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1. When I was a freshman in High School the seniors did this for the senior prank. It was indeed pretty hilarious. Where they got the pigs, I still don’t know.

   posted by Heather on 8-30-2010 at 1:05 pm

2. My most awesome prank was two April Fool’s Day’s ago – I microwaved a Toblerone in a diaper and told my older girl that her baby sister had a done a disgusting dump… wait a minute, it looks pretty good… then I took a big swipe with my finger and licked it. All the color drained out of her face… it was AWESOME!!!

   This April Fool’s I did the dead fairy that was referenced on here… kind of cruel to do to 7 year old… but it went over pretty good.

   Two of my older sisters were the ultimate pranksters – they hated a neighbour family called the Bygraves (and they were a little Addams-y!) and had some guys in woodshop build a coffin for their doorstep. They got grounded for MONTHS. They also built a snow toilet on another neighbour’s lawn, and made sure that it had a little doggie product in it…

   yes, yes, my family is a little poo obsessed, I blame our Ukrainian heritage.

   posted by Marion on 8-30-2010 at 1:09 pm

3. iv used other pranks but this is by far my favorite i cant wait to use it this year at my school.

   posted by prankster115 on 8-30-2010 at 1:14 pm

4. One easter weekend in high school, some friends and I drove around town stealing all the inflatable easter bunnies we could find. We didn’t know what to do w/ them once we got them all (there were dozens). Finally, we just dumped them in the front yard of a girl we all thought was cool.

   Years later some other high school kids revived the tradition.

   posted by TBV on 8-30-2010 at 1:39 pm

5. This one time in college a friend of mine left for the weekend. His roomate and I took all of his stuff of his side of the room including his sheets, computer, and anything up on the wall so that it looked like it would on move-in day and put everything in his closet. Then we took a thing of dental floss and wrapped his closet door and dresser tightly. Needless to say he was shocked and it took him a good 30 minutes to get through all the floss. I think he still keeps the floss in a box. We still get a good laugh out of it today.

   posted by supercore on 8-30-2010 at 1:46 pm

6. Awesome prank, but I’m just curious… why do you have to grease the pigs first? I know nothing of pigs or handling pigs, so I want to know: does the grease affect their behavior somehow? Or is it just they’re harder to catch that way?

   posted by Jina on 8-30-2010 at 1:54 pm

7. We decided that it would be funny to rent a petting zoo for our high school as one of our senior pranks. It was very harmless, very distracting and also funny…

   posted by graham on 8-30-2010 at 1:54 pm

8. I am old… in college we had a male friend who was always playing tricks on us. One day we got our hands on a BIG bag of computer punch card chads (punch-outs) and “pimped” his room. We put them everywhere and in everything…clothes, underwear, pillow cases, short-sheeted bed, shampoo, box of condoms, wallet, toothpaste. He figured out who it was pretty quick, but it was still fun and funny. We laugh about to this day.

   Another prank was to sneak into someone’s room and make popcorn in a popper without the lid on.

   posted by Sue on 8-30-2010 at 2:27 pm

9. My favorite involved my roommate who was really into World of Warcraft. As a lame Christmas present I had gotten him a Horde pin from Hot Topic (his WoW guild), but I didn’t know how to give it to him… especially since he had stopped playing for a while.

   Fortunately, he picked it up again when an expansion was released during Finals week. Of course, he started playing again, but he also had to do his finals.

   One morning, he had an 8 AM final, so I set my alarm for 8:30. I took a normal security envelope, wrote “Welcome Back” on it in red fingerpaint (yes, I used my fingers!), dropped the pin in the envelope and put it so it looked like it had been slid under the main door to the apartment.

   I then went back in my room and shut the door, so it looked like I was sleeping.

   When my roommate finishes the final, I hear the door open, hear him kick the envelope, followed by a “… what the f#@^?” I then hear him crouch down and pick it up. Another “What the f@!#%?” He then opens it, and the pin falls into his hand… “WHAT THE F@#%? WHAT THE F@@#%?”

   posted by Kevin on 8-30-2010 at 4:03 pm

10. How about:

    - putting mints into shower heads in communal showers? People get real sticky and don;t figure it out until after the shower is over….

    - Pulling cellophane tightly over toilet seats…..

    - I once carefully arranged a complete patio set in someones pool (all they initially noticed was the umbrella.

    - placing the neighbors bike strategically on the roof. Took him a while to find to him longer to figure out how to get it off.

    posted by Fotis on 8-30-2010 at 4:09 pm

11. Another use for popcorn…

    My friends and I used brown packaging paper, taped it outside the door frame of my RA’s room. We popped bags of popcorn, poured it into the space created by the paper and the door, then lied in wait for my RA to walk out of her room.

    posted by Annie on 8-30-2010 at 4:22 pm

12. My roommate senior year got a letter from the registrar 2 months before graduation stating that he was 2 credits short. He read the letter, his eyes bugged out, and he sprinted out of the room. He returned 15 minutes later and declared us all jerks.

    posted by Martin on 8-30-2010 at 4:28 pm

13. This one is kind of lame, but in college my roommate and I lost a bet, and had to do these other guys laundry for them. They had about a months worth of laundry, so there was quite a bit of it. My roommate and I tied all of the socks together into a big long rope, and put the one end at the top. Watching them pull, and pull and pull that rope of socks out was a scream!

    posted by DaveK on 8-30-2010 at 4:45 pm

14. Somebody set loose a large box of bait crickets in our college student center.

    posted by Anne on 8-30-2010 at 5:02 pm

15. The greased pigs are cute, but it’s better with cows, since they have trouble walking down stairs. If they get to upper stories of a building, the only way to get them down is with cranes.

    For my prank, I planted my class year on my school’s football field in a different breed of grass, so it would grow in with a different color and they wouldn’t be able to mow it out.

    posted by NG on 8-30-2010 at 5:54 pm

16. I had friends in college that convinced the RA to let them in to another room. They then unscrewed the door from its hinges and switched it with theirs, carefully replacing all the signs and dry erase board. They then locked the door and waited for the other girls to come back and wonder why their key no longer worked…

    posted by Liz on 8-30-2010 at 6:09 pm

17. @Annie

    I don’t get it. What happens next?

    posted by Brit on 8-30-2010 at 6:54 pm

18. 1. We actually pulled our Senior prank during our Junior year. My high school has three 2-story tall round windows on the front of the building. On the night before school resumed after spring break three of us covered the center window with a giant smiley face made of pretty much an entire roll of yellow butcher paper we stole from the cheerleaders.

    2. Years ago when I worked in customer service for a now dearly departed department store (it’s Macy’s now, boo) my last night of employment was on March 31, so my going away prank ended up being a pretty good April Fool’s joke. We worked on CRT terminals (a green screen monitor and keyboard attached to the mainframe computer) that had old fashioned key locks- turn the key and remove it and nobody can use that station. So naturally, being the only one staffing the call center intil 1am (driving home with the drunks on a Saturday night!) I locked all of the stations, took all the keys out and replaced them at random. Apparently it took the openers a half hour to get them all straightened out.

    posted by eric! on 8-30-2010 at 7:32 pm

19. Kind of a long story, but one of my points of pride…

    One summer a friend and I decided to apply for summer jobs in Yosemite Valley. A week or so after we submitted our applications a mutual friend and I got a sheet of Yosemite Park and Curry Company letterhead (my girlfriend’s father used to be the night manager at the Ahwahnee Lodge) and typed him a rejection letter, informing him that, through the Ed Meese Information Act (!), the company had learned that he was wanted by the County of San Francisco for sexual assault and battery. We signed the letter with my first name and the mutual friend’s last name.

    We mailed the letter and I kind of forgot about it, expecting him to get a good chuckle over it. Instead he opened the letter and hit the roof. He was so angry that he didn’t stop to consider the lunacy of the situation — the “Ed Meese Information Act”? Never such a thing. The name of the person who “sent” him the letter, and the fact that nobody by that name had ever worked for the company? He figured that it was a simple clerical error.

    He spent 3 hours on the phone with the Curry Company, working his way up the chain of command until he was transferred to the president of the company. It was while he was on the phone with the president that he suddenly put 2 and 2 together and figured out what had happened.

    The president of the company was so amused (and apparently impressed) that he hired the two of us on the spot.

    posted by Paul on 8-30-2010 at 7:44 pm

20. One of my best pranks, I actually pulled on my sister when I was 11 and she was 10. She was not very pleasant to be around in the morning … One morning when she was in the shower, I just went into her dresser and took out all her underwear and hid it under her pillow — I figured she would come out, open the drawer and be like, “Okay jerk, give me my underwear back.”

    Instead, she comes into the room, opens the drawer, sees no underwear and goes off — on my mom, screaming, “MOM! I have no underwear!” She then storms out to find my mom to complain. While she’s out, I put all the underwear back in.

    A few seconds later my sister and my mom go back into the room — by then, I had ducked back into my bedroom. All I heard was this exchange:
    Sister: “That’s right, I have absolutely no underwear at all! Nothing! What the hell! I can’t believe you haven’t done any!”
    Mom: “If you have even ONE pair in there, I will beat you within an inch of your life.”
    Sister: “There’s none — look!” [*sound of drawer opening, moment of shocked silence*] “But … but … there was none there a second ago, I –
    *SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK* “No mom! Stop! I swear–” *SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK* “Nooooo!!!”

    My sister got the beating of a lifetime and I was the cause. That’s an awesome prank!

    posted by R in CT on 8-30-2010 at 8:43 pm

21. My friend works EMS so he has done all the basics,
    put greese on the wipers of the ambulance and turn the wipers on before taking the key out
    putting clorform(sp) in the heater vents and turning the heater on
    and my favorite…putting underroos on the outside of the firefighters gear so that when they step in to their fire gear and pull their suit up they have Batman undies on

    posted by lindseyc on 8-30-2010 at 8:57 pm

22. Best one I was in on was our manager went on vacation at the factory I was working at. We went in his office and put up anything fragile, left and closed the door. Since the ceiling was a drop ceiling with tiles, we were able to go through the ceiling and fill his office with styrofoam peanuts. We only had enough to fill it about half way up, but when he opened the door they went EVERYWHERE! (He worked 1st shift, of course, and we were on 2nd, so we weren’t even there when he got back to work.) He blamed the first shift crew and of course they had no idea what he was talking about. The icing on the cake was our supervisor (the lead prankster)offered to have his crew help clean up, since 1st shift was so inconsiderate to mess up his office like that. So we cleaned it up and just complained like there was no tomorrow about what jerks the first shift crew were, all the while trying to not to giggle in earshot. He never did find out it was the 2nd shift crew. And he won’t, unless he read Mental Floss.

    posted by Kathy on 8-30-2010 at 9:07 pm

23. My friend Danny bought about 5 dozen crickets at the pet store. He put them in a coffee can and snuck into a friend’s apartment, quickly turning the coffee can upside down on the middle of the living room carpet. When they came home, they lifted the can to find dozens of bugs (which could as well have been spiders at a quick glance.) The crickets scattered and there was chirping in the apartment for months afterward.

    posted by Russ on 8-30-2010 at 10:54 pm

24. working as a camp counselor many a summer lead to many prank weeks. One of my favorite went as follows:
    The cabins are divided by sex, and then by age. There is a boy’s side and a girl’s side. One night while everyone was asleep, a cohort of mine and I made a wonderful and harmless switch. We managed to wake up the boys of the youngest and oldest cabin without waking up the counselors and had them switch cabins. The counselors woke up with the wrong kids! Harmless, and funny.

    posted by MamaBug on 8-30-2010 at 11:08 pm

25. Oh, here’s another one… take a packet of the invisible Kool-Aid that turns colors when it gets wet and sprinkle it all over someone’s towel. When they get out of the shower, they will dye their skin drying off, usually starting with the face. If you use green, you could even make jokes about the hulk if they get angry!

    My favorite prank ever, though:
    My wife’s brother knew his son-in-law was getting tested to see if he could participate in a diet. He also knew someone who worked at the clinic, and had the clinic employee call his son-in-law up and say the tests were inconclusive, and they needed him to bring in a stool sample. “What do I bring it in, a baggie or something?”
    “Whatever works, sir.”

    posted by Russ on 8-30-2010 at 11:13 pm

26. When I was at university, a couple of classmates pulled an awesome prank. They noticed some council-workers digging up the road, so went and told them that some uni students dressed as policemen were going to try hassling them. They then phoned the police and told them that some uni students were dressed up as council workers and were digging up the road. My classmates then sat in a nearby coffee-shop to watch the fun!

    posted by Professor on 8-31-2010 at 12:19 am

27. Got a lot of good ones, but my personal best was selling a dorm mates car. The kid’s dad bought him a brand new red sports car. He was washing it everyday, talking about it all the time, and parking it illegally in front of the dorm racking up all kinds of parking tickets. So, one day I typed up a “For Sale” sign and made about 50 copies. I made up a spiel about having financial difficulties and the need to sell the car for $6,000, less than half it’s worth. I posted them across campus, in town, at the IGA down the road, and in the campus library at University of Kentucky. Of course, I included the hall phone number (PRE-cell phones) and the kid’s name so the caller could request him. The phone rang for months with people asking to talk to the kid. We would sit in the lobby and watch him explain that it wasn’t for sale over and over again!

    Also, a great Chapel prank… One chapel service, we (a 1000 students) stood up to sing a hymn using the hymnals. When we opened the hymnals, knives started falling out of the spines of the books, clattering through the wooden chairs, and bouncing off the concrete floors! They had gone undetected until we opened the books. Pure brilliance! Wish I could claim it as mine!

    posted by 4thbook on 8-31-2010 at 12:33 am

28. And then there was the time I hacked in to this website and replaced the apostrophes in their old posts with “’.” JK

    posted by 4thbook on 8-31-2010 at 12:41 am

29. My younger brother often screamed to let off that sort of bottomless energy that ten year old boys have… It drove me crazy, so one day I made him think our neighbours could hear him and that they were trying to get a visiting young niece to have a nap and of course, couldn’t get her to relax for the screaming. I did this by making the phone ring (in those days it was a fairly easy thing to do) and faked a very apologetic conversation. He was mortified. Moments later, I did it again, but this time it was our neighbours on the opposite side (our parents, by the way, had stepped out to run errands, I was minding the boy myself, me being thirteen). The other neighbours were a little on the weird side, so it was still believable when I told my brother that they were incapable of coaxing their basset hound to poop in the yard because of his screaming. When I had a chance, I called over to the first neighbours to give them the low-down, and then had my bro phone over to apologise properly. I listened in on a pathetic attempt to explain he had slammed his finger in the door. Our neighbour did a superb job of making him feel like a total idiot. He was very very quiet for the rest of the day. But before bed time, I had to have mercy and let him in on it. He never screamed again!

    posted by Amanda on 8-31-2010 at 12:49 am

30. @Brit

    When my RA opened up her door, an avalanche of popcorn covered her :D

    posted by Annie on 8-31-2010 at 1:12 am

31. Two Pranks (One I heard of and one I actually saw)

    1. My older brother’s graduating class disassembled a car and reassembled it in the library. They could not roll it out.
    I didn’t actually see this one.

    2. In college, I lived in one of the large dorms for one semester. I went to a school which shall remain nameless called APU. Each dorm floor had an all purpose counselor, leader, elder classmate. One time, when he was out, a group of guys plastered over their fearless leader’s door. Then they covered it in sheet rock and painted it so you could not tell there was ever a door there at all. It was awesome (though I never got to see his reaction)!

    posted by Tim S. on 8-31-2010 at 6:16 am

32. @LindseyC

    One of my favorite, but cruel, EMS pranks involves putting lidocaine (topical anesthetic) jelly on someone’s toothbrush. Their mouth goes numb, and they’re mush mouthed for a little while.

    posted by Neel on 8-31-2010 at 6:29 am

33. My college was a pranking zone. If you didn’t want to be pranked, you had to submit a request in writing to the Dean of Students to be excluded from all the fun.

    My personal favorite:

    Covered a dorm room floor with paper cups half full of water and stapled them all together.

    Another good one (others pulled):
    students took a dean’s office furniture out of said office, placed sod all over the carpet, and replaced all the furniture. We left a couple golf balls and a putter for him to enjoy. Needless to say, the dean was actually diggin his new office and kept it like that for a few days.

    posted by lbchomer on 8-31-2010 at 9:02 am

34. Grease on an ambulance’s windshield wipers sounds a little too much… but I love the underoos on the firesuits!

    posted by Heather on 8-31-2010 at 9:08 am

35. For our HS Senior prank, about two weeks before the Junior prom we stole and copied letterhead from the school office and sent letters to all of the parents of Juniors. The letter talked about safe sex on prom night, and included a condom in each envelope. It was a rather conservative community, and no matter how many times school officials denied sending the letters, the media wouldn’t let it go.

    For a while, it was very funny to watch all the fallout in the newspapers, but we felt really bad when one administrator resigned and a couple of school board members lost their reelections.

    posted by Brian on 8-31-2010 at 9:15 am

36. Another time in college my RA left for the weekend and for some reason left his keys in the fuse box. One of the guys found them and then we spent the evening in his room. We stacked all his dressers up next to his bed and he had this bookcase made with pieces of wood and bricks we took it apart and lined the bricks up over his fridge after putting some of his boxers in his freezer. We took all his clothes out of his closet and put them on his bed. Took his books and used them as floor tiles. Took his ties and tied them together and strung them around the room. Then we took his light bulbs out of his lights so when we walked in it would be completely dark. We hung him a flashlight up to see when he walked in, however we took the bulb out of it as well. Needless to say he was none too happy when he came back.

    posted by supercore on 8-31-2010 at 9:19 am

37. Unknown to many people sparrows will sleep
    in chain-link fencing, take a pillow case
    over the end, bang the pipe,..you have birds! throw the pillow cases into the car,it’s easy to get hundreds. And go back to the party, Of course, talking about the surge of bats in town!
    I saw the Town Macho Man,…Faint like a Rag-Doll! 1:00am dark, having sparrows
    flush out like quail!

    posted by max on 8-31-2010 at 10:49 am

38. We used to camp a lot when I was a kid, and one of my father’s favorite things to do was spend all evening drinking with a friend, and when said friend fell asleep (read: passed out) my dad would spend the rest of the night relocating the guy’s patio furniture to the roof of his camper. Always thought it was a bit cruel to stick the poor schmuck with a hangover…

    posted by sammylee on 8-31-2010 at 10:55 am

39. When I was a kid, the neighbor’s house was for sale (pre-cell phone days). The realtor’s office was in town about 5 miles away. My voice was deep enough to pass for an adult, so we called and arranged for my “wife and I” to view the house. Sure enough, the realtor arrived about 15 minutes later and waited over an hour for a couple that never arrived.

    We were playing basketball and watched her leave. 15 minutes later (just as she arrived back at her office) I called again and explained that we had been “unavoidably detained” and asked that she return to meet us. 15 minutes later she returns. Waited another house for the phantom couple. By then we figured it had gone long enough so we didn’t try a third call.

    posted by Unrapt on 8-31-2010 at 11:57 am

40. The best prank I ever did was several years ago for April Fools on my younger sister. I would drive past her apartment on my way to class and I knew that she was working that day and when she worked she only had enough time to get to work when she left. I put her car for sale for $500 using the classic phone number of 867-5309. She worked for KFC at the time and had to leave her car parked and for sale all day and deal with customers coming in and asking for information on the car and then having to tell them it was just a prank. It was a pretty nice car so she had a lot of annoyed people. Needless to say she was not very happy with me.

    posted by Michele on 8-31-2010 at 11:17 pm

41. My former boss hates Kevin Bacon. So when he left early to go golfing one day, two co-workers and I plastered his office with pictures of Kevin Bacon. We were sure to put pictures in all the nooks and crannys, inside books, behind the calendar and posters, inside his closet, etc. The best, though, was a photoshopped picture of my boss with Kevin Bacon which we posted on the plant tv as an adverstisment for the ‘I heart Kevin Bacon club’. He was none to pleased. It was awesome especially since by the end most of the office was participating in the prank.

    posted by teh wife on 9-1-2010 at 9:35 am

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