Pranks you've played on people.

[ChappyUK]

I just remembered a few years back a mate had a Ford Meteor that had lost the front hubcap from the drivers side. He worshipped this car for some unknown reason and was always begging us that if we saw another Meteor with the same hubcap could we swipe one for him.

One day I saw his car in the car park and I thought I'd take the hubcap off the passenger side and use it as a replacement for the missing hubcap.

I then went and told him I had found a hubcap for him. I showed him the replacement and he was totally chuffed and kept thanking me for the next few days and every time we hopped in his car we complimented him on how much better it looked.

Took him a good week to realise what I had done.

Must be some better prank stories out there

 

[sprockets]

I was playing golf with a guy and put a few beetles down his shirt. He didn't feel them at the time but the following week told me that when he went for his shower after the round he found a couple of beetles in his jocks. I never told him there should have been another one and felt sorry for the poor thing when I realised where it was probably hiding.

Same guy another time hit his ball under a sprinkler, one of those sprinklers that throw water a good 30m. I told him all he had to do was stand on the sprinkler head and it'd turn off. This is what it looked like (not an actual pic of the event but looked the same, with my mate hidden by the wall of water surrounding him).

 

[raskolnikov]

Well I do remember this time some school friends and I tied another schoolmate's shoelaces together.

 

[Power Raid]

We would run a fake auction on Navy ships before pulling into ports like India etc. The auction was something illegal like "shooting a tiger", killing some other endangered species or something else just as inappropriate.

The whole ship "in the know" would put in fake bids and convince the young guys to put in their bids and money.

On announcement of the winner, it would be discussed about the importance of not breaking laws in foreign nations, not giving into peer group pressure and all the funds would be donated to a local charity.

There was a seriousness and learning within the prank but at least the money went to a good cause.

 

[The Lemon]

Pin on the bike seat of a kid at school. Man it was funny...poor campaigner i feel bad now

 

[Jade]

I once changed a colleagues signature setting from "Regards" to...

...well replace the 'g' with a 't'.

 

[Scotland]

I once bought pubic hair from an older kid after he convinced me that it would make me reach puberty. After I realised he tricked me I murdered his parents and fed them to him.

 

[The Lemon]

I once bought pubic hair from an older kid after he convinced me that it would make me reach puberty. After I realised he tricked me I murdered his parents and fed them to him.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Well I do remember this time some school friends and I tied another schoolmate's shoelaces together.

Never gets old .

 

[chicken Caesar]

I was playing golf with a guy and put a few beetles down his shirt. He didn't feel them at the time but the following week told me that when he went for his shower after the round he found a couple of beetles in his jocks. I never told him there should have been another one and felt sorry for the poor thing when I realised where it was probably hiding.

Same guy another time hit his ball under a sprinkler, one of those sprinklers that throw water a good 30m. I told him all he had to do was stand on the sprinkler head and it'd turn off. This is what it looked like (not an actual pic of the event but looked the same, with my mate hidden by the wall of water surrounding him).

Speaking of golf, my uncle once told me about two of his friends who were playing a round together on a country course. While one was teeing off the other noticed a dry cow pat laying beside him, so as his mate was admiring his drive he casually walked up beside him, lined up the shot and swung. At the moment of impact he realised that appearances can be deceiving as his 5 iron broke open the crusty outer shell which revealed the moist inner of the cow pat. According to my uncle the victim stormed off home without saying a word to his mate who was in tears by that stage.

 

[Gough]

Changed everyone's mouse from right handed to left.

 

[Scotland]

I remember someone at uni went through the computer lab and switched all the mice over from one computer to the next. Whole lotta people frantically moving mice around, picking them up and shaking them etc. not understanding why their cursor was moving all over the place.

 

[Elton Johns Wig]

I was in the RAAF as an Avionics Technician about 20 odd years ago. We used to wheel the planes into the hangars for major servicings, and in summer, it got damn hot in there. As such, there was A LOT of soft drink drank back in the day. A lot. Everyone used to go through litres of the shit.

Anyway, some smartarse came up with the great idea of getting a really small drill bit (couple of mm) and drilling a hole through the neck right under the ridge/rim where the lid screw down onto. So that there were two small holes underneath. We would all go up onto the mezzanine and watch as said bloke would pick up his coke, and it would dribble on to his chest.

Without fail, without fail, you would see them really carefully place there lips around the rim, and drink again, thinking they had just not been careful. Out it dribbled again. We'd all erupt in laughter. They would inspect the bottle and finally figure out what went wrong.

We got so many new kids with this trick over the years, it never failed to disappoint.

 

[Quivorir]

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We got so many new kids with this trick over the years, it never failed to disappoint.

This is ****ing brilliant.

 

[Plugger35]

Yanking someone's chair away as they went to sit down was a favourite prank of ours at school, was always good for a laugh seeing someone fall arse over.

Apart from the time I did it to a girl who unbeknownst to me had just had a back operation, she started crying and I got sent to the headmaster's office.

 

[rank and file]

Sitting around waiting for then girlfriend to get ready one Saturday night and she calls out from the bathroom
"Can you write down the lotto numbers for me?"
"No worries"
Go find her ticket and randomly write down 6 of her numbers on bit of paper and chuck it on the coffee table.
She was that happy when she thought she won.
Then she punched me hard when she realised she didn't.

 

[Quivorir]

It's not really random if you deliberately wrote her numbers down...

 

[ChappyUK]

Was at a mate's party back in my younger years. We were all camping on the lounge room floor and he had his parent's bedroom. He had been desperate to hook up with this girl and kept telling us . 'Tonight's the night'

While he was outside tending the BBQ we snuck into his room and tied a big bell that sat beside the front door to the posts under his bed so it was just dangling by the handle in the middle.

He did end up hooking up with the girl and as the bed started to rock the bell started to ring loudly A massive cheer went up in the lounge room.

He wasn't amused.

 

[Gough]

There are times when I think Andrew Bolt is just a very elaborate prank.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

My cousin's boyfriend ordered a prank scratchie online and gave it to her for her birthday. There's an excellent video of her whooping and running around in excitement thinking she'd won 10k.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Had an open office area with two computers back to back to each other. Swapped the keyboards over, then sat there pretending I was doing something on one computer while the most computer-illiterate guy we had was on the other. He'd be looking down at his fingers typing something, then look up at the screen and see something completely different written there. Head down, backspace it all out, try again. Took a bit of timing but I managed to go for quite a while before he twigged.

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Duct taped my mates shoes under his bed

 

[Demosthenes]

I wrote an Excel macro that would completely wipe the workbook it was in after a preset amount of time. Every year I used to stick it into a dummy financial report, give it to the newest trainee, and tell him it was an important document that needed formatting and prettying up for a partner meeting that afternoon.

 

[ChappyUK]

Had an open office area with two computers back to back to each other. Swapped the keyboards over, then sat there pretending I was doing something on one computer while the most computer-illiterate guy we had was on the other. He'd be looking down at his fingers typing something, then look up at the screen and see something completely different written there. Head down, backspace it all out, try again. Took a bit of timing but I managed to go for quite a while before he twigged.

There's a cmd prompt you can type in to get a windows popup when a certain key is pressed. You could then type in whatever you like as a warning message

Used to prank anyone new who kept their computer unlocked.

Best was when we sent a new guy a pr0n email (which was quite normal back then) then gave him a warning message to say that due to opening prohibited images his computer was now locked and his position with the company had been terminated.

Poor guy. He went white as a sheet and just sat there stunned for a few minutes not knowing what to do.

 

[RU_]

Well I do remember this time some school friends and I tied another schoolmate's shoelaces together.

Young RU was a ****wit.