Shop practical jokes

[Paychk]

A light coat of moly(black) grease on your buddy's ear muffs is pretty good for a while. The guy walks around with these two rings on the side of his head. Reminds me of the Little Rascals Dog. Everyone he comes up to starts cracking up until he wises up or somebody spills the beans.

After they all get wise to that one & check their ear protectors, you step up to using a Sharpie marker. It dries quick and they won't feel it when they check for shenanigans. Then when the sweat that breaks out from the muffs liquefies the sharpie, once again black circles.

 

[WDixon27]

wait till the subject is working intently on an electrical project. Set off a flash and run. :-{}

my version with a flash, i found a disposable flash camera in a wrecked car and gutted it for it's driver unit, it's about the size of a big potato chip with a AA battery on the end and 90% of it will zap the crap out of you when it's spooled up, just play with it and set it down and let curiosity take over, or hand it to them when they ask i saw one guy get knocked out of his chair

 

[Rotty]

Well in my old days of the shop of

1. switching the coil wire with one spark plug wire. Cranks and somewhat fires but wont run.

2. Remove the rotor

3. remove the coil wire from distributor and sit a few spaces away when the mechanic figures out that it is missing in the grocery store parking lot.

4. blow horn while mechanic is searching engine compartment

5. typical page someone to dead phone

6. flatten other mechanics tires

7. rearrange entire tool box

8. disconnect air hose while mechanic is buried under car

I will have to remeber more later... .

 

[JApol]

"accidently" step on a hose coupling and disconnect it with your foot and casually walk away. Just step in the soon to be loose end also. I found that the male end can whip up and get ya in the berries.

 

[BGlidewell]

send the newbie out for frequency grease, blinker fluid, blue dial tone... Once the depot actually HAD a bucket of blue dial tone ready to give to the newbie.

 

[BGlidewell]

Tape over the new optical mouses works good too, or sugar ground around on a desk top.

also take the small RJ connector off the phone handset and tape or paper the contacts. ring, ring... no talkie :{

 

[J Shocik]

another goodie

For you guys who work in car shops with the old single pole in the ground type lifts, when one of your victims, I mean co-workers, has a car up in the air, take a large cup of water and place it under the exhaust port of the lift controls. When he releases the pressure to drop the car, 150 lbs. of air pressure emptys that cup fast!! Most of it on him!! :-laf

 

[JustinLee]

I'm a ground mechanic in the Air Force. We have a wash rack to wash our equipment. When someone is leaving the shop they get hog tied, dragged out to the wash rack, covered with whatever is in the fridge, then hosed down with cold water. Mine is coming in a couple of weeks.



Telling a new airmen to change the spark plugs on a deisel generator. Had one stumped for 45 mins. once.



Not a prake but rookies filling gas engines with diesel.



I need three feet a falopian tube.



theres more...



Justin

 

[DieselTweaker]

Off the topic but Justin I LOVE YOUR QUOTE.

 

[rbattelle]

also take the small RJ connector off the phone handset and tape or paper the contacts. ring, ring... no talkie :{

I'll be doing that one tomorrow! :-laf :-laf



Last month we encased a coworkers mouse in Jello. He actually reached out and grabbed it before he realized what was going on.



One time I had a Gatorade about 1/2 empty. When I left for about an hour I returned to find my coworkers had placed it in a microwave for a bit. Just picture what color gatorade is and imagine putting it to your lips to discover it's lukewarm.



[Yeah, I work in an office rather than a shop. ]



-Ryan

 

[MontyDyer]

Couple of pranks that always come around here:



Catch a guy setting on the throne, attach an air horn to shop air, open the door and watch there feet come off the ground.



One that has got me many times after a fresh rebuild is after the first startup, another mechanic tapping on the frame rail in time with the engine on the frame rail. Will really make ya concerned for a minute.



A good one ive heard before but never seen at the shop is telling a mechanic (usually a rookie) to crawl under the engine while your pulling sleeves to make sure they are coming up straight. LOL, they get a big face full of antifreeze.

 

[PToombs]

I shouldn't have talked about tapeballs! Caught one in the nads today, oooohhhh! :{ Good thing he didn't whip it.

Jack up a coworkers car, put a block under axle, set down so tire barely touches. transmission go bad?

Glue coffee cups to table w/ superglue!

Put big steel block in somebody's lunch bucket. I tore the handle off mine one day, tried to leave in a hurry :--)

Walk up behind somebody welding or not paying attention, slam a BIG hammer on steel bench, loader bucket or what have you.

 

[Pawpaw]

I'm a ground mechanic in the Air Force.

Send that new airman out to get six feet of flight line.



Bob

 

[lil red cummins]

One that has got me many times after a fresh rebuild is after the first startup, another mechanic tapping on the frame rail in time with the engine on the frame rail. Will really make ya concerned for a minute.

back in 1980 i did my first diesel rebuild. a CAT 3208 in a ford dump truck.

about 5 minutes after i started the engine up and i THOUGHT everything was going just fine, one of my coworkers pulled this stunt.



after immediately shutting off the engine, running out of the truck and seeing him appear from under the front fender, he just grinned. the whole crew started laughing. after i got my heart back down to a normal rate, i started laughing too. laughed almost to tears.



we even had the boss come out of the office to see what was going on.



jim

 

[Rocketdoc]

My neighbor was rebuilding the transmission in his Mazda pick-up. He had bolts and parts and stuff scattered all over the garage floor under the truck. My first thought was to swipe one of the bolts from the pile. Then I decided a visit to MY bolt jar was in order. I found a nice fat greasy bolt and threw it onto the pile. A few weeks later he had it all back together and I jokingly asked if he had any parts left over -- to my surprise he said no! Where that SAE bolt went on that rice-burner truck is beyond me!

 

[J Shocik]

Another beauty!

Every once in a while if I hit a lottery ticket for around $100, I would buy coffee & doughnuts for the guys in the shop. One time, instead of buying c & d's, I told the guys I bought them their own lottery ticket. I gave one co-worker a "dummy" ticket, when scratched, it showed you won $10,000. To add to the realism, I also bought the other guys real tickets & gave them out. WOW!! You should have seen the dancing!! What was funnier was when he found out it was a fake ticket!! He didn't think it was too funny, everyone else was crying!! We were hoping he went to lottery HQ's to cash the ticket, we figured they needed a laugh too!! :-laf

 

[CWebster]

Lady finger firecrakers fit perfectly inside the cone of a MiG welding lead... ... .

 

[CWebster]

Say that 10 times real fast... . :-laf

 

[JasonCzerak]

Well not in the shop, but I thought I would share a couple from the front office... .



Switch the letter caps on somebody's keyboard. Sit back and watch while they frustrate the daylights out of themselves trying to log in (hidden text *** password).



Another favorite around my office to to remove the mouse ball from the mouse.



yep, I work in the computer dept...

The keyboard thing doesn't work for me. learning how to type helps. defeat that joke. But there is a DBA here that I pulled that one on A and S and M and N keys are the best ones.



My favorite computer one was, the BSOD. I found a nice sized (resolution wise) version of a Windows 3. 1 BSOD. Changed the background of an Windows XP box to that image. unpluged keyboard and mouse. The best part was when the guy came back "god $#$^ it," presses CTRL-ALT-DEL, moves the mouse, and cusses a few more words. Then relalized after 1 minute that it's the WRONG BSOD!!!



I had tears





Yeah, REMEMBER TO LOCK YOUR COMPUTER (as well as your tools). But if you're an admin, or have a big crowbar, that doesn't matter much either.

 

[JasonCzerak]

send the newbie out for frequency grease, blinker fluid, blue dial tone... Once the depot actually HAD a bucket of blue dial tone ready to give to the newbie.

When I worked construction way back in the day, I had a kid searching the trucks for a "2x10 strecher" for about 15 minutes.



Ignorante bosses are fun to. I did the maintence on the skytrack machine once a week. Grease, oil, basic functions, ect ect ect. I was tired one moring, with book in hand, I told my boss we needed to get some new spark plugs soon. He gave me the go ahead and I went shopping for 2 hours. worked on it for 1 hour. This is naturally, and inside joke, to me, since the machine was a 4 cylinder turbo diesel