17-04-2002 08:19									#31
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	17-04-2002 08:21									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Lefty Scaevola Something related to the Nitrogen-Tri-Iodide contact explosive? which was an annual ritual at my high school.

Exactly!!!

	17-04-2002 08:26									#33
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This is what I did to my Assistant Squad Leader(a real bastard) last year.

We found out what his car was, and we left a note on it saying "The people who are watching me write this think I'm putting down my insurance information".

He went nuts looking for a ding/dent.

	17-04-2002 08:33									#34
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Also when I was in the Navy, A friend of mine went to a motel with his girlfriend, and a bunch of us picked up his car (an old VW rabbit) and moved it onto some grass.

	17-04-2002 09:19									#35
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Grandfather of a guy I know tried to pull off a joke with a firecracker on an Austrian bloke. Didn't really work out so well though. Firecracker made a bit too much of a bang.

Austrian chap went by the name of Ferdinand or something ...

	17-04-2002 09:26									#36
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I just got back from pulling a good prank. Me, my bud Chris, and two ladies got slurpees and chocolate milk and pelted our old gym teacher's house. The thing is... we do this about once or twice a week! He must have mental problems by now.

	17-04-2002 09:48									#37
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Heh! I'm trying to get a security clearance, you think i'd actually ADMIT to anything i've done? LOL j/k of course

	17-04-2002 11:02									#38
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We took all the wheels off an old school bus once. Poor Carterton people had to wait.

	17-04-2002 18:30									#39
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About ten years ago, me and one of my friends tied my french teacher's car to the cover of a manhole with a rope by the stud for the bumpers. I never saw him back-up with the cover but it would've been so funny.

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	17-04-2002 18:58									#40
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Sometimes the simplist jokes are the funniest.

We had one way over educated snob in our office. The kind of person that if he dropped a paper clip, it was beneath him to pick it up. He'd just wait for the cleaning crew to do it.

We'd go into his office and slightly untwist one of the Florescent light bulbs above his desk. Just enough to make it flicker or go on and off. Of course he was way too important to check it himself so he'd call building services to fix it. Since our company didn't own the building and building services was all union, they would never respond in a timely fashion. We'd wait for him to leave his office, then twist the tube back into place. The building services guys would come and find nothing wrong and make fun of the "pole up the *ss college boy". Repeat, Repeat, Repeat, Repeat.

Now after about 5 times, snob boy is getting real indignant and starts accusing the building people of total incompetance. Union boys don't take that kind of stuff very well. Especially since nothing is ever wrong when they check.

Eventually we overhear the union boys laughing and bragging about shutting off all the AC vents into his office, changing a few of the locks on his filing cabinets, leaving food scraps to attract vermin, and generally ignoring any of his calls. His reputation was made for years.

Yes sometimes the simplist jokes are the best.
Especially when you can count on everyone playing their roles.

RAH

	18-04-2002 01:07									#41
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Probably I'm too harmless.

Once I betted with someone that he will forget doing something he promised to do the week after. I won. I bet only if I know I will win.

During my social service I worked in a hospital chaplaincy. After an oecumenical service of the chaplains (some ten persons) it was planned to sit together and have some drinks and some food. Everything was prepared, but as awfully social as the chaplains were, they all decided to go home. Outdoors, they started chatting over some business things or so. With me there was another guy doing his social service who came with the BMW of his parents and even in a hurry he didn't dare to leave the place under the eyes of all those chaplains with their VW or similar cars. I promised him to help, went to the chaplains and (after some polite waiting) I asked them in to have the drink, the food. They left within 30 seconds.

	18-04-2002 02:55									#42
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In high school, my friend Jaime was always getting into trouble with the rules, so he could commonly be found working for the school's Maintenance department to pay for his various crimes. Over the years, he became good friends with the Maintenance workers, earning enough trust and working enough that they gave him his own key to the Maintenance building.

A few weeks before graduation, we used those keys to get into the Maintenance department well past midnight on a school night. From there, we stole the keys to several dozen school busses and began our work.

Our's was the typical private high school, complete with a tree-lined quarter-mile entrance drive. We parked the stolen busses parallel and across the road. We also chained some of them together.

And then we hid the keys.

In college, thus far, we've tied an entire wing's doors together at 4AM, so nobody could get out. We've also done a few other childish pranks, including setting the fire alarms off in the three biggest dorm buildings at 4:20 AM and dumping a big case of laundary detergent into a nearby fountain.

Next year, I plan on hitting the clock tower. Most modern clock towers are run with computers and speakers, not bells. Thus, a few changes in the files and the entire campus will be hearing "Dueling Banjos" on the hour, every hour.

	18-04-2002 03:07									#43
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PRANK THAT BACKFIRED.

Slow day at work, boring staff meeting, even the boss didn't attend. We all decided to forward all the phones on the west side of the building (about 150 phones) to his extension. We figured it would keep him out of our hair.

So at the end of the day, a few of us stayed behind and forwarded all the phones we could get to.

Next morning, our boss had a family emergency and had his phone forwarded to his VP's secretary. At about 8:30 her phone started ringing and didn't stop for about 90 minutes, until she figured out what was going down. (yes 90 minutes, she was as p*ssed off as she was slow) Fortunately they could never prove who did it, but of course I was always on top of the suspect list whenever anything devious occured. The VP called a departmental meeting to rip us up and down about all the lost productivity. He stared at me the entire meeting. While I was able to keep a straight face, most of my partners in crime could not. Even that didn't sway his suspicions from me.

RAH

	18-04-2002 03:09									#44
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Have I ever mentioned I've never done anything sick like that (prank as such, you sick minds)?

	18-04-2002 06:19									#45
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There was once a man in our office who was the laziest executive ever to grace our halls (one of those types who somehow arranged for a lot of his work to be done away from the office). One week the bosses were out of town on a convention/holiday and I knew that the time spent in the building for Mr. Slacker was going to be short.

So I formed a betting pool, open to all employees: "How many hours do you think Mr. Slacker will actually be in the office this week?" It was $5 to enter, we had 22 entries and the winner guessed correctly @ 24.5 hours.

I was found out of course - I didn't exactly try to hide it, really, but what could he say? I'm the bosses son.

He was gone relatively soon after that, but on another matter entirely.

	18-04-2002 09:43									#46
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This was when i was in college. I was bugging a friend of mine who got testy with me because he was busy doing his "homework" taking a computer apart. So i asked him...you're in lockup mode huh? and he answered, Yes, I am. So i said... Okayyyy.

Wish granted. I closed the door and made a big fuss about locking it up.
Of course i just put a tiny bit of tree bark in the padlock and came back a couple hours later. He was out.
Foundout later he dissasembled the 10 foot doors from the inside and made a hissyfit when he saw the little treebark in the padlock...all he had to do was push it just a tiny bit. Tsktsk....heh heh.

Poor guy has lockdown fobia until now.

	19-04-2002 23:59									#47
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Good one LTEC, the mind games can be the best.


And now, the other side. Being the butt of practical jokes.
IF YOU CAN"T TAKE IT< YOU SHOULDN"T GIVE IT>


If you haven't figured it out yet, I've always had the reputation of being the office prankster. My staff decided one year to honor that by pranking me on my birthday. The first year, they shrinkwrapped my office. Everything down to individual sheets of paper left on my desk, the drawers, the phone, the terminals, everything. It took me about 3 hours to clean it up. They laughed so hard that they decided to make it a tradition and do it every year. The fact that I always take my birthday off just made it easy for them. So over the years, coming to work the day after birthday has always been an interesting experience, Compounded by the Fact that Ming and I always celebrate our birthday pretty hardy. Hangovers are the least of our concern. Over the years they got pretty creative. Some of the highlights.
(In no particular order)

1. Took the opening in my cube and replaced it with a wall so there was no entry point.

2. Filled my cube with to at least 3 feet high with
Balloons
Computer printouts
Shredded computer printouts. (I was finding stragglers for years)

3. Totally dissassembling all of my office furniture and stacking it in the corner and covering the rest of the office with a year's worth of hole punches from the entire building's hole punchers. I found one in a pants cuff 8 years later.

4. Totally locking me out of all of our computer systems. (which was a good trick since I always had the highest level of security)

Each year it was getting harder and harder to outdo the year previous. Then one year, I showed up and my office was totally empty. Not a spec of dirt even. Being mystified I started searching for my office. I was afraid to look in the back parking lot.
I finally found it. They had set it up in the middle of the computer room. They had replicated my office perfectly. Everything was exactly where it was in relation to my desk. They had even strung wires from the ceiling so all of my pictures and awards where hanging exactly right, (no walls though) They had strung power, telephone and data lines so everything was functional. It must have taken them a day and a half. I later found out that my off-shift operators had done most of it.

For once, they had outthought themselves. I wasn't inconvienced, and there was nothing to clean up. I didn't say a single word about it. I just worked in my new office like nothing was out of the ordinary. Once the word got out of what they had done, almost everyone in the building, at some point, came down to check it out their handiwork.
It was fun watching everyone struggle to keep a straight face, but I didn't break character. (I was the second highest ranking boss in the building at the time, so they had to act serious)
They were waiting and waiting for me to say something about it, but I refused to give them the satisfaction. UNTIL.......

5 minutes before I left for the day, Second shift operators where showing up. I picked up my briefcase and as I walked towards the door, briefly turned around and in a calm voice said.

"IF all this stuff isn't back in my office, exactly where you found it, by 7:00 tomorrow morning, you're all fired, and I ain't paying overtime"

Needless to say the following morning, EVERYTHING was back to normal and no one ever mentioned it again.

The following year, they decorated my office with a few balloons and a happy birthday sign. It's good to be king.

RAH

	20-04-2002 01:43									#48
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At 8th or 9th grade we used to steal a piece of chalk from one of the classrooms, and draw the outlines of a dead man (like in the police investigation areas...) on the asphalt in front of our school. It was incredibly funny at the age of 14

In the same school we used to have these fire-hoses for emergencies. One of them was situated near the front door, and there was a corner just a few metres away. So, we took the hose, and set up a little "ambush" for innocent passers-by
It was a late afternoon, though, so most of the teachers had already went home. We did nail a couple of students, though.

...and again in the same school; We also had stuffed animals in glass vitrins, and it was always funny to steal some of the animals and hid them in extraordinary places, like into other students' lockers, in the middle of a hallway, on the dinner room tables, etc.

And one of the funniest pranks we did in that school, was to steal some half of the mouse-balls in the computer class and frame the teacher for it by putting them into his drawer.

This is just a minor part of all we did... well, I guess I was more creative at the age of 14-15

	20-04-2002 11:28									#49
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God, Rah, you're still in a cube?

You know, one of the nice things about my corner office is that I have a private door that will let me out of the building. :smug:

(Yeah, I know you're not in a cube. I just wanted to brag about my corner office. Yes: I have no life.)