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

Gulfcoastguy

My older sister and I convinced my younger sister that she was adopted. We told her that we found her on the back porch begging for food. We actually got away with that one which is a miracle as she specialized in getting my azz beat.

TN_Egger

I can relate to many of these.  Oh the stupid s#*t we did as youngsters.  It's a wonder we made it out of our teens.  

Wolfpack1

Our sophomore year, my best friend had too much fun the first night of spring break. While passed out, I enlisted a group of girls to put him in full makeup.  

A couple hours later I got him up and talked him into heading over to the seniors house. He walked in clueless and thought he was the most popular guy at the party. 

Think he won out because the next year I got arrested twice in a 3 hour stretch for Underage drinking- think that record still stands. 

alaskanassasin

I would like to agree and like your post @Gulfcoastguy

Boileregger

I subscribed a coworker to a catalogue called Dancewear solutions which was basically full of pictures of young girls in leotards and tights.  150 pages delivered right to his office on a monthly basis.  He still doesn't know who did it.

JohnInCarolina

My freshman year in college we were in a dorm that had an outdoor deck connecting the women's wing and the guy's wing.  There were two doors to the deck, one on each side.  

Now as we got into the spring, girls would tan out on that deck, often with their tops off, as ladies like to do to avoid the tan lines. 

 So a bunch of us filled about a hundred water balloons, and then gathered as a group just outside on the ground.  We arranged for the door to the deck from the women's side to be blocked ... from the inside.  Then we launched the water balloons from below onto the deck, hurling about ten at a time. 

Screaming and chaos commenced.  Most of the girls knew well enough to try and get off the deck as fast as they could, but not enough to grab their tops.   And so when they discovered one of the doors was closed, they ran to the one on the other side, past the lounge where the rest of the guys in the dorm just happened to be hanging out, ready for the show.   

Lit

I posted a large egg on Craigslist for like $100 and put a coworkers phone number. Crazy how many people are watching for a cheap egg. 

sheetmetalpete

Simple but effective: dead raccoon placed on the intake manifold of a guy's car.  Ahhhhhh... the good old days before inside hood latch releases.

Gulfcoastguy

Once at a neighbors wedding we decided to go after his car. We got a large watermelon, split it in half, lifted his car, and put a half watermelon under the tire of each drive wheel. He had to spin all the way through the rind before his car would move.

RajunCajun

Pleading the fifth on this one.  Ya just never know how long the statute of limitations runs.  ✌️

milesvdustin

We used to take guys ID cards out of the computer when they left them in there, holding up anyone else from using the computer. Very annoying.
A strip of magnet taped on the back of the ID and then we would throw them up 16 feet in the air so they stuck to bottom of the exposed HVAC duct. Usually took 3 or 4 tries to get the card to hit right and stick.
Hilarity always ensued 

saluki2007

One night in college some buddies and I took as many of the free newspapers as we could carry and took them back to the dorms. We then proceeded to create a barrier between the door and the door frame with a bunch of duck tape to one of the guys on the our floor. As we were doing that we stuck the newspapers  in-between the barrier and the door. The next morning he opened the door and had about 100 newspapers fall in in him. 

Botch

This is the funniest thread I've read in a long time!  

I only have a minor one, but I do it about once a year.  I leave a Post-It note, on the new person's desk (secretary, CEO, don't matter) "Please call Mr. Lyon, (xxx)-xxx-xxxx." 
They do, hear "Salt Lake City Zoo, how may I direct your call?"  They say, "My I speak to Mister Ly--- ****!" >click< 
Then I get blamed because I'm rolling on the floor, laughing!  

Gulfcoastguy

We had an OCD type employee who always arranged his desk in a particular order: stapler to the left open end facing him, tape in the center open end away, pens to the right capped with the point towards him, pencils furtherest right, with the points away from him. Everyday I would turn one pencil facing wrong , or move the red pen from the right side of the pens to the left......you get the picture.

Legume

The Cen-Tex Smoker

In the early 90’s we had a couple of friends who were brothers and lived together. We had a mutual friend who had loaned them a bed and needed it back as she was moving. Now I would have never loaned a bed to these degenerates but I damn sure wouldn’t have taken one back. That thing needed to be lit on fire and thrown off a cliff. She wanted It and who the hell am I to judge? I had a truck and agreed to help liberate the bed and get it to her. The brothers were at work but left a door open. I enlisted another friend and he said he would do it for beer and porn mags (this was before the interweb). As a joke to him I bought a 3-pack of the raunchiest, nastiest Eastern Bloc eurotrash porn I could find (the kind you had to ask for in the 3-pack plastic sleeve blocking the images on the front). There were no words in any of them. All hardcore porn from cover to cover. 

We were pounding the keystone lights and laughing at the porn and then we got the idea to replace all their framed photographs with cut out images of Kyrgyzstan’s finest ladies doing horrible things. Now we are in tears and we had several hundred more images...

Over the next 3 hours we hid everyone of those images in their home. There were beer cans on the glass top coffee table, we cut pics  to shape taped them face up under the glass and set the cans back on top in the exact same spots. We slid pics into every pant and shirt pocket hanging in the closets. In between every plate and bowl in the cabinets. We dumped out half the 40lb bag of dog food and put a nice centerfold spread in there and placed the food back on top. Rolled out half the dryer sheet roll and rolled it back up with some choice photos in there. Same with all the toilet paper. 

One of their rooms faced the neighbors and he always kept his blinds shut to block their view. I placed a couple of especially randy Full-Page sized photos facing the neighbors kitchen window and closed the blinds again. 

I think my best work was carefully unboxing some frozen Stouffer’s Lasagna, peeling up the plastic film and placing an especially lovely image face up before sealing it all back in the box in the freezer. When we left, the house looked exactly as we had found it. 

They found things for 2 years and finally moved out. He didn’t notice the stuff facing the neighbors house until they moved out 2 years later. He said he always wondered why they always looked at him like they wanted to kill him. He would see them in the front yard and wave and they would just scowl and scuttle inside. 

he called me 5 years later screaming from the side of the road somewhere. I had put one in the spare tire kit of his 10-speed road bike. He had just started riding again and got a flat....

I own a boat with that guy today and we are all best friends to this day. 

SaltySam

Hired a contractor to  finish our basement several years ago.  He flaked out and ended up leaving me hanging. Partially my fault for risking hiring a cut rate dude, but he was all talk and little action...just enough to keep my hopes up. After months of stringing me along,  finally took off for good.  I finished the my basement myself and decided to mess with him a bit.

1)I put ads for garage sales at his home address on Craigslist.  “7:00am-2:00pm, Saturday morning. Knock on garage door if not open by 6:45.”

2) Advertised fake geocaches using the GPS coordinates of his back yard. “Homeowner okay with light trespassing”.  

3) Craigslist ads for free baby raccoons using his phone number

and my favorite:

4) sent him a package from poopsenders.com.  I sent a gallon of elephant poop.  It had a card embedded in the poo that said “Want to know who sent you poop? Turn this card over”.  On the other side, it said “We’ll never tell!”

I don’t know if any of them ever worked, since I didn’t see any of them in action.  I like to think they drove him crazy.  

Gulfcoastguy

Legume said:

He didn’t have a mustache, he had black hair, and ties weren’t required. Otherwise you nailed it.

Canugghead

Only IT old timers will get this ...
Back in mid 70's college computer would process students' assignment (programs) on punched cards, one deck at a time. They had to be manually fed by operator into the card reader.  The devil in me made me slip a few cards into someone's deck and caused an infinite loop with a 'go to' statement 

GrateEggspectations

I enrolled my father-in-law as a member to the political party he most despises. 

Turns out it’s the gift that keeps on giving, because he now can’t seem to get off of their mailing lists.  

NPHuskerFL

If your mailbox is an intricate mini me version of your home an **** kid may end up blowing it up...well maybe not now days...but, the late 70s and most of the 80s me would've leveled that mailbox, the post it used to attach to and probably a decent crater making it look like a demolition work of art.

womaus

Years ago, doing a job over multiple weekends so as to minimize the disruption in a cube farm and corporate offices of a major utility headquarters in my state.
Got a copy of a professionally done portrait of my co-workers wife, framed it up, placed it on the CEOs desk as if it were a family photo.
Co-worker was doing that side of the building, and eventually that office.
Fun day. Every now and then the same framed photo comes out for remembrance of good times. 

Zippylip

Our high school Principal (George King) was a bit of a d!ck, or so we thought nearly 40 years ago when we entered 9th grade.  Fast forward to the waning moments of our senior year, 1984, when we agreed upon our senior prank. 

The rear of our high school faced a large hill that loomed over the loop where parents that drove their kids would drop them off (we had no school busses).  This was also adjacent to two of the three smoking lounges the school provided for the 14 to 18 year old student body so it was always buzzing with tons of kids.  Let that one sink in.

Anyway, me & about 25 of my closest idiot friends picked up the necessary tools for the prank (beer, weed & shovels) then converged on the hill where we spent several hours digging a trench that read “King is a D!ck” in gigantic letters that that took up a very large chunk of the hill, then with the clumps of the grass turned dirt side up we fashioned a large penis next to the statement.  The next morning the entire school, parents, kids, staff… were treated to our artwork as they arrived. 

We were understandably very proud of our efforts.

Sea2Ski

1) When we have a new guy on the boat, a lot of times they can not sleep the night before or on the boat ride out because they are excited.  Eventually the sun, air and excitement gets the better of them and the rocking of the boat during the troll will lull them into a nap. After being on hundreds of trips, you notice them sway with the boat as they start to doze off. We catch them early and coax them in the fighting chair and tell them they “have the pit” meaning they are responsible if a fish hits.  We wait to they doze off (which will happen) and we toss in a line with a bucket and a 5 lb weight fastened to it. Once the bucket hits the water, the drag starts screaming....  Ever see a very tired, novice person on a rocking boat get woken up by a screaming reel right by their ear all disoriented, then fight a “really good one” only to land a bucket?  

2) About 1/2 teaspoon of tuna fish in the base of a computer monitor can drive some insane for about 3 days.  In the base of a office chair by the spring insanity lasts about 4 days. So do it on a Monday or Tuesday....

3) A friend of mine had a pool put in with an ionization filter so very very little chlorine. The pool was finished mid-season, so it was June’ish? What does one do when a project is done? Throw a party of course. Well, I was catching a lot of eels in my minnow traps when trying to catch bait and thought it would be funny to put three eels in his pool the morning of his pool opening party.

Anyone that has tried to catch lively fish in a 30 gallon tank knows how hard it is to catch it in a net that is 25% the width of said tank.  Try catching 3 lively eels with a leaf net in a pool. 

lousubcap

Very low key but continues today:  every time I return a rental car I change the clock to 24 hrs; temperature to *C and after the mileage read (if done upon return by office personnel) to KM's. 

REB17

Here's one that didn't go as planned. After a long day of drinking in college, my cousin and I decided to go to a movie that night and bring a guest. We had a opossum that hung out in back and we shoved him a bag and snuck into the movie. When lights went out, we let him loose expecting  some serious entertainment. Much to our surprise, not a peep out of anyone. We could only guess that he found a stash of stale popcorn and candy and gorged himself. 

RajunCajun

lousubcap said:

Very low key but continues today:  every time I return a rental car I change the clock to 24 hrs; temperature to *C and after the mileage read (if done upon return by office personnel) to KM's. 

Nice!  Whenever I rent a car I like to change the Gps setting to avoid highways and major roads.  I had it done to me once.  Two hr drive out of Boston was saying like seven hours.

SonVolt

Once during a memory upgrade at work, I found a Honey Baked Ham sandwich inside of my PC tower. The bread was shriveled up hard as a rock, and the ham itself looked like beef jerky.  No one ever fessed up, but I'm sure it was collateral damage during the great Developer vs Infrastructure War of 2007, back before we got all corporate. 

smokingal

My college roomates and I loved to spend time using instant messaging apps after a long day of classes.  One of them was very gullible and the rest of us loved to play pranks on her.  We found a guy online that was willing to reach out to her and start up a dialogue.  We told him a bunch of innocuous information - layout of her room, parents first names, first name of her boyfriend, college major, etc.  He used this info to mess with her head.  He told her that he was into romance novels and named several that she had on her desk; that he was majoring in her major; that he had the same birthdate; that his parents had been married for the same number of years.  The best part was when he told her that he referred to his 'member' as her boyfriend's name.  She flipped the hell out after that and we finally let her in on the joke.  The guy ended up being a good chat buddy for her after that.

frazzdaddy

@Sea2Ski, well done sir! We used to make sure newbie fisherman got a fresh squid/bait sandwich for lunch. For some reason they never looked first.