You think you're a good prankster?

[Bungleau]

From an article in the Economist:

AS A pupil at a minor English boarding school, one of the rituals your correspondent dreaded most was morning chapel: 600 boys and a dozen berobed “masters” crammed into a cold, dim chamber for ten minutes of dreary hymns and prayers. Until, that is, one morning, the solemn atmosphere was shattered by an unforgettable act of comic bravado. Seconds after the headmaster—known as the Head Horse on account of his equine features—took his seat, a giant white sheet rolled down over the arched entrance. On it was a caricature of a grinning horse wearing a mortar-board. Lord, how we laughed. The perpetrators' identities did not stay secret for long—what schoolboy could resist boasting of such a jape? The rolled-up sheet had been held in place by thread that was tied to the switch for the headmaster's reading light so tautly that when he turned it on, the thread snapped and the caricature was unfurled. The Head Horse had been forced to humiliate himself. Even he had to admit it was ingenious.

Many more prank examples there, and some pictures as well. Nothing inappropriate... but quite entertaining. And the Economist is now having a contest for the best prank...

So, even though I think we've done it before, what's your best prank?

While not necessarily my best, my daughter and I recently pulled one over on my wife. My wife gets up first in the morning, and while she was in the shower, I woke up my daughter who got out of bed and hid underneath it. We then stuffed some pillows under the blanket and put one of her American Girl dolls on the pillow, with the hair spread back. We covered it up so all you could see was the hair, and it looked like my daughter was still sleeping.

When my wife went to wake her up... Gotcha!

Next?

[johnny]

I don't do pranks, i'm a serious person.

[Balintherlas]

I brought a mammoth smoke bomb to my highschool football game last year and lit it under the bleachers, it created a cloud over the field and made the vice principle upset. That was prolly the best one ive ever pulled.

[Bungleau]

Originally posted by johnny: I don't do pranks, i'm a serious person.

...says Johnny with a slice of orange peel in his mouth...

Methinks the lady doth protest too loudly.

[VulcanRider]

Hmmm. In junior high I put a whoopie cushion under a teacher's seat cushion. The class laughed so loud the teacher was called to the principal's office to explain all the noise.

In college Cerek & I wrapped a rubber hand, with fake blood, in paper towels and put that in the chemistry teacher's desk drawer. The teacher didn't open it, but we were told her assistant's scream echoed up and down the hall.

[robertthebard]

While I was in Jr. High, we put the gym teacher's VW Beetle in between two trees. It just barely fit too, so he couldn't just drive it out, and it only took six of us to pick up the car.

[Sir Degrader]

I set up Lee Harvey Oswald.

I'm just amazed that the ECONOMIST is holding this thing.

[Bozos of Bones]

Defensive prank
Lately, my dad has been going at me for my sleep times. I go to sleep at around 4-5 whenever I can, and then I wake up somewhere around noon. So one morning, he takes a cooking timer and places it near my bed, and then goes out shopping. The ringing woke me up, I noticed it was only 8 in the morning, so I wanted to sleep some more. But I also couldn't let this go unpunished. I took my tool set, disassembled the timer, left the pieces neatly assorted over the kitchen table with a message "Do not try this again". After I woke up, just after 13, he was back home, so I was free to reassemble the timer.

Failed prank(not for the young ones!)
I had a friend in high school who we used to joke and kid about being homosexual. Now, he's not really homosexual, and we don't have anything against people of that persuasion, it's just that he gets off the worst sentences imaginable. Stuff like "I got my ass inside the car, and then he squeezed inside" and the like. Another friend and I decided to give him a special gift for his birthday. We went out to buy a large wall-mounted clock, with the loudness and clarity of the "tick-tock" sound being the most important thing. We actually found one clock that made the "tick-tock" sound exactly how it's spelled. We took it home, opened it up, and started adding a few pieces of tin sheet and soft wood on a few places. The result was spectacular. We actually replaced the "tick-tock" sound with "lick-cock". But, alas, the clock died 3 days later, 2 days before we gave it to him, because we failed to take into account the added weight to the mechanism. But it was fun while it lasted.

Revenge prank
After completeing my assignment in the Cisco class for the day, I took to playing Unreal Tournament or two over the school LAN with a few friends of mine. There was this guy who didn't like that, because he wasn't finished with his project, so he started sending me messages that kept minimizing my game, which, in turn, got me killed every time. I went out so the guy stops doing it and continues to work on his assignment. I got back, got inside the router he was configuring with hyper terminal, and started changing IPs, protocols, settings, randomly reseting the router and even deleteing the start-up once or twice. It got him pretty furious, swearing and muttering about as he kicked the table or the keyboard every time his router changed sub-net settings. With the ferocity he was typing with, I'm surprised the keyboard survived. As the class was nearing the end, I loaded up my configuration and reset the router. He called the professor, complaining the machine restarted itself on random, and when he showed the configuration to him, it revealed a perfectly configured, sub-net capable, trunk supported router with internet connection. The looks on both the idiot's and the professor's faces were priceless.

[bjorn]

This christmas, me and a friend went out and bought the most obscene pair of thongs we could find. We wrapped them up and smuggled the "gift" home to a friend's house (he still lives at home with his single mom). We wrote "Merry Christmas Mommy" on the present and left it where we knew his mom would find it.

I would have liked to see the look on their faces.

[ 01-14-2006, 08:09 PM: Message edited by: bjorn ]