# Shenanigans in the dark **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901 "2013-01-03T00:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/1 "2013-01-03T00:08:23Z")
What are some crazy acts you like to pull off in the darkness? On New Years, me and my friends wanted to have fun without guns. We still however wanted to make some ruckus. So, we decided to fire off a chainsaw. It sounded creepy as hell. I can’t imagine how creepy it sounded to our neighbors, who didn’t know exactly what was going on. We eventually saw a couple of neighbors peeping out of their door with a “WTF” look. I like black outs. I’ve liked them ever since that Beavis and Butthead episode about a power outage. You remember when they stood in a intersection pretending to direct traffic, but they caused several accidents instead? And didn’t they loot someone’s house to get porn? Well, I haven’t done any of those things, but they are funny things to think about when there’s a black out. Whenever I’m in a dark room full of people, I like to walk behind the sloppiest looking person and make a fart noise. People believe it’s them! ---
**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:** [January 3, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/2 "2013-01-03T00:10:18Z")
Sleeping. ---
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/3 "2013-01-03T00:19:14Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Sleeping. With who? ---
**Author:** ![listedmia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e0b2c6/32.png) [@listedmia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/listedmia)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/4 "2013-01-03T03:53:16Z")
Fourth of July was fun. I swear I wasn’t shooting the black powder guns at an old bathtub in the backyard. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/5 "2013-01-03T06:16:13Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > With who? Who cares, in the dark? ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/6 "2013-01-03T14:48:36Z")
> [@Diamonds02](#): > > With who? [STANDARD INTERNET RESPONSE] Your mom. [/STANDARD INTERNET RESPONSE] ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/7 "2013-01-03T15:09:25Z")
With _whom_? ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/8 "2013-01-03T15:11:35Z")
No shenanigans, but the post-Sandy blackout was sort of pleasant. Just walking in the dark in Manhattan is a novel experience–it never really gets dark here, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/9 "2013-01-03T15:15:00Z")
I used to wake my sleeping father gently, then take a flash picture in his face. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shenanigans-in-the-dark/645901/10 "2013-01-03T15:50:51Z")
Wait - fun without guns, you say? Sorry, you lost me.