Shop practical jokes

[JohnsonG]

the worst excuse for a practical joke I ever heard of was a guy took a cup of oil/grindings from the valve grinder, and dumped them into this guys freshly built harley... the motor died in about a week...

 

[Champane Flight]

Or

When I worked aircraft maintenance in the Air Force, we would send the new kids to the other side of the base to get 2 foot of "flightline". .

Or a gallon of "propwash". One newbie came back with one... ...

 

[terrywerm]

the worst excuse for a practical joke I ever heard of was a guy took a cup of oil/grindings from the valve grinder, and dumped them into this guys freshly built harley... the motor died in about a week...

Ouch! That goes way beyond the realm of "practical jokes" - as does the earlier post about adding body waste to a soft drink. I'm just glad I've never been involved in anything quite that low.

 

[Yo Hoot]

I got called to the shop.



Guys said they caught a rat. The building was by the river and yes there were rats in the building.



Behind a milling machine was a plywood box. One guy was holding a piece of plywood on it. Everyone was gathered round.



The fellow started sliding the lid for a look when all of a sudden he pulled the lid back and with a big woooosh this furry grey rat comes flying at me. I duck and almost have a heart attack.



Suckers had a fake rat sitting on the end of a pipe inside the box. It was connected to compressed air. Another fellow off to the side had the valve in his hands.



Changed my shorts after that one. :{

 

[Nate]

We used to have a shrew living at work. Tiny little thing like 2" long and QUICK!



Well I caught it one day. I had a coat on and the sucker ran right up my arm, into my coat and down my T shirt neck... which was tucked in. Then down into my drawers and out my pants legs. All in about 2 seconds.



Everyone on the shop was dying laughing. Well except for me.

 

[WDixon27]

elbows and a**holes all over eh :-laf

We used to have a shrew living at work. Tiny little thing like 2" long and QUICK!



Well I caught it one day. I had a coat on and the sucker ran right up my arm, into my coat and down my T shirt neck... which was tucked in. Then down into my drawers and out my pants legs. All in about 2 seconds.



Everyone on the shop was dying laughing. Well except for me.

 

[cuevas623]

This one is not all that funny but it sure as hell pisses the guy off you do it to! WE have lockers at our shop and we have heavy duty springs for brake drums and such. we take the springs and put them at the base of some guy slocker and attach it to the door. when they come open thedoor it snaps back shut faster then they can get out of the way and cracks them in the side or head!!! after being ****** off for awhile the get over it.

 

[JApol]

ok, 2. 5 plus years and no practical jokes?

 

[JVackiner]

Take the innards out of a 12v battery so it's just a hollow case, the bigger the better. Carry it like it's real heavy past someone sitting down in a chair. Trip and toss it into their lap. They will make moves never seen before trying to get out of the way of the battery.

 

[nickleinonen]

i've done quite a lot in the last 2 years. . i rewired some lights at work to get back at one of the electricians. there were 3 switches in a 3 gang box. . he would turn the 2 outside ones leaving my bench in the dark. . so i replaced the middle switch with a 3 phase switch and wired everything to it. he wasn't too impressed with it when he walked in after his vacation and turn on his lights and nothing worked...

i also setup a 110dB alarm on a timer to beep like a smoke detector with dead batteries every 8 min or so to keep another mechanic from sleeping down in my work area. we also added some other alarms on the same circuit in his other sleeping spots. . the wires and alarms are very well hidden. .

i had my crane inspector contractor play a prank on me. i was up inside one of the overhead cranes working on the overloads for the trolley drive and he fired up the manual controls from my man lift and left me stranded up there for a few minutes. . not very impressed with that.

 

[MustangDiesel004]

Get some heavy duty zip ties and 3/4 inch nuts and wrap around drive shaft. Beats the crap out of the underside and drives you nuts trying to figure out what it is. Also on vehicles with points type distributors run a wire from the coil to the seat frame. Lights you up if there are any exposed springs.

 

[PToombs]

You don't even need nuts! Just use the 1/4 by 16" or 18" ties and strap them on. We get Bill Gilbert every year with them at SOP. I rode with him last year and it was funny! He was getting all upset wondering what was coming unglued on his crew conversion. What was even funnier is I put them on the nite before and forgot until we headed out to breakfast. :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

i had someone get me 2 weeks ago... they [management] pulled me off my normal job of doing shop maintenance to weld a fuel tank on a locomotive. i had defueled the same locomotive so i knew there was still about 3,000 liters of #2 in the tank, but it was below where the welding was being done. . went through all the checks and filled the tank with co2 measured at 40% co2 content. had everything setup and pulled my mask down and stuck the arc. BANG. one of the guys had grabbed a 12lbs sledge hammer and smacked the tank just as i stuck the arc. i nearly shat myself, then threw my can of spray contact cleaner at them. .

i am not a great welder by any means, but i got that job done after i took a few minutes to stop from shaking... the weld was tight as it held back the 13,000 liters i put back in the tank after. i don't really look forward to welding on another fuel tank anytime soon

 

[KevinSmith]

We put koolaid in a guys boots once. Red in one and green in the other. Merry Christmas indeed!

 

[Scrappy]

I got a a few.



Before I would refuel my jet I would put the wheel chocks is nice and tight. After the refuel the tires would set down on the chocks making it next to impossible to kick them out. The B man would be struggling with them and I would be out front watching with a smile.



another is putting tension on the towbar when we were getting ready to tow the jet, making it almost impossible to get the chocks out and watching the tow supervisor struggle with them.



finally is to put an aircraft chock about a foot in front of the passenger side car tire. they would get in to go and move a foot and the chock would stop them. Usually they would back back up and try to go forward again before they figured it out.

 

[RLHannink]

When a guy is doing brakes on an older big rig with stud-piloted wheels, and different (left vs right hand) threads on each side of the truck, switch a nut or two while he isn't watching. just don't be around when he finds out you did it, those things make a mean projectile.

 

[JayStraight]

Something to try is take a roll of bubble wrap and put a good sized wad under a tire before they back a car out of a service bay stall. Usually on the passenger side of the vehicle so it won't be seen. Then as the tire rolls over the bubble wrap you'll hear a bunch of pops!!! Pretty funny... .

 

[PToombs]

The big ones the size of a baggie are better. They give a good bang when they go. We put them under the forklift tires at work once in a while.

 

[Wingate]

not an urban legand... we've done it at my shop. we've also siliconed all the drawers closed on others toolboxes [company provided boxes and tools, so only the company gets really po'd] we've also taking 1" wide metal banding straps and ran 4-5 straps around a guy's toolbox. that is a surprise when he comes in, especially if no one lends him some snips to cut the bands. .

I did this to a guy that worked days... . after I got done banding it down to a pallet, I put it on the nightly shuttle truck and shipped it about 150 miles away to another branch store!!!. . I had a note on it for the night time parts guy to ship it back the next night!!. .

Another one is to tie their boot laces together and run them up on the overhead hoists... . When they come in, they can't find their boots!!