What are your favorite practical jokes

[crow]

You machinists and mechanics will know what prussian blue is.  Any way put some on the earpiece of a phone near where your mark is, page them, when they answer, tell them to look at their ear.  BIG FUN at work.

Find an old pocket watch.  Tell one of the new guys at work  it was your great grandfathers. Have them take to the tool room for the guy there to fix.  Tell them to BE CAREFUL with it.  When arriving at the tool room the attendant (who is in on the joke)  tells your mark " that no good Crow didnt pay me for the last one", then smashes it with a hammer!    Especially fun to do to girls.  


Merry, Happy, whatever it is you celebrate,..... if indeed you celebrate anything at this time of year

[Patrick]

You machinists and mechanics will know what prussian blue is.  Any way put some on the earpiece of a phone near where your mark is, page them, when they answer, tell them to look at their ear.  BIG FUN at work.

Find an old pocket watch.  Tell one of the new guys at work  it was your great grandfathers. Have them take to the tool room for the guy there to fix.  Tell them to BE CAREFUL with it.  When arriving at the tool room the attendant (who is in on the joke)  tells your mark " that no good Crow didnt pay me for the last one", then smashes it with a hammer!    Especially fun to do to girls.  


Merry, Happy, whatever it is you celebrate,..... if indeed you celebrate anything at this time of year

Aw man, thats mean. How many blue ears have you had ?    That stuff comes off hard.

[crow]

I got it twice in one day.  Its impossible to see on a black phone.  I ALWAYS check now.  Another favorite place is behind the urinal flush handle, or the underside of a tool box drawer.

We have made girls cry with the watch trick!!

[Serk]

I of course would never be involved in such a thing, but I've heard stories...

Men's bathroom with the old fashioned urinal that goes all the way to the floor...

Car battery hooked to capacitor stored in a nearby stall.

Thin wires running from capacitor to urinal running in grout between tiles of bathroom.

One end going to metal screen thingy at bottom of urinal.

Other wire going to metal flush handle.

If someone using urinal has their hand on the flush handle and begins to urinate, urine will complete the circuit, discharging stored voltage from capacitor into a rather tender area.

[R J]

Back when cars had distributors, we would pull the cap and add a piece of wrapping tape on the points.   Put cap back on and watch the fun.   Cars with the distributor on the front of the engine were the easiest.   Chevy's were on the back and a bear to get to the points tip.

Yupper she no start.

One of the guys had his car towed to the dealer, they had it for 3 weeks and couldn't figure out what was wrong.   Didn't want to use that dealership for anything.    One of our gang went to the dealer and asked how they were coming on the car.   He was told they couldn't figure it out.   He told him to have his Tec replace the points and it should run.

Too old to do that stuff anymore.    

Never stuck around long enough to find out.
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We used to stuff apples, bananas, steel wool, and what ever else we could find up the exhaust pipe.
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We drilled a small ball bearing we had on the vise and wrapped it to the driveshaft.    That way every revolution of the driveshaft the little ball bearing would hit the floor of the car and make a hell of a racket.

One guy at the base told us he had a hell of a racket in his staff car and had to pick up the General in 30 minutes.   29 minutes later we told him we fixed it and sent him on his way.      Don't remember now where they were headed, but our tape came undone and started banging again.    The General panicked & jumped out at the stop light.      He had one of us come after him.    I retrieved him in a MP car  that had the wire cage between the driver.

He made us find what was wrong with the car and he watched.   We found the ball bearing and took it off.   Last words out of the Generals mouth was, I'll have ever stripe the culprit(s) have and he will be a Buck Pvt. as long as I'm in Control of this base.        He never did find out who did it thank God.   I'd of lost 5 stripes and all my buddies would have lost 1, 2 or 3 stripes.

[Patrick]

One keeps remembering stuff that has happened over the years.  A new Studebaker came in and was sold. Owner came back with a rattle complaint. Didn't notice it prior to delivery. Had a heck of a time getting it to rattle, found out it would only do it upon hard acceleration or stopping or really rough street and then it would travel forward or back. Someone thought it would be funny to weld a Coke bottle inside the frame rail, once found I broke it up and got out as much as I could.
One other time a new Falcon came in, this was long before printed circuit boards. It couldn't even be started to back off the trailer, turn on the key and smoke would roll out from the dash. Someone thought it was fun to spot weld every dash wire to the dash frame. I couldn't imagine how many guys it took to push that thing up on the trailer.

[R J]

I bought a new 57 Chevy Convertible, with all the goodies.

We had a rattle in the right rear quarter panel, I couldn't find it and the dealer couldn't either.

So we put up with it.    Only rattled when ya hit a speed bump or made and abrupt stop.

Wife took my mom shopping one day; I was on duty with the motor.    Got a trip to a property damage accident.    They said no injuries, so I went to the trip silent, silent is no siren or lights.      Rolled up, looked at the one car and said crap that's mine.     Then I spotted mom and my wife standing on the curb.   This young girl was just a running them up one side and down the other.   I started over to talk to both drivers.

Got there introduced myself and I started with the one doing all the yelling.   She said that dump bitch driving the Convert needs her license takin away.   She pulled right out in front of me and I couldn't stop in time.    Said okay, I'll talk to the other driver, you wait her.    I went over to the wife and asked what the story was.  She told me, and right over my right shoulder the other driver said she is one big fat lying bitch.    I turned around and said didn't I ask you to stay over there, she said yes, but I wanted to get my 2 cents in on what she says.   I turned her around, cuffed her and stuck her in a backup cruiser.

Got the car to the body shop and it was in the process of being repaired.   Got a call from my insurance adjuster, he told me the Collision Center wanted to talk to me.    Got over there and he met me at the door, he said it is real important that you got here now as we were ready to put the upholstery in but need to replace the pop bottle.   He wanted to know if I had a preference.    Then he showed me the busted coke bottle they took out of the quarter panel.   Laughed all the way home.

Figured some car builder at the Chevy plant wanted to play a joke.

[BradValk48237]

Couple of years ago a co worker and I were at Harbor Freight looking around and She found a Fake Video Surveillance camera. It was motion activated and would move from side to side and have a red light on the front when activated. I thought this was a great thing and bought one.

Back at work we schemed and thought about how to best use it. I said that since we were both going to a friend Super Bowl party that Saturday, we should do something there. I did not tell her exactly what, but that something involving the camera would take place.

So I got it home and made a light weight base for it with double stick tape on the bottom.

SO the night of the party I wore cargo pants and hid it in one of the pockets..... and I then deployed it an a certain area.

About 40 mins later one of the female guests came up to the Host of the party and demanded to know why they had a camera IN THE BATHROOM and why the hell did it face the toilet!!!!! She was outraged!!  The host of the party apologized saying she did not know what she was talking about and went into the bathroom expecting to find that someone had left a camera on the counter.......she went into the bathroom and saw and heard the fake camera moving and pointing at the toilet. She then called her husband into the bathroom and pointed it out. He came straight to me,Smirking,  saw the look on my face, shook my hand and said... "It had to be you and that's the best prank I have seen in a long time"... he left it in place to make sure it had full effect. Best part was, most to the guests didn't tell anyone so as to get the next guy.

One person later even covered it with a tissue. ..... We laughed about it for weeks after..

Best part is that about 4 in the morning it fell off the wall, into the tub and scared the sleeping hosts out of their wits.....

I still have not been able to top it.

Brad