Pranks you did as a kid

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Another Friday nonsense thread then.

Go on, tell us what you did as naughty kids!

I've got a few I'll write out later but I should really be focussing on this Teams call I'm on.
 
as teens me and a mate bought some mobile phones, hardly anybody had them back then and there were lots of public phone booths , we’d park up at a local Burger King and when somebody was walking past the phone booth we’d ring it, just as they were about to answer we’d hang up, then as they started walking away we’d ring again. Stupid and childish but it kept us amused heh
 
I remember seeing a practical joke in a book about a fake wallpaper tear, where you basically just make a tear in a sheet of paper and lick the back of it to stick it on the wallpaper without it doing any damage.

So of course when my parents had their hallway freshly wallpapered, the following day I pulled this prank. Being all apologetic about catching something against the wall, I remember my dad went absolute ape ****. Until he wandered over to have a look at how it could be repaired and was confused when the other side was obviously just white paper.
 
Not my one but one guy at school in the year or two above (presumably - at least we all assumed it was a final year student) went around stealing clocks... from classrooms, with a teacher and pupils present. And he did this multiple times over the last couple of weeks of term.

We had a school uniform and this guy would put on a balaclava when he did it, he'd time it just before the buzzer sounded for lunch or first break and he'd run into a classroom, grab the clock from the front of the room near the door and sprint out again... within a few seconds after doing so the buzzer would sound and pupils would be leaving all the other classrooms so they never caught him - he'd be down a flight of stairs, into a cupboard or toilets or something before the teacher had time to react. :D
 
JBuk said:
there were lots of public phone booths , we’d park up at a local Burger King and when somebody was walking past the phone booth we’d ring it, just as they were about to answer we’d hang up
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One silly one we did involved phone boxes - there was a BT phone box and a mercury one a few meters away - so we'd phone the operator and ask for a reverse charge call giving the number for the mercury phone box which a friend would then pick up, we did it a bunch of times. It was partly just messing about but also (bit nerdy) we were amused by the idea that BT would end up billing mercury at the reverse charge rate and they'd be like WTF is this about?
 
Had a spare sky remote, me and my friends at night would change peoples TV channels from outside their living room window. We had a penchant of interrupting family viewing for the 10 minute free view of the Adult channels. Those channels that were all in the 900 series!
 
Another phone one - back in the 90s before mobile we'd all know each other's landlines which were just 4 digit numbers. You'd just say "village name 1234" when giving someone your phone number and if they lived locally they'd only need to dial 1234.

Then some change to 6 digit numbers came in, but everyone's numbers were appended with the same two digits, say "88" so 881234 would be the new number.

That prompted my friend from a few doors down to ponder - "I wonder if someone has the phone number 888888" so we dialed it and sure enough it was someone's number.

"hello"

"oh hi, we just wanted to know if this was someone's number"

"don't waste my time!"

Then another friend from a few doors further down came and we showed him "hey someone has 888888 as their phone number, check it out" and we dialed it again... and the guy got really angry....

And it got worse... we went out on our bikes and met up with some of the other local kids and told them what just happened "there's someone who has 888888 as their phone number and they get so mad if you ring them try it", the next day various kids report back that they too tried the 888888 number and the man who answered was so angry and threatening to call the police, telling them that he'd been on the phone to BT about it etc.

That kept us entertained all summer - we'd go to someone's house on our bikes, maybe play some Nintendo and then someone would be like "shall we phone the 888888 man again!" :D
 
Not me. Some guy I know. Pre-DECT house phones, he had a Yupiteru MVT-7100 scanner which was very effective at scanning the frequencies of the old analogue cordless house phones. He used to go around housing estates listening into peoples phone calls. even heard some things from influential members of the community which made him nope the **** out.
 
Not sure if it was a 'prank' or not - but back in secondary school a mate got a copy of the Jolly Roger Cookbook for his Amiga; we tried a lot of stuff from that, often with no success as it was mainly American stuff. But we did try making napalm :cry:

God, the whole thing seems so daft now - we managed to get two plastic jerry cans of fuel (one petrol and the other diesel), and the 'recipe' called for mixing it with egg whites or something daft like that - we were in a dark field with a lit esbit stove, trying to mix two types of fuel whilst trying (and failing) to separate yolks and whites :D Ended up sacking it off, tried to light the diesel can, gave up and took the petrol for some fun.

I retrospect we were right little ***** always burning stuff, playing in a bunch of derelict buildings in Swindon (now a big retail park), often buying massive cans of hairspray to then play Street fighter with (setting our hands and arms on fire pretentinf to do a hadoken) - then bunging it all in a metal bin to blow up. Had the fire brigade and police out the the site numerous times... we always legged it. Set fire to huge piles of polystyrene once, my god was that a toxic mistake!!

We trespassed on an old air base with our G10 BB guns, having shootouts - daft as they shot metal BBs, and I got hit above the eye once...

I moved house in the latter years of secondary, and found a load of nail gun charges in the coal shed out the back - promptly taking them into school, so we could use the gun powder.... think I even took petrol in once, then binned it as a mate said it would eat through the plastic bottle!

Then there was the stone aminals - we always nicked those from gardens, and (stupidly) put them in a main road and watched as cars ploughed into them, one took a bumper off on one occasion. One of the lads thought it would be funny to return a smashed cat statue after one such indicent, and we poured Warhammer blood Angel paint all over it (and the houses step) before knocking and running.

Ahhhh Swindon.
 
Just your usual soul-crushing **** where you tell your mate the girl he's fancied forever said she liked him, then watch him go up to her and bomb hard. Kids are awful lol

To be fair i think it helped him overcome his fear of rejection as 30 years on he still gets rejected on the regs yet keeps coming back for more, no regrets
 
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