Humor More on fish game DNR From the old days

An old warden (now gone) had a bunch of guys pull a few pranks on him. They called in night hunting at such and such place. When he got there all it was flashlights on a string in a tree swinging around!! A few more pranks like this one went on but he did get even over time. He picked up a road kill and got the guys wife in on it, (a relative of the warden) threw it in the cellar while the guy was working then came back with a fake warrant (The guy was somewhat surprised) but even more so when he was in cuffs for poaching!!! They let it go for a bit before telling him its a prank he was in tears!!! Any stuff like this go on around you?

I learned REAL QUICK not to pull pranks when I had a official position with local jurisdiction.

Over the decades, I used to pull pranks on guys, women that I knew and worked with, or not worked with and they've done the same to me. I miss those days. These days though, people can get really bent out of shape, and if it's done at work, then work suspends or fires people. At work, annually we go through the "Business Code Of Conduct" that tells us everything that we can not only do at work, but during our off hours that could cost us our jobs if we do. I work for AT&T. "Elevator Eyes". Know what that is? I see a hot chick, look her up and down because as a guy, I don't look guys up and down or check them out even though it's 2016 because I check out women, and I could get canned. And get this...I've been told by managers that if I were to tell a joke to someone, not them, and they happen to overhear it and get "offended", I'm in trouble. Big trouble. Out of a job trouble.

Good luck, and enjoy good jokes when you can and where you can...if you can.

Mark

As someone has said, this PC stuff is killing this country!

Now a days you don't dare tell a joke or pull a prank because there will somebody that will take it the wrong way and make a big deal about and the next thing your in jail, lost your job or who know what else.

30+ years ago I had a bunch of guys in my framing crew that all got along well and used to enjoy adult beverages together after work. At one point the pranks got so bad you couldn't leave anything of your own unattended. Tool belts nailed down or hung from a beam 25 feet off the floor. Things glued or caulked. It was funny for a while but got out of hand and I finally had to say enough. We worked hard and had a good time.

Jocco,

Many years ago, we had a smaller-town policeman check out what he was rightly focused on.

He showed up a few times, over the years, at an outdoor annual event. We have always invited him into our camping area for a politely-offered Coke, burger, potatoes, stick-around-a -while--for-a-Minnesota/Wisconsin-styled shoot-the-breeze.

He did not decline our offer.

He did say, in no uncertain terms, do not give me a reason to arrest you.

I took from that that he'd rather not, but had an obligation to the townfolks that had him employed.

He was sure that we were the kind of folks that speak honestly, he did as well.

We have a few pictures of him (for photo sake), "cuffing" a few of our own. That sworn man has made great strides in community relations. He was honest, polite, and to the upmost degree, a man of integrity. We've welcomed him each and every year to join our camp, for either arrest or a burger.

That was a wonderful experience for the younger ones we bring along. They get to be a witness of a wonderful, honest, sworn-to-duty officer that there is.

There's a many officers that are trying to do their best, but they never, and I mean never, get the respect that what they deserve.

Maybe went astray, but had to comment nonetheless,

D.

Not a 'prank' really, I was a maint. supervisor in a 24/7 shop and shared an office with 4 others. It was always a aggravation that you couldn't keep things like a scotch tape dispenser or worst of all a stapler from 'disappearing' in that place. We had those cheapy , but sturdy steel desks in there. I came in on night shift once and as usual my stapler had 'gone missing'. I went to the supply room and got a new one. I screwed my new stapler, tape dispenser and the paper clip holder to the desk !! It was hilarious for a week or more to watch someone grab the stapler and find out it was fastened down !!

grampy- That's actually a very good idea. It's funny how those things can grow legs and 'walk' off.

One of the best of the many pranks I have pulled was on a close friend and lodge brother. At the time, he was working in a sporting store and writing a column for the local rag about hunting and fishing. The previous year he didn't take a deer, but did get a lot of ribbing about it.

So I (being such a good friend) contacted the local rag and asked them to run an ad for him. It read. "Wanted- one deer. Must be a buck, ten points or more, standing staked, broadside, in a field, no more than twenty yards away. Would appreciate help dressing and dragging. Contact Hayward L. XXXX)"

He had a fit for about six months trying to find the 'dirty SOB' that he was going to get even with. He blamed all the folks at the paper, the sporting goods store, and his hunting club. He never did manage to get me back......

several years ago there were a bunch of guys near mt carroll il that were always pranks on each other.
at that time there was a this time a thistle inspector that would go around the country to make sure you had your thistles cut.
some of them dug up a huge bull thistle and replanted it in one of their buddies front yard. he lived on a big curve so anyone going past his place would have to slow down and should see the thistle. well the joke was on them as one said anything about the thistle.

A priest was telling me that one priest was drinking quite a bit and his fellow priest got together and sent him an official looking letter stating that he needed to get a liquor license do to the amount of alcohol he was purchasing. Do to his reaction the haven't told him where it came from.

Had an office fellow a number of years ago who was one of those people who always wanted you to think he was important and overworked, dashing here and there and generally going around in high-speed circles without accomplishing anything that anyone else could see. He'd zoom into the office, grab his coffee mug with one finger on the way by the desk, and dash off somewhere else. One day, unbeknownst to him, his coffee cup mysteriously sprouted a bead of super-glue, fastening it to a stout piece of cardboard that was in turn held down by several heavy and carefully balanced objects and liberally sprinkled with pencils, pens, and other desk detritus. In he came, grabbed the cup, and took half the desk with him on the way out the door! Slowed him down for a while afterward, at least long enough to lift the cup gently before departing.

We got in kids fresh out of training that thought they knew everything. At Ft Bliss my next door neighbor was the Battalion personnel SGT. He had a buddy at post personnel do up official orders stating that an investigation had found his basic training was compromised and he was ordered back to Ft Knox to undergo Basic again. We were able to get the company commander in on it who called him into his office and read him his orders. We let him stew over it a couple of days before we told him the truth!

For those who don't know the military uses the "grid reference system" on maps. That means that all maps have grid lines, vertical and horizontal every 1000 meters (one click) called "grid squares". Standard maps in the Army are 1/50,000.

I was in the motor pool as a young SGT teaching a map reading class. WE had a smart asked kid who would always try to "sharp shoot" (embarrass an instructor). He tired that on me that hot summer day. I sent him to the supply room to get me a "box of grid squares" (nonexistent item). Now the company area (thus the supply room was about 1/2 mile, and did I say it was hot? Near 100! The supply SGT was a prankster too. So the PVT gets to the supply room and tells the SGT that SGT K needs a box of grid squares. The SGT ask 1/25,000 or 1/50,000? PVT says he doesn't know so he gets sent back to ask me. I ask if he was aware that in armor warfare we always use 1/50,000. So back to supply he goes. Supply SGT tells him gee, after you left I issued the last box of 1/50,000 grid squares I had to someone else while you were gone, go ask SGT is he can make do with a box of 1/250,000? SO the kid runs back to the MP to ask. I chew him out saying that heck yes I can make do! So back to supply he goes to get told......sorry, you were too slow, I gave they last of those out while you were gone! That night I was in the barracks with several old maps watching him cut me out grid squares! No one ever had trouble with him in a class again!

There were lots of pranks puled in the Army.

I got my oldest daughter. She was a young teen and very concerned about "fashion". She kept bugging me "what am I getting for Christmas?". I told her a rock! What we did was get her a gift card from her favorite clothing store. I took a 30 pound rock, wrapped it in tissue paper and put it in a box with the gift card in an envelope with card taped to a flap on the box. Christmas morning she tears open the box, fails to see the envelope and pulls out this rock!

Got my oldest son too. Got him something he really wanted that came in a plain white box. Per instructions my wife had the kids pull out this box (with my sons gift in it) in front one me (terrible snoop) wrap it, then my wife told the oldest boy to hide it so I wouldn't find it! Christmas morning my son tries handing me this box. I told him "open it". When he got it open he realized it was for him! He looks at me with this "I'm dumb" look on his face and says "I've slept with this under my bed for 4 months and never snooped"!

Rick

Where I work, a guy got a traffic citation. It came in the Company mail, Someone "edited" it to include something like "While we were doing your background check, we discovered that you have outstanding charges from 1960 while you were in the fourth grade, you borrowed "The Cat In The Hat" book from the school library, and failed to return it. Charges have accumulated since that time, in the amount of $18,549.00. So, your Library Card has been revoked, And your Drivers license is suspended, until this matter is rectified." Sincerely,"

Just curious, did his last name begin with Put, and he wrote for the Aegis?

New warden was being pretty strict, a group of guys tied a real mouthy dog to a tree about 200 yds down in a set of woods and called in someone was illegally coon hunting when the warden got back to his car all his tires were flat.

I had dozen of those utility locate marking flags laying around . Typed up official looking letter and went to buddies house when he was at work . Stuck letter in door , flags in yard both side of new driveway . "Good day resident of <address> . We will be installing a new water based cable TV line across your property . We will need to cut through your driveway .It will be patched when done . This is exciting new technology. Water based cable uses water lines to provide cable tv signals. We offer over Two thousand channels . Call our office for more info also let them know you are eligible for 3 months free due to tearing up your driveway . We will begin work next thursday and hope to be done in four weeks . Please make other parking arrangements during this time.
Thank you
Water based cable systems of Iowa "
Buddy spent a week trying to find phone number or who to call . Let him stew for a month before spilling it .

Last summer we had an fng come in start hiding 4 wheeler keys, supplies (never did find that one jug of grazon), so we started doing it back. Pick-up keys, boots, pick-up.

Man, was he mad when him and another guy came over the hill from getting some fence supplies and the other guys says hey, that looks like your pick-up out there hooked to that fertilizer tender. 1,000gallon of fertilizer hooked right to the bumper of his Ford ranger.

Explaining why it was happening to him didn't do any good.

I worked a lot of 12 to 8am shifts at a prison camp. We had an officer who did taxidermy. He would stop and pick up road kill then clean it up and stuff it. One summer night he brought in a skunk he had stuffed. The sgt. on duty was required to make rounds of the dorms at night. He walked into one of the dorms and just inside the door was a skunk who appeared to eating out of a tunafish can. Sgt never made it inside the door, He turned right around and made a hasty retreat back to the office. Another time he had been bear hunting which produced a small stuffed bear which he placed about 10 ft outside the back door of the office. When the sgt. came out of the door the bear was waiting and wouldn't leave. He tried to shoo it away with no luck. finally he tried throwing candy bars at it.
He went back inside and called the dorm to report his predicament. When he came out again the stuffed bear had wandered off.