Best Pranks?
 

Ok, work is always the best breeding ground for pranks. I was watching The Office (UK version of course) last night and it made me think of all the pranks I've played on people or witnessed.

So, what are the best pranks you've been part of, had played on you or you have witnessed?

Ok, I'll kick things off. I've done a few in my time and the one I am planning right now could well be my best yet, but I'll wait until Monday to see if I pulled it off.

I used to work next to a guy in my last job who was extremely homophobic, to the point that it would actually make him dry wretch just talking about anything remotely gay. He was really into his cars and was delighted when a guy joined the company who's main hobby was to buy up Japanese imports off the web and pimp them up (so to speak). He was quite an odd looking guy, quite plump with really straight hair, where he had obviously used a hair straightener. He also looked like he had man-boobs too, but we just put that down to physical misfortune. My colleague regularly went out for rides with him in his cars and got to meet the new guy's girlfriend on quite a few occasions. Then one day the new guy decided to send around a link to his flickr.com photo album account to his work colleagues to show off his old cars. He also had on there an album entitled "bikinis". Naturally my colleague looked in there and was faced with this guy dressed in various female attire, including a picture of him bent over, arse to camera dressed only in a female g-string and stillettos. In the same photo he was looking back at the camera with a really cheeky grin.
My colleague immediately ditched him as a friend and from then on gave him the cold shoulder.

So a few other colleagues of mine and I began saving those pics on his computer, but with some minor edits, such as putting speech bubbles over the top of the photo saying things like "wanna see me touch my toes?". I then changed some settings on his PC so that whenever he clicked on certain icons, like Outlook, our main CRM, ERP software applications that it would bring up a different picture.

I happened to be in a meeting in my bosses office, which is right next to my colleague's desk when he opened them. The noise that came from there had everyone (who was in on it) screaming with laughter

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Your day sounds hilARious, I WISH I could work with you. ;)

Seriously, have you never tried a bikini on? :blink:

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What, like soft furnishings or musical theatre?

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No you don't. Law of averages would suggest that you would be the victim of one sooner or later.

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As long as I had a cut from the winnings of "Co-Workers Do The FUNniest Things".

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We once had a Friday fartathon, 12 of us in the techs office, thursday night we all made the effort to eat the food that provoked a certain abdominal reaction.

I no longer have a sense of smell, but it was funny:)

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The one we are planning at the moment is this guy in the office who tends to end up going out with women with either serious baggage or are seriously psychologically damaged. He laughs about his luck and we take the piss out of him.

Anyway, this one particular girl who he went out with for 3 weeks, who now stalks him on a regular basis, turning up to parties at which she is not invited constantly texting him and going through the women on his facebook to send them abusive messages has been the centre of our recent piss taking. Most other guys would have told her to piss off a long time ago, but he doesn't like to be "mean to girls".

This guy also made the mistake of telling someone at work that he has a stuffed snowman toy called "Frosty" that sits by his bed at night.

Anyway, for Valentine's day, I nicked his phone earlier today and replaced this girl's number with mine and put the phone back without him realising. On Friday we are going to have a headless teddy bear gift wrapped and sent to work addressed to him. When I see him receive the package and open it I will send the following poetic text message from my phone (coming up on his phone with the name of the girl obviously):

Dear....

When I first met you my heart ran amok,
I was so glad on our first date that we got to f#ck,

We’ve tried being together but alas that failed,
But I still want you so I can be impaled,

I know our relationship hasn’t gone without glitch,
And that sometimes I can be a real psycho b!tch,

But you and I both know deep in our hearts,
That we’ll be together until we’re old farts,

For you I’d be willing to involve other women,
So long as you’ll let me give you a good rimmin’

In case this hasn’t made you see the light,
I want to show you that I am willing to fight,

By this I am sending you this headless teddy,
Be mine, or Frosty is next, you’d better be ready!

That’s right, go straight to Frosty, you’d better check,
Next time you won’t be so lucky, I’ll sh!t in his neck

Love T

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:ohmy:

BS, you actually scare me!! :unsure:

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Have an actor playing a policeman come to your friend's house and charge him with molesting children. He comes in, reads your friend his rights and cuffs him.

Just as he thinks he's about to be taken down the station, you appear, like Jeremy Beadle. Your friend repeatedly soils himself with relief and falls to his knees in a mixture of whimpering and giggling. That's when you take out a real gun and shoot the actor dead, then smear you friend's cuffed hands all over the gun and leave. Great one that. :thumbsup:

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I got searched once in the uk because my ex had apparently threatened someone with a gun. It was really funny - I was convinced it was a beadles about. They were saying to me "so what did the gun look like, did it have a diamond on the handle" - and I was cracking myself - saying actually I think it was a ruby, it didnt actually get to me at the dinner table because they guy before me had the bullet.

Anyway they searched the house (without taking their clothes off which was a disappointment). and it wasnt a joke. I never really got to the bottom of what it was all about - weird.

And of course there was the most recent time when I kidnapped Madeleine. Unfortunately that also wasnt a wind up.......

I have done the false scratch card thing to my husband and also put a big black spider under the toilet seat. he sat down - saw it reared up and dived through the shower screen and smashed it. amused me though

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fantastic thread :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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A classic prank is to capture (screen grab) their screen (on their PC - preferably when they're not there and with no applications running/maximised or visible on the task bar) as an image with the same resolution as the screen, make it their desktop background image, hide all icons and the resize the task bar so it sits below the screen permanently and then hey-presto, at least 30 minutes of fun watching them double click their mouse frantically on all visible icons and the task bar resulting in nada but a slowly rising blood pressure...

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yeah done that, plus the old sticky tape under the laser part of a mouse.

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I'm extremely sensible these days.

In 6th Form though, we rebelled against being perfect prefects and I ended up wrapped completely in toilet paper and stood in the first/second years recreation area.

As soon as I was suitably surrounded by a gaggle of youngsters, all wondering what was going on, I burst through my bindings and scared them all shitless.

That toilet paper came in handy.

Ah, those were the days.

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Goldies oldies when living in halls, etc.

Wait for person to go away for a few weeks.

Chuck grass seed in to a room, turn up radiator, spray carpet with water.

Take all furniture and upend it - or glue it to wall. Would work well if person returned drunk.