Best Technical Prank

Both were evil, number 2 particularly evil...

In one of my first jobs, we had a screw machine department where each machinist had his own locked tool chest that he had to check out from the toolroom, and for which he was responsible. One of the machinists was a real pain in the butt and the others decided to get him.

Next door, they assembled railroad switch machines and used a very high pressure (I think about 600 psi) grease gun with thick grease. So, the machinists borrowed the grease gun, popped a couple of blind rivet style grease fittings in the back of the toolbox and pumped till the lid bulged. It took a heck of a lot of gasoline to clean those tools.

If you work in 'Office land', switch the receivers on two adjacent colleagues phones.. Phone rings, dude answers and can't hear anything when he picks up. How many incoming callers will they both cut off before realizing. Never tried it myself, but it sounds like it has fun potential.

Classic in it's simplicity, effectiveness and twoforoneosity.

twoforoneosity

That definitely going in my dictionary !

You can do the same at the gas station pumps.......!!!!

Brilliant ! I'm just going to have to try that sometime. I'd settle for payment mayhem, but If someone was really dopey you could even get them filling their petrol car with diesel !

Last night I was talking to an old buddy from the Air Force days and we remembered a prank we pulled on our shift supervisor back in '81 when we were Airmen.

Working the grave shift (3rd shift) we had a boss that would sit at the dispatch desk and every night about 3am he'd fall out, snoring and snortin'. Then right at 0625 he'd wake up, rub his face and stretch real big, and say "Damn, I can't believe I fell asleep". Then he'd run off to the Watch Commander's debrief meeting. We'd all laugh at this, since he fell asleep every night.

So one night while he was sleeping I filled his palms full of the super fine carbon graphite lube we used. (it took him a week to get that black stuff out of his pores)

He woke up...did his face rubbing routine and ran off to the meeting. The Lt. Colonel was uh..less than impressed with his appearance...to say the least.

5 minutes later half the officers in the squadron were in our shop. It took all of 18 seconds for everybody to rat me and my buddy out.

We damn near got Article 15 out of it 'cause he want one of my stripes. Ended up with a formal reprimand, a month of weekends in the brig, and 6 months pulling extra duty pulling weeds.

But it was fun.

This is a simple classic prank. This guy would always brag about his mechanical prowess, fancied himself a real motorhead. We put a piece of scotch tape on the center conductor of the distributor in his truck. He spent all day trying to figure out why it wouldn't start. He had it towed to a garage finally. I would've felt bad if he wasn't such an ass & braggert.