What is the best practical joke you have seen or experienced?

[adamak]

My DH once detoured a major road's traffic to his friends' backyard (drive through). That almost made it on local news.

 

[AJB]

When I was in High School my neighbors and I used to take fresh manure and put it in a paper bag. Then we'd put it on a porch and light it on fire, ring the doorbell and hide across the street. When the resident came out and saw the fire, instinct told them to stomp it out. Imagine their surprise when the bag squished.

Another trick is the find a house of someone you want to fool. This house MUST have the older aluminum siding. Get some long guitar string and attatch it to the siding and then pluck the string. The whole house will hum like a guitar and drive everyone inside nuts.

 

[msdznyduck]

Dh has always liked to play practical jokes (especially on me), but the best one was :
He worked at the time at a corporate office that has a pond (that he said was stocked with fish) in front.....and him being a fly fisherman, started telling me how one of these days he was going to bring his fly rod to work and fish for awhile during his lunch break. He told me that numerous times, and since he hardly ever got to go fishing since the kids were born, I believed he just might do that. Even though I told him he couldn't do it, and would probably get into trouble.

Well, one day the phone at my work rings, and the guy on the other end tells me that he was the police and my dh was arrested for tresspassing, and other assorted "crimes", and would have to be bailed out. I didn't have much money with me, and was freaking out trying to figure out where I was going to get $250 to bail him out and since it was about 2pm, he told me I had to get there before 3:30pm or else he had to spend the night in jail. ( His work was about 1/2 hr away from mine) Good thing I heard him snicker a bit, because then I kinda doubted the whole story, and then dh got on the phone and told me it was a joke.

Got him back though. He always calls me at work during the day, just to say hi, so I had someone else answer the phone (we have caller ID) and tell him that I wasn't at work that day. He just about went nuts, calling all over (his mom, my mom, my brother ) looking for me. He was really worried. I let about an hour go by, and then called him. He wanted to know exactly where I was, and when I told him I was at work, really , he was relieved.



msdznyduck

 

[tar heel]

My dh and middle child pulled one on me recently. They moved my car to another part of the parking lot while I was in the grocery store. They thought seeing me wondering around looking for it was the funniest thing they had ever seen. I'll admit to being one of those people who do not always remember where they parked, especially when I'm not in the van. I now work next door to my dh and plan to do this to him soon!

 

[disykat]

When I was still single I "kidsat" for some friends (their kids were in junior high) while they went on a getaway for several days. I taught their kids a bunch of silly practical jokes like putting a rubber band around the faucet sprayer at the kitchen sink etc. My friends had a surprise everyday for several days after they got back and I had fun hearing about it later. Hmm... I never did get asked to stay over with their kids again.

I'll have to remember the car moving thing, the kids and I can play it on dh!

 

[cotye]

I'm holding my sides from reading these...

I once punished a friend who constantly ate parts of my lunch without asking. he would always take fries and eat them without permission. So me and my friends decided to teach him a lesson. We took an Ex-lax pill, ground it up into a powder and put it into an unfinish can of coke. I then offered him my coke as I couldn't finish it...

About an hour later, we saw him running off to the bathroom. LOL..

And I love that one about the pigeon.. Disgusting, but sooo hilarious!!!

 

[jfulcer]

When I was attending Virginia Tech, the upper classmen in the room next to us in the dorm knew all the tricks. One night they duct taped plywood over the entrance to the communal showers, plugged up the drains and sat in there on inflatable rafts drinking beers and pretending they were in hawaii.

They also showed us how to 'chair lock' someone's room. If you took the desk chair from your room and dropped one of the legs between the doorknob and the doorjamb, you can't open the door from the inside. It was funny walking down the halls with people chair locked into their room. You could also penny lock he doors by jamming a couple pennies between the door jamb and the door, but all you to do was wiggle the door enough and the pennies fall out.

One day they took another step on some freshmen (luckily it wasn't us). There was a gap underneath the dorm room doors about 2 inches to the floor. After chair locking the occupants in, they laid down a pile of baby powder just under the door. took a big piece of wood and slammed it down on the floor just next to the door. The powder instantly dispersed into the entire room, covering everything in a fine layer of dust. The poor guys had to lean out the window to breath cause the dust cloud was so bad. Oh the fun days of College.

 

[Amusement Park Junkie]

I can remember a couple of jokes from my teen years working in an amusement park (No, not a Disney park). We worked in a fast food shop.
A joke that got pulled more than once when new people started involved their street clothes. After someone had changed into their work clothes, someone else would make off with the shirt from their locker (just a small shop so we didn't usually lock lockers). Take the shirt and wet it completely. put it on a hanger and hang it in the full size freezer. When the shift was over they had a shirt stiffer than any starch would provide.
Another good one had to do with food. We had hot dogs on one side of the shop and chocolate dipped ice cream on the other. We took a hot dog one time and put a stick in the bottom. We then dipped it in chocolate and rolled it in the nuts. put in the freezer for awhile and then repeat. After 6 or 7 dippings it looked just like a frozen banana. And we just happened to have a co-worker that loved frozen bananas. When she took that first bite..... I didn't know someone could spit a piece of hot dog that far.
Being a hot dog shop, we had lots of mustard bottles. Someone figured out that you could tape a straw (or two for a longer nozzle) to the end of a mustard bottle. This would allow you to sneak up behind someone and squeeze mustard into their pockets.
When I stop to think of some of the others, it really make me realize how mean we were to each other back then.