[Row Jimmy]

Last year around April Fool's Day, I locked my computer in my desk drawer and walked away for about 30 minutes. I set it up to play porno music. I sort of got in trouble but I didn't care.

What was the best harmless prank you played on someone?

[LiteraryLark]

I posted a photo on facebook of me wearing fake gauges because it was the one body modification my parents forbade me to have. My mom was hysterical at work when she saw it and then as my dad began to yell at me at dinner I told them they were fake and the look on my dads face was priceless. We now all laugh about it. We dont prank each other but that one was hilarious. Worth getting screamed at!

[eskielover]

I made a sponge cake for my Managers bithhday at work out of a REAL sponge. Our whole engineering department knew about it so everyone crammed into his office to watch him cut his cake that wouldnt cut . The knife just sprung off the sponge.

I had also made a real cake & brought it in after he figured out there was really something wrong with the cake (or my baking) everyone got a laugh at how hard & long he kept trying to cut it.

My other good one was withvanother group manager. He asked me to keep his pothos plant watered whike he was on vacation. No problem till I got sick but while at home I trimmed back my own pothos plant & let the trimmings die. I put the dead cuttings in a pot that looked just like his. I got back before he came back from vacation & replaced his beautiful thriving pothos with the dead cuttings pot. He was so upset that his plant had died while he was away. I let him think it was dead until the very end of the day when I finally brought back in his beautiful thriving pothos plant. I never did live down the name "plant killer"though.

[Turtle_Rider]

1. I put ice and tea in chili sauce dispenser.

2. I and my friend lied to another friend about new evolved dangerous bug called SpikeDog and JerryMouse. She bought the story (we were in school at the time)

I was a little tired of someone hogging the (universal) tv remote, so I programmed the volume down button to be the same as the volume up button.

I laughed so hard when he kept desperately pressing the volume down button as the tv got louder and louder and louder....

Toilet papering the outside fire escape of a womens prison facility that was just across the way from the main campus building of our college. Nothing against the gals of course...we were just bored...no dough for the bar that weekend. It was windy that night and quite a sight.

The next morning at breakfast we could see it had rained and a 1/2 dozen inmates were outside picking wet toilet paper from the grounds lawn. Felt a little bad but that was about it. I was young. Not the greatest maybe but one that just came to mind.

I don't remember as I also hardly prank.
But lately I've been playing a game called Snake.io on the phone, where you eat small dots as a snake and can kill other player snakes so they can die as larger dots and then eat those larger dots and grow.

Anyway, the map has borders which can kill you, so I tend to gradually force other snakes to moving along the border and slowly blocking their way so they cannot move. Very few make the right choice of turning back. Most just go along with my flow until they die and become my food.

[eskielover]

Originally Posted by Vibrating Obsidian

I don't remember as I also hardly prank.
But lately I've been playing a game called Snake.io on the phone, where you eat small dots as a snake and can kill other player snakes so they can die as larger dots and then eat those larger dots and grow.

Anyway, the map has borders which can kill you, so I tend to gradually force other snakes to moving along the border and slowly blocking their way so they cannot move. Very few make the right choice of turning back. Most just go along with my flow until they die and become my food.

Good strategy if you ask me!!!!!! Snake war games.

[Albatross2008]

My husband isn't easy to prank. He knows me too well, and usually sees right through it. I once bought a purse on clearance. Original price was 99 dollars, and I paid 20. So I came home and told my husband I'd bought a 99 dollar purse, expecting him to flip out over the expense, and all he said was, "I'm sure you didn't *pay* 99 dollars for it."

But I did manage to get him one time. We had gone to the store and bought a crock pot. Included in the packaging was a "little dipper," which looks like a miniature crock pot. It's for melting cheese sauces and dips and such, and it holds about a cup. The crock pot itself holds six quarts.

So after we're home from the store, I go to the kitchen to unwrap the purchase, while he's on the computer playing games. I walk in with the "little dipper" one-cup deal, and I tell him, "Look what was inside that big box."

And he's like, "What? It was supposed to be six quarts!" He's getting a little upset, thinking we got ripped off.

Silly husband. I didn't say it was the *only* thing inside that big box.

He laughed.

[Stuckintime]

I guess you could call this harmless as no one got hurt, thankfully. I was in my late teens and took a paper grocery bag full of fireworks, lit it on fire and threw it in the door of the police station in our little town. It was in January and there had been a freezing rain that evening. As we drove away looking back the officers came running out, falling on the ice. It was about 10:30 PM at shift change so most of them were in there. We got caught.

[Larceybandit]

placing traffic cones and construction signs at all four exits of a round-a-bout. we were in tears watching how confused people got when they realised there was no escape

[Mike_J]

This was payback for a coworker putting a banana peal in my desk drawer

I put a speaker in the edit bay he did most of his work in, I hid it in the drop down ceiling. Then I ran a wire all the way back to the Eng Shop and hooked it up to a frequency generator and set it to emit a barely audible high pitch tone, just within hearing range. For the next two months it drove him crazy, he would come back and complain and when I would go to "check out the problem" but on the way out of the shop I would flip a switch I had conveniently placed by the door shutting off the tone, so when we got there the tone was gone, but it would soon be back. After about a month I slowly turned up the volume he still couldn't figure one where it was coming from, finally one of my coworkers ratted me out.

He was VERY upset when he found out, I just told him that he started things, and if he expected that I wouldn't retaliate he now knew just how wrong he had been.

Bwahhh hahhh hahhh (evil laugh)

This is awful. A lot of people got into trouble for my actions at the time and I still (30 years later) hae occasion to rue my actions and feel badly for the trouble that was caused.

Still it was very funny at the time. It was just unfortunate that people paid the price for it.

It was the occasion of EXPO 86 in Vancouver and I had the good fortune of being employed at a pavillion. Great times were had, unfortunately much of this was fueled by booze.

One night a group of us went on a tear. We were housed that summer at a local college.

While lurking about we discovered an open door into the building. Though not exactly a break-in we obviously were not there legally. We proceeded to the laundry bay whereupon we found dozens and dozens of hand towels on the roll (yes they had such a thing then). We lugged many of them outside via laundry trolleys out to the parking lot where a school bus sat just waiting for us to do something to it. It took hours for us to do so but in the end we had the bus completely wrapped in rolls of green hand towels.

The next morning we awoke to yelling and the flashing lights of multiple police cars. Out front in the parking lot were about a hundred boy scouts (who were also being housed in the dormatory) standing at attention receiving quite the dressing down by both a scout leader and a police officer. It was apparent that they were the primary suspects in the antics that had happened the previous night.

Despite the horrible guilt we five were far too afraid to fess up so we stood there and watched the poor boys get into supreme trouble. No longer were we laughing.

I have rarely told this story. Wouldn't want my grown children knowing their mother was a drunken law-breaking letch.

their used to be a phoneline that was related to one of these reality shows, and when you rang the line, the idea was to dial the number of the person you wanted to prank, then they would call the number, and the judge from the show would ask who ever answers the phone to sing

so I did this to someone I used to know and she's like oh my god, oh my god, I am going on a reality show.. simon cowel liked my singing!, and for weeks I kept it up.. yeah yeah, well i'm not surprised it's pretty good. you have a great voice

eventually though I did tell her what had happened and she's like oh, so i'm not going on the show?

tricked her again the following year by making some fake tickets to an actual concert of a band she liked playing that weekend

OOO pranks are fun!