Greatest Pranks Ever!!!!

[cutecollege1]

I say the best prank was one that I heard of in geology. In Albuquerque, west of the Rio Grande, we have something known at the petroglyphs. Thing is they're actually volcanoes. Well my teacher was saying he was reading in this guide that back in the 1940s, some people wanted to burn tires. So what did they do? They gather all the tires, threw them into the volcano, and lit them on fire. I bet a lot of people crapped their pants...pajamas...the next morning when they went to look outside their windows at the volcanoes XD

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[mirium]

When I was in high school, everyone was all excited because several members of the School Board were going to come Inspect Our School. So some of the more whimsical students decided to discreetly demonstrate their skills at chemical synthesis. If you really understood the material in Chem II, it was simple to whip up a batch of aqueous nitrogen triiodide, which is perfectly harmless, although when it dries it becomes a contact explosive -- and then take pity on the poor, tired janitor who had extra chores in preparation for the Visitation, and offer to mop the hallways for him the night before. The next morning, it sounded like you were walking on Rice Crispies in the halls -- but everything looked perfectly normal.

The vice principal who was escorting the Board Members had been a chemistry teacher in his previous incarnation, knew exactly what was going on, and was careful to be Apparently Oblivous to anything Odd (a skill he had practiced often there) -- the Board Members never got up the nerve to mention it to him. But he did casually drop by the perpetrators' table at lunch the next day.

He mentioned that if some students were, hypothetically, to pull a sophisticated prank, someone could get hurt. It was pointed out that such hypothetical students would be sophisticated enough to have done tests so that there wouldn't be any, say, ash smudges on the floor, much less injury. Hypothetically. He observed that such students could have blown themselves up during the tests, and if, say, a vice principal knew who had done it and didn't reprimand them severely and it ever came out, such a vice principal could quite possibly get fired. The students assured him that such sophisticated students would, given a heads-up, never mention to anyone what they'd done, or even discuss it where they could be overheard, until such a vice principal had retired in a cloud of respectability and intense student admiration, and they would never, ever do anything like that again. He thought for a while, then said they were probably right, and began to leave. Then he turned around and said, "I almost got a hernia from trying not to laugh." And sauntered away.

And the students kept their word.

[jaglady]

I was just thinking about this when watching Mythbusters.

Anybody else have a "bathroom bomber"? This was back in the early 1980's before people got freaked out about things like this.

I went to a high school that was older than the state of New York and had that tough iron plumbing. We had a guy who would occasionally steal some sodium from the chemistry lab. Sodium in water explodes. Between second period and homeroom, he'd go into one particular bathroom that was right over the teachers' bathroom, flush that chunk of sodium, and then haul butt. The explosion in the pipes created enough down pressure that the water would fly out of the toilets.

Kind of funny watching some of our teachers walk out looking like drowned water rats.

I knew who the bathroom bomber was, but to my knowledge, we all took that secret with us after graduation.

[mirium]

We didn't have one of those, but in the mid-1970s we had a repeatedly clogged toilet in my college dorm, and we finally got exasperated and decided to fix it ourselves. Chemicals, plungers and snakes had been ineffective, so we wrapped tape around the fuse of a (lit) cherry bomb and flushed that sucker down. Cracked the bowl in half, but once the toilet had been replaced, the pipes stayed clear.

[jaglady]

Speaking of toilet pranks....

My husband's best friend was in the Navy back in the early 1980's. He had a shipmate who was bucking for a Section 8. Ends up one day they were having a ship's inspection--everything white, clean, neatly polished, pressed, and spitshined.

This guy spread Dijon mustard on the rim of one of the toilet bowls. The commander pointed to it and said, "What's that?"

With a straight face, the guy swiped up some of the Dijon mustard with his finger, tasted it, and said "Tastes like sh*t, Sir!"

I understand the guy was out of the Navy by the end of the week.

[luf100]

I laughed so hard at that jaglady. xD

I also like the one you said, mirium, about it sounding like you were walking on rice crispies, but everything looked normal. xD

I've never pulled a good prank on anyone, but I remember back when I was in Brownies we went to some place to "camp" indoors. We'd all had our stuff unpacked and everything when the leaders came in and said we couldn't stay so we had to start packing up and stuff. All of us were almost done packing when the leaders all said "April Fools Day!" Stupid us.

[csikt]

I haven't really pulled that many pranks... well maybe a few but they are just your usual ones. Except when we snuck around to the back of our neighbors house at night, it was dark, and they were all sitting in the living room watching tv. Well we took this little cat toy (it was a laser) and shined it on the wall. They were all looking at each other with the 'do you see what i see' look. It didn't take long before they figured out it was us.

[ladytaz29]

My sister was always one of those Miss Perfect people. Every hair had to be in the right place etc... One night she was getting ready for a hot date and grabbed the blow drier to dry her hair.

When she turned it on, a cloud of baby powder poofed out all into her wet hair. Of course she knew it was me. My dad was laughing so hard. Terri got so mad because I didn't get into trouble. From that point on, she always hid it from me.. :pillowfight:

[suzmicsoc]

When my husband was in Nuclear Field EM A school in the Navy, the instructor asked the class for their homework. One student went through every paper in his desk and folder saying "that's not it" after looking at each one. He proceeded to look through everyone's papers repeating the same phrase. He ended up getting escorted out of the room. He never said any other words except for "that's not it" until he was given papers to sign for a Section 8 discharge. While signing the papers he said, "THAT'S it".

[jaglady]

LOL!! The powder in the blowdryer!

I knew somebody who did this on a cruise ship.

A couple down the street from us take cruises on Princess every year (not plugging). Well, the husband went to Spencer Gifts and got some glow-in-the-dark, er, uh, men's parts of all sizes and colors. Last year they were sharing their suite with another couple, so the husband hung (no pun intended) the privates by strings from the ceiling, about 20 in all. They were invisible until the lights went out. Everybody went to bed at the same time, and all my neighbors could do was giggle at their friends' reaction when they saw privates of all colors and sizes floating in the air over their heads.

It gets better, though. My neighbors decided to leave them up all through the cruise. But then when they got on the shuttle to go to the Fort Lauderdale Airport, boarded the flight home and had been in the air for about an hour, they realized....

THEY LEFT THE THINGS ON THE CEILING!!

I sure hope the cabin stewards looked up when they were prepping that cabin for the next guests! Otherwise I'm sure the purser's desk got one of those calls that started with the phrase "You're not gonna believe this...." or "I don't know how to tell you this...."