Shop practical jokes

[Beach]

The guy's at work thought it would be funny to connect a back up beeper to the tail light's on my work truck. I like to run with the parking light's on (for the cool look :-laf ) and as soon as I left the shop I heard a "truck" backing up, but it was "following me :-laf ". I stopped and got out and saw the guy's laughing and went back to take it out. I had a good laugh at myself. It's also fun to hang a small washer on the drive shaft with zip tie's so the washer just barely hit's the muffler. Sound's like the truck is coming apart. They start off and stop, and so doe's the sound, then they go again and it start's again! One guy snuck under a UPS truck when the driver ran inside and did this! I did'nt work there at the time, but I guess the guy kept asking what they did to his truck, and knowone knew anything. He was all flustered and drove off with it rattling. :-laf :-laf

 

[Ggg]

There can be lots of free time at the ol fire station.

-Cover the toilet bowl with Saran wrap, make sure there are no wrinkles. Even better at night when most people only use the night light.

-When someone is on the toilet, blow a CO extinguisher in there, it will evacuate the oxygen and they pass out.

-Put Parmesan cheese in someones bedding or pillow case.

-Remove the box spring and install a second mattress in a bed and re-make it. When he goes to bed and puts his weight on the bed it all collapses onto the floor.

-Cut up a rubber tourniquet into 1"-2" long pieces, arrange in a pile on a plate, and pour beef tips over them. Let someone from the next shift discover it in the fridge as leftovers.

-Coat a coffee cup rim with Lidocaine paste and let it dry, makes their lips go numb when they take a drink.

-For those who drink those big bottles of water, put some white vinegar in there when they leave the bottle unattended.

-DO NOT initiate a water fight at a fire station. It will inevitably escalate to a fire hose into your bed when you are trying to sleep.

ok thats enough for now. lol

 

[TRCM]

done the saran wrap one... worked great on my drunk room-mate in college... but he didn't try to take a leak... he barfed... . and wore it the rest of the night too



Try folding ketchup packets in half, with a small pinhole in the fold, then put them UNDER the toilet seat, so when someone sits on it, it smashes the packets enough to get them squirted real well.



use vaseline instead of grease on door handles... harder to see



And for someone you really want to make sick, take 2 or 3 clean cigarette butts, peel the paper off, and mix with some acetone... the result looks just like... . welll, they call it dna evidence on CSI. Put it where ever. . coffee cup... toilet seat lid... faucet handle... locker door... . and so on... ... ...



or put it in an un-used condom, and place it in the guy who has the new girlfriend above's car... ..... when she finds it, there'll be NO saving him... ...

 

[Andy Perreault]

Great topic, guys!

This one's relatively tame compared to yours, but I used to work in a warehouse, and I'd put water in one of the little disposable paper cups from the water cooler and set it on top of the roll cage of a forklift. If a guy makes a hard start or sharp turn, he got drenched. Of course, I myself was the victim of this same prank a few times.

Andy

 

[Mtngoat]

When I worked at Boeing in Wichita back in the 70's, when you left work you walked thru a gate. You had to walk thru with your lunch bucket open so the guards could look in and see if your carrying out a B-52 engine. Anyway, we grabbed a guys lunch pail and drilled two tiny holes thru the lid into the body of the pail. Then screwed in 2 tiny instrument panel metal screws. Theyre black and so was the lunch pail. When we left , we looked back we could see the guy bent over trying to pry the lunch pail lid open with a guard standing over him. He didnt see the screws. They eventually took him back in the plant to "investigate. " It was FUNNY!!! Oo.

 

[Mtngoat]

Oh, and another time at Boeing, someone caught a bird and put it in the same guys lunch pail. When he opened it for inspection, the bird exploded out of it, the lunch pail went one way and the guy went the other. . !

 

[Gaylord]

Ol firehouse tricks.

Same guy every shift (will call him the originator) plays with his food with the intention of making those with a weak stomach barf. This goes on until the crew has had it. Pay backs:

One of the crew places a bed warmer bottle under his shirt, full of warm chicken soup.

When the originator goes into his antics, one of the crew politely asks him to stop as he is getting sick. Of course this just brings out the best attempt ever to make the crew guys barf. The crew guy grabs his chest and pushes the chicken soup out under his chin and all over the table. As the originator is now gloating, the rest of the crew grab thier bowls, take their hands and slide some of the soup across the table into their bowls and begin eating it, commenting on how good barf actually is. Originator can't believe what he is seeing and barfs. Works every time.

 

[JoshPeters]

Ol firehouse tricks.

Same guy every shift (will call him the originator) plays with his food with the intention of making those with a weak stomach barf. This goes on until the crew has had it. Pay backs:

One of the crew places a bed warmer bottle under his shirt, full of warm chicken soup.

When the originator goes into his antics, one of the crew politely asks him to stop as he is getting sick. Of course this just brings out the best attempt ever to make the crew guys barf. The crew guy grabs his chest and pushes the chicken soup out under his chin and all over the table. As the originator is now gloating, the rest of the crew grab thier bowls, take their hands and slide some of the soup across the table into their bowls and begin eating it, commenting on how good barf actually is. Originator can't believe what he is seeing and barfs. Works every time.

Now that's good right there!

 

[DMcPherson]

I like to put a "little" neverseaze under the handle of the drawers of the toolbox. nice surprise. oh and the grease gun thing, definately happened before

 

[jwgary]

I'm not sure how much validity there is to this, but I love the story. A guy I used to work with said in his younger days they had caught a bobcat in a trap. They didn't really know what to do with it so they put it in a suitcase. They went downtown and placed the suitcase on the sidewalk and waited. A car with a group of thugs drives by and spots the case. They circle around the block a few times, driving really slowly as they pass it. about the 3rd or 4th time around one of the guys jumps out of the car, grabs the suitcase, jumps back in the car, and they take off. The car didn't make it to the next light before people start pouring out of the car.

 

[rubberneck]

I'm not sure how much validity there is to this, but I love the story. A guy I used to work with said in his younger days they had caught a bobcat in a trap. They didn't really know what to do with it so they put it in a suitcase. They went downtown and placed the suitcase on the sidewalk and waited. A car with a group of thugs drives by and spots the case. They circle around the block a few times, driving really slowly as they pass it. about the 3rd or 4th time around one of the guys jumps out of the car, grabs the suitcase, jumps back in the car, and they take off. The car didn't make it to the next light before people start pouring out of the car.

That sounds like a fun thing to do on a slow day. I would love to watch the morons fight to get out of the car :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

I'm not sure how much validity there is to this, but I love the story. A guy I used to work with said in his younger days they had caught a bobcat in a trap. They didn't really know what to do with it so they put it in a suitcase. They went downtown and placed the suitcase on the sidewalk and waited. A car with a group of thugs drives by and spots the case. They circle around the block a few times, driving really slowly as they pass it. about the 3rd or 4th time around one of the guys jumps out of the car, grabs the suitcase, jumps back in the car, and they take off. The car didn't make it to the next light before people start pouring out of the car.

:-laf:-laf:-laf



something similar was done at my work place. . we have birds flying around in the shop all the time. someone caught a pidgon and put it in the bottom cubby hole of one of those cheap tool boxes [3 drawers, and one giant hole with a flip/slide lid to it]. . it sure was funny watching the guy go get his impact gun and the bird flew out at him [and also crapped all over his welding mask]



box looked something like this one

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[BradyWilliams]

Years ago one day I noticed a dead mouse in the bottom of the scrap copper bucket. It was dried up and oil soaked, looked sickening. I got the bright idea to put it in another techs toolbox drawer. When he opened it he saw it and damn near puked looking at it. It then made it's way around the shop from tool box to tool box. We all were gagging at this thing. It made it back to my tool box. As I looked at it I decided to put it in the ultrasonic cleaner that we used for nozzles. There was fir floating in there. The injector tech finally stuck his hand in the ultrasonic cleaner and when he did he started feeling and feeling, trying to figure out what was in the bottom. When he decided it was the mouse he started gagging and then got mad and chased us around the shop with this damn thing in his hand. THAT WAS FUNNY!

 

[JWRowe]

Bolts

Years ago I was doing a timing chain replacement on my 82 Buick Regal. Lunch time came and I left for lunch, Boss stayed. I had lunch. Boss went thru two five gallon buckets of bolts until he found two bolts that were identical to ones I had removed, He threw them into my bolt container, When I finished I had these two bolts were left over, Spent over 2. 5 hours and tore my hair out trying to locate where they were suppose to go. Had to. I was leaving the next morning for Florida. Never did find where they went even after partial disassembly, Trip went fine. Six months later he told me about the joke. Chassed him around the shop with a can of pepper spray for about five minutes before he left the building for an hour of so. When I calmed down I laughed myself silly.



Regards, John

 

[AKDrifter]

I was a parts runner in a machine shop when I was 17... ..... the guy on the mill had me ask one of the counter clerks at a parts store for a "wobble shaft cleaner".



I figured it out when the older guy at will call started laughing shaking his head.



Paul

 

[JasonCzerak]

When I worked framming houses, I was totaly amazed when you could ask some newbie to go get the "2x4 strecher", and they started looking for it, sometimes even for 30 minutes. I didn't think people came that dumb. But there are a good handfull in southeast Michigan

 

[jwgary]

I was a parts runner in a machine shop when I was 17... ..... the guy on the mill had me ask one of the counter clerks at a parts store for a "wobble shaft cleaner".

I knew a guy who used to work at a foundary and he said that someone told the new guy to go get a bucket of steel. He walked all over the place and people just played along. One guy even gave him a 5 gal. plastic bucket and sent him on his way to the furnace. The guy caught on just as that plastic bucket vaporized while filling with molten steel. Not the safest thing to do, but a funny story anyway.

 

[nickleinonen]

Great topic, guys!

This one's relatively tame compared to yours, but I used to work in a warehouse, and I'd put water in one of the little disposable paper cups from the water cooler and set it on top of the roll cage of a forklift. If a guy makes a hard start or sharp turn, he got drenched. Of course, I myself was the victim of this same prank a few times.

Andy

on the topic of water, at work, the service track tower [think airport control tower, smaller scale] outside my shops dispatch tracks is a little over 2 stories high and has a steel catwalk around it. well, one guy on my shift had a habit of going up there and pouring a cup of water on you while you were sitting around shooting the poop [or having a smoke or coffee]. i locked him out there once when he got me wet with about a quart of water...



well, we got him good, and still i don't think he knows which of us did it, but it was about 0730 in the morning, just before shifts end and he was outside having a smoke, and we got up in the tower with a 5 gallon bucket full to the rim and waited for him to get into range... he got wet right down the the nads... he also after that slowed down on the water pouring. .

 

[benhall]

Being on an Air Force base, we have many different ways to the FNG. One is to send them after a bucket of prop wash on a base that has jet engines.



Ben

 

[daytripper63]

When Business got slow years ago we would get wallets and epoxy one to the yellow strip in the middle of the road and watch what people would actually do when driving down the road at 45mph and see a wallet :-laf One time there were 2 people trying to get to the wallet at the same time one person on each side of the street just waiting to play dodge em with cars to get to the wallet, so he runs into traffic to qiukly grab the wallet but it slips out of his hand so he tries again and still cant get it but now cars are coming and he is trying to p. u. the wallet but he isnt to quik at figuring out that it is glued to the street :-laf