Grade A1 Pranking...Almost

7/23/2020 10:43am
Machine shop pranks here. Blueing dye on the back side of toolbox drawer pulls always goes well! Just a nice thin coat across the backside of the pull bars. Had it done to me one night and not noticing it until it was too late I went outside and put my lunchbox in my brand new truck. Blue fingerprints everywhere! Just make sure it’s the stuff that is water soluble.
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7/23/2020 11:29am
Had an annoying guy at work that treated everyone like shit, so naturally we pulled off a few car pranks to ruin his day(s). Here are some we enjoyed.....

Wired horn to the turn signals, each flash equaled a short blast of the horn. Another one is where we stuffed a rag into his airboot. The truck would start and idle, but as he sped up, it would choke itself off and die. But then, magically restart seconds later on the side of the road. My fav was swapping out his coil wire feeder on the distributor with any other random plug wire. Now the truck only runs on one cylinder..... Many others that fucker earned.
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7/23/2020 12:27pm
dadofagun wrote:
Had an annoying guy at work that treated everyone like shit, so naturally we pulled off a few car pranks to ruin his day(s). Here are...
Had an annoying guy at work that treated everyone like shit, so naturally we pulled off a few car pranks to ruin his day(s). Here are some we enjoyed.....

Wired horn to the turn signals, each flash equaled a short blast of the horn. Another one is where we stuffed a rag into his airboot. The truck would start and idle, but as he sped up, it would choke itself off and die. But then, magically restart seconds later on the side of the road. My fav was swapping out his coil wire feeder on the distributor with any other random plug wire. Now the truck only runs on one cylinder..... Many others that fucker earned.
Oh yes.. we had a foremen who was a dick, bought a new car , and after a week, we started to leave an oil drip under it in his reserved parking space .. just a little to start with.. goes back to dealers, they find nothing. His parking at home is on a slope, so they told him to park it in the street on the flat, and my buddy snuck round 3 nights to put oil under it.

And a buddy ran a car business, and had an Rolls Royce traded, it looked great but was a wreck, i parked it in his reserved place when i was on nights, so when he came in , he had to park elsewhere, and then he went nuts when they guys told him it was mine.. they were all in on it too.

And then later one of the young apprentices hooked up with his daughter, knowing who she was, and she didnt know who he was.. that ended badly.
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7/23/2020 3:14pm
A harmonica zip tied under the hood in a sneaky spot works wonders
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7/23/2020 7:51pm
In high school we took a 2x4, painted it black and cut a V notch on one end, then cut it to just the right length. Jacked up a guys car and slipped it right next to the passenger side back tire. Almost invisible at a glance. He gets into the car, puts it into reverse and it goes nowhere. Gets out, looks around the car, looks for a broken driveshaft and after trying all the forward gears, he finally decides his transmission must have somehow gone bad while the car was sitting in the school parking lot. We let him in on it just before he walked up to the office to call his parents.
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7/24/2020 7:35am
One of our techs did something one day that pissed me off to no end, so I got myself a nice Swiss Chalet quarter chicken dinner for lunch. When he left for lunch, I took the bones and removed his bottom toolbox drawer, struck the bones in and buttoned it all back up. After a couple weeks the smell was unbearable. He pressure washed his whole toolbox 4 or 5 times before he actually removed the drawers and found a soaked, half rotten chicken in behind them.
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7/24/2020 8:47am
bh84 wrote:
One of our techs did something one day that pissed me off to no end, so I got myself a nice Swiss Chalet quarter chicken dinner...
One of our techs did something one day that pissed me off to no end, so I got myself a nice Swiss Chalet quarter chicken dinner for lunch. When he left for lunch, I took the bones and removed his bottom toolbox drawer, struck the bones in and buttoned it all back up. After a couple weeks the smell was unbearable. He pressure washed his whole toolbox 4 or 5 times before he actually removed the drawers and found a soaked, half rotten chicken in behind them.
Pure evil. Sick


Back in the days when telephones had screw-off mouthpieces, you could do something similar to a coworker's phone. Imagine putting your face near that! Sick Sick Sick Sick
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7/24/2020 9:13am
bh84 wrote:
One of our techs did something one day that pissed me off to no end, so I got myself a nice Swiss Chalet quarter chicken dinner...
One of our techs did something one day that pissed me off to no end, so I got myself a nice Swiss Chalet quarter chicken dinner for lunch. When he left for lunch, I took the bones and removed his bottom toolbox drawer, struck the bones in and buttoned it all back up. After a couple weeks the smell was unbearable. He pressure washed his whole toolbox 4 or 5 times before he actually removed the drawers and found a soaked, half rotten chicken in behind them.
The worst part of that story is that you had Swiss Chalet. Sick
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7/24/2020 9:16am
bh84 wrote:
One of our techs did something one day that pissed me off to no end, so I got myself a nice Swiss Chalet quarter chicken dinner...
One of our techs did something one day that pissed me off to no end, so I got myself a nice Swiss Chalet quarter chicken dinner for lunch. When he left for lunch, I took the bones and removed his bottom toolbox drawer, struck the bones in and buttoned it all back up. After a couple weeks the smell was unbearable. He pressure washed his whole toolbox 4 or 5 times before he actually removed the drawers and found a soaked, half rotten chicken in behind them.
-MAVERICK- wrote:
The worst part of that story is that you had Swiss Chalet. Sick
I would put Chalet sauce on everything I ate if I wouldn't die horribly with clogged arteries from it
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7/24/2020 10:27am Edited Date/Time 7/24/2020 10:27am
Had buddy that worked for an Indy Car team as an engineer. They would load their own toolboxes into the transporter for personnel tools they might want/need. His buddies started putting lead sheets under his drawer liners. After about 4 races he was telling everybody he was going to the doctor because he was getting weaker as he was having trouble loading his toolbox!
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7/24/2020 11:58am
piscokid wrote:
Had buddy that worked for an Indy Car team as an engineer. They would load their own toolboxes into the transporter for personnel tools they might...
Had buddy that worked for an Indy Car team as an engineer. They would load their own toolboxes into the transporter for personnel tools they might want/need. His buddies started putting lead sheets under his drawer liners. After about 4 races he was telling everybody he was going to the doctor because he was getting weaker as he was having trouble loading his toolbox!
Race team stuff is next level, usually subtle, but deadly funny..

All of the travelling rally mechanics had a personal box, just a travel case, with a few tools, which were fully branded , with the guys's name on it.. one of them was really anal about people messing with his stuff, they swiped the key from the master box, and swapped out all the tools for a load of junk stuff, and then sent him off on remote service.. which should have been just a tyre and fuel job, but the co-driver asked him for something so he had to open his box.. he went full meltdown .. co driver was in on it, and then so was the driver, and everyone over the radio's..

We were doing a test for a new crank, which had to be validated for full throttle landings, and so we went to our local proving ground, where there is a tarmac circuit with a jump in it ( used in one of the Bond film crash scenes) and we had to do 100 full throttle landings in the WRC car, i am in as ballast, nothing else, and to keep an eye on a few things on the co driver screen.. its fun for the first 10 times, then you it gets old, but the driver was a moto guy too, so we had a good chat over the intercom on the rest of the loop where we had to keep to speed limits.

We had a spotter crew on who gave us the all clear that the track was ok to hit pinned.. as we were sharing the track, and with about 10 laps to go in the afternoon, and we are in the compression on the back side , when the radio cracks on, with 'car' ... the driver gets out of the throttle, but by this time we are in the air.. and guess what, bike rules apply to cars as well. So with the throttle chopped, the nose dives, i am sat pretty much on the floor , and i am looking up out of the screen , and all i can see is road. He lands it on the nose, and luckily the front part of the sump guard, is designed to not dig in.. luckily it worked. I am shitting myself, the guys in the spotter cars are roaring with laughter, the driver is less than thrilled, but sees the funny side , when he remembers he pranked the radio guy on a test the week before by telling him the brakes had gone at the end of a long straight.


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7/24/2020 12:09pm
Not sure how cool it is posting more then one but, here’s one I pulled on my stepson.
He was getting a little lippy with his mom and thought it would be a good idea to ask me to cut his hair.
I usually do it anyways for him so no biggie.
I broke out the clippers and shaved the back of his head and the sides down. I left a huge patch of hair in the shape of a penis. He hops in the shower and surprisingly didn’t notice. He took off to meet a couple friends.
I’m like, cool this’ll teach ya. About an hour later he comes home pissed. WTF MAN!!!! I guess him and his friends went out and they didn’t even tell him. The lady at the diner told him, “interesting piece on the back of your head”. What?
I don’t understand. Son, there’s a penis on back of your head. I wish I could’ve seen his face.
Anyways, when he came home, I told him when you treat people a certain way, expect to be treated just the same ya dick.
He always double checks his head now after I cut it.
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7/24/2020 2:07pm
Old school desk phones. Vaseline on the ear piece. My Master sergeant boss fell for it every time. I got a lot of extra duty for it but he never got pissed. When I switched out his Tums tablets for maalox then he got mad.
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7/24/2020 3:02pm
High School Metal Shop.... (yea that used to be a thing). The welding tables were steel tables that were covered with bricks. Acetylene is heavier than air. We would "fill up" the bench with Acetylene and the next guy to put a torch to the bench would get a big surprise. There would be a loud bang and all the bricks would jump up several inches in unison.

When TIG welding, someone would sneak up behind you and turn off the Argon (resulting in the tungsten electrode disintegrating spectacularly). Alternately, they would turn off the cooling water to the torch handle. This usually resulted in the torch being tossed as the handle heated up, breaking the ceramic insulator followed by having to ask the teacher for another.

I saw this technology put to good use at RED BUD one year. We camped out and there was a full on fireworks apocalypse the night before the race (fireworks got banned shortly after that).

The weapon of choice was a piece of 3" dia PVC pipe, cap on one end, and a hole cut where the fuses end up - a fully automatic bottle rocket machine gun. This was only out done by the guys with a cutting torch on the back of their truck. They would fill balloons with an Oxygen / Acetylene mix and tie toilet paper around the bottom of the balloon for a fuse. It was amazing seeing these guys trying to fill the balloons with bottle rockets flying every where. I saw a guy get literally blown off one of the spectator bridges by a balloon bomb. Good times!



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7/25/2020 12:59am

The traditional carrot or banana in the car exhaust ; often the car dies but you can also get the fastest carrot in town.

I also saw a good video here i think of corn in the bike silencer, this could be really nice ! Pop Pop Pop Wink A must do in my list Wink
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7/25/2020 4:38am
I’m sure a few of you are familiar with this one:
Worked in a bike dealership workshop and one of our go to tricks was to run a wire with a stripped bare end from the spark plug cap (pulled off the plug) to the frame tube near the kickstarter (remember they were a thing?), so that when someone kicked it they’d get a spark to the calf muscle, and because the cap was pulled off, it wouldn’t start, so they’d keep kicking amongst the swearing and zaps to the leg.
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7/25/2020 4:55am
CPR wrote:
I’m sure a few of you are familiar with this one: Worked in a bike dealership workshop and one of our go to tricks was to...
I’m sure a few of you are familiar with this one:
Worked in a bike dealership workshop and one of our go to tricks was to run a wire with a stripped bare end from the spark plug cap (pulled off the plug) to the frame tube near the kickstarter (remember they were a thing?), so that when someone kicked it they’d get a spark to the calf muscle, and because the cap was pulled off, it wouldn’t start, so they’d keep kicking amongst the swearing and zaps to the leg.
Man yours reminds me of one involving a spark plug cap. A buddy of mine pulled the cap off the plug and shoved a wire nut in the cap and stuck it back on the plug. Needless to say, it took me quite a while to figure out why I had no spark.
7/25/2020 5:45am
I’ve seen this one done at work before always makes for a good laugh. Whenever someone leaves their safety glasses lay on the bench and go to break someone else will come over with a black sharpie marker and color the nose pieces black. After a bit when they start to sweet they have nice black streaks running down their faces lol
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7/25/2020 7:35am
Filled a whooping cushion with water and stuck it in my sisters sheets so when she rolled over in the middle of the night it would release all of the water. She woke up thinking she pissed the bed.
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7/26/2020 8:01am
Back in the early 80's, a guy at work bought a little Toyota pick-up.
He was always bragging about his gas mileage, and gave us a report weekly.

We had fuel tanks there for service vehicles, and we started adding a gallon to his truck every couple of days.
He would come in beaming. "Man, my mileage is actually getting better!" And bragged even more obnoxiously.

We did this for about a month, then quit.

The dude lost his mind. He started "losing" milage.
He was throwing plugs, wires, filters, distributor cap, etc. at it trying to figure it out.

We finally let him off the hook when he started talking about taking it to Toyota.

Never heard much about milage from him after that.
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7/26/2020 10:02am
The ups guy that delivered to our shop had a big mouth and ran it often so we greased his door handle and steering wheel one day. Shortly thereafter he ran his mouth about the incident... So we drilled a hole in his exhaust threaded in a zerk and pumped his exhaust full of grease. It smoked so bad they ended up towing it back to the depot.. After he swapped all the packages to a beater spare truck... Hahah
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7/26/2020 10:35am
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Met my dad and some of his buddies up for a day of trail riding but had to leave early the next morning. Glad I loaded...
Met my dad and some of his buddies up for a day of trail riding but had to leave early the next morning. Glad I loaded up my bike the night before because I saw this on my way out.


That’s a nice KDX. How much?
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7/26/2020 11:12am
A friend of mine was the first to pass out at a party once, so the host shaved one of his legs. He didn't notice for several hours in the morning. He ended up having to shave the other one so his legs would match.
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7/26/2020 11:42am
MB109 wrote:
Met my dad and some of his buddies up for a day of trail riding but had to leave early the next morning. Glad I loaded...
Met my dad and some of his buddies up for a day of trail riding but had to leave early the next morning. Glad I loaded up my bike the night before because I saw this on my way out.


Forty wrote:
That’s a nice KDX. How much?
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7/26/2020 11:42am
I thought a cardboard cutout would be funny. I placed this above the cafeteria on the sunlight of a building I was doing work on. The women were freaking out.
My Apprentice and I had a good laugh at least.



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7/26/2020 12:29pm
Co-worker used the zip tie on the driveshaft prank on me...so it was my turn.

He had this Scion XB that was lowered, rims, exhaust yada yada he loved this stupid thing. I took some pics of it at lunch one day and threw it up on Craigslist (before you had to validate the posting with phone # etc) for a super low, but still believable price. He got so many phone calls that he had to turn his phone off to go to sleep....he got really upset and never pranked me again.
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7/26/2020 12:41pm
Once out on a skiing vacation in Austria with 8 guys incl my now ex father in law. It started with the obligate ink tablet put into the shower heads, leaving a few guys blue.
Next victim was my father in law, every time we hit a mountain lodge for a drink and meal het asked for a coke. Only then one of us smeared a bitter substance
On the edge of his glass. At first we noticed that he didnt like the softdrink, and ordered something different. That went on for a few days. After that we did that again with inly the colas till he said, it doesnt taste well that Austrian coke.
On top of that he telled very enthousiastic about a co worker whos banana they injected with vinegar.

and we al sat together snd had a great laugh, even after 12 years from then.
7/26/2020 6:32pm Edited Date/Time 7/26/2020 7:28pm
In high school we took a 2x4, painted it black and cut a V notch on one end, then cut it to just the right length...
In high school we took a 2x4, painted it black and cut a V notch on one end, then cut it to just the right length. Jacked up a guys car and slipped it right next to the passenger side back tire. Almost invisible at a glance. He gets into the car, puts it into reverse and it goes nowhere. Gets out, looks around the car, looks for a broken driveshaft and after trying all the forward gears, he finally decides his transmission must have somehow gone bad while the car was sitting in the school parking lot. We let him in on it just before he walked up to the office to call his parents.
A buddy of mine worked for Vance & Hines Yamaha Superbike team back in the ‘80’s or early ‘90’s. One day Keith McCarty came over to the race shop for a big meeting. While he was inside they put his car on blocks so the tires barely cleared the ground. He comes out, gets in and puts it in reverse, of course it doesn’t go, he climbs out looks around the car, doesn’t figure it out immediately and climbs back in, of course it still doesn’t go. Meanwhile all the mechanics and maybe even a famous tuning guru are standing in the office watching the comedy unfold through the tinted building windows. Apparently it went over like a fart in church. 😂
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7/26/2020 9:43pm
On older versions of Microsoft Windows when you clicked the start button to shut down, the background of the screen would fade out/darken and a windows box showed in the middle of the screen. I worked in a office back then and when someone walked away from their computer I would start the shut down process and take a screenshot of the "Are you sure" screen. I would hit cancel but I would also store that screenshot image on the machine somewhere and then I would make it their wallpaper. It looked like the machine was in the middle of shutting down, but it was actually just the image of the shut down screen as their wallpaper.

They would click the shit out of the cancel button and wonder why it didn't do anything and then get really confused if they realized that the machine was running and not trying to shut down. I was the office nerd so I usually got asked to check it out and I would "fix" it by removing the screenshot wallpaper. Over about a week, I went through most of my coworkers before I couldn't keep a straight face. They never really understood what I was doing, but they knew it was me.
7/27/2020 5:11am
A few years ago at the Autosport Show in the UK, there was a stall selling cheap remote control cars and every time the aisle wasn't too busy the seller would get a car out and drive it up and down to try to get people interested. It was a pain as it also put people off coming down the aisle for the other stalls.

We were working on a nearby stall and wondered if all the controllers were on the same frequency, so we got a friend to buy one and bring it over.

Turns out they actually were all running on the same frequency, so every time this guy got a car out for a demo, we would wait a while then quietly turn the wheel on ours, sending it into a wall. 3 days and he never twigged what was going on and spent a lot of time trying to "fix" the problem. :-)

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