Practical Joke....What was your BEST??

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It seems like all my life, I have enjoyed practical jokes.

It's not one sided, as I can, and HAVE been had myself... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Once when I was about 17 years old, while out hunting I killed a huge 6' rattlesnake. Took it's head right off with my trusty 30-30...
Now, back then I would skin them & makes belts, hatbands, etc.
I was just about to skin that rascal at home when I remembered my dad & his wife had gone to town & would not return till after dark.
An evil plan hatched...It had been raining & it was muddy, so I took a handfull of mud & fashioned a "new" head for that rattlesnake.....Then I coiled it up on the first step of a staircase that leads up to where they would come in the house. There was a dim porch light that kinda lit the steps. I turned it on & waited.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Sure enough, about 10 min. later the lights of my dad's car were coming up the hill.
I briefly wondered if I might better go down & throw that snake away from the steps...??

Not being quite as experienced in life at age 17 as I am now, I decided to let it ride.. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Well, I heard the car doors close, & voices as they came around to the steps...Then I heard extreme "Cowboy Cussing"...then BUMP, BUMP...Bump!...(there were 10 steps leading up to the door, and BOTH of them only hit THREE of them before they were through the door)
I suppose that my step-mom stepped on that big rattlesnake as she made the first step.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

At that point, I realized that I should have listened to that little voice, and taken that snake away from the steps. (the same voice I pay more attention to nowadays.)

Well, I took off at a dead run to the other end of the house where I knew there was an exit door that lead to my getaway car on that driveway....

I went & looked a friend up in town & we chuckled about what I had done....For awhile, til my dad showed up & told me to get my grounded azz home, and I mean right now.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

It's funny how a 17 year old junior in high school can really miss his car for 2 weeks...Especially since there were rodeos & dances lined up. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

I don't reckon I ever got over playing a good practical joke on someone.....

But, I have learned to listen to that little voice more! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

What are some of your best ones?

Barry
 
Probably the worst and best one I ever pulled, and I have pulled a lot, was on my wife of 20 years. She had gone out of town on a business trip. I have a friend that owns an unholstering business. He does car interiors. I was at his shop when he found a single cheap rhinestone earring under the backseat. I took it and threw it under the covers in her side of the bed. Won't do that again.
 
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I took it and threw it under the covers in her side of the bed. Won't do that again.



Wow, that's not a practical joke....that's SUICIDE!

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Probably the worst and best one I ever pulled, and I have pulled a lot, was on my wife of 20 years. She had gone out of town on a business trip. I have a friend that owns an unholstering business. He does car interiors. I was at his shop when he found a single cheap rhinestone earring under the backseat. I took it and threw it under the covers in her side of the bed. Won't do that again.




YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
Back in my juvenile days, being younger and alot smaller, I could fit under a bed. Can you imagine the scream coming from a woman when you reach out and grab her leg, when no-one is supposed to be home. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
She would never believe the "Oh Honey, it's just a joke!" explanation after that... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
 
I used to do a little revolver work when I had the shop going, mostly tuning up Smith and Wessons and working over Colt 1911's. Had a fella bring me a Colt Python that he'd finally shot out of time. Getting one of the Colts in time is a pain compared to the Smiths and it ended up getting some new springs and guts replaced.

He knew I hated working on them when he brought it in and thought it was funny.

I had a used pair of Python grips in my spare parts box so I painted them red with a diagonal white stripe on them like a big daredevil fishing lure and put a big fishing swivel on the butt and plugged the end of the barrel with a lead slug and attached a big treble hook in it.

It had been hanging that way in the shop for a couple of weeks when he finally came back for it. When He ask if his gun was done I just pointed to the rack in back of the counter.

Had a couple of buddies there that came by to BS and they just couldn't keep straight faces. When he ask what the heck happened to his gun I told him that it made a much better fishing lure than a real gun.

My buddies couldn't hold it any longer and the redder his face got the more hysterical their laughter got. I thought I was going to have to give them CPR by the time I got his grips put back on that revolver. He never did bring me another Python to fix.
 
I have a big old 1978 Yamaha TT500 dirt bike and I invited my brother and dad over to help me tinker with it. The TT is a kickstart single and it is a beast unless you pull the decompression lever before you kick it over. Well, I let Mr. College Boy try to kick it over a couple times and watched him get his knee jobbed up under his chin a couple times before giving him the rub about the lever.
Then came the coup de gras, with my dad watching,(shaking his head at the stupidity of his younger son /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif)I convienced him to hold the spark plug to make sure it was getting spark while I kicked it over.ZZZZAAAPPPPOOOO!!A small scuffle insued after he got up off the ground and my dad finally broke it up after he stopped laughing. He told my brother,"Didn't take you long to look at that did it?!!". There are some things you just can't learn in books my friends /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Trashcan
DCC
 
I work with my brother who came to work one morning laughing about his wife melting his metal and plastic coffee cup in the microwave and smoking up the whole apartment. I called her from one of the other office phone lines while on speaker phone that she didn't recognize and told her I was the local fire chief and gave her a fake name in a fake voice. I said that a concerned neigbor had reported a lot of smoke coming from her apartment and gave her apartment address. She then confessed to the whole thing admitting how dumb it was. I told her " Ma'am, how dumb are you to stick a metal coffee cup in the microwave, I hope you don't have kids for their sake, people like you keep the fire department in business and you should stay out of the kitchen" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. The whole time I made the guys keep quiet. She started stuttering and got ready to cuss me out and the guys couldn't hold it anymore and busted out laughing. Boy was she mad /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif.

I did the same thing to my wifes friend when she hit a deer with her new Nissan SUV. I told my wife to get her plate number the next day at work. I called her that night as the local conservation officer giving her a fake name and told her that a near by farmer reported her doing a hit and run on a deer and that it was a felony offense and that she needed to come down to the station and get her ticket if she didn't want a warrant against her. I gave her the vehicle description, date, time, location and tag number. I told her I got her number through a DMV search /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. I had to quit when she started crying over the phone /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif. I felt bad over that one, for a minute /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.
 
Worked with a guy when I was a cop, called his home phone (only had cassette tape answering machines back then), left the message that he had won 5 million bucks in a Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, gave him a phony 800 number to call, but I deliberately garbled the last 4 numbers. Told him he only had a day left to claim his prize. He got home, took the message, and thought his answering machine had screwed up the tape, so he brought it into our audio lab and tried to decipher the last 4 numbers...in a real panic......finally at about 10 of 5 that next night we told him what we did. Wouldn't talk to us for about a month.........

Another time we took a ball bearing and epoxied it to the inside of my buddy's valve stem cap, right rear. Couldn't figure out where the slow leak was, drove him nuts. Tried finding a hole in the tire, etc, etc, changed the valve stem, and put the same cap back on. Then we switched the cap to the left front tire after a week or so.....don't think he ever forgave us after we told him......


John
 
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Many years ago I worked at a car dealership that had a single electic open bay door into the service department with a push button open/close/stop mounted on the wall. One day I discovered that there was a remote control for that door that nobody knew about.

Step 1 - It was in the evening so I put batteries in it to test it out. Check.
Step 2 - Find a spot where nobody could see me use it. Check.
Step 3 - Isolate an unsuspecting technician to begin to torment, the pawn. Check

From there on it was easy. Everytime the pawn came to push the button on the door, and nobody was around to witness, I would click the open button on the remote when his hand was about two inches away from the wall control. Since it had to be in ideal conditions it was drug on for weeks.

Typical results:

1st time - A lot of looking around in disbelief.
2nd time - Check the control to see how this could happen.
4th time - Grab somebody to show them. (Oddly enough it didn't work that time).
8th time - Start coyly asking others if it is happening to them.
15th time - Finally admit it to somebody, drag them over to it, and spend a half hour trying to get the thing to open on its own.
25th time - Try using different techniques like sneaking up to it or waving the hands in a Hocus Pocus-like motion.
35th time - Get po'd and start yelling at it.
40th time - Give up. There are other thing to worry about, like the fact that is the day before payday, broke and need to figure out how to get the money for another fifth of Canadian Mist. Been drinking a lot more all of a sudden.

Oddly enough after the 40th time it stopped opening on its own, the only problem is that it now was closing on its own.
 
when i got the alarm on my work truck, grama fudge wanted to see if it was the same freq. as her car so she went outside and tried it!beep beep-beep beep. thats not good!! beep - beep beep beep- beep beep!! this went on for about 5 min. untill she walked in the house and found me at the window with my controller!!! just one of us thought it was funny!!
 
One of my favorites. I've got this ceramic rattlesnake that my great grandma gave me. This thing's older than the hills but it's realistic. So, it's before work and I'm waiting for the "pawn". I see him coming so I place it under my truck up against the front tire. I figured if I crawled under my truck, he'd crawl under there with me to see what I was working on and come face to face with it but he squatted down on the other side and said,"Hey, what's wrong with your truck....HEY! THERE'S A G*DDA**N RATTLESNAKE RIGHT BY YOUR HEAD!!!" When I reached for it,"DON'T PUT YOUR GO*DDA**N HAND THAT CLOSE!!!" I laughed so hard it hurt. I've had alot of fun with that thing! My wife used to make me keep it in my truck because she kept stumbling into it. Now that's not funny.
 
I like to poke a pinhole, in the side of someone’s beer can, just below the pour spout. I make just low enough that the beer dribbles down their chin.
 
I normally dont pull very many pranks on people besides scaring the everlivin out of people when they arent paying attention.The funniest one was when I scared one of my teachers on accident cause I thought my friend was gonna walk through the door instead.But today I pulled a prank on a complete stranger which I think is funny, some might not.But I was drivin down the dirt road and I saw a big snake in the road so I backed up to take a look at it.The snake was a 65" coachwhip but someone had killed it and I suspect it was the person thats gonna get scared by it tomorrow. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gifI got out to throw it off the road until I saw a machine that the county had left when they were clearing the ditches today.So I slung the dead snake up into it.Somehow it wrapped around the lever that operates the bucket.Im not gonna get to see the look on the guys face when he finds it but I bet the guys workin with him are gonna get a good laugh out of it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Was in the shop working on the most expensive custom curved glass job we ever had. I was elected to tape the edges and install it in the showcases.
I set a big piece of scrap on the bench next to me and flipped it just as the boss walked out to the benchfloor. Twenty guys set down and shut off there tools and stared in disbelief. The bossman's neck bulged and he turned three shades of purple. I felt bad now cause I thought he was going to have a coronary right then and there. You could hear a pin drop!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif



Just then every one started hooting and clapping when I pulled the real piece out from under the bench, smiled and calmly started tapeing. Lets just say the boss werent to thrilled with me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
about two or three months ago, the high school youth guys at my church went on a retreat. well while the adult were not paying attention, me and two of the other guys went back to the cabin and prepared everything /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

we put plastic wrap over the toilet bowls and icey hott on the lid /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif on two out of the three toilet. went back and told everyone else (the youth, we were after the leaders) which one to use. then we were quiet just long enough for them to get to sleep, and we took the plastic wrap and ran it between two of the bunk bed...

well at about two in the morning, scott, one of the leaders, got up to use the bathroom... well when he hit the wrap he about hit the ground. then when he came and layed down, about 10 mins later he began to scream "what the, i hate yall, what is that" hahaha GREAT TIMES!
 
Where to start, lots of practical jokes I have been on and received. One that worked the best involved quite a few people. My son who was a jr. in high school had pulled a prank on an Uncle of mine about his golf car catching on fire out in the sheds at the local golf course. He was hooked bad, left his house driving out to the golf course to find no fire.Oh that was on April 1st when that happened. So we all waited and planned for the day my son would be in district golf championships. After he finsihed golfing we had the coaches pull him aside and said there is some rumors from the other teams and coaches that he was taking annabolic steroids and he would have to have a urine test. My wife had even rounded up a sterile cup from a doctors office. My son worries about everything so as you can imagine this sent him into a panick. He was shaking so bad he couldn't have hit the cup if he had tried. Paybacks are the best.
 
in high school the vic pricipal had a 69 camero and the kids and the local cops hated him so we all got together with a couple of teachers. the VP would park his car in the auto shop and three cops 5 students and a teacher and the principal got together on a saturday night and proceeded to disassemble the car and then went and cleaned out the VP office we then fully reassembled the car in his office. started it to make sure it runs

lets put it this way i dont recommend trying this prank there was a fear that i wouldnt graduate from this even though i was not alone in this act he only punished me lol
and it wasnt even my idea
 
One day I left the house and was going to a freinds house. My wife and the kids were at home. As I drove up the street, I called my wife from my cell phone and asked her if she knew where my cell phone was. I told her that I could not find it. I had her looking all over the house for about 5 minutes, when it finally dawned on her that I was talking to her on my cell phone. She never said another word. All I heard was click. Needless to say there wasn't much love for me that night when I got home.
 
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