Favorite Childhood Prank

[Cindyluwho]

Pollyanna's thread got me thinking. How many of you out there pulled some foolish prank when you were a kid? Did you get away with it? Do you still think it was harmless? As I posted in the other thread, mine was putting dishsoap in the fountain in front of city hall and some friends of mine planted "pot" in the planter in front of the police station.

 

[DawnCt]

When I was a nursing student (17 y.o), the dorm we lived in was attached to the hospital. Just outside of our door was the PUBLIC RELATIONS office. After they closed one night, we removed the letter "L:.

 

[ratsrule]

Originally posted by DawnCt
Just outside of our door was the PUBLIC RELATIONS office. After they closed one night, we removed the letter "L:.

PUBLIC REATIONS

 

[DawnCt]

Originally posted by ratsrule
PUBLIC REATIONS

I should have more clear, not the "L" out of the last word but the first word. Put the L back in the second word and remove it from the first. It has a much different meaning.

 

[TeensMom]

I grew up in a small town where most everyone knew every one else's business - faster than instant messanger.

We loved to rearrange the letters on any of those signboards - never said anything vile or obscene, just funny. Rolling yards (tp'ing) was also very high on our list - but ONLY among friends, never to be mean. We did the thing with the cow manure in a bag on the front porch and once I found a possum in a bag on my front porch. We moved small cars (couple of football players helped). One of the stupidest things we used to do was go out to a local cemetery (where all the "parkers" were) and shake their cars then run.

I know based on the other thread that some folks will think we were the original juvenile delinquents, but those in our group now are 2 preachers, at least one CPA, a couple of lawyers, some school teachers, several excellent, involved parents and a state politician (OK that one may have turned out bad) But, overall, we have managed not to be a drain on society and possibly even contribute something.

 

[Steve H.]

In college, we once took apart a couple guys' beds from their dorm room and reassembled them right outside their window.

 

[bananiem]

LOVE the bed idea, Steve!
In high school we tp'd houses, though in my town it meant you were popular and well-liked if you got tp'd. The week my sister was crowned homecoming queen we got tp'd ALOT and that was kind of a pain.
Anyway, we used to take generic Oreo cookies (because they're cheaper and we'd NEVER waste an Oreo!) and twist them apart and then stick them all over someone's windshield. You only do this to someone you don't like because that creamy filling is mostly Crisco and it's kind of hard to get off.

 

[Demosthenes]

My brother worked at a movie theater when he was 16. One night, he decided to play a prank on his boss. He and I jacked up his boss's car and put jackstands under the drive axle. We lowered the jacks so that from a distance, the car appeared to be sitting on the ground. His boss came out with the night deposit to go to the bank, started the car and put it in reverse; naturally, the wheels just spun as he tried to drive away. He, assuming that the transmission was messed up, went back inside with the deposit to get another employee who was good with cars. While he was inside, we quickly removed the jackstands. Of course, when the employee came out, he put the car in reverse and it worked just fine. The boss, looking perplexed went back inside to get the deposit, and while he was doing that, we replaced the jackstands. This time, when he put the car in reverse and it wouldn't move, he just kept reving the engine. He was quite angry and began slamming things around inside his car. The movement he was making was enough to slip the car off of one of the jackstands and, since he was reving the engine, sent his little car, tires screeching out of the parking space and into the aisle. Fortunately, he dodn't hit anyone or anything, but we decided that we wouldn't reveal ourselves since he was more than a little put out! We decided that the lost jackstands were worth the cost of a pretty good time, and we left them, and my brother's boss in the parking lot.

 

[goofygirl]

Not as funny as the others, but:

In the good ole days before answering machines, *69, caller block, caller ID, etc my friends and I loved to make prank phone calls. We'd say things along the lines of when Bart Simpson calls Moe.."Is Seymour Butts there?", etc

 

[sha_lyn]

The worst thing we ever did was put taco sause (or ketchup or what ever was in packets where we were ) on car handles of cars parked in the Handicap space without a handicap permit. At the time my best friend (and sister of my then boyfriend) was dating a guy (her now ex husband) in wheelchair. In the early 80's they were just starting to have handicap spots around here and there was no fines for parking in a handicap space even though they were suppose to be by permit only. He had a chair lift so he had to have a spot wide enough to get the lift up and down. When store or restaurant managers refused to ask people to move we handed out our own punishment.

 

[Cindyluwho]

OK, I'll fess up about the meanest prank we used to pull. The town where my Dad lived when I was a kid was a huge tourist destination in Washington state. People used to come from all over to camp at the campground with their families. Well.....my boyfriend had this truck. And we'd go drive into the campground late at night (usually after a kegger) and tie a rope to the part of the tent that you stake into the ground. And then, drive off really fast, go about ten feet, then let the rope go. You should have heard the people screaming inside their tents while it was being pulled over the hard, bumpy ground. Looking back, this seems pretty darn cruel, although I'm laughing just thinking about it. Geez, I'm lucky I didn't end of up in jail or get the #$%@ kicked out of me.

 

[Nikole]

Cute thread but not a debate! I'll move it to the CB for you.

 

[jfulcer]

Let's see:

1) We forked someone's lawn. We bought like 2,000 plastic forks and spelled some words on someone's lawn.

2) We tp'ed someone's house with a whole CASE of toilet paper. That's like 300 rolls.

3) We used one of those pallet plastic wrappers to 'wrap' one of my brother's friends cars. It was like a giant roll of saran wrap that we went around and around the middle section of the car. he came out later that night and couldn't open his doors or see the plastic initially.

4) We chair locked our neighbor's room in a college dorm, poured baby powder under the crack between the floor and the door and slammed a board next to the crack, filling the room with all the baby powder.