O/T Have You had a Prank Go Wrong?

Years ago after my grandmother passed away next door we got her old non-working television. Well I had to take it apart since I was 13 at the time. I understood enough about electricity to get myself in trouble. Anyway.

My brother and I took out the step up transformer from inside the old TV. We then put it in a cigar box ran wires out the side an powered it with a flash light battery.

We got some small copper windings out of the TV and wrapped them around the cushion on dad's recliner in the living room. Well that night they came into watch the weather on the news and when I heard him sit it in. I started tapping the wire on the battery then I heard dad say, "What's the matter Mom". Long story short, mom sat in the chair with her cup of hot coffee not dad... We never saw that little cigar box ever again...

Mom was okay!!

Me and 3 friends from church decided to TP a couple of girls houses back in about 1982. Had a blast, first and last time I ever did that! The one house had 5 or 6 girls, and one of them had just broke up with my best friend-WHO WAS NOT INVOLVED! Next day in school I heard the Dad was PIZZED and they were blaming my friend! I told him what we had done and he just let them blame him!

I unscrewed a light bulb from the rafters in the garage and carefully broke the glass bulb off at the metal using a butter knife. I then screwed it back in the socket, twisted the wicks together on 2 fire crackers and draped them over the filament. When dad walked in and turned on the lights, kaboom and then the cursing started. It was yrs. later and I was married with kids before I heard him say that was a good one and laugh.

In the 70s when you could still smoke at work my brother and I loaded up dad's cigarettes with those little exploders you could push down into the tobacco. We didn't consider that you could smoke in the meeting with the boss and the vp of the company!

When I worked at a speed shop years ago firecrackers were a favorite toy. Had a class pop bottle with a screw on lid, poked a hole in the lid for the fuse to stick out. When the lit cracker went off inside it made a nice TINK sound. After about ten times the bottle broke. Also played with 1/2 inch PVC pipe using compressed air blowgun shooting porting sanding rolls, those would sting. My favorite was when I uncoupled a coworker's blowgun and pumped it full of white grease with the button down, then recoupled it back. I expected he would blow away the casting dust on the block he was working on, but instead blew the dust from his slacks going up one leg and down the other. I had an ornery side in my younger days.....

I've laughed until I cried - these are priceless.

There was a guy that I went to school with and we pranked back and forth. I didn't care for him all that much so I kind of liked getting him good. One day while he was at work I hooked the horn to the left blinker on his old Jeep. I had done it to other people a dozen times. What I did't plan on was that he had the radio up so loud he didn't hear it. The cop at the intersection did, though. I still chuckle about that one. I'm pretty sure he got the baby powder in the vents treatment as well. I even had a device crafted to be able to fill vents nice and full with nary a drop spilled. I would have hated me when I was young.

Back in the days when I was still working, I put paper holes down the defroster vents in the trucks of two of the biggest agitators in the shop. It took a few weeks, but we were told to check our vent systems, etc, in prep for winter weather. Naturally, the two mentioned in the meeting that some SOB had put paper holes in their vents. The two then started blaming each other. That went on for several weeks, until they called a truce and blamed a completely innocent party- not me. I was a rotten bugger on more than one occasion, and many times enjoyed a few laughs a few months later when they found out who really did it. I also had to watch my back quite often....

About 25 years ago , a friend and I decided to play a prank on another friend. We snuck up to his house at around midnight on a Friday night. We jacked up his 76 Buick and pulled off all 4 wheels and lowered it down so that the axle was sitting on the sides of the tires. The car was pulled right up to the garage door. Well the next morning his dad was the one that found it on his way to work. HE couldn't get his truck out of the garage. Needless to say, we weren't welcome at his house for a while. Deluxe

Working at a McDonald's restaurant years ago, there was an employee who gave everyone trouble. Everyday that employee would get a 9 piece mcnugget to eat on break. Being the one who stuffed chicken parts in small boxes, I decided instead to fill the box full of those little reconstituted onions and big mac sauce.

after packing up the box and sending it to the front, someone made a drive thru order for a 9 piece nugget, and swiftly the wrong box was scooped up and sent to someone in the drive thru, who drove 10 miles home only to find the box stuffed full of onions and special sauce.

I was promoted to manager not long after.

Happened this year. On the public job some of us have different job titles. We were given a "gift" of $50 gift cards. I told one of my co-workers everyone with my job title received $100 gift cards. Needless to say she was ------.....

She got me back two days later. A second co-worker told her the truth about the amounts of the cards.

They pranked me very well.

She called our supervisor The supervisor called me and explained the first co worker had called HR and it had filtered down from the divisional manager. We were not to discuss payroll. I was going to be put on probation etc, etc, etc. After allowing me to sweat for a few minutes we all had a great laugh.

JWalker

While at work on the second shift one night. I decided to scare the guard making his rounds. I climbed up on the large compressed air tank. I was up about 10 ft.on the tank where he could not see me. When he entered the room I was going to pop the 2 inch air safety release valve. I did that, and it scared the crap out guard all right, and my self. The valve stuck open for a long time. Finally it closed again. blowing dust from the overhead all over me and every thing else in the compressor room. Stan

Fifth wheel grease in door locks. Someone would pull their key out and have it covered in grease. Got one guy's door handles, tailgate handle, and toolbox handles one day. Never did hear anything about it, but I guess he got some fingers greased.

It's amazing what you can do right in front of someone without them noticing, as long as you don't look at what you are doing.

don i knew a few like that, worked with a fellow many years ago a real brown nosin trouble maker i was his relief i would come in go over daily orders anything pending etc,etc. i would say to myself how could somebody that has been working for 8 hrs. leave at quittin time reeking of alcohol???? did a little snoopin and low and behold found a fifth of crown royal i give long thought as to how to handle this and given the fact that he put it to me several times i took that almost full bottle and poured almost all of it in the john an refilled with healthy water back to its original level. he had his suspicions but never said anything it was great watching his expressions for months afterward .. just one of the many stories

I was stationed in Greece on one of their Air Bases in the late 1980's, the Greek power company's union was negotiating their new contract, the Greeks weren't real good at maintaining things, especially anything for the Americans so our command post back up generator didn't work. Well the negotiating tactic the power company workers were using is a few times a day they'd turn the power off and walk out. A command post without power is very very bad and when it happens there is a big list of things you have to do including calling the Sky cops to make sure you're not being attacked and informing HQ USAFE of your status and the sky cops opinion if you were being attacked. Well I was on day shift, about an hour before shift change we decided we were going to have a "power outage" so we turned everything off that could be turned off and unscrewed the indicator bulbs on the stuff we really couldn't turn off (the satellite comm unit). About the time night shift came in the front door we could hear they fell for the bait and started cussing about the power. Well we made it through shift change making oncoming do all the inventories including the safes by flash light. Just as we were about to leave we turned on one of the lights I hear the oncoming officer say "you're dicks", the NCO "This means war" this is also the first time I saw the oncoming NCO, maybe he was having a bad day before he came to work as his shirt was only 1/2 buttoned and the buttons didn't match and his boots were untied and I don't think he had any socks on either. I guess it didn't go wrong and both the oncoming guys were do to rotate out pretty quick so they didn't have much time to get even.