# What time traveling pranks would you pull? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2013, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-traveling-pranks-would-you-pull/668652 "2013-09-12T13:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-traveling-pranks-would-you-pull/668652/61 "2013-09-14T11:52:27Z")
Plunder Al Capone’s vault, before it’s opened—I’ve always liked that silver plated Thompson, with the jasper grips. The bone stock _was_ a bit ghoulish, admittedly…but I guess I’ll just have to console myself with all that gold and the autogyro. So much for your Pulitzer though, huh, Senator Rivera? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-traveling-pranks-would-you-pull/668652/62 "2013-09-14T11:55:52Z")
Replace the load in John Wilkes Booth’s gun with a spring-loaded flag that reads “Not on _my_ watch, bub.” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-traveling-pranks-would-you-pull/668652/63 "2013-09-14T16:06:45Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Go back to the first Thanksgiving and make sure they end the meal with smoking huge amounts of weed. > > It’s tradition! Leave a couple of pipes packed with really good kind bud at Independence Hall in Philadelphia right before the constitutional convention got underway. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-traveling-pranks-would-you-pull/668652/64 "2013-09-15T16:36:33Z")
I’d go back to 1830 and put an elephant tusk on the Galapagos Islands. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2013, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-traveling-pranks-would-you-pull/668652/65 "2013-09-15T23:49:14Z")
1/15/1559 During Elizabeth I’s coronation at Westminster Abbey, I’d be at Westminster Hall setting up a giant video screen and mega-decibel sound system on the south wall. After the coronation party arrived back at the hall for the banquet, midway through the feast I’d announce on the PA, “Folks, this Elizabethan Era is going to knock your socks off”, then blast the [Gangnam Style](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xu5hc9_psy-gangnam-style-official-video-hd_music) video on continuous loop. Liz would love it, I’m sure. I’d do the same thing on July 4, 1776 with the Second Continental Congress, at the post-signing ceremony. My guess is that Jefferson would be shaking his hips a bit, but looking around to make sure no one was looking at him; Franklin would be full-tilt Psi-dancing; and Adams would be shaking his finger and scolding Franklin for his heathen behavior. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-time-traveling-pranks-would-you-pull/668652.md?page=3)