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Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« on: July 31, 2020, 02:07:00 am »
In an effort not to hi-jack the bubble wrap thread, thought it might be good therapy to start a prank thread, documenting (hopefully) harmless but creative ways you’ve returned the favor to a friend or coworker for their annoyances.

Our purchasing guy was a real car nut. Always drove a late model Ford land yacht. Never a speck of dirt on it, oil changed every 3k miles or less, I’m sure you’ve known someone like that. After a few too many of his pranks, myself and two other engineers had enough, it was payback time.

We got foot long piece of 1 inch cast iron pipe, stuck large ball bearing that just fit in the ID and secured it into place with two end caps. It rolled nice and slow with a good deep clunk when it reached either end. We got into his car (left open in those days) and placed it under the carpet under the drivers seat.

We got about a week out of it. It was really hard to keep a straight face every morning when he would try to explain the noise and when it occurred. We finally had to come clean when when he started threatening to take it to the dealer to complain about his new car with the clunking noise. It took him about a month to cool off but we had much better relationship afterwards.
 
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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2020, 03:02:51 am »
My dad's a Mercedes nut and while visiting him a few years ago, I borrowed one of his cars and picked up a slow leak in a rear tire. It was in the tread surface and thus easily repaired with a spaghetti plug, which I went to the store, bought, and showed him how it worked, even though he was a little skeptical.

Next morning, the same tire is flat again. "See, I told you that wouldn't work!" Closer examination revealed the tire had two nail punctures and I'd only fixed one of them. Fixed the second one and left the car alone with success overnight.

He was still monitoring the tire pressure daily to see if there was still a slow leak.

The day we left, I let 10 psi out of that tire in the garage, said nothing, and went to the airport to return home.

He emailed the next day complaining about how the tire was going flat again and that he'd already called the dealer an hour away to see about getting the tire replaced. I had to explain through my laughter what was really going on. That was probably 8 years ago and he still jokes about it.
 
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2020, 03:19:24 am »
we managed to convince one of our collage lectures there was a fault with the overhead projector as every time he touched the screen the RCD tripped,lesson changed into a practical demonstration on fault finding, a thorough inspection of the projector  and a test on the rooms electrics didn't find any faults so lesson resumed only for the trip to go again next time he pointed at the screen.The sniggering around the class finally gave the game away and my plug with a switch wired across neutral and earth was confiscated.
 

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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2020, 03:38:24 am »
One of my favorite tricks back in the day was to wait for someone to forget to lock their PC when they went to lunch, then open a browser window or some other window, take a screenshot and then set that as the wallpaper. One day it was the viagra website in a browser window and we sat around trying to stifle our laughter as he repeatedly clicked on the close button, went into task manager trying to kill the browser, then proceeded to reboot THREE times before he finally figured it out. There were about 10 of us in a big room and everybody was dying trying not to laugh.

Another classic office prank I liked was to connect a USB extension cable to their tower and run it under the cubicle wall to an extra mouse or keyboard on the floor under my desk. Then move the mouse around when they're trying to do something or peck a random key each time they try to enter their password.

Oh and swapping keycaps is always fun on keyboards where those are easily removable. If it's something like the N and M or S and D it isn't immediately obvious at a glance. One guy we even told about this prank and he said it wouldn't work on him because he doesn't look at his keyboard when he types. Well a few days later I did it to him and that afternoon I heard him calling helpdesk to say his password wasn't working and he got locked out of his PC. Turns out one of the keys I swapped happened to be what his password started with so he'd look down at his keyboard to type the first letter.

Outside of work I think my favorite prank was printing up a funny or embarrassing bumper sticker and putting it on my friend's car. On one occasion a long time friend of mine had a history of pulling pranks on me so I put a bumper sticker that said "I Masturbate" on his truck and he drove all over town the next day before a girl he was meeting up with noticed it and said something. Just prior to that a group of guys in a big lifted truck kept pointing and laughing and he thought it was because his truck was smaller than theirs  :-DD
 
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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2020, 03:51:00 am »
Putting electrolytic caps in the sockets on someones workbench in the lab so when they came in and turned on their gear... BANG.

Along with the fake insects like spiders attached to fishing line that you hung down in front of people in deep thought :)

 

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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2020, 04:44:32 am »
Wire a coworker’s motorized desk to a esp8266 running a web server on the office net such that everyone with the URL could move it up/down. She thought it was possessed.
 

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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2020, 05:13:34 am »
Back in electronics class in grade 11 (yes, I really took electronics in high school,  but then that was 1966) we would charge electrolytic caps up to 300-400V and then leave them lying around for someone to put away...

In residence at university there were always guys who would do standard stuff like locking a student INTO his room by jamming his door with pennies so tight that the knob would not turn, or
taking the mouthpiece mic out of his phone, or
short-sheeting his bed, or
if he fell asleep drunk then gently lowering his hand into a small bucket of warm water would make him pee.

 >:D  The most evil of prank at uni I ever heard of was to get one of those "big bertha" garbage bins from the bathroom, fill it 2/3 with water (must have weighed close to a couple hundred pounds) then drag it over to some poor saps door and lean it up on that door so that it would stay there and the water was just at the lip.  Then knock on the door and walk away.  When the mark opened the door the water could not be stopped.  His room would be flooded to a depth of 2-3 inches.
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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2020, 02:57:36 pm »
Obviously, pranks that have considerable (say 1%-ish) possibility of death, serious injury, traumatization of the victim, or a large-scale damage to properties are the most funny ones, and anyone disagreeing or pointing out the dangers is a party pooper.
 

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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2020, 03:52:32 pm »
One of my favorite tricks back in the day was to wait for someone to forget to lock their PC when they went to lunch, then open a browser window or some other window, take a screenshot and then set that as the wallpaper. One day it was the viagra website in a browser window and we sat around trying to stifle our laughter as he repeatedly clicked on the close button, went into task manager trying to kill the browser, then proceeded to reboot THREE times before he finally figured it out. There were about 10 of us in a big room and everybody was dying trying not to laugh.

I used to do something like this in the high school computer science room.  The room was filled with these Tron 386 PCs that had Windows 3.1 on them and I'd screenshot Program Manager and set that as the background, then move the actual Program Manager window off screen into one of the corners, then grab the corner of the window with the mouse and drag the rest of it down into the corner so all that was visible if you looked closely was one pixel in on of the corners of the screen.  Then use the keyboard shortcuts to exit Windows which would cause it to save the last used position of the window hidden away down in the corner.  The next person to load up Windows on that machine would have it come up exactly as I left it with the screenshot background Program Manager sitting there and the actual window hidden away.  That was always good for confounding people especially some of the less computer savvy teachers the place had.

More recently in the working world, calling the maintenance shop number from an internal phone's always been good.  "Hello?  Is this tech support?  It isn't working!"  And let the person stuck answering the phone crash and burn and freak out.  I'm surprised that one works.  I guess instinct kicking in as opposed to asking what isn't working, where isn't it working, etc.  I also set someone's computer's login sound to crickets chirping several weeks before he retired.

Back in electronics class in grade 11 (yes, I really took electronics in high school,  but then that was 1966) we would charge electrolytic caps up to 300-400V and then leave them lying around for someone to put away...

It's interesting what changes in 30 years.  They had an electronics class in high school when I went through in the mid-1990s but I never took it though.  A friend of mine a year or two ahead of me did and we were talking one day and it came up.  I forget the exact question I asked but it was something to do with capacitors and the friend said that he didn't know because they weren't allowed to use them.  That's when I decided not to take the electronics class figuring it couldn't be that good if you weren't allowed to use capacitors when you stop and think about what that does to the range of circuits you can work with.  Compare that to using capacitors and at vacuum tube B+ voltages as well.  Fast forward almost another 30 years now and I don't even want to think how much more watered down it's gotten.
 
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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2020, 04:41:36 pm »
Newbie operators in the cleanroom. Since we had many chemicals in in use like silicontrafluoride , isopropanol and others.... it was easy to 'invent' new chemicals.
If newbie shift supervisor in nightshift showed 'attitude' ( pressurizing the techs to fix the machine faster ) we used to 'deflate' them a bit by telling them .if you want it faster : help us. we need a cannister of ilektanminol from the warehouse. so they would try to run off and get it for us. The warehouse guys knew about this one and that stuff was invariably stored in the most inaccessible place with pallets of other stuff in the way.

now, ilektanminol in itself is funny ... i lekt an min ol : he licks at my a..


Or in the chemistry sophomores class : tell him you found a small bottle with a brownish liquid. It shows the formula C-H-O-C-O .. and watch then go in discussion about how that can't be . The oxygen atoms wouldn't bond like that. Then take out your little bottle of CHOCO brand chocolate mlik , take a sip in front of them tell them it tastes really nice though and then walk away ...
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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2020, 06:28:33 pm »
Back in the 80s I worked in an electronics shop (mostly components sales, semiconductors, resistors, caps, wires etc.) selling over the counter.
Behind the counter there were plastic boxes with relatively large polyester caps, IIRC 220 nF, 470 nF, 1 uF, even 2.2 uf, all 400 V rated.
One day a couple of us charged all the caps in one of the boxes to 300 V, carefully replaced them and waited for the unsuspecting (and unpopular) colleague to make a grab into the box to serve a customer.

The fireworks of sparks and the screaming was overwhelming. So was the telling-off from the boss... :(


 

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« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2020, 06:47:23 pm »
I worked at a repair shop where we did repairs on warranty returns of cheap consumer stuff like clock-radios & cassette recorders for the importer.

Much prankery was aimed at me, typically stuff like 10uf 10v caps inside the mains plug of my soldering iron, or slamming the bench when I powered something on,  so I decided to get subtle...

This was back when mains stuff in the UK didn't usually come with a plug on ( obscure historical reasons), so we had quick-connect type blocks on the bench to connect the mains to them (think crocodile clips in a box).
 
I took the fuse out of my colleague's one, and put a 1N4007 diode inside the fuse, so it looked normal from the outside, but when you connected something like a clock-radio, the DC would saturate the transformer and blow the internal fuse inside the transformer.   
Took quite a while for anyone to figure out what was going on...
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« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2020, 06:49:23 pm »
Well, it is probably not what you intended, and certainly more impressive than I could ever be part of, but I can't help but be reminded of the 1982 MIT prank of putting the phone booth on top of the building - of course it could ring. *dang* they don't make nerds like they used to  ;)



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« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2020, 07:04:30 pm »
One of my favorite tricks back in the day was to wait for someone to forget to lock their PC when they went to lunch, then open a browser window or some other window, take a screenshot and then set that as the wallpaper.  ...

I used to do something like this in the high school computer science room.  The room was filled with these Tron 386 PCs that had Windows 3.1 on them and I'd screenshot Program Manager and set that as the background, then move the actual Program Manager window off screen into one of the corners, then grab the corner of the window with the mouse and drag the rest of it down into the corner so all that was visible if you looked closely was one pixel in on of the corners of the screen.  Then use the keyboard shortcuts to exit Windows which would cause it to save the last used position of the window hidden away down in the corner.  The next person to load up Windows on that machine would have it come up exactly as I left it with the screenshot background Program Manager sitting there and the actual window hidden away.  That was always good for confounding people especially some of the less computer savvy teachers the place had.

I would do the same thing in a different way.  I would take a screenshot of the desktop, edit it to remove all but one desktop icon, and then set that as the desktop wallpaper with the real icon moved to a safe place.  So now the desktop looks completely normal, except one icon is completely unresponsive and cannot even be selected, but everything else works.
 

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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2020, 07:41:24 pm »
Oh and swapping keycaps is always fun on keyboards where those are easily removable. If it's something like the N and M or S and D it isn't immediately obvious at a glance.

Back in the days before numeric keypads gained cursor keys as an alternate function, swapping the 123 and 789 rows was always good for causing confusion.
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« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2020, 07:56:43 pm »
Well, not quite at the MIT level...

I remember sometime in maybe 1987, I had a VAX terminal on my desk, as did most of us (loved me some kermit). In everyone's login file was a call to a cookie service - a little fortune cookie was  delivered through a random choice in a database. I managed to replace my supervisors cookie file with one of my creation. As you might have guessed, all of the fortunes praised me and encouraged raises and promotions for me. I didn't get those (because of the prank) but did get some smiles...followed by a "Now fix it"!
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« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2020, 08:35:15 pm »
I remember sometime in maybe 1987, I had a VAX terminal on my desk
Back in those days I managed a VAX 11/780, and it was discovered that the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet was going to crash into Jupiter.
So, I changed the login script that normally just gave the current time and said when you last logged on with something like this :

Welcome.  It is 9:15 PM, do you know where your Shoemaker-Levy 9 is?  OH NO, it is going to crash into Jupiter in 37 days 14 hours and 23 minutes!

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Another one was in the dorms of an engineering school.  Some guys from our floor shoved an envelope filled with shaving cream under the door and stomped on it, spraying the stuff all over a few feet inside the door.  My roommate dashed out the door and saw the culprits running rown the stairs and out of the building, so we knew we had a few minutes to retaliate.  They had left their room open!  I had made a little bit of Nitorgen triIodide and had it in my dorm room.  We smeared it all over the light bulbs, doorknobs, and places where you put your hand to open dresser drawers and closet doors.  The stuff was exploding for weeks before they had managed to set it all off.  Nitrogen triIodide is quite harmless, but makes you jump every time you set a bit of it off.  (A contact explosive.)

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At another school, they had a carrier current AM station with transmitters in each cluster of dorms.  Program audio was distributed through dedicated phone lines.  We got keys to the phone room and rewired all the program audio to go up to my dorm and then back to the common feed.  We took over their feed and started playing mothers of invention (Frank Zappa) and all sorts of stuff that they were not allowed to play.  Eventually, the culprits were mostly identified, and brought before the campus judcial board.  4 of the 7 members of the board were in on the prank.  One of them was a pre-law student, and observed the J-board bylaws said anyone who had knowledge of the incident or relationship to those involved "SHOULD" recuse themselves from the hearings.  He pulled out Black's law dictionary and started recitng the specific legal definition of the word "should", meaning specifically that the person does not HAVE to do so.  That was pretty much the end of the case.

I probably have a few more war stories.

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« Reply #17 on: July 31, 2020, 08:42:15 pm »
Never tried it but should be effective and simple:
Popping chewing gum as soon as someone switches on some gear.
Should nicely frighten the life out of the victim. 8)
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« Reply #18 on: July 31, 2020, 10:45:41 pm »
I think it was Bob Pease that told the story that one of this colleagues was always boasting of the great fuel mileage he was getting from his car, and he would check it daily and regale the office with the numbers. Eventually the guys came up with a plan. Some days they would drain some fuel from his car, and other days they would put that same fuel back in. Had him going for quite a while as to why his numbers became so inconsistent.
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« Reply #19 on: July 31, 2020, 11:07:16 pm »
Many years ago, I was a coop in a small lab at a large organization.  Staff members sat at two desks, and I usually sat at one of the two adjacent benches.  A friend from high school asked me to make a flashing beacon for the model rockets he flew.  I went to Radio Shack and bought an LM3909, copper clad, and a small bottle of ferric chloride etchant.  As luck would have it, there was a perfectly-sized graduated cylinder in a utility room at work, so I decided to take the etchant and board to the lab to do the etching.  I set the graduated cylinder containing the board and solution on the bench.  The staffer who sat next to me arrived for the morning and expressed concern about the hazardous chemical mere feet away from his desk.  I assured him that it would not be there for long, and that I would not spill it.  As I worked away on whatever task I had that morning, an idea came to me.

I always brought my lunch, and they usually went out.  Around noon, I went to the utility room, emptied out the solution, rinsed off the etched board, and washed the graduated cylinder three times.  Back in the lab, I poured some root beer in the graduated cylinder and placed it on the pull-out shelf on the nearby desk, then ate my lunch.  When the concerned staffer returned, he was aghast and demanded that I remove the noxious chemical from his desk.  I picked up the graduated cylinder and drank from it.

Unfortunately I could not contain myself and started laughing a few seconds after taking a drink.  But it was still great fun.
 

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« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2020, 02:46:13 am »
When I was working at a fruity computer store years ago, one time out business sales guy was out of town for a few days, and while he was out, we shrink wrapped everything on his desk (plus plastic wrapped the chair and desk). But I mean every single thing. Every single pencil, pen, and paper clip was individually shrink wrapped. So was every scrap of paper left on the desk. The phone had the handset and cord wrapped individually, and obviously the keyboard and mouse. It was pretty epic.

Another time, we built an elaborate pulley system to which we attached a manager’s keychain that he’d forgotten to take home. It was rigged such that when he opened the door to the office, the keys dangled at chest height, but once the door was released to finish walking towards it, the keys would be pulled up to the ceiling.

Finally, another prank (which I sadly cannot take credit for) was when another manager forgot her keys, so they first scanned a picture of the keychain into the computer, then went down to Build A Bear Workshop and had them sewn into a bear’s belly. Then they photoshopped the keychain photo to look like an x-ray and printed it out so that the bear could hold the photo showing what’s hidden inside. 😂
 

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« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2020, 03:16:57 am »
When I was working in the IT department of a very large company, pranks were a weekly occurrence.

There was one particular guy who was a frequent target, we often changed the caller ID on his desk phone to humorous things so whenever he made an internal call, the other party would see our handy work and awkward questions would be asked.

On a number of occasions, we also modified his Outlook email signature (since we all had local administrator rights to every machine). At one point, he got the shits and attempted to lock everyone out of his computer who had local administrator rights (including himself). To this day, I still don't know how he managed it, but he borked his entire machine which required a complete re-image to fix.

More recently, whenever someone leaves their computer unlocked and leaves their desk, we would bring up https://fakeupdate.net/win8/ in a web browser set to full screen. Hilarity would ensue when they return, swear and curse because of the unfortunate timing and wait for updates to complete that inevitably never do. ;-)
 

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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #22 on: August 01, 2020, 03:17:57 am »
I once worked for a company where pranks were part of the culture, tacitly allowed by management as long as they weren't destructive.  When a particular VP was on vacation, his minions got together and covered his office doorway with drywall, plaster, and paint.  It was a really well done job, with no seams or ripples showing around the patch.  We were all anticipating the epic hilarity that would ensue when the VP discovered that his office was gone.  The surprise was on all of us, however, when the CEO fired him that morning.
 
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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #23 on: August 01, 2020, 04:24:13 am »
More recently, whenever someone leaves their computer unlocked and leaves their desk, we would bring up https://fakeupdate.net/win8/ in a web browser set to full screen...

That is just gold.
I am going to use that this week...
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Re: Best pranks/stunts pulled on friends or co-workers
« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2020, 05:35:04 am »
I once managed to convince a colleague that aluminum absorbs oil. He was doing some DIY molding, used an improvised milled aluminum block as a mold and used some oil as a separator, or something, to be able to get the part out better. But it either leaked out or something.

When he told me about the missing oil I nodded knowingly and said: "Yeah, understandable, aluminum absorbs oil." with a deadpan expression. He didn't believe at first, but I managed to convince him of the 'fact', thanks to my deadpan expression and matter-of-fact tone. The thing that really sold it was the "I assumed you knew." bit. He came out of that conversation convinced that aluminum absorbs oil and was weirded out by the 'fact'. A few minutes later he came back laughing "Dude, you totally got me!" and we both had a laugh about it.

One day a couple of us charged all the caps in one of the boxes to 300 V, carefully replaced them and waited for the unsuspecting (and unpopular) colleague to make a grab into the box to serve a customer.

The fireworks of sparks and the screaming was overwhelming. So was the telling-off from the boss... :(
What's the problem? You sold precharged caps. It's an extra service.
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