Best Prank?

[ZAPPER]

While reading another topic I saw some talk of pranks or practical jokes. I thought it would be fun to hear about some of the best that you have pulled.




As a long time scouter and a construction worker I have had ample oppertunity to pull a few, just a few.

Black shoe polish (Kiwi, the paste or wax kind) on the black toilet seats. (yeah I know it is an oldie, but if it works don't fix it)

Black electrical tape on the kitchen sink spray hose. Tape the lever in the on position so as to spray whoever turns the sink on. (actually probally got myself more than unknowing victoms)

On a dare, I called my boss after midnight to tell him that I had a bad feeling that I had forgotten to lock up the job and he lived closer to the job than me. So he goes to the job to check it out, gets stuck in the mud and is still there in the morning. I felt really bad about it, but my partners in crime thought it was funny as hell. I ended up cleaning mud off of footings for a week because one of my partners couldn't keep his mouth shut. I don't feel so bad about it now.

There's more, but lets hear some of yours.

[mrtristan]

I think our best one at work was doing our own version of Punk'd.

I was having some problems with the attendance of one of my workers for a while. It was a big mess, which affected the rest of my crew, so we all sat down to hash things out. We worked everything out and all was nice and peaceful, but we decided to play a little prank on his girlfriend, who was waiting downstairs.

He pretented to storm down the stairs, and I quickly followed, yelling after him. He started to fight me, when my brother came down and slammed him to the ground. One of my other workers came down with a ripped shirt (we smeared ketchup on it), and a baseball bat. I held him back and my other worker came down to restrain my brother. After about a minute of fake commotion, we all stopped instantly, jumped to our feet and took a bow. Tada!

She started to cry, but she was a good sport about it.

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[northcat_8]

I welded a guy's toolbox to the ceiling of the welding shop because he thought it was funny to fill mine with water.

Same guy - I wired my tool box to an electrical outlet, spliced an extention cord, drilled a hole through the box behind the lock, used rubber coating to insulate the lock, soldered one end of the extention cord to the lock and bolted the other to the tool box, plugged it in. This ended the water fun for Alan.

Same guy - we cut diamond shaped cutouts out of the toes of his steal toed boots, welded angle iron across them and then welded him to a jig table, and left him there for a shift. We duct taped his hands and boots and eventually his mouth. He fell over once so we teathered him to the frame of the welding bay with some extention cords. Took 3 guys to hold him down to get his feet tacked. This was in response to him finding it funny while we were welding, to come around and spray paint or carb cleaner across our arc towards our faces producing a ball of flames hitting us in the welding mask.

I guess those aren't really "practical" jokes but that f**ker deserved it. We had to make our own tool boxes so they were really just steel boxes and he would break in the office at night and get the key and take everyone's stuff.

The only thing we did to poor ol' Alan that I feel bad about was when we welded him in the shot blasting room...after that we got to drinkin a little bit and forgot about him and he spent the night in there.

Got suspended for 3 days for welding the toolbox to the ceiling, they sighted that could be a potential safety hazzard if my welds broke I asked them how they got it down and they said "we had to cut it down with a torch" bastards

[ZAPPER]

NC8

Three day suspension? I would have told them that I am certified in all positions and demanded X-Rays or destructive testing to prove it was dangerous!

I never thought of the flamable spray into an arc (making note)

Sometimes, out of meaness, when we were welding bar joist or something we would call down to a victom to "wiggle the ground clamp" Right when they grab the clamp we stick the rod. We used this technique to teach people not to walk under under us and to pay attention to what is going on around them. So you see it is really a training aid more than a prank.Heheheheheeee

[Devanshu]

Back in high school my friends and I spread a rumor that there's a huge part at one of my friend's house and that his parents are going out of town for the weekend. We climbed the roof of his house w/ a high pressure hose. A bunch of people show up. You can see where this is going to go.






Voted the best senior prank that year.

[northcat_8]

I never thought of the flamable spray into an arc (making note)

Oh yea...real funny especially on someone like me who likes to be right down on top of the bead. Face 6 inches from the arc, suddenly a ball of flames

Actually I'm being a little hypocritical, I'm the one who started the spray paint thing, and it was funny, but Alan over did it, once in a while is funny, every time you crack an arc will get your ass welded to a jig table.

Truth be known that was actually my favorite job and there are many days where I wish that's what I was still doing. It was piece work, we built and repaired parts racks for Navistar, we had to repair or build 10 racks per week. So we would bust ass MTW, hide our racks and **** off thursday and friday (lot of beer drinkin and card playin got done on thursday and friday nights let me tell you). Started as a welder, worked my way to Layout welder...(Blue print reader, jig builder, tac em' together, check the specs,...let someone else weld them up)... I should have stayed...

[ZAPPER]

I know what you mean about sticking your face right in the weld. I have to be right in it to see the joint and the puddle. I have always admired the guys that can weld at arms length, but truth be known I still can't see shit. If it ain't a big gap that I can see, I might run a pretty bead right next to the joint.

I am like you, I would rather do the layout and fit and fab, and leave the dull stuff to the new guys (burning rods is only fun for so long).

[AlecWest]

The worst prank I ever pulled was on one of my ex's cousins. This cousin went out of her way to break up the marriage between a guy she wanted and his pregnant wife. And then, after she succeeded, she married the guy and put him through hell as well.

Anyway, the cousin invited my ex and I over for a picnic. I told my ex I didn't want to associate with her at all ... but she pleaded with me to go. So, I went. Later on, I excused myself to go to the bathroom. And, while I was in there, I noticed one of the cabinets open. Inside, among other stuff, were two bottles that caught my eye ... one was a bottle of douche fluid ... the other was a bottle of hydrogen peroxide.

I'll leave the rest to everyone's imagination.

[ZAPPER]

[AlecWest]

I'm certain her next douche gave a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Foaming at the mouth."

[Xylob the Destroyer]

there's a guy in my office who is constantly pranking people
he's on leave this week, so we scavanged as much shred as we could find and FILLED his cubicle with shredded paper
6 feet deep
i can't wait to see his face monday morning!!
now we'll see if he can take it as well as he dishes it

[AlecWest]

there's a guy in my office who is constantly pranking people
he's on leave this week, so we scavanged as much shred as we could find and FILLED his cubicle with shredded paper
6 feet deep
i can't wait to see his face monday morning!!
now we'll see if he can take it as well as he dishes it

That's great, hehehe. Just hope "the boss" is OK with it ... and that the janitor doesn't clean it up.

A friend of mine just had hip-replacement surgery. He's always crowing about how much he likes his Kaiser insurance. Well (grin), I'll give him a couple of weeks to celebrate his surgery and recover from it. Then, he'll receive this in his email (under an assumed identity):

Dear Mr. Aguon,

Kaiser gave me your email address when I told them I wanted to send you a brief thank you note. My wife and I can't thank you enough for the precious gift you've given to our son. Little did we know that the kidney he so desperately needed would come from a volunteer donor who'd been admitted for hip-replacement surgery. But, Kaiser assured me that you'd signed the "spot-on" donor form among all the other forms you signed prior to your surgery. And, they assured me you'd do just fine with only one kidney since both were found to be healthy.

In closing, just two things. First, my wife and I put your name in for nomination as "Donor Of the Year" with the Kidney Association of Oregon. If you're even selected as a runner-up, you'll get a weekend at Salishan Lodge. The winner will get a full week. The second thing I wanted to say is that this email is pure BS courtesy of your friend, Jim West, who really sent you this email to help put some color back in your cheeks.

[northcat_8]

I know what you mean about sticking your face right in the weld. I have to be right in it to see the joint and the puddle. I have always admired the guys that can weld at arms length, but truth be known I still can't see shit. If it ain't a big gap that I can see, I might run a pretty bead right next to the joint.

I am like you, I would rather do the layout and fit and fab, and leave the dull stuff to the new guys (burning rods is only fun for so long).

I like burning the rods too. I like Mig and Arc. Never got a chance to Tig

Not to hijack but once we had to repair the rail/hoist system at Navistar and I got selected to repair it. 2" steel I-beam, and 1.5" flat stock...I got to fluxcore mig weld it burned so hot that I got burned through my leathers and warped my plastic shield over my #12 gold lense I must have done a good job, Navistar called me to come down and repair another section a few years later, even after I had left that job...dammit, that was probably a business opportunity gone by...

[ZAPPER]

While I didn't actually pull it, I did witness one that gets laughs everytime we talk about it.

I used to work with this crazy Iranian, he was full of life amoung other stuff. One day we were sitting around the job site eating our lunches. He found or emptied a container of yogurt from his lunch and then refilled the container with pink carpet glue. (OK you can see where this is going, but how we get there is half of the fun). Along comes the victom, a crazy redneck full of attitude among other stuff. He sits down and starts to look thru other peoples lunches for that just right desert that he has a taste for. No, one guys peanutbutter cheese crackers won't do. No the offering of an apple or just about anything else just isn't quite what he has a taste for. So he starts in on us, "You guys got to tell your mommies to start packing better lunches" and so on.

So, the crazy Iranian says "Here, try this"
Redneck, "What's that?"
Iranian, "Yogurt"
Redneck, "Yogurt? Man I ain't eating that yuppie ****** shit"
Iranian, "Oh man, you got to try it, it's the best damb yogurt I have ever had"
Redneck, "Screw you camel humper, I ain't eating that shit"
And the banter goes on for a few more exchanges.
Iranian, "I don't care if you want it or not, I'll finish it myself"
Redneck, "Well give it here I'll try it"
Iranian, "Screw you! I offered it once and you got all stupid, I hope you starve!"
Redneck jumps up and snatches the yogurt cup from out of the Iranians hand.
Iranian, "Man don't eat that shit, It ain't no..... Too late. The Redneck takes about as big a spoonful as can be had and gulps it down!
Meanwhile we all hit the floor laughing our asses off. He tried to spit it out but had already swallowed almost everything that was on the spoon. The Iranian doesn't miss a beat and picks up the bucket that the glue came in and statrs to read off the Poison warning with a little embelishmemt.
Danger, extreamly poisonous, do not allow contact with skin use rubber gloves, Do not consume, contains fatal compounds. All the time he is the only one keeping a straight face. Now I am a little concerned about what may have just happened, so I get up and read the bucket. Sure enough, you ain't supposed to eat carpet glue! The victom is OK but we laugh like hell whenever the subject comes up

[MackemX]

pretending to be a person of the opposite sex while online

[ZAPPER]

pretending to be a person of the opposite sex while online

Oh Oh! Do you mean now or before?

[ed_mc7]

For the past 18 years I've worked in shops where practical jokes abound. The only rules have been: No longterm physical injury, No projected damage to personal tools (tool boxes were fair game), No damage to helicopters in the Barn. Anything else goes. At my present place of employment this had been gong on for a few years before my arrival. normally to cars due to parking space theft. After learning of some of my previous pranks I served as an advisor to all sides instead of a victim, until the shop supervisor learned of my suggesting high centering his car over the curb stones to the machinist whos space he stole that morning. I caught him later that evening trying to hoist my toolbox to the mezzanine with the 16ft crane. The next day at lunch he turned his back on his thermal bag (tuna casserole) to wash his hands, in that minute I hung it at the highest point of the shop 38ft up (tallest ladder is 18ft). After 3 months he arranged to get enough helicopters out to get the 40ft forklift in to get it down. In the 2 minutes it took him to bring in the forklift I got the bag down, put the science experiment into his desk and filled the bag with about 120lbs of lead on his workbench. After 3 years he still asks me how I did it.

During that time one of the welders had threatened everyone with removing the planetary from the diff. of any car in his space so they can sit and spin their driveshaft all night and not go anywhere. When he got that big bucks job in the oilfield he threatened to get everyone before he left. On his last day he parked in my spot (not a great one, but the best for loading heavy objects) Everyone watched him that day so he couldn't pull anything. At the end of the day when he went to get his toolbox I jacked his chevette and blocked the axle so the wheels almost touched the ground. Most of us stuck around for the next 2 hours while he ran around the shop screaming and looking for his planetary, YUP, he just assumed!!!

Last year we welded up a set of 8ft fork extensions, no one steals parking spaces anymore cuz you never know on top of "WHAT" your car will end up at the end of the day.

Best one though only because the story of it spread so fast across Canada at the time, and I was known and congratulated on it for a few years by people I never met before. Any attempts are still being watched for. 1995 working in a shop of 2, I was slated to go to Haiti for 6 months with 8 helicopters. My partner in grime laughed about it for months. The day before departure I asked our medic to put me in a cast from hip to toe, when he agreed I called Dave's wife and told her what I had planned. She went along with it. Then I told the Big Boss who loved it so much that he generated paperwork to make it believable. When I hobbled into the shop he laughed and said "good one, now get it off and get on the plane!" Then the phone rang, he answered it and wet WHITE. He called his wife who calmly told him it was no big deal and it was OK with her. I put the cast leg on the table leaned back and watched him run around in total panic all morning as the crowd grew to watch. Let him off the hook at about 2pm just before he got his shots (some people said I should have waited till after)

Best one I've seen done Beats all shouldn't be listed due to graphic nature.

P.S.
To the welders, Once you've gone to TIG you probably wont do back to MIG or Stick unless you have to. Protect yourself from the standard TIG prank. Always check your REMOTE switch if you look away from your machine for a second!!!

[ZAPPER]

I have a coworker that has a weight bench set up in the warehouse/shop. It is his design and I welded it together for him and another guy did some modifications to it too. Anyhow if I can ever find a weight bar cheap at a flea market or some place, I am going to weld his bar to the rack. I have joked with him about for a few years and he is real concerned and short tempered and benching 300+ lbs. I don't want to be around when he finds out, but to keep from getting killed I want to have a replacement bar on hand.

[adam]

No doubt about it, the best prank ever pulled off was the Harvard sucks one.

http://harvardsucks.org/

Long story short, some yale students passed out colored cards to the Harvard fans and told them that when held up it would spell Go Harvard, but instead it read We Suck.