(I can’t believe this hasn’t been posted already, but the search engine didn’t turn up any threads.)
Friends foil Olympia man’s home: Downtown resident returns from trip to find belongings silver-coated
Although the foil room prank isn’t in Penn & Teller’s book (Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends), I wonder if Trerice is a Warhol fan – his Factory was covered in aluminum foil, too, inspired by the personal obsession of one of his circle.
Has this happened before? Because if it has, I bet he came home and said, “Curses! Foiled again!”
(I can’t believe this has been up for an hour already and I’m the first to say that.)
no baked potato?
On the upside, it keeps the Evil Government Conspiracy at bay.
Actually, that very message (with “Drat” instead of “Curses”) was left on a foil note left under the windshield wiper of the victim’s newly foiled truck.
A foil hat might be a good ID when one is attending a DopeFest. That is, if your Straight Dope t-shirt is in the wash. 
I have that book somewhere. I really must dig it out and re-read it.
My brother and I did this to my mother a decade or more ago, albeit on a much smaller scale. We didn’t wrap everything in foil: just selected objects.
Some were obvious, like the picture we took off the wall, wrapped, and hung back up, or the bird hanging from her car’s rear view mirror, or the single dishes we wrapped and returned to the middle of the stack of plates or whatever.
Some of them, however, weren’t found for months. For example, we took a deck of cards, pulled out just one card and wrapped it, and slipped it back in. We got her big jar of multivitamins, wrapped one single pill, and dropped it back in with a healthy shake.
The one that took the longest to find was also the funniest: We took the back off the downstairs toilet, wrapped the float, and put the top back on. That one wasn’t found for over a year, as I recall.
I’m sure we drove my mom crazy, but it was a funny crazy. 