Any Practical Jokers?

[Deft Tones]

Tell me your best, most successfuly played practical joke.

I once found a book of matches on the ground from a local gay bar. I stuck them in my coat pocket knowing a gag is there and forgot about it. After several weeks I was going to visit a mutual friend out of town with another friend who is single, never been married. When my buddy picks me up he's in a strange car. Getting in I asked about it and he had to borrow his mothers car for a few days. We went on and had a nice visit late into the night.

Upon leaving I put my coat on, hands in pockets, and realize the book of matches were still in there. My brain starts scheming.

Stopping for fuel with the driver inside the store it hit me: Plant the book of matches somewhere in mom's car for her to find. Let my buddy explain that one away!

I stuck them on the drivers side almost hidden by the floor mat....then laughed to myself as I hoped my buddy wouldn't see them first.

Eventually I forgot about it.

About two weeks later I got a call from him congratulating me for my joke then cussing me out. He said his mother went to work one day and while on lunch break took her car to the self-serv carwash...where she found the book of matches from the gay bar.

She must have connected the false dots because apparently she was so upset that she took the rest of the day off from work. He said she had him over to visit that night and asked for an explaination while tossing the matches into his hands. She was convinced her son was secretly gay and using her car to hook-up for gay sex. He had no valid explaination and couldn't talk his way out of it. It took him over a week to connect the dots and pin me down as the source.

So after his call, the next night, I went to visit his mom to tell her the truth and convince her that her son was not homosexual and I am the terrible practical joker that caused her confusion and suffering. She never told me it was a good gag but my buddy did. He said he kept the matches to pay it forward to someone else.

That was my most successful practical joke to date.


Inspire me with your practical jokes, please!

 

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[DeepseekerADS]

While working at the Fermi II Atomic Power Plant in '82, one of the very rude green card structural engineers was moving on to another project. As he walked down my aisle shaking hands goodbye. Most all of us were very happy to see him go.

I got a sudden inspiration and very quietly filled my palm with hand lotion. As he got to my desk, not the last desk in the aisle, I stood up and gripped his extended palm. He got a very far away look in his eyes, turned and walked back to the front. I saw him glancing down to his palm. I never saw him again.

My mechanical design group laughed about that for days.

 

[b3y0nd3r]

My father is the king of jokes like that. When I was little, he would divert my attention behind me and throw a $20 bill in front of me a few feet. Of course when I turned around and started walking, I would find it only to realize that he planted it.

 

[AlienLifeForm]

Nothing major, just a few $20 bill on a fishing line jokes while at work on the manufacturing floor.

 

[verbious]

Soldiers would take pens out of my desk drawer. The lock was busted out and I took a plastic spoon and wedged it in the space where the lock would've been. Then I bent the spoon into drawer making a very effective catapult. I filled the spoon with salt and Cayenne pepper powder. It didn't take long to figure out who was stealing stuff from my desk drawer.

Another was my boss when I was a janitor. He would disappear for hours and we suspected that he was using a telescope on the 26th floor to peep in the hotels nearby. We took in from a toner cartridge and put it around the eye piece. When he came down to the lobby at break time he looked like a raccoon!!!

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[SD51]

We had a practical joker at work and nobody was ever able to get even with him. I had seen this trick done years before and figured it would work on him. I took a very large paper clip and opened it up and formed it into a "U" shape and stretched a rubber band between the ends of the "U" shape. I then attached a small paper clip to the middle of the rubber band and wound-up the small paper clip and placed it in a plain white envelope labeled, "RATTLESNAKE EGGS". I put the envelope on his workbench and ten of us watched as he came back from lunch. His curiosity got the best of him and as soon as he touched the envelope, the small paper clip spun and rattled the envelope. He let out a yell and ran! Got Him!

 

[RGINN]

I would share, but I need to wait for the statute of limitations to run out.

 

[bilder]

Rigged an air horn to a buddies desk drawer once. He literally wet his pants it scared him so much.

 

[bill_wabo]

Long time ago, I made a printscreen on a co-worker's desktop computer and saved it as a wallpaper. Took him a fre*&$ing long time to realize and fix it, he was an engineer...

 

[Chadeaux]

Does the motive of "revenge" count?

While in school for Electronics & Instrumentation, I had a classmate that kept causing me trouble by getting me blamed for his pranks. I was seen as a rather quiet person who was an easy target. I found out who the culprit (mark) was for a certainty before launching my plan. He was a gang banger who bragged about how "fast" he was.

Well, using my limited prior knowledge of electronic circuits, I built a "game" which consisted of 3 LEDs and 2 buttons/switches (an on/off and a momentary) mounted in a cassette tape case. I claimed it would test reflexes. Oh, and on the back was a large ceramic capacitor taped to it --- which made it a bit heavy and required it be in your hand to "play the game" --- but wasn't actually connected to anything.

So, during break, I told the mark about this great little game I made that could test his reflexes. He was willing so I placed the game in his left hand "the way it had to be held" in order to play, explained how it worked.

"This is the on/off switch. When you click it, the red light comes on." I clicked it on and off. While the light is off, I hold the momentary switch down and the green LEDs start bouncing back and forth gradually but randomly speeding up. "The trick is to let go of the momentary switch when the two lights are both on." He was agreeable so the game was on.

He took the game, hit the power switch then pressed the momentary switch. The game was on.

I grabbed his left hand so that he could not open it. "When you turned on the red light, you armed this. The large block on the back is about 2 ounces of C4 explosives. When you let go of this button, you will lose your left hand. You aren't quick enough to throw this away. When the lights stop bouncing, your time is up. Turning off the red light will also set the charge off."

I let go and walked away. He was literally shaking and white as a sheet when I turned to walk away. About 10 steps later I turned to look ... he was just staring at the lights, and his pants had a big wet spot on the front.

I walked over, told him to be more careful who he chose to harass and took my game back. No more trouble.

 

[trdking]

I would share, but I need to wait for the statute of limitations to run out.

Ive got a couple of those

 

[trdking]

Airhorn taped to the desk chair so it goes off when you sit is a good
I also like the annoying chirp circuit board. It is magnetic so it can be concealed. Turn it on and it gives off random chirps at odd intervals. Drive people crazy looking for the source.

 

[tlane38003]

I paint and do colission work for a living and I sold a car to one of my helpers who lives a few blocks from our shop.I kept a key to it and after a few weeks went by I started going back to his car late at night and moving it a few car spaces over then after another week or so I started going back and parking it on the other side of the road finally after he kept coming into work looking really confused I went that night and drove it back to the shop he came in laughing and said he saw me the last time but though he was losing his mind after that I gave him his other key another thing I like to do to the new help is give them something to put in the basement that doesn't exist I tell then the entry is outside sometimes leaves cover the pull up doors all in good fun just for a laugh for myself and coworkers

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[Chadeaux]

I also like the annoying chirp circuit board. It is magnetic so it can be concealed. Turn it on and it gives off random chirps at odd intervals. Drive people crazy looking for the source.

We have something similar to that here in the south, but they aren't magnetic. We call them "katydids" ... best of all, they relocate themselves all night.

 

[watercolor]

Back in the early 70's I worked at a regional planning commission in WI.
One of the secretary's on the second floor of our office had just bought a new Honda Civic and every time someone passed by her desk, she had to take them to the window so she could show them her new car.
So, me and three other guys went out to where her car was parked in the street and picked it up and moved it so it was facing in the wrong direction on the one-way street in front of our building.
She almost fainted when she looked out the window ten minutes later.

 

[ChampFerguson/TN]

We has a computer tech in the office who was a complete Ahat and dumb as a box of rocks; Kevin was his name. Well, one of us learned on the early IBM terminals how to throw things out of focus and every day before he got to work, he'd get about 5% more out of focus. He finally had to get the head of IT to fix it for him, but that guy hated his guts too so he didn't show him hot to fix it, just did it for him. So, you guessed it, 5% more the next day and so on. He was too prideful to ask for help again and we took great joy watching him squint at the screen from 5" until old Kev got his walking papers. He also complained of daily headaches. You really need to be nice + considerate of your coworkers- especially the devious ones.

A buddy and his girlfriend had overlapping work shifts and on his way to work, he would stop at her car and move her seat 1/4" forward every day. She had a weight problem and after some days of this he comes home to her almost crying. 'Whats wrong?".
"I'm so fat and no matter how much I diet I just Keep gaining weight!" sob
'Why do you say that?'
She then explains about not fitting into her car despite skipping 2 meals a day "for weeks!"
He fessed up, got cussed good, and probably went to sleep laughing but frustrated.
Next day, he gets out of work to find his car seat (he aint no stringbean himself) moved 8" forward.
Hope their kids get daddy's brains instead of mommys.

 

[Deft Tones]

Motive is not important, but revenge is a powerfull motivator. I only did one motivated by outright revenge but it was killer.

Working on a Cat manufacturing plant under construction. This older guy I had to work with was a former boxer and dumb as a post, probably from too many punches to the head. I happened to see him set his can of soda down on a ledge and walk away. Thinking I'd mess with his mind I waited until he looked my direction then simply rotated his drink while acting suspicious and walked away knowing he might think I did something to it.

40 minutes later I pass by him and stop, smile, and say, "How's it going". Dude went into a rage, threw the can at me ranting and threatening my life. He refused to believe I did nothing to his drink. I chalked it up to another stupid idea. What a fail.

Two days later, while taking a drink of my can of Coke I hear something inside the can hit the mouth of the can as I tilted it back. WTF? I dump it out to find a 1/4" sheetmetal screw! Mother! That's over the line for me. I took the screw to him with intent to fight, but while marching across the plant to his area I thought better suffering he would await. I took the screw in to his room, shouted not funny a-hole, and hit him in the chest with the screw. That could kill someone I told him. I stormed out.

Game on!

I bid my time and two weeks later brought a digital camera to work to ask for his photo. He was suspicious but let his guard down when I explained how I keep a journal of interesting people I meet in my life - I want to add you to it, please. All lies! I took 5 photos, two profiles, two 45 angles and one mugshot.

Then I promptly set about photoshopping them into the most vile gay-porn images I could find that matched my lighting. I'm good with Photoshop and particularly photo retouching, so I put my best effort into two different images making them as seamless as all my skills would permit. Satisfied with the test prints, I then printed them onto quality glossy photo paper - enough copies for every entrance to the plant both inside and out. There I posted them at 5am before anyone but the GC was on site...and I waited.

I ended up working without seeing him. After lunch his foreman comes and asks me about the pictures and I tell him why I did it. He tells me that his guy was so devestated and humiliated he left for home sobbing. I nearly pushed him into a suicidal state of mind I'm told, and he's probably not coming back to work at this project. He did come back after a week, but he never talked or made eye contact with me again. He just looked broken in spirit and not the same guy, whoa!
I felt kinda bad for him, but on the other hand - don't jack with me, dude!

 

[gamiller]

A variation on what you did. I purchased magnetic stickers bumpers and placed 1 on the back of a homophobic friends car.
I ( heart symbol) gay porn.
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[bilder]

One time at the airline I worked for, we found a website that offered to call in sick for you. For a fee you could record a sick call and then tell it when to make the call for you.

The site offered a sample call you could listen to. You put in your number and it would call you with some raspy voice guy saying "This is Dave, I feel terrible, can't make it in today. (cough)"

Well we started to enter our bosses phone number on the site and it was calling him with the recording. We had no one named Dave in our department, so that just added to the fun. We did this off and on for months. Our boss was calling other departments asking if anyone named Dave worked there and if there was that he might be sick for the day.

After about 5 months of random calls like this he finally started to wonder if it was a recording. One of us would put in his phone number and we would listen as he tried to argue with a recording. "There is no Dave here, you called the wrong number! Stop calling this number to report in sick! I would have fired you with all these sick calls!"

The boss man was not the sharpest tack in the box. He finally got himself fired, but he never did figure out why Dave kept calling him to say he was sick for the day.

 

[ChampFerguson/TN]

Good Thread, DT!
I almost wish I was still working so I could try some of these out.