Favorite Practicle Jokes

[Kwbyron]

I am a practical joker, it's a family tradition, My dad's mother was one, my father has gone to the point of not being able to call the IT department on April 1st, and I have taken on carrying the torch...to father's proud displeasure(he is usually the victim)
My Favorites I have done:
3) Working at Everett Community College last year, my boss went out of town with most of the office staff Thursday-Sunday. I purchased just over 1000 balloons and we filled their cubicle area about 5 feet deep with balloons. We put glitter in some for when they popped them. Also, I worked in the student lounge, which had a glass wall with 2 glass doors that lead into the hall way. We taped enough balloons together to cover the glass area so from the outside, it looked like the "Paperclip" was full of balloons as well.

2) Raunchy Taco Bell: My freshman year of college, I was hanging out one Friday night with some old drumline buddies still in high school and my best friend who now went to Univ. of Kansas. The band had come from and away game and my friends brought over to trash bags full of left over tacos that we munched on. At the end of the night, my KU friend decided to put them into the car...september weekend in Texas...whew, it smelled bad. so Sunday, when I found them, I did what had to be done...I put them in the garage. In a week or so, when I got around to it, I bagged them up and shipped them to my KU friend's dorm room with an e-mail saying I was sending him a CD.

1)Father taught me one night when every PJ needs to know, "I don't get even, I get Ahead." I live my life by this phrase, so I decided the blue icing stain on his forehead would put the ball in his court, and I need to regain control of it. He was to take my friend to the airport the next day, so we borrowed his car to make a last minute run to walmart. My friend got the supplies he needed and I bought a thing of baby powder. Once we got home, I turned the A/C in his '90 535i up full blast and pointed the vents just right. After turning off the car, I used a make shift funnel and distributed 2/3 the bottle through the 5 vents in the front seat. Carefully wiping up any spilled baby powder, he got into the car the next day in his usual black suit, put the key in, and POOF!!! The car smelled like baby powder for 6 months and it wasn't until a year or so later when he had the interior detailed that all the residue was gone.

What can you claim?

 

[mike_s]

We were sitting around (in college) and one of the girls with us got up and said she had to run to the auto parts store.... since she knew absolutely "nothing" about cars, we jokingly asked "why"?

Her reply, because her dad said that if she went and got the oil/filter that he'd change her oil, which would save her a few bucks (which is important to a college student).

She asked "does anyone need me to get anything?"

Yeah I replied, I need some "Power Antenna Fluid", fully thinking she wouldn't fall for it. Well she did.

She wanted to know where it was in the store, so with a straight face we started to try to tell her, when one of the guys said, "no... you've got a foriegn car, so you'll have to ask the guys at the parts counter for it!" (oh this was getting even better... how we did this with a straight face I'll never know)...

So we wrote down the car model/make/year for her and off she went.

Boy was she PISSED when she got back. I mean PISSED.

Apparantly it was a 'very busy day' at the auto parts store and there was a line of customers there and she stood in line and when her turn she politely asked for some "Power Antenna Fluid" for a 'make/model/year' car... Everyone behind her kinda chuckled and then one of the parts guys yells for the other one and asks her to repeat it for the other guy (who was farther away at the other end of the counter) so he could check... Now everyone was laughing... and she wasn't sure why...

With everyone there, they finally told her that there was not such thing as "power antenna fluid" and that someone was playing a joke on her...

Man it was funny when she got back...

 

[ItsBruce]

1. My universal tv remote will work the neighbor's tv from outside his house. It was worthy of a Stephen King novel.

2. I bought a toilet seat; carefully sawed it in half; went up the mast on a friend's sailboat on a bosun's chair; glued the seat back together around the mast above the spreadrs.

3. When my friend went out sailing, he usually just took the dock lines off the cleats on the boat and left them on the dock. He had eye splices that went over the cleats on the boat. One day while he was out, I retied one of the dock lines about 3 inches short. Then, I watched as he and his crew struggled to retie the boat when they returned. All the lines went on fine, except one and that produced a lot of yelling among his crew.

4. Someone seems to have left several cotter pins laying on the deck of my friend's boat.

5. Someone put Alka Seltzer (sp?) in a friend's BCD pocket.

6. On an overnight race, one of my crew made the mistake of taking his sea boots off when he went off watch. Someone put some tissue into the toe of one of the boots. It was just a bit tight the following watch.

7. And, back in college someone started the year off by shorting out the thermostat in my room. It was September in SoCal and the heater was on full. I must have sweated off 10 pounds that night. I made a note to get even. One evening when that someone was visiting the toilet, I turned off the lights (just to confuse things) and rolled cherry bombs under the stall. He was defenseless.

8. Last but not least: http://www.prankplace.com/revengetp.htm

 

[Cacia]

ha ha, thanks for not exposing THE secret prank I told you about, because I may need to use that one still on herbman.

You guys are good... wow, I am impressed.

hmm, I put a blow-up girl dressed in lingerie in my husband's Porche at the medical center. She sat in his car all day for all to see...

I am usually the victim.

 

[Kwbyron]

MY last attempt on my father didn't go as well as planned. I had built a switch panel that consisted of 4 3-way switches. Wiring them in series that required a up-down-up down pattern to close the circuit, I ran this to a power source and relay switch that opened a separate circuit when a current was present. with this constructed, I was ready to move onto phase two. 3am, I crawl up under my father's dashboard...the same BMW as before.... and got into the wiring in the steering column..as the cops pulled up. After a nervous discussion with the cops(had my father woken and saw this, he would have came on the porch and yelled something along the lines of disownment to get me arrested) I was able to convince them that it was a practical joke and they left chuckling.... so back to work! I run a wire from the "on" position of the ignition through the relay(remember, if switched are in the right order, this connection is disrupted) and to the horn. SO the end result is, without the proper "code" when the car is turned into the 'on' position, the horn will blare....solid.
With all this hooked up, I went for a quick test, tried to just chirp the horn, and that's when I learned about the importance of wire gagging and amp raiting, because I burned up the entire switch panel. IT was 5am by now, so I clipped the wires, tapped them off and went to bed...Dad was rather puzzled and nervous the next morning.

 

[ItsBruce]

Catherine: I promised you I would not spill the beans. I kept my promise and will continue to do so. However, you should know that the pressure of holding it in continues to build and that eventually, I will simply pop. But as I told you by PM, it really *is* a good gag!

 

[ItsBruce]

Another good gag: Open the hood of a car, remove one of the cables form the battery terminal. Wrap the terminal with electrical tape. Replace the cable. Other than that the car won't start, there is nothing to give this away and almost no one will think to check conductivity between the post and the cable that is screwed onto it.

Powdered sugar in someone's bed is also pretty potent, especially if it is warm and even more so if there are bugs (especially ants) around. Powdered sugar can be added to someone's locked room by putting it into a large envelope, sliding the open end under the door, slitting the other end open, and blowing into the newly opened end.

 

[Kwbyron]

one I have wanted to do..but don't have a good target with access is this:
The Mark: Someone who works in an office with a drop ceiling(the tiles) preferably in a corner.

Supplies:
cleaned gallon milk jug
ceiling tile
mousetrap
fishing line.

The setup:
Cut a hole in the ceiling tile the size of the milk jug; it needs to be loose enough to fall out by gravity and still not be noticeable. on the backside, glue the mouse trap down and mount the milk jug above the whole cut a slit to be able to fill it. a line will run from the bar on the mouse trap to the plug and should hold the plug in place when the trap is set. to the trigger, tie the other line and run it down the wall and to a drawer, keyboard, whatever on the desk. Fill the jug with glitter, skittles, baby powder, sand, ext. replace the rigged tile above the victim's chair at work and arm it.
When the victim triggers the trap, the plug should drop out and release the contents of the milk jug!

 

[mike_s]

A friend comes over to a condo I used to live in... the whole back wall was glass and you could see out ot the condo across from it, which the back wall was glass also.

my friend goes... WOw you can see exactly what that guy is doing (his blinds were open) and what he was watching on TV.

wanna have fun I ask? sure he says...

we turn the lights off so we can't be easily seen (or caught).

I pick up the remote controll (TV) and I hold down the channel change button. The guy gets up, throws down his newspaper and goes over to the TV... he raises his hand up to 'smack' it and just before he does, I quit changing the channels.

he stands there for a second... hand in air... and then carefully retreats back to the couch watching the TV carefully to see if it'll do it again. Right about the time he hits the couch, I start up the holding the channel change button again and he hops up, goes over to the TV and starts smacking the side of it until I quit....

My this time my friend is rolling laughing on the floor....

he asks how long I'd been doing it and I replied a few times a week for the past couple weeks when we got bored. Then he asked who the guy was? I told him I had no clue, I'd never met him. Even more funny.

 

[CON8IV]

Years ago, I worked for my step-dad in a wharehouse division of a small company. He would often have to answer the telephone, which was black. So, one day I'm doing some shipping & receiving duties and had to refill a stamp with black ink. The light goes on above my head. I coated the telephone earpiece with ink and waited for the phone to ring. Just then the UPS guy arrives and drops off his boxes for us. Then he pokitely asks to use he phone. After he hung up, his ear was totally black. My step-dad, being rather astute, realizes the trap I had set for him had been sprung on the unsuspecting UPS guy. Neither of us said a word until he left and then we both rolled with laughter, thinking about how the guy would later wonder how we pulled it off without seeing us put ink on the phone.