Best Pranks You Ever Pulled

[stillrobertpaulsen]

How many RIers are pranksters? I'm starting this as 82_28 and I were talking in GD about various pranks we've pulled in the past. What are your favorites?

[82_28]

That Satan worshipping prank is great.

I think the best pranks are those which are not planned. It just has to be the most absurd spur of the moment idea that comes to you.

I like the one when stores are all decked for the various holidays. I took a pine cone from a display which was obviously just decoration for Christmas and watched the clerks rush around trying to figure out what to charge me for it. A little mean.

I once had a little prank when my semi-chunky girlfriend and I would go into stores and I would ask if they had anything that would fit her as if she were a shamed woman with a lame man. Like Victoria's Secret. She wasn't "fat" but asking that question is awesome in front of shocked clerks. They would scramble around. Trying to find something.

Another good one is to get into fake fights in a fancy restaurant and make the entire place uncomfortable. Oh it goes on. . .

Hopefully peeps keep them coming. I have hundreds.

EDIT: "Fights" as in fake arguments.

[82_28]

Prolly dangerous, but stick a wig on the end of a fishing line, cast it and when a car approaches reel the wig across the street and watch people slam on their brakes. Much laughter ensues though.

[82_28]

Totally lame, but toss a single bottle of black Rit dye in a mall fountain and watch them work for a week try and get rid of it! It is super funny to see a fountain's water turn completely black. Yes, lame.

[82_28]

Back when you could smoke in restaurants, why not put your ash in the pepper shaker? Totally lame. All the while turning the salt shaker over and putting the cap on the bottom of it right side wrong. All the salt obviously comes out the bottom and onto the table. I swear I'm not this lame or never was.

[82_28]

Here's a private one in the sense of only you can hear it. I got my entire staff to exercise this very minor prank. It was a "pan asian" restaurant so we had peanut sauce. I got the entire staff to say if they were upselling to say penis sauce as opposed to peanut sauce. Good times!

[82_28]

I worked at this liquor store in Denver and we had this stray bottle of hella ghetto tequila called "El Toro" BUT we also had a bottle of Louis XIII Remy Martin that was going for over $1000. So I put it up there next to it and priced it at twice as much with a big sign. People would ask about it. Then came Christmas and I was slated to decorate the store. I built a hella stupid Christmas display in which I placed the bottle front and center to make fun of the liquor reps who would send in models and shit to give out samples with the very worst liquor the store had behind them.

Another time some old man came in and asked me what the kids are drinking these days as he was going to some wedding function. I recommended and sold him a bunch of everclear as a joke. Lame.

[coffin_dodger]

Prolly dangerous, but stick a wig on the end of a fishing line, cast it and when a car approaches reel the wig across the street and watch people slam on their brakes. Much laughter ensues though.

This makes me laugh heartily every time I read it. Thanks, 82.

[82_28]

Here is another potentially dangerous and lame one but funny. Ford Escorts back in the day had this little "gutter" between the roof and windows that was perfect to stick a bottle rocket in. In Denver there is a major grocery store (part of the Kroger chain) called King Soopers and they all have these "airlock doors" meaning there are no doors. Stick the bottle rocket in the gutter of the car, light it, time it right and shoot it into the frozen food section and drive off. Lame, lame, lame. But it was funny.

Word got out about it and this kid I knew tried something similar but he did it to an actual fireworks stand -- a tent with an open doorway. I disowned him. Nothing bad happened but it really pissed me off. I don't think I ever spoke to him again after that.

[82_28]

Probably more stealing than anything, but was a fun prank to pull on the owner of the machines. Like gumball/candy machines. I worked at a pizza joint for a long time and you had to fold boxes. In order to fold them you had to pop out a little circle (which becomes where you lift open the box). I noticed they were the same size as a quarter. So I thought why not try it? Sure enough. Crank the handle and the cardboard perfectly emulated an actual quarter. Free candy but funny to see the dude open up the machines only to find a bunch of cardboard circles. Again, lame and none of this I would ever do today. But keep it in mind and give it a shot if you feel like it.

[Cordelia]

Pranks; so childish. But, really, unleashing ones inner imp is probably essential to good mental health (especially in adults).



Okay, I know this isn't at all original........During junior & high school, my two best friends and I often dared one another on impulse. It was long before surveillance cameras, cell phones, caller id, etc., so not getting caught was much, much easier. One Friday, when the final bell rang and the halls were packed with students and teachers, I dared one friend to reach up and pull the fire alarm as we walked by. The school emptied, everyone was confused about following fire drill protocol and fire trucks pulled up but were blocked by school buses waiting to load kids. It was chaos. Far worse, a long anticipated basketball game, scheduled with a visiting team, was canceled. Everyone; school, fire officials, students, etc., were really pissed and wanted to find the culprit(s). Which, thankfully for us, they didn't.

[82_28]

Hahaha! Been there too! Since I was always kicked out of class and played the trumpet, I was sent out to the hall. I don't know for what. I had my bottle of valve oil on me and started spraying the smoke/fire detector with the oil as I sat there bored as fuck. It sent my entire school into fire drill mode. My teacher came out and started screaming "he did it! he did it!" . . . I actually didn't mean to -- it was just a target on the ceiling. Anyhow I got expelled from the district and they flunked me and I had to do 8th grade all over again. They didn't care that I took care of all the animals in the science labs -- I would personally take them home over like Christmas breaks and take care of them. That said, I would have never met some of my best and lifelong friends (good friends -- good people) had I not been flunked and expelled.

[PufPuf93]

Here is another potentially dangerous and lame one but funny. Ford Escorts back in the day had this little "gutter" between the roof and windows that was perfect to stick a bottle rocket in. In Denver there is a major grocery store (part of the Kroger chain) called King Soopers and they all have these "airlock doors" meaning there are no doors. Stick the bottle rocket in the gutter of the car, light it, time it right and shoot it into the frozen food section and drive off. Lame, lame, lame. But it was funny.

Word got out about it and this kid I knew tried something similar but he did it to an actual fireworks stand -- a tent with an open doorway. I disowned him. Nothing bad happened but it really pissed me off. I don't think I ever spoke to him again after that.

At a boarding school in high school, a student came back with some bottle rockets and he and his roommate shot several under our dorm room door.

We responded.

We had only fire crackers but also had those individual boxes of rice crispys from the cafeteria. Punched a hole in the rice crispy boxes and added fire crackers. Went and tossed them in their room. While they were in shock, hit them a second time. The rice crispy fallout never goes away.

[PufPuf93]

Totally lame, but toss a single bottle of black Rit dye in a mall fountain and watch them work for a week try and get rid of it! It is super funny to see a fountain's water turn completely black. Yes, lame.

I was not the perpetuator nor did I know the perpetuator(s) and was an observer by happenstance but several boxes of Tide can make a big mess in a public water fountain (as in mega foam drifting across Highway 101 in a town on the Pacific Coast Highway).

[PufPuf93]

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I am going to borrow your "imp".

Back in 2009 I had severe financial problems and maintained cash flow off credit. First I had business line of credit frozen and then personal credit cards and then the credit cards went to collection.

On one Visa I started getting near daily dunning calls from a boiler room in San Diego, usually from the same woman.

She was nice. I explained the situation and that I intended to make good but it wasn't going to happen immediately and she could better spend her time bothering other unfortunate folks. The calls happened enough that we were friendly for the situation. Incidentally, I found out she and most of the boiler room were evangelical Christians. This was true of the supervisor as well; he had done the hiring as a subcontractor. She told me he was a mean-spirited individual who enjoyed his work and insisted she repeatedly call the vulnerable. She got her lists of calls to make from him. I got that she didn't like him very much. I asked to talk to the supervisor and he was really an ass to me, tried to make me feel bad and so on. I asked not to be hassled and voiced my intent to pay (which happened ultimately though at a discount of what was heavy to interest and late fee charges).

My prank was sort of mean. When I next got a call, I asked to talk to him and started to talk about Jesus. I asked him how he could have such a black heart toward the unfortunate especially as some were good Christians. I asked him if he knew Chorozon, the demon of the abyss. I told him Chorozon would come visit him in his dreams until he found a line of work more in line with what Jesus would want. I started to call and ask for him every day and talked of Chorozon in his dreams. He couldn't help himself but take my calls and talk Jesus and defend his work. I knew I had got to him because of our interaction but also from the woman who had called me. I never told her what I said to him so she still thought I was a good person, just broke. The calls stopped soon thereafter. I called and found out he had quit his job.