Practical Jokes! On You, and by You.

[ksm32]

Here's one I and a friend were victims of:

A few years back my band played a show as to be insignificant but it is the scene of the crime.   Our bass player owns and operates a sign shop. Decals, Stickers, ETC.

The guy took it upon himself to make us personalised bumper stickers for myself and our drummer. I found mine on my company truck THREE days later after driving around with  mmm mmm ANUS! stuck on my bumper.

Our drummer drove around for TWO WEEKS in his Federal Express cube van with Sphincter Licken Good!

Oh well..

[paladin1991]

How about this one.  all those schmucks driving around with 'Obama' stickers.

They can't really know that they are there, can they?

[area51drone]

ksm - that's good..    my brother one time replaced some jackass's license plate    (he parked like a douche in front of a friend's business) with a piece of cardboard that read in marker "COCKSUCKER".    Who knows what actually ended up happening with that, but he did drive off with it on there.   Back in college in the dorms, we'd do crazy shit to each other all the time.   Once, I got penny locked in my room - stack about 5 pennies and push the bottom of the door with your feet, slide the pennies up between the door jam and the door, makes it really hard to get out.   That started a war.   I put shaving cream in his bed, under the covers so when went to sleep, drunk, he got covered in it.   So he knocked on my door and when I opened it he threw an entire wastebasket full of water onto me and my room.    I ended the war by filling his half empty shampoo bottle the rest of the way with piss.   I think he thought he won and that I had given up.   I guess the urine flowing across his face didn't hit his sense of smell.

[ksm32]

So he knocked on my door and when I opened it he threw an entire wastebasket full of water onto me and my room.    I ended the war by filling his half empty shampoo bottle the rest of the way with piss.   I think he thought he won and that I had given up.   I guess the urine flowing across his face didn't hit his sense of smell.

Water from a bucket and urine! Somehow always make it into the mix. People freak when suddenly WET! Glad all that is sooo long ago.

[eyenoeyeno]

Had a wonderful opportunity to jam an unsuspecting someone's finger into a jar of tree sap yesterday.
You know, he had that 'I'm just gonna barely touch it' motion..always good humor to give those people an extra shove.

[yumyumtree]

The kids in my junior high school and high school loved to set tacks.  This was the days before the push pin and an old-fashioned thumbtack, upside down on a desk seat would stay in place waiting for the unwitting victim.  They got me twice.  I learned to check my seat before sitting down, which paid off at least once.

My algebra teacher found one on his chair and took the occasion to tell the story of a girl a couple of years ahead of us who was diabetic. He claimed that somebody set a tack in her seat, she sat on it and got an infection.  She was in hospital for two weeks.  They used to keep you in the hospital longer for things in those days, and anyway her dad was an insurance agent, so I'm sure they had good insurance.

There were also certain parties in that school who loved to set clocks ahead, not enough that teachers would get really suspicious, just 40 minutes or something.

One of the things I learned in school is people pretty much do what they want and what conveniences them, and to hell with everybody else.  If they are good in athletics or their dad is somebody important, consequences will be minimal.  If not, they will probably get suspended or something.  That school system was good preparation for adulthood.

Hmm, and I just now remember the old Saran wrap on toilet trick.  I was never personally a victim or perpetrator of this one, but heard a lot about it.  Apparently it makes people really mad.

Short-sheeting is another one I don't really get.  You just tear up the bed and re-make it.  It causes no permanent damage and no pain that I know of.  What's the big deal?  But people act like it's a tragedy.

Does anybody here come from a culture that does chivaree(sp)?  This is a reverse surprise party on a bride and groom.  They are sort of expecting it, so usually have beer and stuff. In 1944, my newlywed parents got chivareed(I wish I could remember how to spell it in French) Afterwards, my mother said something told her to turn down the covers on the bed and check for things that might have been placed there.  Sure enough, a big ole butcher knife.  My uncle Bob, of course.

[paladin1991]

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Does anybody here come from a culture that does chivaree(sp)?  This is a reverse surprise party on a bride and groom.  They are sort of expecting it, so usually have beer and stuff. In 1944, my newlywed parents got chivareed(I wish I could remember how to spell it in French) Afterwards, my mother said something told her to turn down the covers on the bed and check for things that might have been placed there.  Sure enough, a big ole butcher knife.  My uncle Bob, of course.

Fun family.

[yumyumtree]

The proper spelling is charivari, according to wikipedia, and it translates "rough music" because singing or noise-making sometimes played a part.  It is in an old European custom also popular on the American frontier, especially where there are people of French descent, as there are in Montana.

According to wikipedia, a scene in it's a Wonderful Life, where people sing outside the home of George Bailey and his bride, is an example of charivari.

[albrecht]

Too many to mention but a simple and somewhat painful one was simply reversing the box-spring and mattress. Then sheet as normal, ideally with a bedspread to avoid alerting vic.  A painful surprise for people who, like my victim, liked to jump into bed. Short-sheeting can be annoying and a "hot foot" never gets old when done effectively.

[yumyumtree]

That's a good one.  Turning the box spring upside down would be even worse. What a lot of work, though.

They might get suspicious if it were turned upside down, come to think about it.  It would look funny, especially if the fabric were torn, as it often is on box springs.

There's also the reverse peephole, as depicted on Seinfeld.  When I worked in the motel business we used to get a lot of this when we had large numbers of high school or college kids check in.  Regular business travellers never did it.  They never swung from the exit signs either.