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Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers

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I almost forgot about this one from a summer job in high school.  It was a small operation, just three of us, myself and another student plus the employer who had two computer systems.  One was for production work and didn't run Windows and the other was for administrative stuff and was a brand new Windows 98 machine.  I added this to his autoexec.bat file:


--- Code: ---@echo Hi Ray!
--- End code ---

It didn't get noticed and I thought it was a bust of a prank.  Months later, long after I forgot about this, I got this angry shouting phone call about how [Other Employee] was sabotaging his computer.  On and on about how the other guy was sabotaging his computer and finally after asking what had been done to it, he told me the computer had been changed to say, "Hi Ray!" on the screen whenever he started it up.  I had to choke back laughter on that and told him that if that's all that had been done, the computer was still in fine shape and not to worry about it.  I found out from a couple of other friends though that they'd also gotten these angry venting calls about the computer being sabotaged and apparently he called the other employee who'd by then quit and only got further enraged when the other guy denied everything.  It was priceless.

BurningTantalum:
Nali and MadHippy: Great minds think alike: many years ago I had a chum who was a mathematical genius but when it came to practical matters we decided that he had 'ExoVision' and could not visualise what was inside anything solid. His pride and joy was a BSA B33. One day I was walking past his house with another friend. We had visited the local hostelry and were transiting to the next pub. The bike was sitting on the driveway, so I asked my friend if he had some old engine oil. We staggered off to his house to fetch a gallon can of it, and proceeded to lean the bike over and pour about half of it into the joint of the head and barrel fins. It cascaded down like a black champagne fountain. Shambling off tittering we promptly forgot about it until a few days later I passed by and saw my chum amid a heap of tools and the head off the bike. "Bloody head gasket has gone..." he whined. My friend and I swore on our lives never to tell anyone what we had done. Not sure how he imagined 2 litres of oil could come out of the head gasket...
BT

aargee:
Never use the toilets at a Chemistry Block at a Uni, one prank was to paint all the toilet seats with dilute silver nitrate.

nctnico:
Best prank I helped pull on a co-worker was when he brought his old (antique-ish) phone from home to put on his desk. One with a dial instead of push-buttons. He declared it no longer worked. Working at a telefom related company we had a whole bunch of parts that would fit in it so one day when he was away we fixed the phone and connected it to a telephone line. When he was back we rang him. He was flabbergasted when it started ringing and even more surprised there was someone at the other end of the line.

tautech:

--- Quote from: nali on August 01, 2020, 08:20:45 am ---Talking about cars. A colleague bought a new Ford Escort RS2000 and would not stop banging on about it. So one day we poured a cup of engine oil on to the tarmac underneath making a nice puddle and a trail out from under the engine bay. We made sure we all left work at the same time just to watch the priceless expression on his face...

--- End quote ---
It's a Ford FFS, oil leaks are part of the design !
I should know, I've had a few of the things !

Several decades back when twisting spanners on small motors and mostly before the days of them new fangled CDI's and such ignitions we would charge points ignition caps with ignition cap testers and lob them at 'mates' for them to catch.
You got wise to it pretty quick.  :phew:

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