Shop practical jokes

[JasonCzerak]

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

I'm so going to do this this summer!

 

[WDixon27]

we did that with quarters and jbweld on the sidewalk at the old shop, watched a guy break the blade on his knife trying to get one once

 

[JasonCzerak]

we did that with quarters and jbweld on the sidewalk at the old shop, watched a guy break the blade on his knife trying to get one once

I didn't use jbweld, but some 3M double sided tap on a few pennys. that worked well for a laugh. Turns out you can kick them up easier then pick them up. Thought this one dude broke the window for a moment from 50foot away!

 

[Hohn]

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

Prop wash has less to do with jet or not than something else.

Prop wash is the air blast from behind a propeller-- like a C-130 gives. The trick you describe relies on the FNG thinking it's a cleaning supply.

There are lot of USAF flight line tricks along the same lines as this. Other errands you can send the FNG on include getting:

30 feet of "flight line"
1 pr of "Fallopian Tubes"
1 gallon K-9P cleaning solvent
-- the prop wash trick
air samples
etc, etc.

Those are just the ones off the top of my head.

 

[JoshPeters]

1 gallon K-9P cleaning solvent

Anyone got some of that for my roommate? His puppy is being housebroken.....



If the little ******* wasn't so cute he'd be a slipper by now!



Josh

JK, No animals were harmed in the writing of this post.

 

[Hohn]

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.

We have a similar one in the USAF using air sick bags and cream corn. You should see the look on people's faces after you've "puked" into the air sick bag and someone else eats it, commenting on how sweet it is

 

[benhall]

We use the prop wash because we it doesn't exist on a jet base.

 

[J Shocik]

Another goodie!! after one of the guys gets into the shower, we wait about 5 mins. and get a bucket full of cold water, shut off the lights & soak him! Want to hear a grown man scream like a 5 yr. old... :-laf

 

[MLimpert]

Our air compressor mainline has a water drain (1/2") at the end of the line. It goes directly into a drain so as not to make a mess on the floor when it is opened. Someone discovered if it is opened all the way briefly, it will backfeed air into the restroom. This creates an interesting situation for whoever is taking a "code brown" at the moment. Water will splash out of the toilet bowl about 4-5. " It is one of the finest work pranks we have!

 

[TJany]

being aboard ship for the last couple months with school we came up with a few (yeah we probably didn't originate em but had fun anyway)...



i'm an engineer, so we'd send freshmen up to the bridge asking for 100' of centerline, they'd send them back with a bottle of propwash (works for boats to)



tell a freshman theres a steam leak in the galley, to find a bucket, catch it all and we'll throw it in the boiler



use a shop vac to raise vacuum on the main condensor



check the stack for smoke (using the periscope thing) and dump water on them through the periscope



send em to a commander asking for keys to the sea chest



theres several more, as i remember them i'll throw em up



the funniest part is the freshmen are to embarassed to say anything so they don't talk about anything we do to them and we get every group of freshmen that come through



Tim

 

[WDaniels]

One time in the winter I started my car to let it warm up and my co-worker thought he would be funny and moved it about 3/4 of a mile away. I ended up walking at 35 below to my car. So... . I got a bunch of those styrofoam peanuts and filled his blazer up from front to back and to the top. With the cold the static electricty on those peanuts was murder. Funniest thing I ever did. He never messed with my stuff again.

WD

 

[Beach]

I just remembered one I've been doing once in a while to a guy that smoke's at work! Actually a supervisor! I like to sneak into his office while he's in the crapper or a meeting and steal a cigarette or two and empty the tobacco out of them and neatly put them back! When he goe's to light them, they instantly flare up! :-laf He told me he lit one on the way home and it almost burned his eyebrow's off! :-laf I have one right now emptied in my desk waiting to replant it!

 

[strokerschmoker]

One of the more classic tricks that still is good for a chuckle is to find a sink with the little sprayer on the side of it. Take some clear tape and tape the trigger on it so that it says in the open position. Place it back in its little holster and aim it so whoever the next unsuspecting person is right in the line of fire. As soon as the water is turned on it proceeds to soak he who turned the water on. This works particularly good on the sinks with a lever instead of a knob because they are more apt to turn it on full blast rather than juat a turn or two. It can also be a nice surprise for the guy wanting to make some coffee to get his morning going.

 

[WDixon27]

last night after closing i got the new guy while he was working on his car on the lift, i resurrected a old 83 mercedes turbo diesel to screw around the junk yard with and do burn outs (if you cap off the rear circuit on the master cylinder of a 123 body benz and back the afc all the way off it'll do a 3rd gear burn out with both back wheels ) well i backed up to the only open door to the shop and fried em, reduced the visibility in the shop and warehouse to around 3' :-laf

 

[barbwire]

Hey, when he finally catches on to that one, try this........

I just remembered one I've been doing once in a while to a guy that smoke's at work! Actually a supervisor! I like to sneak into his office while he's in the crapper or a meeting and steal a cigarette or two and empty the tobacco out of them and neatly put them back! When he goe's to light them, they instantly flare up! :-laf He told me he lit one on the way home and it almost burned his eyebrow's off! :-laf I have one right now emptied in my desk waiting to replant it!

Break a bristle off of a plastic comb, and shove it into the end of a cigarette. The resulting stench, when lit, will probably make him want to quit smoking! :-laf :-laf

 

[JoshPeters]

last night after closing i got the new guy while he was working on his car on the lift, i resurrected a old 83 mercedes turbo diesel to screw around the junk yard with and do burn outs (if you cap off the rear circuit on the master cylinder of a 123 body benz and back the afc all the way off it'll do a 3rd gear burn out with both back wheels ) well i backed up to the only open door to the shop and fried em, reduced the visibility in the shop and warehouse to around 3' :-laf

Amaizing... someone found a GOOD use for one of those old 123 bodies... .



At one point I was going to drop a 350chevy in one... but got sidetracked with my CTD.



Josh

 

[rivercat]

Wait on a co-worker to just about finish intalling that rebuild and toss a ring on his bench.

Wait till he has just about ready to install that rebuild and pour 1 ot 2 quarts of atf down one of the head pipes and wait till he starts it:{

Have a friend that actually put a good amount of valvegrinding coumpond into the oil of a co-workers rebuild it lasted about 10 mins.

:--)

 

[WDixon27]

and this resulted in a savage beating?

Have a friend that actually put a good amount of valvegrinding coumpond into the oil of a co-workers rebuild it lasted about 10 mins.

 

[MXTMOPR]

For that guy you really love

Strip some solid core copper wire down and insert into vehicle and or tool box lock cylinder. The wire must be short enough so that a key fits in most of the way, but not long enough to fish out. We did this to a co-workers ride just before an ice storm hit when I lived in Pennsylvania. This dummy sat there for a while with his bic lighter heating his key and inserting it into the lock. The guy even burned his gloves holding the hot key. Just try to find a locksmith willing to come out when there is snow and ice everywhere. Lotsa love for Id10t's.

 

[daveshoe]

An old timer I knew worked at a grain elevator hauling grain. One of the farmers put belt dressing on his steering wheel. The truck driver played it cool enough to spy the farmer laughing while peeking around the corner... . Later,after enough time had passed to get the revenge served cold, the driver filled the cab of the farmer's truck with weed seed ''plumb to the windows''.

The crybaby farmer tried to get the driver fired,but the owner just laughed at him.

The farmer never could keep mice out of his truck after that