Practical Jokes you've pulled (Where the statute of limitations has run out)

nolaegghead

I don't think I've ever done one, but I want to live vicariously through others...

SonVolt

You remember those little air fresheners mounted to the wall of public restrooms containing a small mechanical fan blowing over a cup of scented gel all housed in a little plastic box about the size of a shoe? I once emptied the gel out into the sink, walked into a bathroom stall and took a **** into the cup, then set it back under the fan and closed the housing. 

This occurred in the mid '80s inside a Hardee's restroom on Hwy 58 in Harrison Tennessee.  I was 12-13 years old.  To the poor guy or gal that had restroom duty that day and an unusual mystery to solve, all I can say is - I'm sorry. 

Legume

100+ lbs of repel granulated pest repellent in the high school quad.  Just wanted to stink it up, didn’t consider it would get tracked into all of the buildings.  Damn near closed the school.  If that happened today, hazmat and homeland security would’ve been called out.

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead said:

I don't think I've ever done one, but I want to live vicariously through others...

I seem to remember hearing something about a squad bumper sticker...

But maybe the statute of limitations hasn’t run out on that one yet?

nolaegghead

SonVolt said:

You remember those little air fresheners mounted to the wall of public restrooms containing a small mechanical fan blowing over a cup of scented gel all housed in a little plastic box about the size of a shoe? I once emptied the gel out into the sink, walked into a bathroom stall and took a **** into the cup, then set it back under the fan and closed the housing. 

This occurred in the mid '80s inside a Hardee's restroom on Hwy 58 in Harrison Tennessee.  I was 12-13 years old.  To the poor guy or gal that had restroom duty that day and an unusual mystery to solve, all I can say is - I'm sorry. 

I have newly found respect for you.  At least for when you were 12-13.  Hilarious.

frazzdaddy

Three dozen crickets in a buddy's car with raw potatoes so the crickets would live long and prosper, on his wedding day. 

I once filled an entire car with foam peanuts. That was expensive but a lot of fun.

@nolaegghead, ck text msg.

JohnInCarolina

Does blowing up mailboxes count as a practical joke?  Asking for a friend...

nolaegghead

JohnInCarolina said:

Does blowing up mailboxes count as a practical joke?  Asking for a friend...

I think that's called "terrorism" now.

speed51133

In the days of overhead projectors, I opened one up and put a pencil inside so there would be a permanent shadow displayed. Teacher was totally perplexed, until the pencil caught on fire and smoke came out of the machine. Those bulbs get hot!

Also, long before caller ID existed, my buddy and I loved calling random people and pretend to be a radio station saying they won some prize. In fact, calling random people on the phone for just about anything in general was just so much fun for some reason. 

Foghorn

When water skiing in a Central Florida lake that didn't have good water clarity, after reassuring a newbie that we didn't have to worry about alligators, I would get a couple of guys who knew how to ski to stand up on the side of the boat close to a novice skier to provide instruction and block the novice's view.  Then I would slip out the other side of the boat and swim under it until I bumped the a ski - which would make her (more often) or him scream - and then I would grab the ski and shake it as violently as a I could... leading to more and louder screaming.

I quit doing it after one girl refused to go back in the water...

nolaegghead

Foghorn said:

When water skiing in a Central Florida lake that didn't have good water clarity, after reassuring a newbie that we didn't have to worry about alligators, I would get a couple of guys who knew how to ski to stand up on the side of the boat close to a novice skier to provide instruction and block the novice's view.  Then I would slip out the other side of the boat and swim under it until I bumped the a ski - which would make her (more often) or him scream - and then I would grab the ski and shake it as violently as a I could... leading to more and louder screaming.

I quit doing it after one girl refused to go back in the water...

LOL!  Reminds me of the bratty kids with the fake shark fin in Jaws...

fishlessman

neighbor shot me in the back of the neck from a window at 2 am with a pellet gun. i hog tied him in the woods the next day and never went back. funnier now than then eventually that family had to move.  ill just pretend that was a practical joke

SemolinaPilchard

Before caller ID came along I had an answering machine that also recorded calls. When I called someone and their answering machine picked up, I would record their outgoing message. Then I would call them back, wait for the beep, and put their outgoing message as an incoming message.

Smokin_Trout

At a birthday party in July, my kid was still crapping himself and my buddies car was unlocked. 
Stuffed the diaper under the seat of his car that was parked in the July sun. 

BigreenGreg

In 1994 a young Engineer I worked with lost his nuclear monitoring badge. I took the occasion to draft a letter on Company letterhead addressed from the home office. It stated since this was such an important issue, an appointment had been made for him at the Genetic Center (real medical center) for the next day. Where he would be expected to leave a urine, stool, and semen sample for testing. When he opened the envelope he screamed out loudly followed by hell no. When I caught up to him he was shaking and putting his truck in reverse to tell the V.P. to go to hell.

nolaegghead

fishlessman said:

neighbor shot me in the back of the neck from a window at 2 am with a pellet gun. i hog tied him in the woods the next day and never went back. funnier now than then eventually that family had to move.  ill just pretend that was a practical joke

That's pretty much exactly what I'd expect you to do.

So the family moved when one of them went missing...forever?

edit:  Not sure there's a statute of limitation on that one, Fish

JohnEggGio

Very childish, I know.  A few years back, a buddy and I played a Friday afternoon round of golf.  As was our usual, it was more like happy hour on the golf course.  That evening, a guy we worked with was hosting a margarita party.  

We enjoyed a margarita or two and hit the kitchen where the food/snacks were pretty tightly packed on the kitchen table.  Well, we spotted a jar of Snausage dog treats that looked reasonably like pigs in blankets, grabbed a serving dish out of the cabinet, loaded it with treats and squeezed it onto the kitchen table among the chips and dips.  We set up on the other side of the room to observe.  Over the next 20 minutes at least half a dozen people came in and nibbled on the treats.  This continued until the host came into the kitchen and saw what was happening.  My buddy and I were laughing our a$$es off - still do whenever we talk about it.

Now, just adding, we did show up with a bottle if Silver Patron as a gift - not that the gift makes it right!  No, I have not been invited back.
 

frazzdaddy

Foghorn said:

When water skiing in a Central Florida lake that didn't have good water clarity, after reassuring a newbie that we didn't have to worry about alligators, I would get a couple of guys who knew how to ski to stand up on the side of the boat close to a novice skier to provide instruction and block the novice's view.  Then I would slip out the other side of the boat and swim under it until I bumped the a ski - which would make her (more often) or him scream - and then I would grab the ski and shake it as violently as a I could... leading to more and louder screaming.

I quit doing it after one girl refused to go back in the water...

lol,yupp we were at a tournament in Lakeland where a couple of gators lived. We teased a couple of the newbies about them and someone who shall remain nameless put a rubber one under the starting dock. Chief judge tossed that someone out of the tourney.

ColtsFan

This one time at ButtBlast, I snuck into someone's tent and tea bagged their drunk asz. There may be a pic...

nolaegghead

ColtsFan said:

This one time at ButtBlast, I snuck into someone's tent and tea bagged their drunk asz. There may be a pic...

ewwwww....you, you....4.5 percenter

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

neighbor shot me in the back of the neck from a window at 2 am with a pellet gun. i hog tied him in the woods the next day and never went back. funnier now than then eventually that family had to move.  ill just pretend that was a practical joke

That's pretty much exactly what I'd expect you to do.

So the family moved when one of them went missing...forever?

edit:  Not sure there's a statute of limitation on that one, Fish

somehow he got out, then the practical jokes became real, like i said, they had to move. one of their jokes was the parents taking turns kicking my 7 year old brother on the ground, this was before the pellet gun. this went back and forth a few years, i think egging their house so badly they had to paint it did them in, or was it egging them again before the paint dried

nolaegghead

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

neighbor shot me in the back of the neck from a window at 2 am with a pellet gun. i hog tied him in the woods the next day and never went back. funnier now than then eventually that family had to move.  ill just pretend that was a practical joke

That's pretty much exactly what I'd expect you to do.

So the family moved when one of them went missing...forever?

edit:  Not sure there's a statute of limitation on that one, Fish

somehow he got out, then the practical jokes became real, like i said, they had to move. one of their jokes was the parents taking turns kicking my 7 year old brother on the ground, this was before the pellet gun. this went back and forth a few years, i think egging their house so badly they had to paint it did them in, or was it egging them again before the paint dried

It's official.....you don't have to remind me to not piss you off!

CornfedMA

A few from high school. The night before graduation we went onto the soccer field where the festivities were to be held and turned all 1500 chairs 180 degrees in the wrong direction. Which led to all of the teachers and faculty present a few hours before the ceremony the next morning, to sweat their behinds off in 80+ degrees, in their dress clothes, to turn them all back around before everyone showed up. 

Swiped a full body taxidermy mount of a coyote from a biology classroom and put it on the town common. Hilarity and a weapons drawn police response ensued. 

Our buddy’s dad was the facilities manager for all the schools in town. We snuck off with his keys and moved every single desk on the 2nd floor of the high school, into the hallway. There wasn’t an inch of floor to set foot on in order to move the desks back to their classrooms in the morning. 

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

neighbor shot me in the back of the neck from a window at 2 am with a pellet gun. i hog tied him in the woods the next day and never went back. funnier now than then eventually that family had to move.  ill just pretend that was a practical joke

That's pretty much exactly what I'd expect you to do.

So the family moved when one of them went missing...forever?

edit:  Not sure there's a statute of limitation on that one, Fish

somehow he got out, then the practical jokes became real, like i said, they had to move. one of their jokes was the parents taking turns kicking my 7 year old brother on the ground, this was before the pellet gun. this went back and forth a few years, i think egging their house so badly they had to paint it did them in, or was it egging them again before the paint dried

It's official.....you don't have to remind me to not piss you off!

i never do anything when im pissed off, but the next day after ive thought about it a bit......   that was my grandfathers rule,  never hit the guy thats messing with you when you are drunk, get up early, then hit the guy.

WeberWho

CornfedMA said:

A few from high school. The night before graduation we went onto the soccer field where the festivities were to be held and turned all 1500 chairs 180 degrees in the wrong direction. Which led to all of the teachers and faculty present a few hours before the ceremony the next morning, to sweat their behinds off in 80+ degrees, in their dress clothes, to turn them all back around before everyone showed up. 

Swiped a full body taxidermy mount of a coyote from a biology classroom and put it on the town common. Hilarity and a weapons drawn police response ensued. 

Our buddy’s dad was the facilities manager for all the schools in town. We snuck off with his keys and moved every single desk on the 2nd floor of the high school, into the hallway. There wasn’t an inch of floor to set foot on in order to move the desks back to their classrooms in the morning. 

My senior class let loose 4 pigs in school. They painted a number on each pig. Pig #1, Pig #2, Pig #3, and Pig #5. It took them awhile to figure out the prank besides the pigs running loose. 

frazzdaddy

Wasabi coated peanuts in a bowl of peanut M&Ms is fun. 

WeberWho

In 8th grade I crushed up all my white sweet tarts into a powder that my mom sent with me for lunch. I took the white powder and dumped it into my empty plastic bag my sandwich came in. Tightened the bag up around the sweet tarts powder to mimic a bag of cocaine. I went over to a girl classmate and said that she needed to hide it as I was being sent to the principles office. Not knowing what to do she started crying. The lunch lady came over and asked the girl what was wrong. Next thing I knew I was being chewed out by the lunch lady. I think I may have even been sent down to the principles office after that. Rightfully so.

SonVolt

Candy Apples Onions.

Loading your medicine cabinet full of marbles before dinner parties to invoke panic in snooping guests.

Putting raisins in cookies (anything really).  

bucky925

Three of us were working a double shift on the railroad.  One of the larger locomotive servicing facility's on the east coast.   About 3am we all climbed on an air-conditioned engine and took our boots off for a short sleep.   I woke up and slipped out with one boot each.  I went to the office and got a cup of coffee.   When they hopped by the window me and the general foreman about wet ourselves laughing. 

Cornholio

Back in ~1994 we had a Tandy computer that had a voice changing function when making calls on it (dial-up + those awesome stand alone microphones that computers used to use). 

I had one of my buddies over for the night and we were making prank calls on it which was fun in itself. One of our hockey teammates, who was a complete a-hole, bragged about going to a private high school in our area that you had to pass a test to get into. He was still waiting to hear if he got in and we briefly crushed his dreams. Called his house and asked for his dad using a deeper voice via Radio Shack Tandy and told him that his son’s scores did not meet the requirements.

Next day in the locker room we brought up his dreams of attending this (all guys) school and he claimed he didn’t want to go to the “stupid school anyways.”

He did end up going there but we got a kick out of our prank working.

Cornholio

Things we did more than once, which in hind site was really dangerous:

- Scruffy the cat: We would cut a cat shape out of the top flap of a pizza box, spray paint it black and put little foil balls as the eyes. Tape it down in the middle of the street at the apex of a hill and hide to watch the inevitable freak outs of cars driving up on to it (obviously at night). We actually made one car jump a curb into some shrubs and stopped after that one. 

- Car taping: Laid duct tape sticky side up across the road so cars would catch it into the wheels/wheel wells and make them think they had a mechanical.

- Throw oranges at cars from my backyard. Stopped this after a carload of guys jumped our fence looking for us and my dad has to cover for us when they knocked on the rear sliding door. He said no kids were home and that it must’ve been a neighboring house.

- Paintballs shot at passing cars, another dumb one. 

I am definitely going to pound it into my son’s head how stupid it is to mess with moving cars (well, cars and property in general). We thought it was funny back then but we are actually lucky we didn’t hurt someone.