What is the most elaborate prank you have been part of?

We went into an area of my workplace with whom we had an ongoing prank war and turned all their furniture around 180 degrees. They didn’t understand why the cleaning people had turned their furniture around when they cleaned.

Well I was really angry at this girl because she was mean to my friend…and so my small group of friends and I saw that she left her things in her locker. Her locker was unlocked so what happened was that we took all her things and hid them in another locker opposite to where she was…and then we locked the combination lock she didn’t even know the code…so she needed a teacher to open it free…and then they saw that her stuff wasn’t even there…she didn’t find out until the last day of school…but that’s pretty much it…not that funny.

Here’s a classic that I’ve never actually done. The target is usually a rock and roll tour bus, but any relatively small closed space like a bedroom or office will work. You fill the space with balloons, floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Somewhere well into the room you put talcum powder in the balloons. The person walks into their bus and finds it full of balloons, so they start popping them to make room. next thing they know their bus is a giant cloud of talcum powder.

Also almost put a goat in a co-worker’s office, but decided that might be unfair to the goat.

I’ve been the victim of several elaborate pranks, some really nasty ones too. One of these pranks has left me in constant fear of being accused of sexual harassment, as the prank involved leading me on and then falsely accusing me. For the past 25+ years all women in my workplace that I must interact with are treated with cold, formal professionalism. Not one word, glance or gesture more.

Me and a group of friends got all the clothes of another friend and hung them up on a telephone wire next to his house. I can’t even remember why we did it, we were probably drunk. He had to hire a cherry picker to get them down( which is how we got them up there)

Well, this is not too elaborate, but I actually did it, and it was very effective. I worked at a Photo Lab and put a mouse trap on the lightswitch to one of the dark rooms.

He was NOT amused!

@stranger_in_a_strange_land To me that level of nastiness is no longer a prank. If the victim won’t be able to laugh at it after a reasonable time has passed, then it ceases to be a prank and becomes, oh I don’t know, mental torture, harassment, bullying?

Not me, my son. he is the king prankster. at about age 16, he and his “associates” were very elaborate in their pranks. a good one was a very realistic-looking snake on the end of some fishing line. they waited on the side of a residential street, untill a car came along and slitthered the snake across the road in front of the automobile. one man came out his car with a baseball bat running after the fake snake. no, they were not caught. another incident involved a large chain department store. my son pretended to be the manager of one of the stores. he called another of the chain stores and told them “we just had an electrical blackout at this location. we were advised it was heading your way and to clear the store of employees and customers.” they drove over to this chain store to see what happened. sure enough, out in the parking lot were all the employees and security personnel were attempting to clear the store of customers. my son is now 42 and i only learned of this 5 years ago. my son and his “associates” were very good at pranks. here is the last one: he called a Wendy Restaurant pretending to be the manager of another Wendys location. he told the mananger there that he had ran out of hamburger to cook and could they borrow some from their store? my son went to the location and picked up two boxes of uncooked Wendys hamburgers. what did he do with the meat? he never did tell me. there are a lot more to tell, but not here.

@john65pennington – your son sounds like someone I’d love to have a beer with. I’d just make sure to drink it all down before I went to the bathroom.

A bunch of us were working at a remote test site out of town. We wre all driving company provided vehicles. We were working on a project that involved using an old traffic light. We had two but the boss lady only knew of one. A coworker Jim mentioned if we needed another one he could go “Find One” The next morning we contacted the fleet office in charge of our company vehicles and had them call the boss and tell her they had been contacted by the Michigan State police looking for the vehicle that was signed out to Jim. She told the boss it had something to do with a bad accident and a missing traffic light. The boss was so angry/confused/worried she couldn’t even think straight. Then 20 minutes later (10 minutes late for work) Jim tore into our garage, all out of breath and the pulls a traffic light (the extra one we had) with cut wires hanging out of it out of the back of his vehicle and quickly ran over to the Bosses office and put is on her side table. She stopped the meeting and took Jim into her office. We could hear her yelling in the entire building. We only kept it up for two or three more minutes because we were afraid she was going to explode. She was angry at first, but then just happy Jim wasn’t in trouble.

A fun DIY prank.
If you are in another person’s hotel room.
Use the bathroom.
While in there, fill the sink with water and dip all the folded towels into the sink. Leave them folded and put them back on the rack.
They won’t notice untill after they shower. It sucks to dry off with the sheet from the bed. I know, I have had to do it

@csimme01 – I’ll be using that towel bit, thanx!

LOL…still laugh about it today… my senior class was pretty dull on school spirit but big on drama. Being a cheer leader I as able to get the 411 on anybody. So me and my friend made a hit list. We cracked on almost everybody…and told the most juiciest secrets like who slept with the new security gaurd or
who cant pass the FCat after three times but can recite the whole LIL Wayne Cd….we even threw things in about ourselves so no one would think it was us…ultimate senior class prank…C/O…..

@curosity_killed_the_cat Was any of this stuff actually true?

@Snarp yep you be suprised at what secrets people told so that they can say they are friends with a cheerleader. ..funny thing I would have been their friends even if they didnt tell me..i was not the typical stuck up person people stereotyped me to be.. : D

See when I grew up, nobody in the school was sleeping with the security guard. Not to mention that that security guard would be committing a crime. But aside from that, did you ever think that your “prank” might actually be really hurtful to some of those people? It just sounds like bullying to me. Also, see this thread.

It took me a while to find this… it’s an answer to a similar question I posted on April 1st of this year… the thread can be found here.

But for the sake of time i’ll just paste my post on here (remember this was written back in april… also it’s important to note that at the time i was doing pro-bono medical work in a small town in Baja for rural and indigenous communities… hence the allusion to a “clinic”). Here goes:

I’m such an asshole for my prank today…
Got some blood that had expired from our little outdated “bloo bank” (2 units to be exact), spilled it on the floor of the hall outside the ER… got some on my face and hair…. screamed at the top of my lungs and lay facedown in the puddle.
Nurses came out screaming, no one would touch me, so i sit up all annoyed and asked “why won’t anyone check my fucking pulse?!?!”

I’m going to hell for that

At work while waiting for my car pooling mate I decided to move the two couches from one wall to the other. I would move it back the next day.

In our town we have a couple mannequins outside on the sidewalk, basically, in front of one bar. It’s not real elaborate but when my son was 14 he stole one of the mannequins hands and…brought it home. I walked in from work to find this hand on my coffee table! I yelled for Chris to return the hand! For the next two weeks that damn hand showed up everywhere…on my pillow at bed time, in the silverware drawer, in the toilet, like it was trying to climb out…..sigh. Eventually he did return the hand, though!

Many years ago before the utility companies checked about turning on – off utilities etc ; I had a ladies Utilities, ALL shut OFF on a Friday afternoon (Gas, Electric, Cable, and Phone) ... as well as had her car towed .

She wasn’t able to get the utilities back on until Tuesday afternoon and it took a week before they finally got her car….

@Val123 I hope he put it on your pillow BEFORE he put it in the toilet.

@HighShaman What did she do to you? Just so I don’t repeat.

@Ghost_in_the_system LOL! Me too!

@Ghost_in_the_system She had said some VERY unkind things , which were lies about me… I’d ask her for an apology, and she spit in my face… so…. I got MY “Revenge” ....

She never found out who did that to her… or I’d have been locked up , I’m sure…

@HighShaman I’m a little confused..did you work for the utility company?

A bunch of us faked the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand. It kinda got out of hand.

@Val123 Nope; I did not work for a utility company… It was in the day that all you had to do was to call in and give a name and an address ..the utility companies would not ask for any more info; and go ahead and shut off or turn on the utility such as gas , water, electric…. etc ..

All I did was call in and give her husbands name and the adddress and they were very willing and cooperative about shutting off her utilities .. Gas Company, Electric Company, Water Company, Phone Company, and the Cable…. Had it done on a Friday afternoon, knowing she couldn’t even call them until Monday , for a Tuesday turn on/reconnect at best…

Most recently, me and my friends went to into our other friends room on his birthday, while he was dead asleep, and duck taped all of his pants and underwear to the ceiling. We taped his gift to the ceiling as well.

@HighShaman Hm! That musta been in the 60’s or 70’s!

@Val123 You are very good ! It was in the mid 70’s….

@HighShaman LOL! Naw. Not good….just there!!

I’ve always had this plan for to get even with my son (for a LOT of reasons) on April fools….get my husband, myself, and a boatload of his friends to sheetrock up the door to his bedroom while he’s at work, so that when he gets home and goes down the hall to his bedroom…it’s gone! I mean, there is nothing but a painted wall where the door used to be with maybe a picture or a poster something hanging there. Spray dust on it so it doesn’t look new. And then treat him like he’s a crazy maniac when he says something! And video tape him when he walks outside and examines the house to make sure there really is a bed-room sized space there before he tears into the wall! Anyone wanna help?????

@Val123 LOL… That would be an awesome Prank…. just be ready to run…

@HighShaman Nah. I’m Mom. Can’t touch me!! (He would so seriously appreciate it!

When I was in my early 20’s and one of my brothers was a teenager, a few times we spent the wee hours of the morning playing pranks on the neighborhood.

There was a cranky guy who was always grousing at the neighborhood kids. We went to his neighbor’s house and took all of the white plastic lawn furniture out of his back yard and put it in the bed of Cranky Guy’s truck.

There was a woman who owned a skating rink who had banned my brother from participation because he liked to do trick skating, speed skating and she just didn’t like him because he was sarcastic. Since the next morning was garbage day, everyone had plastic bags full of garbage lining the curb. We gathered the garbage from all over the neighborhood and stacked it up to blockade her house’s front and back entrances all the way to the ceiling. (I liked thinking about what happened when she opened the door.)

There were a few other things we did, but I don’t want to post them, since some of the things we did cost the city a lot of money and I don’t know if I could still get in legal trouble or be liable.

@FlipFlap waiting for the statute of limitations to run out?

@FlipFlap LOL! I hope all of your pranks were as harmless as those!!