Best prank you have done/been involved with?

When I worked in an insurance office we were allocated time to study in a small meeting room.

One day when I was on the study computer I found a letter my mate had written to Prince stating that he was returning his squash racquet due to a fault, a crack of some sort.

I then took the liberty to create some Prince headed notepaper and wrote back to him stating that we had repaired the fault and attached an invoice for £60 that he had to pay before 'we' returned his racquet. At the bottom of the covering letter I had put in tiny writing "never leave personal letters on the study computer". The 3rd page said in massive writing always read the small print.

He called me up to tell me of his roller coaster of emotions. From rage, to relief, to laughter, back to rage! He said he was all set to call them up with a barrage of abuse. Maybe I should have left it for that to happen..... :D
 
I've got a few but here's the first one.

Local bus company business had a fire one night, nobody hurt but quite a lot of damage done and lots of fire crews in attendance.

Another local business owner who went to school with him was a fire officer so a plan was hatched. He got me some Fire Bridage headed note paper and even got his senior officer to agree to using his name and phone number on the letter.

I wrote a long letter explaining that the Fire Brigade had attended the incident and felt that the fire was the fault of the business as he hadn't adequated trained his staff in fire fighting procedures and that the law had changed recently and all businesses were responsible for the cost of putting out the fire.

I attached a breakdown of the costs including things like "fire engine and crew £650 per hour", use of BA per man, £120 per hour" etc and got his bill to about £6,000.

Of course, as soon as he got his invoice he contacted his mate from school in the fire brigade and asked him for advice. He was fuming. Bad enough with the cost of the fire but having to pay for it to be put out rubbed salt into the wounds. The guy told him he would have a word with the senior officer as he knew him and see what he could do.

Roll on a couple of more days and he contacted him back and said the senior fire officer could make the invoice "go away" if the guy was prepared to make a cash donation of £2,000 to the lads xmas partyfor drinks.

It was then all set up for him to meet this fire officer in a pub one night to hand over the £2,000. On arriving at the pub, there were about 10 of his mates all waiting for him laughing their heads off.

He was not amused and since finding out that night it was me who had pulled the prank has always sworn he would get revenge (he hasn't yet but I am always watching my back)
 
2nd one:

I had bought something at the purple shirt place and they had failed to scan the item properly and it set off the alarms at the exits. The security guard didn;t make me go back to the till though as it was very quiet and had watched me pay for the item anyway. I then knew they security device was still live.

So I cut it out and hid it inside the internal zipped pocket of a handbag belonging to a woman at work and waited. Forgot all about it as lots of time had passed until one day she was late to work.

It turns out that when she got in she explained she was late as she had called into B&Q on the way to work but hadn't bought anything but when leaving she had triggered the alarms. The security guy had come over and asked her what she had hidden. She denied everything of course so she was escorted to the manager's office to be searched.

They then gave her the hard talk about coming clean and it would be better for her in the long run and that they prosecute etc.

They had a hand scanner and scanned her and found her handbag set it off. They gave her another chance to come clean but she kept claiming she was innocent.

Eventually, on emptying her handbag, they found the security tag from the purple place and realised that somebody had played a joke on her.

Knowing that I was the office joker and went to the purple place lots, she straight away suspected me. On telling her story I couldn;t keep a straight face and confessed.
 
LAst one for now

Not involving me but a prank played by a sparky mate. Years ago they had a new apprentic start and were doing some electric work in a main street. The guys knew that at 10am that morning a building nearby was due to be demolished by explosives.

They got this apprentice working in a junction box and told him he had to be very, very careful and must not let any wire touch any other as he could cause an explosion in a local business (it was all dead and not live of course). This was just before 10am and they left him to work in the box.

AT 10am there was a massive explosion and they all ran across to him saying "What the hell have you done? You must have let a couple of wires touch. The **** is really going to hit the fan now" etc

The young lad looked as pail as a sheet. They told him to go home and they would cover for him as best they could and that he best hope there were no casulties as it could get serious and he could get jail time.

The young lad was never seen again and never came back to work. To this day, he might still be out there thinking he blew up a building by accident.
 
When I left the 6th form we bought an old mini shell from a scrappy and put it in our common room, two floors up. It was hard work getting the car up to stairs but the teachers faces the next day were priceless.
 
Years ago I used to work for a company that used those polystyrene chips/foam peanuts for packing purposes. One day, we found a work mate's car keys. We unlocked his car, opened the sunroof and then proceeded to completely fill the inside with polystyrene packing chips.

He wasn't best pleased - it took him ages to empty it out before he could drive home :D
 
Zero Pope said:
When I left the 6th form we bought an old mini shell from a scrappy and put it in our common room, two floors up. It was hard work getting the car up to stairs but the teachers faces the next day were priceless.
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Reminds me of a story my dad told me, when he was in 6th form in school. A few of the 6th formers took the shell from a mini off one of the teachers cars and put it on the roof
 
hmm. quite a few but my favourite would be when i pretended to be a new student in a teacher's class, guy had only been working at the school a few months but everyone was in on it and said they didn't know me and it was my first day. went into his class during a free period and said i had been transferred to the school and it was my first lesson, he gave me the textbooks etc and told me where we were up to. half hour into the class someone makes a joke about me which i take FAR too personally and get into an argument with the guy. teacher sits behind his desk trying to calm me down, the "argument" gets more heated and we get right in each other's faces. i storm out of the class saying i'm reporting it to the headteacher and how i couldn't believe this sort of intolerance and abuse went on in the classroom at this school. poor buggar was crapping himself for the next 15 minutes till they folded and told him about it. i then spent the rest of the year going into his class anyway just cuz the guy took it so well and turned out to be the most hilarious teacher i've ever known. we blackmailed him into dancing like a monkey once in exchange for good test results or something.
 
towed my m8s car down the road then called him and told him ide just seen his car drive off, he phones the police thinking it was stolen but luckily i found out he phoned them and come clean to him fast and he managed to call them and cancelled the call saying he forgot his m8 had spare keys and he gave permission for him to use it. :D

he wasn't very impressed at all :s
 
A few of my mates run their own plumbing companies and as such normally recieve phone calls from unknown numbers about jobs as far field as cumbria which one lad actually went to.

We've done it to him while sat in a pub on a saturday afternoon to watch him come strutting in asking where the leak is to turn round to all of us sat watching him.

Pretty harsh but he's been involved in some himself so what comes around goes around lol.

KaHn
 
I had an on going prank war with one of my fellow IT support monkies at a summer job years ago. He cut a hole just under the rim of my water bottle so i ended up with a wet crotch having to wander around the office doing support tasks.

My revenge was to get into his computer and replace random MP3s from his collection with songs he hated, but keeping the correct ID3 information so he couldn't tell what had switched & setup a load of random events to start playing "Tie me kangaroo down sport"

He removed the pneumatic piston from my chair and taped it at my normal hight so when I sat down it collapsed.

When there were rumours of redundancies going round the office I deactivated his access card when he went out to lunch.

etc etc.
 
A guy at work always came into the canteen and pickup someone else's cup of tea or coffee. So we had enough so we left him one we spat an coughed flem into. And we all had a big smile as we watched him drink it:D
 
bakes0310 said:
A guy at work always came into the canteen and pickup someone else's cup of tea or coffee. So we had enough so we left him one we spat an coughed flem into. And we all had a big smile as we watched him drink it:D
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Just nasty :-/......................

Reminds me of a mate from uni kept getting his milk stolen so he pee'd in it and stuck it back in the fridge and watched as it kept going down and down.

KaHn
 
One of my uni flatmates had an air rifle and it was the same month as the 9/11 attacks, so guns etc were fairly topical. The rest of us in the flat derived a professional-looking letter from the accommodation staff saying that they've conducted room searches and found the rifle. The guy was bricking it lol.
 
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