April Fools Pranks

[jamie2112]

Anybody got any good ones.......

 

[Seth=L]

Conficker.....HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

 

[markw]

If your office has those phones where the handsets connect to the base with a small modular plug, did you know that a small piece of clear scotch tape placed over the contacts of said modular plug, trimmed to size to be invisible can, when reinserted back into the base of the phone, can lead to hours of amusement when the phone rings and the victim cannot hear or talk to the person on the other end.

 

[Seth=L]

If your office has those phones where the handsets connect to the base with a small modular plug, did you know that a small piece of clear scotch tape placed over the contacts of said modular plug, trimmed to size to be invisible can, when reinserted back into the base of the phone, can lead to hours of amusement when the phone rings and the victim cannot hear or talk to the person on the other end.

Too bad we have a cordless at work.

 

[markw]

In the old days we would unscrew the mouthpiece and remove the carbon element so the guy could hear the people on the other end but could not speak to them.

 

[Adam]

In the old days we would unscrew the mouthpiece and remove the carbon element so the guy could hear the people on the other end but could not speak to them.

I used to do that, too! Actually, I still can at my house. I'm the only one here, though, so it wouldn't be that great of a prank.

 

[speakerman39]

Yeah, hide all the toilet tissue at work including the spray. Of course, only after going myself. Makes for an interesting day-one that really ticks my installer off to the point he is speechless for some odd reason. It more or less turns him into a whiney baby for the day............Lmao!!!!!!

Cheers,

Phil

 

[Alex2507]

Mucking with the out house and the telegraph lines ...
c'mon fellas, I know the eighteen hundreds were really awesome but you have to move on ...

I got one, kind of.
Yesterday I told my g/f that I canceled our Blockbuster account. It's like a permanent April 1st for her.

 

[aberkowitz]

Best I ever heard about involved taking very thin fishing line and tying everything on somebody's desk to their office chair. When they pull the chair out from under the desk EVERYTHING goes flying. Works especially well with paper clip holders, pencil/pen cups, staplers that are slightly opened, etc.

 

[MatthewB.]

Best one I knew about was when i was a teenager and my twin sister told my father she was pregnant and needed 300.00 for an abortion. My sister had the patience to let that one last an hour while my father spent that entire hour yelling and screaming. The look on his face when she said "April's Fool" is still implanted in my mind 25 years later.
A good cheap one to pull on the boss, is place a large box with no bottom filled with styrofoam peanuts in it on their desk. The next day when they come in, they lift the box and those peanuts come falling out everywhere and since those things cling to everything, it will be months and they will still be finding packing peanuts in odd places.

 

[aberkowitz]

Best one I knew about was when i was a teenager and my twin sister told my father she was pregnant and needed 300.00 for an abortion. My sister had the patience to let that one last an hour while my father spent that entire hour yelling and screaming. The look on his face when she said "April's Fool" is still implanted in my mind 25 years later.

Wow.... Props to your sister. I don't think I could last more than 20 minutes, max.

 

[speakerman39]

Wow.... Props to your sister. I don't think I could last more than 20 minutes, max.

Same here. I bet that look on his face will last a lifetime to say the least. It is really kind of cruel, but funny just the same. An entire hour would have seemed like an eternity to me.

Cheers,

Phil

 

[Nomo]

Several years ago, at work, I told the plant supervisor that I was tired of putting up with the BS in my department and wanted to go back to my previous position on the shop floor. I was a quality engineer at the time. I got along with him pretty well and he was having difficulty filling the position I had left behind a few months back. Our positions in the company were relatively lateral.
He was unexpectedly excited by the news.
So excited that the joke turned out to be on me. Within an hour's time I found myself explaining to my boss, my boss's boss, and the owner of the company, in that order, that it was after all April Fool's day and it was in good fun.

I've cut back on the pranks since then.

 

[jostenmeat]

I'm not much of a prankster, nor have ever done this one, but nearly my friend's entire extended family goes nuts with this.

When your friend leaves you for a moment, while leaving their cell phone in front of you, go into the phone list, and look for names like "Mom", "Dad", "Boss", etc. Leave the name alone, but edit the number to your own.

Later that night, send text messages that read anything like:

"I can't believe you f*@#$& did THAT. What on earth were you thinking!? I AM SO ASHAMED OF YOU!"

- Mom

 

[Alex2507]

That reminds me of a pre turn of the century thing I did once on a job. The electrician foreman on the job switched vehicles with his wife for whatever reason and came in with her nice clean mini van and made the mistake of telling me how he really needed it to be in good shape when he gave it back to her. I think we were smoking bones at lunch or something.

I left a note on his windshield saying:

Dear sir,

I'm sorry I hit your van. Please don't call the police because I don't have any insurance but I will pay for the repairs. You can find me inside the building doing the plumbing work in the bathrooms in the back. My name is Bill.

Bill

Ideally I would have been watching while he searched for the non existent dent because I love to watch them circling the vehicle but I got to hear all about it. While Jack was circling the mini van, the superintendent Tony asked him what he was doing. Well Tony couldn't find the dent either but he knew right where Bill was so off they went.

Now this part I did see. Jack, Tony and Bill are standing in the middle of a future Circuit City sales floor and I can tell by the body language that Bill is pissed. Jack holds out the note to him and Bill waves it off angrily. The super is standing there watching them like a cop who is gonna get to the bottom of this. Jack looks up and spots me watching them from the other side of the stock room wall from the top of a scaffold and yells out:

"Oscar !!! You C^%&SUCKER !!!"

Suddenly it all made sense.

 

[adwilk]

two years ago in February, an old college buddy came back to town and we all went out... He hooked up with a complete stranger named Ashley. He was back in town Mar31 and we again went out. He was pretty hung over the next day, or April 1st. We called one of our HR reps that he also used to work for and had her call him from her cell phone...

The call went something like this...

Hello, is this Justin? Yeah, who's this? Oh, this is Mary from Dr. Richards office in Springfield. We had a patient by the name of Ashley "somethin" in here a couple of days ago. We ran some tests and she tested positive for HIV and you were on her recent lists of sexual contacts. We recommend you schedule an appointment with your doctor to see if you've been infected.

He flipped. His life flashed before his eyes and this tough guy broke down in tears. He sobered up pretty quick but the date never hit him. He's pretty close to his mom, called her crying (not joking) and she thought it was an April fool's joke on her. He figured it out. It was PHENOMENAL though.. absolutely priceless. Pretty mean though in hindsight.

 

[MatthewB.]

I hate to admit this, but when I was younger, i had this core group of friends and whosever birthday it was, the task was to drink as many Long Island Ice teas as your age. Nobody ever won, but when the birthday boy passed out, the hijinks ensued. We left a buddy naked on the roof of a mall (buddy worked security there). Shaved a buddy's eyebrow off (just one mind you, so the guy would have to decide to either shave the other one off or use ink to pencil it in. I woke up wearing a dress in the mens bathroom of a gay bar (um nothing happened) and also woke up handcuffed in my folks house (buddies knew where the spare key was) years after I moved out and they called my folks to tell em where the key was. Incidently we used those same cuffs on a buddy the day before he got married, when we handcuffed him in his boxers to a tree in front of his inlaws house. Key was taped to the front door. The inlaws were in hysterics over that one and the bride was ticked. Some of the other gags we pulled I can't talk about in an open forum, but how none of us got arrested, I'll never know.

 

[speakerman39]

two years ago in February, an old college buddy came back to town and we all went out... He hooked up with a complete stranger named Ashley. He was back in town Mar31 and we again went out. He was pretty hung over the next day, or April 1st. We called one of our HR reps that he also used to work for and had her call him from her cell phone...

The call went something like this...

Hello, is this Justin? Yeah, who's this? Oh, this is Mary from Dr. Richards office in Springfield. We had a patient by the name of Ashley "somethin" in here a couple of days ago. We ran some tests and she tested positive for HIV and you were on her recent lists of sexual contacts. We recommend you schedule an appointment with your doctor to see if you've been infected.

He flipped. His life flashed before his eyes and this tough guy broke down in tears. He sobered up pretty quick but the date never hit him. He's pretty close to his mom, called her crying (not joking) and she thought it was an April fool's joke on her. He figured it out. It was PHENOMENAL though.. absolutely priceless. Pretty mean though in hindsight.

Mean you say? Might as well stuck a knife in his back when he turned around.......Lmao!!!! No really, that was a good one. But it was very cruel.

Cheers,

Phil

 

[gmichael]

Yesterday, we made a company wide announcement that we were going to have drug testing that day. We would let each person know where to show up when it was their turn. One guy went into a complete panic. A co-worker (who was in on the joke) told him that he could mask the drugs in his system if he were to drink a quart of cranberry juice with two raw eggs in it. Off to Shop-rite he went and came back about an hour later. He had already drank it. He wasn't very happy when he was told the truth.

 

[rojo]

Let's resurrect this thread for today.

NPR had a funny April Fools Day news bit this morning. I was totally not expecting a prank to come from my radio on my morning commute.

http://www.npr.org/2015/04/01/396757462/acautionarytaleaboutselfdrivingcars