Your Best Practical Joke

mikegranger

mikegranger

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After reading Ragncajun's antics with his foxpro I thought about one of my best practical jokes (in my eyes /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif). This was about 7 years ago when we were building the house. The upstairs wasn't finished yet and it was time to move in. The basement walls are styrafoam blocks with concrete poured inside. Makes a very sturdy, quiet basement. Anyway, the walls are 8 foot high and the mice had moved in during the winter. The first week or two in the house I caught 52 mice in traps! My trapline was extensive and as I was setting a few more traps decided to set some on the seal plate between upstairs and the basement. This seal plate was directly above me and my wife's bed. She saw me sitting traps and said "don't set a trap up there, what if a mouse gets in and falls onto the bed". Ah ha! I insisted on leaving the trap telling her there was no way a mouse could make it fall onto the bed. Being the good wife she is, Shelly complained but let the trap stay.

The next morning I get up early and find an unused trap, sneak into the bedroom, get close to Shelly's head, pull the spring back, snap the trap, and throw it in her hair! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Shelly immediately woke up with a scream, jumped out of bed and hopping around trying to brush the dying mouse in a trap out of her hair.

My lovely wife was madder than an upset yellow jacket but she soon calmed down. I just lay on the floor wiping tears from my eyes. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Matter of fact, I still laugh everytime I tell the story. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Ok, that's mine. How about some of yours?
 
i have 2 its not great but its ok

one was taping the sprayer down on the kitchen sink so when they turned water on it sprayed them

the other was takin someones deodarant out of their gym locker and inserting cream cheese and shaped it like the deodarant
 
On a lot of construction job sites we would use old 5 gal plastic paint buckets for carrying our tools in. If someone would be away from there tool bucket we would nail it to the wood floor and wait for them to try to pick it up.
 
My favorite has to be the beef boulion cube in the shower head. Takes a little time to remove the head but the bronze color skin of the recipient is great. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif RR
 
I had one that started as a prank call to my house,I'm a plumber and the phone rang at about 2 am someone saying their baby had diarea and their comode wouldn't flush.I figured out pretty quick it was kids.So I got the number off of my caller ID blocked my number so they wouldn't know who it was and called them back.This little girl answered the phone ,I told her I was deputy so and so from the wise co. sherrif dept.and that we had numerous complaints about prank calls from her number,she said I'm sorry sir I wont do it anymore,I told her it was too late,that she better go wake up mom and dad and that we would be by soon to pick her up.she started sounding kind of upset and more apologetic,but I didn't cut her any slack.i told her be sure and pack a tooth brush and a pillow cause all the beds were full she'd have to sleep on the floor next to the toilet.i said well be sure and wake your mom and dad now and tell'em what you did cause we're on our way to pick you up! then I hung up the phone!
not sure what happened ,but I tried to call again the next day and tell her what had happened and that she'd better be carefull in the future and the number was no longer a working number!
 
Mike, Thanks for the compliment. I am a constant practical joke. I will relate one of the longest to set up I ever pulled.
A buddy of mine borrowed a pirough from me. A few months later I went by to visit and he wasn't home. I saw the pirough in his back yard and loaded it up. The boat was upside down and he had a chainsaw under it to keep the saw from getting rained on. I loaded the chainsaw also. Time passes and about 3 months later I called him and told him I needed the boat for a weekend fishing trip on the bayou. There was a few seconds silence and he says he will bring it to work the next day or two. He calls back the next night and tells me he has a friend that wants to buy it real bad. what will I take for it? I pop off $500.00, knowing it was in my back yard. He hangs up to call his friend, calls me baqk and says that is too much. I tell him that was the going price for an aluminum pirough, they are rare and I wouldnt take less. I then tell him I am going to come get it after I finish dinner that night. we hang up. He calls back about 30 minutes later and tells me the friend would pay 250.00 and really wanted it bad. I tell him to make it 500 and I would throw in a slightly used chainsaw. It takes a few seconds for that to sink in and I can not repeat on here the rest of the conversation from him.
It turns out he had driven around the last month or so looking for it at all the other lake lots around his place, he had filed a police report for it being stolen, he had checked all the local pawn shops and was watching the want ads to see if anyone was trying to sell it.
BTW, he has never borrowed anything else from me
 
We had a neighbor that bought an economy car. He had a big smile about how much gas it would save. For the next month or so we would sneak over every other day or so and put a little gas in it. His mileage bragging got so bad we had to quit. Then he complained to the point of taking it to the dealer for a checkup. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
On our construction sites toolbelts routinely get nailed to the floor. But when we used to wear hard hats some of the guys got to putting chaulk in the front liner of the hard hats. When said hats were put on there was either a blue or red face underneath the hat. That chaulk doesn't come off easily.
 
When I was about 15 My best friend and I met this other kid that lived about 2 miles away. Eddy.
In the summer Me and John slept outside in one of those screen houses that look like a tent. We'd light a fire in johns dooryard and talk it over. His dad never minded. We only new Eddy for a few day and our first thought was to invite him to camp out with us. Then we got think'n about it as were laying in our cots.
A guy that was in a maximum security ward at the Tewksbury state mental institution had escaped the day before. The police were looking for him hard. It was all over the news.
We lived 5 miles from it. We got talk'n and came up with a plan to break Eddy in to our little circle of friends.
John mother had a hospital tunic and John had this ugly mask of an old man. I got some chains.
The idea was to invite Eddy to camp out. As I got dressed up and waited till dark, John would keep Eddy talking about the escapee, and listening to the radio for and update from the police. John had a good flashlight handy.
Just after it got real dark I went thru the neighbors back yard and into Johns backyard all dress. Chains rattled as I walked toward the screenhouse I got about 50 ft away. John points the flashlight at me and says "What the hell is that".
I bellowed out and stammered toward them.
Eddy freaked He ran at the screenhouse door, the zipper did'nt give in and he fell on his back, got up on busted thru screaming. Eddy ran like a cat with it's tale in fire.

A couple of days later we walk to Eddys house and his mother anwsered the door. She took one look at us and a scowel came over her face. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif "Is Eddy home" She says "NO, EDDYS GONE TO LIVE WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER" and she slamed the door.

Eddy, If your out there John and I are sorry. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I once lived along a route that everybody and their brother drove to shoot ground hogs. I lived on the hill over a big beanfield. I could see the whole field and both roads along the sides. They woudl drive by slowly and take potshots at the hogs grazing in the beans. One hog in particular was about half way between the two roads. About five hundred yards. They would all take a crack at him and miss the long shot.

One day the old boy quit running on them. Four or five rounds apiece before they would figure it out. None of them could see the short stick I had used to prop his head up in a natural position. He was good for ten cars worth of hog hunters. Nice afternoons entertainment while I sat on the back porch with a glass of tea to watch. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Helped even more that I knew almost all of them /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif

Oh, how did he get there? I cheated. Slipped down the creek to within fifty yards of his den before he came out that afternoon with a 22lr /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Jimmie
 
Just a few weeks back my hunting partner has this bright idea. He's got a house bunny thats litterbox trained and brought a ziplock bag full of used bunny litter to set out beside the jack in the box for a scent attractent....
We get done with the first set and he asks me if I set it out. I said I did but I didnt think it would make a difference because I didnt think it smelled right, He hands me the bag and says smell it, I opened the bag and pretended to get a good whiff. I hand it to him and said "it smells like cope" He yanks it open tells me Im nuts a get a good deep nose full of bunny pee vapors. I about fell over I was laughing so hard at the green tinge he turned.
 
Like you guys I work with some prankers too. Working in the electrical dept lends itself well to some good practical jokes.

Throughout the lumber mill I work at we have large self contained PA type alarm/sirens. They are extremely loud. We have taken them and wired them to photo eyes or proxs and placed them in lockers or shop/office entrances etc... All kinds of creative things to do with that setup.

Another is wiring the brake lights of a vehicle to the horn. (not the big PA horn above but the vehicle horn) Every time they step on the brakes the horn goes off.

Another favorite is taking a large plastic zip tie and strapping it to the u-joint and leaving the long tail to slap the bottom of the truck. We only do these on each others beat up service vehicles and not personal vehicles of course.

Another was one we pulled on a friend when he was out of town on vacation. We took a very large cardboard box and cut the bottom out of it and placed it on his front porch. Then we filled it with those styrofoam packing peanuts and sealed the box up, put a return address from Cabelas on it and tried to make it look as legit as possible. Anyway he got home and tried to move it into the house. When he picked it up, peanuts went everywhere. You know what a pain those are to pick up. His wife is still mad. LOL!

Happy prankin'
 
One of the foremen where is work is an aspiring gunstock artist. He does really good work. I have a spare set of grips for my cowboy action shooting sixguns, so I asked him if he'd be interested in doing some checkering on my grips. That was in March of 2004. He said yes, so I brought them to him. This fall, he still didn't have them done, so I wrote him a letter from the law firm of Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe, saying that he was going to be turned over to the court and charged back rent on the grips at so much a day. I left it in his mailbox in the office. He stewed about it all the way home, and finally opened it after he got home. When he read the letter, it dawned on him he'd been had, and I got a pretty good cussing the next day. It was worth it. It still didn't get me my grips back, but it was good for a couple of days worth of laughs...
 
I plead the 5th admendment here, but I have had "friends" that have put things of minnows from a local vend-a-bait machine under peoples car seats, placed marbles in gas tanks of vehicles, sprayed doe pee in vehicles using an insulin syringe (I assume), and various other types of these things. I have more stories, but I can't tell on my compadres. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
 
At work I always kink off air hoses when peaple are useing die grinders on theme. They look down at the thing and give it a shake, thats when I let the hose go and the sucker fires back up. Do that a few times and co-workers can get a little mad at you! Its all done in fun though.
 
I guy i used to work with and I always joked back and forth. One day he greased the underside of my door handles. Buy the time I cleaned my hands and started the truck, backed up and there was this skidding sound. When I stopped so did it, then I pulled forward and nothing. I thought huh oh well guess it was nothin. after a little bit of this I found a skid tied under my truck. For revenge, He drove a service route and delevery when it was slow. One day he was doing deliveries in the big truck so I took every cardboard box I could get and broke them down and filled the back of his van.( the drivers compartment was sealed off from the back) When he got back he got an emergency service call and had to hurry cause it was their last working forktruck. He got to the jobsite and opened his door to get his tools to find about a hundred or so boxes completely filling his van. He said it took him an hour to take them all out and haul them to the trash. He called a truce after that.
 
The only ones i have are just turning off the air or acetylene when people are cutting with the torch but my old room mate had it bad at his shop. He came home one night and I just happened to look out the window at his truck. I told him he had a rather unusual trailer hitch on his truck and he didnt understand. After a while I told him it would be in his best interest to go look. He had a very very large womans toy strapped to his hitch(talk about [beeep]) he had driven all over town after work(I couldnt stop laughing)
 
These are great! I have about a hundred I could tell but I will just tell two good ones.

I used to work in a Sporting Goods store in Logan Utah when I was in Collage. I worked in the main store, and we had a separate building that was our bike shop. One spring day when it was slow, I snuck over and pur about 20 drops of skunk sent in a cup on top of a large cabinet where no one could see, I snuck back into the main store and we waited about 10 minuets. Then I called over to the bike shop and I told them I was Officer Smith with the Logan Police Animal control Department, and we had a witness call and report seeing a skunk run into their open overhead door. The employee starts freaking out, “Ya he is in here we can smell him.” One of the guy actually was reported seeing it run across the floor. I told him to stay calm and we would be over in an hour or two, and what ever they do don’t move any boxes or look for him. After about an hour I snuck back and removed the sent, The skunk was spotted every few days, and the cop never showed up to get it out.
 


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