putting shopping carts in the dark intersection near our house and watching from a hiding spot. most people would swerve at the last second, but the best was when this truck slammed on his brakes, then backed way up and floored it, hitting the carts at full speed. turns out it was our friend.
beside that, there was always mailbox baseball. i forget what a malicious little shit i was…
One year for my friends birthday several of us “acquired” some constrution barriers with the flashing lights on top. We brought these to his party and hid them in his garage. Another of our friends, I’ll call him JJ, found them and attempted to hide them down the street in a neighbors bush. We soon found them and brought them back. While several of us kept everyone else distracted three other guys drove to JJ’s house and asked his parents for some help. They soon arrived back at the party and we carried in JJ’s toilet and gave it to our friend as a b-day present.
Another toilet related story: Same friend another birthday party. This friend, Tyler, had a fetish about his toilet seat. He absolutely loathed people messing with his toilet seat. So what did we do? We removed his toilet seat and gave it to him as a birthday present. He went agro on us. He was screaming and hollering and generally making a huge scene. We then replaced his seat and brought up the identical one we bought earlier in the day. We came upstairs and proceeded to lick the new but identical toilet seat.
That’s it for now.
I just remembered, a couple of my friends and I got some big industrial strength and sized roll of Saran Wrap, and saran wrapped this girl’s car. We went all around it, over and under, even over the antenna. She was pretty pissed, but it was totally harmless.
About the time of the fishing wire, the Ex-Lax, and the phone booth, I tricked my sister at the dinner table. She had left the table for some reason, and while she was gone I sprinkled some pepper on her spaghetti. She hated pepper! She came back and finished the spaghetti and I asked her how she liked it. She said it was OK; then I told her I’d put pepper on it. She was ready to tear me apart! 
My older brother likes boiled eggs. One time when he came out on leave from the Air Force, I added an egg to the tray in the refrigerator. Sure enough, that’s the one he took out. He went crazy trying to crack it open! He felt really silly when I told him it was made of plaster and hard as a rock…:D:D