/had pulled on you?

I might or might not being looking for ideas.


Also speaking of pranks, I'm placing this one on the to-do list. - http://tinyurl.com/8bnrmh9

10/10/2012 1:45:47 PM

We had annoying suitemates in Sullivan who would constantly pump base from their computer (to the point of vibrating objects in our room that shared a common wall). They even used it as an alarm clock and set it to go off 4 hours before they needed to wake up. It sucked.

They also were dumb enough to never lock their room door. So, to get back at them a bit, I went into their room and replaced a bunch of their default Windows sounds with a WAV version of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". Just minor things like minimizing and maximizing windows .

I also renamed the WAV files to be the same as the default windows files and placed them in the same location. So setting back to defaults wouldn't work. They needed to grab the files from someone else's computer (trivial, but they still had to be smart enough).

That was a wonderfully quiet week.

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If the person also has some form of instant messenger on their computer, you could set up an alert for any time you come back from idle to play some sound file (song, machine gun fire, etc). That also yielded some fun times.

10/10/2012 2:08:26 PM

Four friends and I had a prank war going on for awhile. It was me and my roommate versus three of our friends who were also roommates.

They put mine and my roommate's car up for sale on auto trader. Took pictures and made the price really low stating we were movin out of the country. They even put an ad on here. Got tons of calls while the ad ran. We changed our outgoing voicemail to curb calls.

One girl we blacked out her face in a photo of her mooning the camera, and put posters all over campus with the tag line "have you seen this ass?" Kinkos guy thought it was so great, he gave us a poster for free which we hung up in the free expression tunnel.

Another girl was a stripper at the time that playboy came through and did girls of the acc. We made a letterhead with the playboy logo and wrote her a letter from a photographer saying he saw her act while in town, and they were encouraging her to send in photos for consideration to be a model. We also covered her license plate with "IGIVGR8HD"

The final roommate, whom is straight as an arrow and worked part time at a big girl job, we sent an enormous flower and balloon bouquet to her work with "congrats! It's a girl!" Balloons.

10/10/2012 2:19:48 PM

Roommates leaving their computer open is fun if they're working on a paper and leave the room.

Find & replace is a helluva thing.

10/10/2012 2:28:21 PM

I once called this guy like 6 times looking for scooter roofing company.

True story.

[Edited on October 10, 2012 at 2:52 PM. Reason : A]

10/10/2012 2:51:13 PM

I glued a quarter down once.

10/10/2012 3:08:17 PM

- Penny Locking doors shut
- grease under the door handle of a car
- Sardines in car trick, best in the summer - open two cans of sardines. Place one in a VERY conspicuous place, and hide the second very well. They think they got them out with the first can, but the second can will continue to reek.
- screenshot a desktop with icons...delete all the icons...replace the wallpaper with the screenshot...profit (works especially well on someone with a shit-ton of icons on their desktop)
- screensaver to blue screen of death screenshot

10/10/2012 3:59:50 PM

Broke into the neighbors apartment and dropped a massive log in the cat litter box

10/10/2012 4:14:42 PM

^I'm just picturing stumped/incredulous looks going back and forth between the box and the cat

10/10/2012 4:18:27 PM

Yea, the cat was at the door when I left and I was like "yea...you don't wanna go in there."

The dudes gf actually thought the cat did it even though it was literally bigger than the cat

[Edited on October 10, 2012 at 4:20 PM. Reason : ]

10/10/2012 4:20:15 PM

then it was like

10/10/2012 4:23:01 PM

I wanna know the cat's thoughts afterwards.

10/10/2012 4:32:05 PM

oh lawd, I'm pretty sure my coworkers think I was having a seizure just now as I read those last few posts and tried not to laugh with sound. the cat gif sent me over the edge

10/10/2012 4:44:33 PM

I can't tell if that Deadspin article is new or old, but Howard Stern has been doing that for years with Chinese restaurants...they've all got the same food, and it's much funnier that way because the two people can barely understand each other

10/10/2012 4:45:11 PM

This one time I hacked a police blotter and posted cat pics.

10/10/2012 6:52:39 PM

I used to share an office with Bruce. The office door looked out into a large lab room where you could see the only phone, which was on the far side of the lab. Occasionally, Bruce would call the lab phone, making Shane, the lab guy, get up and walk all the way across the room, and then he would hang up just as Shane got there. It was a long enough walk that the phone would ring several times. Bruce would never do it that often, maybe twice a month, which was probably the best part because enough time had passed that Shane never thought he was getting pranked. But this went on for several months and to the point where Shane literally wanted to fight Bruce.

Shane eventually learned his lesson and looked up at us before answering any phone calls. We got pretty good at the "nonchalant busy, concentrating on other stuff" look. But then we started setting other phones in the office to call-forward to the lab, and then we'd call those phones. The ID system then was retarded and would show the forwarding phone's info, not the actual caller's info. As you can imagine, we were able to get pretty creative and forward calls all over the office to confuse Shane.

many lulz were had.

10/10/2012 7:02:09 PM

My freshman year, Fall of 1996, my suitemates, and I decided to make a bunch of flyers advertising a free concert at Reynolds with Seven Mary Three and Dogstar (the shitty band Keanu Reeves was in). This was after a drunken night of listening to random music and mocking both of the aforementioned bands. We decided this prank was a good idea as well. We Painted the free expression tunnel, plastered campus with the flyers, all that shit.

The show was to take place on the last day of exams, and several hundred students showed up to locked doors. There was a front page article about it in the Technician.

10/11/2012 12:23:41 AM

I showed up to the office one day to see posters advertising a fundraising effort I was doing and a funds-collecting container seeded with cash. If some number of dollars were raised, I would shave my 'stache.

I rolled with it. Collected a fair bit of cash, found a good cause, and shaved.

This was in the midst of a long-running war that included all the normal stuff, like re-arranged keys, paper-hole confetti on pull-down doors, rotated screens, disconnected cables, tin-foiled desks, post-it noted chairs, and etc.

10/11/2012 9:34:03 AM

Quote :

"My freshman year, Fall of 1996, my suitemates, and I decided to make a bunch of flyers advertising a free concert at Reynolds with Seven Mary Three and Dogstar (the shitty band Keanu Reeves was in). This was after a drunken night of listening to random music and mocking both of the aforementioned bands. We decided this prank was a good idea as well. We Painted the free expression tunnel, plastered campus with the flyers, all that shit. The show was to take place on the last day of exams, and several hundred students showed up to locked doors. There was a front page article about it in the Technician."

I'm still pissed I didn't get to see Dogstar

[Edited on October 11, 2012 at 10:45 AM. Reason : nah i was still in high school then. ]

10/11/2012 10:44:34 AM

At the restaurant I worked at we had cameras and could control computer terminals from the office. We sat downstairs and opened the bar drawer everytime a certain hostess walked by. Eventually we told her that it was her cheap necklace that was setting the drawer off and making it open. We even told her the metalurgic properties of her necklace was the cause and that the only way to make it stop was to dip it in a glass of pineapple juice. She ended up dipping it at we all lost it.

In college I unscrewed the shower heads in multiple stalls on our floor of the dorm and filled the shower heads with kool aid (red and blue) so that when the unsuspecting person turned them on they got covered in it...

The old but still funny tricks... seran wrap the toilet boil under the seat... rubber band the spray nozzle on the kitchen sink...

10/12/2012 12:08:48 AM

Awesome prank, Farva!

10/12/2012 12:58:44 AM

^^I'm not sure if I've ever turned the shower on while I'm in direct line of fire. I always adjust temperature before getting in. Maybe that's just me though.

10/12/2012 1:58:37 PM

The shower head kool-aid doesn't work very well, and I am always suspect of people that claim it. I never get in the shower immediately (temperature adjustment as has been stated). Then, the kool-aid either clogs up the water (before they get in) or is gone in half a second. And that's if your shower head is completely dry and doesn't ever drip. If its not bone-dry, it will ooze syrupy kool-aid and be a dead giveaway.

I've heard hard candy works better, but mostly because it is more likely to leave a sticky residue on a person afterwards.
Red kool-aid can be a little shocking when put in the toilet reserve, though.

10/12/2012 3:07:10 PM

baby powder in a chick's hair dryer

10/12/2012 4:33:58 PM

I lived in Hull, England my sophomore year in a house with 6 other dudes. It was pretty crowded and eventually me and another guy got into something of a prank war. We'd mess with the other's food, leave fake messages from unsuspecting family next to the house phone (well before cell phones).
I don't remember what he did to me but in retaliation I took all of his clean underwear, soaked it in water and then put it in the freezer. It took him 3 days to notice the prank just before we were to go out drinking. Hence why he's in a towel looking in the freezer.

10/12/2012 9:00:39 PM

with the poop in the litter box trick my cat would have been like GODDAMNIT COVER YOUR OWN SHIT SO I DON'T HAVE TO.

then buried it.

i always searched for unlocked networks to print on people's printers

usually porn...or the pdf of my car's factory service manual (1200 pages)

my favorite one was taking the guts out of the schrader valves on a former co worker's car.

he thought someone popped all his tires filled one back up and then all the air blew out in his face (no valve to hold it in) and then the dumbass spent $1000 bucks on new tires... when i even left the valves next to the tires where i removed them.

10/12/2012 9:26:42 PM

hahaha, your cat is a boss.

The one cat I've ever had probably would have shit in my bed in retaliation

[Edited on October 12, 2012 at 9:50 PM. Reason : ]

10/12/2012 9:49:40 PM