OT What pranks did you pull when younger?

John B.

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My older brother and I were always playing pranks on our parents. We got a hold of an old TV set and I pulled the step up transformer out of it. We wired it to the recliner in the living room. I hid under some furniture in the next room with the power pack powered by one "D" flashlight battery. I started the shock treatment when I heard one of them sit in the chair. Dad usually always sat in the recliner when watching the news. Well this time mom did along with her cup of coffee. I heard dad say "What's the matter mom"? She spilled her hot coffee on her and I never saw dad so mad. I never saw the power pack-shocker again either which was in an old cigar box.
My older brother and I one day got an idea to put a dummy in dad's old outhouse along with a holloween mask on it. There were boards off the side of the outhouse and when dad went out to feed the chickens the next morning he could see shoes of some one sitting in his outhouse. He came running in and told mom, "There's somebody in my sh!t house... We all got a good laugh out of it when he had to unlock the door from the outside and said, "Alright You come on out" and when the door swung open there the dummy sat with a smile on it's face/mask. Dad never did live this one down.
Best one I heard from a friend of mine. He and his dad always played tricks on each other. Well one day his dad (who loved talcum powder) was going to a ball game. My friend emptied his dad's talcum powder bottle and refilled it with powdered sugar. I bet his dad looked like a glazed donut at the ball game that day...LOL!
 
Could never understand why anybody would try to do that kind of stuff. Doesn't make any sence to me.
 
a lot of them, cant list them as some people are still around, and would still like to know who set that up
 
A dry bean, and a dried up crown from a tomato glued together made quite a convincing spider. Mom was not amused when she took the lid off the sugar bowl!
 
Gee Leroy, I bet your the life of the party at the family reunions.
Oh wait, all your family probably disowned you because of your chipper attitude.

Smile once in a while, it really doesn't hurt that bad.
 
When I was about 10 (1950) my Grandpa was talking about the old threshing crews and the jokes they pulled on each other . He said a popular one was to slip an egg into a guys back coveral pocket.
I thought that was a great one. The next day Grandma gave me an egg from the chicken house and as Grandpa headed out the door to do morning chores I slipped it into his pocket. He was gone several hours and when he got home I couln't wait to hear his tirade. But he went over to the coat rack, hung up his jacket, and headed for the kitchen table. Just before sitting down he reached into his pocket pulled out the egg, and handed it to me with a really gleeful smile on his face. He obviously felt me slip it in there and set it aside while he did chores.
 
Yup. Never went for that stuff myself.

If I'da pulled any of those stunts on my parents or brothers, the asswhipping that would have followed would have cured me of it forever.
 
anyone remember the story that was in green magazine some years ago about a couple of kids peeing down the muffler of a tractor,guess there was hell to pay when it got started up. Bill
 
sneaked into my brothers apartment while he was on his honeymoon and padlocked a cowbell to the open bed springs.
 
We used to make use of the telephone, and would think up plausible gags, ironically it used to work quite well, and sure wish we were smart enough to have recorded them, good clean fun, some of the reactions were priceless, a few would get angry, most would laugh/fall for it, resulting in actual appointments and what have you. Business's were the most fun as they provide services and gave you more content to work with, vs a residence which was really no fun to be honest, whomever was on the extension listening had to play it cool or lose your cover. Now whomever was the perpetrator, also had to keep it cool, fight off laughing.

The other thing I can recall is using cigarette loads and placing those in my mothers cigarettes, I hated the darned things way back then, and you would have to carefully push the load back far enough into the tobacco so it did not go off when she lit up. Just like the cartoons, the splayed paper resulting from the pop, was picture perfect, and these little white pieces of thermite or what the heck they were certainly loud or powerful, kind of ticked her off, I just hated cigarette smoke in the house, car what have you, never worked, she's still smoking like a feign today.
 
Talked my cousin into jumping off the barn roof. With a tractor umbrella. He got a broken leg. I got my butt tore up. Three times in one day.He still doesn't talk to me much.
 
One spring dad ran over a young coyote pup and brought it home for us to see. That night Grandma and Grandpa came over to visit so us kids propped it up next to the porch steps and scared the dickens out of grandma. Grandpa and Dad used to, on the Fourth of July, unwrap the firecrackers and untie them but keep the wick that kept them all tied together. When it got dark out they would light them and throw them behind you and you would think it was a real one! Tried an auto bomb on grandpa's truck once but he found it first. Sometimes when someone would go in the bathroom we would lean a broom against the door so when it was opened it would fall on them. Grandpa used to tell about putting pots and pans on the top of a door so they would fall when someone opened it.
 
Did you know that having your little sister sit in a metal chair, holding a metal saw hooked to a telephone generator will get the brother a good whippin?
 
I remember a cousin and I bet his older brother he couldn't stuff a whole orange in his mouth....

The orange stuffer and I convinced a couple of other cousins to pee on an electric fence....They went crying to mommy, who was NOT amused. My dad couldn't stand the two - and actually laughed about it - but told us he'd have to punish us anyhow. Can't remember what it was, but it wasn't TOO seriuos...
 
My brother is six years older than me so growing up I was told to kick the sticking kitchen door open with my bare feet, had peanut butter rubbed in my arm pits, eggs broken on my head, and my head dunked in the toilet. Fast forward to when I was 20 and first married. We were living in one of dad's rental houses that had water and ant damage on a corner post. We cut out the post and while my brother was dipping the sawdust out I went into the basement to see if we cut it low enough. His cupped hands came down past the foundation about every 10 seconds to scoop the sawdust. I reached up threw the hole, grabbed hard and pulled. I could feel him shake and he said he almost peed his pants! :twisted:
 
Neighbor of mone used to work in a milk co-op. They had a guy who used to come in who always had a hard boiled egg in his lunch. He would hold it about a foot above the table, then drop it to crack it, then peel it and eat it. One morning, Bill swapped it for a raw egg. Said it made quite a mess....
 
One summer Dad said he had seen this white/grey groundhog. We were working out by the barn and there was this groundhog out in the field. Well, I shot it and we took some white marking paint and sprayed it white, took it out to the hole and propped it up to look like it was standing there. Went and told Dad we saw his white groundhog out in the field. He went and got his 45-70 and after 4 shots we were laughing so hard it hurt. He did knock it over but it just laid there so he kept shooting! When he saw we had painted it and propped it up he couldn't help but laugh!(along with a few choice words)
 
When I was 6 years old we had a blizzard. The day after the blizzard I went out to play. Snow was a good 3 feet deep on the driveway next to the house. It was wind packed and I could walk on top without my feet sinking in the snow. I knew my 4 year old sis was taking a nap but would want to come out and play when she woke up. I started digging. Had to go in and warm up a few times. Made sure to tell Mom to not let my lil sis out until I said the surprise was ready. Mom asked what the surprise was. Can't tell. Might spoil the surprise. Wasn't easy but I got the hole dug as deep as I could. Went in and asked my older sis for a sheet. She asked why? Told her it was cold out. She wanted to get me a blanket. Nope, just need a sheet. They were white ya know. Lil sis was up and Mom was putting a snow suit on her. Told Mom my surprise was almost ready. Ran out, covered the hole. Spread snow over it. Ran to back door and called my lil sis to come out and play. Went running around front and opened the door a crack. As soon as I heard my sis go out the back door I yelled for her to come around front. Then I went inside and ran to the side window. Mom and my older sis said my little sis had just gone out to play. About that time my lil sis came running down the drive all bundled up in a red snowsuit and fell in the snow covered hole. I thought it was hilarious. Mom? No, she didn't find any humor in it. Lil sis was ok.
 
We used to go into mcdonalds and put ketchup packets under the toilet seat and then hide in the next stall over. A guy came in and sat down and the packets squirt on his legs. He started cussing and we started laughing!!
 
I worked in a shop of about ten people and the tricks were rampant. Matter-of-fact, a lot of them were quite dangerous. I did very few of them, but there would always be payback if one was pulled on me. Anyway, one of them that I pulled on a co-worker was with the muffler to his pickup truck. During break or after work we could work on our vehicles for a few minutes, if needed. A co-worker had bought a new muffler for his pickup and had left it on the bed of his pickup for about a month. Meanwhile, I had taken a tube of cheap grease (the cheaper the better) and with a 90 degree fitting on the end, pumped the entire tube of grease in his muffler. The fitting was used so that you could put it inside the muffler without seeing any grease in the muffler tube. He finally found a day to install the muffler and our shop was about 6 miles from town. By the time he got to town, there was so much smoke coming out the exhaust that cars had to pull over behind him. (This was in a rural area, not a busy highway) The next day he was pretty hot about it, but he remembered that paybacks are h3ll.
 
Only two come to mind. Our mom was deathly scared of snakes. We lived in an old farm house and dad had built a new low deck on the backside of the house off the kitchen. It was probably 12x12 and about a foot off the ground. The door to the kitchen consisted of an old screen door and a solid inside door. My sister and I were out in the field the day before and my dad had killed a three foot long bull snake and left it lay at the edge of the field. Of course having nothing better to do that next day we were looking for something different do do. Idea! Why don't we go up to the corner and get that dead snake and lay it off the porch and call Mom out to see it. So we gets the snake and comes back and lays it about a foot away from the corner of the deck on the ground. "HEY MOM. COME OUTSIDE AND SEE WHAT WE GOT!" "what do you kids want, I am busy? "Come out here and see what we got." Of course on the way out Mom shuts the inside door for some reason. She comes walking over to the edge of the deck and started to step off when she notices the snake. She let out a scream I can still hear today and turned around and headed for the door. She couldn't find the handle on the screen door for a few seconds and stood there jumping up and down. Finally she got it open and then couldn't get the inside door open. Meanwhile my sister and I were rolling around on the ground laughing. We didn't get in trouble for it, but the more we thought about it, we decided it wasn't all that funny and shouldn't have done it. After Mom calmed down she laughed about it too. The other one happened years later when my sister was going with my now brother in law. He had an old Dodge car that had the shift lever for the automatic transmission on the dash right above the transmission hump. That was the days when the guy opened the drivers door and the girl slid in and across the seat. They were going somewhere and took me along down three miles to my aunt's store and was going to drop me off there. Must have been around the end of June because my cousin who is the same age as me was selling fireworks at the store. My sister and boyfriend went into the store to visit my aunt and I went around behind the fireworks stand where my cousin was. He had found a small garter snake and skinned it and was sewing it back up to scare his mother with. We got to talking about it and I said maybe we should put the snake on the seat of the car which was parked right next to the stand and scare my sister. The more we talked the better it sounded. He got done sewing it up, minus the head, and we sneaked out to the passenger side of the car. I took the snake and laid it in the crack between the back and bottom of the seat right over the hump on the floor. We went back in the fireworks stand and sat down. Pretty soon we heard them coming back to the car talking to my aunt. Brother in law opened the driver's door very gallantly and my sister eased around to get in. They kept talking all the time. Finally after what seemed like an eternity my sister came on around and slid into the car. Just about the time she was going to set down she noticed the snake. She screamed and did a one eighty and stuck her rearend up onto the ceiling of the car. She was bouncing up and down screaming at the top of her lungs. Brother in law knew he had to save her, but didn't know from what. Aunt was standing by the left front headlight trying to figure out what was going on. It went on for about two minutes before my sister was able to scream out, "There is a snake." Brother in law tried to come in the car about the time my sister figured out she better back out the door. She finally went over the top of him as he went in looking for the snake. Found it and grabbed it by the tail and threw it out right under the door. About that time they looked thru the car windows and saw me and my cousin screaming with laughter. Then my aunt started laughing. The other two just glared at us. Maybe that is why my brother in law doesn't like me to this day. They left and I walked the three miles back to the house that evening.
 
Years ago - when the carnival would come to town, one of the local business men would let the carnies sleep in his stock barn. The barn was in town, and sat just sidewalk distance from the edge of the street. None of the carnies were locals, and one of the rascals thought it was cute to pee out of a knothole onto the sidewalk while someone was walking past the barn, especially if the walker was a woman. And he wasn't content to just pee out of the knothole - he'd actually "dangle" out of it, if you know what I mean. A local joker got a chicken foot, and if you've ever fooled with a chicken foot, you know it has a natural gripping action when you bend the knee. Anyhow, he was lying in wait the next morning when the carnie dangled out the knothole, and he clamped the chicken foot on him. Of course, he couldn't retreat back through the knothole with that chicken foot clamped on him, and the more he fought the more it hurt. But the funny part was when he started saying, "Here kitty! Kitty, kitty, kitty. SSSSSST get outa here cat!"

I didn't have anything to do with this incident, but it's a popular story around our little town.
 
while at work, put work boots in stalls an closed door. used to have a coworker that would take a newspaper an sit in on the john for about 30-40 min at a certain time every day,no mater if some one needed to use it or not, so a couple of us got in there first an put saran wrap under toilet seat an took a full roll out an put a very small roll in, after that he didnt stay so long
 
I refuse to go into anything I did, but I'll tell one my father did.

He was raised by his grandparents and a bachelor uncle. One summer when the yard around the farmstead was mostly dust, he cut a couple of pieces of plywood shaped like a shoe sole about 18" long, even attached heels.

He strapped them onto his feet one evening and ran all over around the barn and other buildings. He had to run to get the right distance between them to look real.

His uncle went out to do chores the next morning and came running back to the house, white as a sheet.

And people wondered why I got into mischief.
 
If you poke a pin-hole in the kechup packet, pointing up toward
the victim's butt, You either get a scream as the cold kechup
squirts their butts, or if they don't notice, they find out when they
wipe, thinking they are bleeding!
 
I had a guy building a lean to addition to a barn, one time, he was pushin bolts through the wall, from the outside, I snuck into the barn, and pushed them back out, he would turn around, and say danm , what the eff is this barn got a haint in it? Finally I bust ought laughin in a mu ah ah ah halloween voice, and he about jumped off the ladder, before he figured out it was me! Still laughs about it any time I see him!
 
When we were kids, we went to the neighbors to play ball in the cow pasture. He had 4 paper feed bags folded over to use for bases and spikes to push into the ground to hold them in place. We were setting out the bases, I had 2nd base, and he was standing on home plate telling us to move this way or that, in or out to get the distance right. When he said OK, put it there, there was a large cow pie close by, so I put the base over the cow pie and pushed in the spikes. Imagine his surprise when he rounded 2nd base and went sliding thru the cow pie. He never liked me very well after that, not sure why.
I worked in a feed mill. One of the maintenence men liked to grease broom handles, steering wheels, door knobs, phones and anything the didn't move. Got fed up with it one night, snuck out to a semi and got some 5th wheel grease on a stick and greased the underside of the steering wheel on his jeep. He didn't grease things any more after that and I never got caught. Fred
 
There was a blizzard in Michigan back in the 70s. High school was out for a few days. When school started again, there were some large snow drifts against the building. A class was about to begin in a 3rd floor room. One boy wanted to freak out the veteran female teacher when she would walk into the room. He opened the window and climbed out, and when the lady walked into the classroom, she saw him out there and then she saw him jump. She almost crapped. The boy did a belly flop into the snow bank and walked out unharmed. Classic.
 
I was helping out setting up lights for the high school play. Thirty feet in the air in the gym, on scaffolding.
The English teacher/ play director was directly below, explaining something.
I took off my shirt, wadded it up and threw it down next to her. Right when it went by her and hit the floor, I hollered like I was falling.
Poor thing almost had the big one.
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This prank was on me. Was about 16 and was plowing for a neighbor using his 8N Ford and two bottom plow. The second day out was kind of cold and I was bored, so about 3 oclock in the afternoon had to pee so pee'ed on the muffler, O man what a smell. It stayed with me the rest of that day and half the next.
 
When I was in high school I had a couple good friends I ran around with, one of them was raised by his grandparents and they were like grandparents to the other 2 of us also. Anyway they had a laundry chute into the basement from the bathroom next to their bedroom. One us hid by the back door, one behind the door into the garage and one at the bottom of the laundry chute. Granny usually went back to bed early and grandpa would stay up watching tv in the living room. Anyway we used to take great joy in imitating granny's voice from different points in the house and calling grandpa's name while he went searching for her. We did it off and on for a couple years, we got older and grandpa caught on (sooner than we realized I think).
 

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