We wrapped string all over my roommates room - literally around everything. It couldn’t just be cut and the only way to get into the room was to crawl.
And this one is mean, but a trash can full of water leaned up against the door knob makes for a wet surprise.
Wedge pennies and other loose change tightly between the door frame and door. Do it at night after they’ve locked themselves in. It puts so much pressure on the deadbolt that you can’t open it. Funny to hear people pounding and screaming on their own door when trying to get to an early class. This could be somewhat dangerous if an emergency occurs though.
I heard this works from multiple people, but never seen it work myself:
Anyway, if you freeze a can of shaving cream, you can then cut open the can and remove the block of ‘stuff’. Then, if you can get it in the room somehow (or wherever else, some small space) when it thaws it is supposed to expand like crazy! Result: huge friggin mess like you want!
The classics are the best.
Set all the clocks in the dorm (as many as possible) forward one hour. Especially on their early-class day.
Check this page. Pretty disappointing. Looks like you get more foam if you just spray it. See the comparison here
OK. First, you need to steal one of those cylanderical thigh-high cigarrette ashtray things (the ones with sand that are usually in student centers or office building lobbies).
Next, you are going to cook clams (steamers/cherry-stones) for all the guys in your apartment. (Roomates tend to agree with you more when they get a full stomach) Don’t forget the beer.
Lastly, save every drop of the broth left over from when you steam the clams. Later that night, after you are sure that every single one of them is inside their apartment, pull the siler top off the ashtray cylander, put an empty garbage bag inside of it as a ‘leak-liner’. Lean the cylander as quietly as you can against their door. Then, carry the stinky clam juice broth to the hallway and fill the cylander in the hallway (trust me, you don’t want spillage in Your place).
Then go back into your rooms and Barracade your door. If they have any rugs or carpets at all, you’ll see a moving van in front of your building in a week (two tops). The aroma fermants and ‘improves’ over time!
This is a dormitory, so doing anything that will cause significant damage – crazy gluing anything anywhere, sprinkling anything on carpets, introducing stinky things to the room – is a bad idea. This is an ongoing war and at least one resident assistant knows what’s going on and you will end up being held liable for anything that you do which requires replacing, repairing or painting any of the fixtures of the room or otherwise costs money or manhours (or both) to make right.
That said – one of the best pranks I ever pulled in college involved about $10 worth of popcorn, a pump-style hot air popcorn popper, an extension cord and the open sunroof of a car. This prank could easily be replicated in a room – better yet, in a bed, sink, garbage can, drawers (full of clothes), pillowcases, bookshelves, closets, shoes, etc.
Take a screenshot of a computer using a different OS from the one the victim is using. IE, so if your victim is using Windows, get a screenshot of the Mac OS or Linux. Erase all the desktop icons, hide the toolbar and set the alternate OS screenshot as the wall paper.
Remove batteries from their alarm clock, or set it to the wrong timing
A variation on this that I’d love to do:
Obtain/construct some kind of flat surface that is too wide to get through the door held horizontally. Tip it over, bring it in the room, and start supergluing/pinning dixie cups all over it, and fill them all to the top.
Ideally, they won’t immediately realize that there’s no way to get the damn thing out the door, except with a straw.
First, change your locks. That was a huge tactical error, losing your key.
Second, fill their dorm with…stuff. Old magazines are available cheap, bundles of newspaper are easily obtainable, old clothes can be bought cheaply, recyclables, cardboard boxes, books, shoeboxes, scrap lumber–whatever you can lay your hands on. Make their place look like a shut-in lived there. You’ve read about the people trapped in their appartments? Make their dorm look like one of these. The more diverse collection of objects you can collect, the better. In essence, you’re making them move out of their dorm, so they can live there. And everybody hates moving.
Get yourself a bag of flour and a paper grocery sack. Fill said grocery sack with flour and slip the opening under the door, jump on the back, expelling the flour into the room. Repeat until all the flour is inside room. Everything in the room will become “antiqued” without you ever setting foot in there. Nothing that several vacumings won’t take care of. Possible problems occur ith computers, if at all possible make sure its off so that the fan doesn’t suck any in.
Yeah, I’ve heard some good ideas here, but you still are all amateurs thinking small scale.
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Damn.
Second the caution against doing anything that causes damage to the University’s property. You’ll get to pay (dearly) for it. I speak from experience.
Here’s one: Go to thrift store and buy a crappy vinyl album but make sure the cardboard jacket is in good shape. Throw the disc away (or use it for some other prank) and put shaving cream in the jacket. Pinch the opening and insert beneath door. Stomp on the album cover to squirt the shaving cream into the room.
Find some of those mail-in free trial offer ads for the stupid/creepy porcelain figurines (or similar crap) in the sunday paper and order some trial specimens for the girls. (I’m not sure, but this could be illegal.)
Here’s one I did that worked remarkably well, but you’ll have to have the cooperation of their neighbor. Figure out or plan a time when the neighbor will be gone from their room/apartment. Have the neighbor place their phone as close as possible to the common wall between them and the girls. Call the phone number and let it ring and ring and ring and …
If you have sufficient access to go changing out light bulbs and clothing or hiding stuff under their bed, tie a cow bell (or two) to the bottom of their mattresses. The hope is that eventually one of them will have a dude over for a night.
One of the more famous fraternity v. sorority pranks: Buy some donuts. Take pictures with some of them hanging on your Johnson at full attention. Then, give the doughnuts as a “goodwill offering”. Maybe eat a couple untainted ones in their presence to “prove” there’s nothing wrong with them. After they’ve eaten the “punked” donuts, show the photographs.
Tie a string to a bolt or nut and attach it freely swinging somewhere in the engine compartment or wheel well of the car so it bangs around when they turn corners.
Call them at 3:00 a.m. and apologize for a previous prank. Act (or be) drunk.