Have you ever played a practical joke on someone, IRL

[TZ]

I was reminded of this with April Fools Day..Used to work with a guy who was a real joker, who was appropriately enough born on April Fools Day. So every year we had to come up with something.
One time it was shaving cream on the car (which the rain washed off).
Another year, I personally took his lab coat and wrote "I am a dork!" and "kick me" on the back.
He had no clue I did it. He thought another joker in the lab did it. It was harmless cause he basically stayed in the lab area where everyone was cool with pranks. Took him a few minutes to notice too.
Finally one year we went out to lunch (at Hooters) and while he was inside with a bunch of people me and a friend handcuffed a blow up doll (nekkid) to his car...:rofl: I still have the pictures..it was hilarious. This was a few years ago (almost 8) don't know if I'd do that to a coworker now.
But I like to pull funny silly harmless little pranks on friends who have senses of humor. I wouldn't want to do anything like Punked really or anything mean spirited.
Anyone else here do practical jokes or had one pulled on them?:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I do them all the time.

Did one to matcom not that long ago. It was a beaut.

The ones I do are totally harmless and not hurtful. Some of 'Punked' is funny, others not so much.

[LanternWaste]

2. Mine was a counter-pratical joke...

While in college, I worked graveyard shift at a local convenience store close to my parent's house in the not-so-nice part of town. A pal of mine tipped me off that two other friends would be coming to the store that night an hour after my shift started, wearing pantyhose over their heads and pretend to hold me up (yeah... they didn't know how incredibly stupid and dangerous that was...)

Since I worked graveyard shift, I got to know a lot of the local cops and became pretty good friends with the local beat Sgt. He was there when I showed up for my shift and I told him what was going to happen. He decided to have some fun and parked his car behind the store.

When my friends finally showed up and began to "rob" me, Sgt. Stritmatter (funny how I can still remember his name) popped out from the bathroom, and yelled, "STOP! You're under arrest!!!"

My friends immediately froze. One grabbed his hose and started pulling it off his head. The Sgt. told both to put their hands against the wall and proceeded to cuff them. My pals were yelling, "Lantern! Lantern! Tell him who we are! It was just a joke!!!"

I played innocent and said, "I've never seen these guys before". (This is where it got over the line-- so they say). Sgt. Stmttr says to me as serious as he can be, "I'm taking these guys around back and beating the crap out of them-- if any detectives ask, tell them your saw these guys fall down on the way out..."

One of my friends started crying, so I knew it was time to finish off the joke, and I finally told them what was happening (crying friend didn't hang out with me for about six months after that...)

We still chuckle about that.. :evilgrin:

[Red State Rebel]

3. Decorated my bosses car "Just Married"

It was while they were at bowling league so I knew he wouldn't be out till after midnite and it was January so it was about 20 degrees out and he couldn't go to a car wash. He was a single guy in his early 30's :)

[Greyskye]

4. While on a 2 week camping trip in the Bitterroot mountains...

I went with my best friend from high school, his wife and her 2 female cousins, his wife's folks, and another friend from high school. This was when we were in college.

That whole trip was one practical joke after the other. The ones I remember...

Tabasco sauce injected into toothpaste tubes.
Vaseline on the outhouse toilet seat.
Salted tooth brushes.
Made-up horror stories of the local unsolved murders in the area (with appropriate late night noises and lights) :evilgrin:
Swapping the hot solar water shower bag for one filled with cold creek water at the last minute.

Not all of them ended well - I think the Vaseline toilet seat somehow caused a mag light to end up at the bottom of the outhouse pit (it lit the outhouse from below for a couple nights :rofl: ), and a couple of us got bounced out of the back of a pickup truck when the driver thought it would be funny to speed up before hitting that bump on the hill. I think I still have some scars on my back from that. :(

[TZ]

5. heh.

I think I would have enjoyed the tabasco sauce in the toothpaste tubes......:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

6. I often have co-workers unwittingly participating in Gullibility Tests...

at least once every couple weeks or so, I'll steer a conversation into some outlandish territory, and make up some bizarre claim like I own a piece of the Pittsburgh Steelers, or that Noah Webster invented the question mark.

When I get the inevitable reply of, "Really?" I always say, "No. Not really."

I can't even estimate how many times I've done it now, but people still fall for it every time. :evilgrin:

[Greyskye]

7. "Did you know that the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?"

I never in my life thought anyone would actually fall for that.

I just about died when an ex co-worker brought over his dictionary to prove I was wrong. :rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

13. What, you don't own a piece of the Steelers?

Shit man, I was hoping to talk you outta some tickets....:(


:D

[madinmaryland]

8. I've done this a couple of times....

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

:hi:

[LeftyMom]

9. I called and left a voice mail message for my friend pretending to be the hospital lab

letting her know her HCG was a bit higher than expected, and that we needed her to come in right away because we suspected multiples.

Well, her crazy stalker boyfriend called to check her voice mail, which he did all the time to see if any guys were calling her (no worries, he's long gone and she married somebody awesome) freaked out, and went over to her family's house and announced that they were having triplets at least, that he had no idea how they'd afford that, that this was a disaster and his life was over, then to drink all the booze in their house before she came home and laughed at him.

[graywarrior]

10. I made Exlax chocolate chip cookies for a co-worker who stole food from

mentally challenged people at work.

And I sewed up the crotch of all my ex-boyfriend's skivvies when I caught him stealing my stash. You can do some creative things when you're stoned.

[Parche]

11. i love april fools jokes

I had this one....blonde lady in the office, but she was a red head, but totally clueless....

I gave her a phone message to call back a Mr Yuri Natz....the phone number was to a Urologists office.......so she calls the number and ask for ....yurinatz.....and the whole office erupts in
nonstop laughter.....and she still didnt have a clue ...:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


Another time, we were at the airport flying to LAX or SFO i dont remember, but i left
a paging message for the office assistant Sheia D., as she was walking down the concourse
"Paging Sheila D*****, Dick Goesinya, Mike Hunt, please report to the white courtesy telephone....she was redder then a lobster, everyone in the concourse was looking at her and cracking up!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :woohoo:

[Broken_Hero]

12. Well, yeah....

I believe it was in 2000, when Bill Nye the science dude, had a little fire/accident on his tv set....

And shortly thereafter, I told my friend Vanessa that Bill Nye had died(I didn't think she would buy it), but she believed me hook, line, sinker....:)

It was summer of 2003, when were both were watching some discovery channel, and Bill Nye appeared for some interview...when she saw him alive...she just looked at me, and I couldn't hold in my laughter...she then proceeded to punch me in the arm, and I didn't stop laughing for at least 10 minutes....

[LaraMN]

14. I pulled a great one once, but it turned out to be a federal offense,

so I probably shouldn't post about it.
But it was great!
I swear!

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

15. The dorms were the worst

Using a manila envelope to shoot shaving cream into a room.

Tipping a garbage can filled with water (and other stuff) against someone's door.

Trapping someone in their room by jamming pennies between the door and jamb.

Keypunch chaff in hair dryers.

Using tape to insulate contacts inside a telephone so that it will never go off hook, i.e. keep ringing.

Took apart someone's calculator and changed some of the keys to the scientific functions around.

Rewired the RGB wires on monitors.

[KansDem]

16. I worked with an outspoken feminist once...

We worked the evening shift in an hospital x-ray department

One evening when it was slow, I typed up a letter on a hospital letterhead saying that this person was to be let go due to her "insubordination." Then I addressed it to the department head and signed it with the administrator's "signature." It looked truly official! I placed it on the desk of the departmental supervisor who had already gone home for the day but would leave his office door open for the evening crew. Just above his desk was the departmental calendar with all of our days and shifts on it. I then went to my friend and made up some cock-and-bull story about the shifts being incorrect so we both went into the office to look at the calendar. The "letter" was sitting on the desk right in front of us (as if the department head left it there before going home) and she saw it and was greatly flummoxed and angry at why the hospital wanted to terminate her. She went on for a few minutes until I couldn't hold it in any more and burst out laughing. She looked at me with a surprised look and I explained the joke to her. We both laughed at that one for quite a while!

It was priceless!
:rofl::rofl: