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Some stuff we did in the firehouse will remain secret. We did like to haze the new guys on their last day on the “official new guy” list. They would be soaking wet ALL DAY. Their spare uniforms hung outside in Phoenix summer heat somehow never dried. One new guy saw my buddy with a 32oz tumbler coming at him saying, “Go ahead! I’m completely soaked already!” Then he got hit with the 32oz of flour. Simple stuff like a few rocks in the hubcaps, whistlers in the tailpipe, peanut butter on the phone earpiece, soaked seat cushions, etc. Did you know gently misting expired thiamin on someone’s back makes then stink like a B vitamin factory?  -------- After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box. | |||
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ALLEGEDLY.... There was guy who was kind of a goofball and COULD NOT take a joke. This is before all the computerized stuff and we issued things on carbon copied papers. He left his clipboard behind and forgot it one day and it ended up wrapped with evidence tape to teach him a lesson. He didn't learn a lesson, and left it behind a few days later a second time. Well, some of the immature guys on the squad started drawing phallic symbols on his tickets and summonses. Luckily, an intelligent and skilled, yet mischievous officer had a better idea. He showed the guys that if they took a piece of copy paper, and put it on top of the carbon copy tickets/summonses and THEN drew phallic symbols, that it wouldn't transfer to the top sheet, but WOULD transfer to the other pages underneath. So again, ALLEGEDLY, many phallic symbols were drawn on the ticket books and summons books with the only representations were on the bottom pages making it unknown the the officer who was issued said tickets.... So when he issued a citation, and tore off the top copy to keep for himself, and gave the bottom 3 copies the the violator and had to send the others to the courts and supervisors... there was a phallic symbol covering the entire page on all the carbon copies. I dunno, just a urban legend around these parts... Kevin Strive to live your life so when you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." | |||
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When I went on the job in the 80’s, being the FNG in the house, you were pranked, it was a little bit of a hazing, but it formed a brotherhood. You lumped it and it got you closer, when you called for help, even the biggest ball busters were the first through the door to help. Unfortunately that cohesion is lost with political correctness. | |||
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I believe that statement sums it up well. God bless America. | |||
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Back when I did prank people, I … may have wrapped several zip ties around a driveshaft, with the long ends uncut and left protruding. On a RWD vehicle, the driveshaft turns between 3 and 4 times the speed of the wheels, so those flapping tails hitting the underside 1000-2000 times a minute make quite a racket. But this doesn't harm anything. | |||
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We secured a harmonica in a hard-to-see spot on our retiring brigade Command Sergeant Major's Jeep. We only told him what was going on when we heard him making an appointment with his mechanic _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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My dad owned his business. They put a weather balloon under a coat hanging on the back of the door to the very small bathroom…coworkers enters and hilarity ensued. They once put a pinball in a salesman’s new cars gas tank…then each one of them would go by his house at night and either remove/ add a magnet on the gas tank. Drove the guy crazy for about two weeks with the unknown knocking in his new car. Once we put a marble in the a/c space that was directly above the COs cabin. Since it was a ship the return was literally just holes drilled in the aluminum in ceiling of his room. During rough seas the marble would roll all over and smack into the corners when it was calm it didn’t move cause it settled in one of the holes.rove him nuts. We used to type up fake orders for someone who was due to transfer when I was in the CG…always somewhere like HQ…no one wanted to go there. When I was a cop, we once put about a hundred crickets in another guys car. We sometimes stole other cops cars while they were on calls or off eating somewhere. I once got the sign shop to make up sets of numbers in the same blue that matched our police cars striping, and I changed peoples car numbers… You can’t do anything to anyone anymore because of the PC bs now days. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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They got you the same way. In front of a much bigger crowd no less. My first cousin works as a Lt in the town where I now live in TN. When he was in patrol, he was in a car chase, guy stopped and took out a bush bond so my cousin stopped his car and gave chase. Only problem, he stopped on train tracks and the car was demolished by a train. At his wedding, the guys at the dept had the grooms cake secretly made to depict the train vs patrol car scene. | |||
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In the late 1970s, I was a full time student at a local College. In the evenings, I worked at a Furniture manufacturing company to make extra money. One of my co-workers was a gentlemen in his mid 30s that also attended the same college during the day. He was a smoker and frequently left his cigarettes unguarded. A few of us thought it would be a good idea to play a prank on this mild-mannered fellow. A small amount of gun powder from a shotgun shell was stuffed into the end of his cigarette and placed back in the package. The following evening, he told us what happened. After leaving work that evening, he went to the grocery store. While inside, he lit his cigarette and two seconds later he saw a fireball accompanied by a mushroom cloud of smoke rising to the ceiling. He threw the cigarette down and stomped it out. He then looked around to see who was watching. He said an elderly woman was looking at him like he was a patient that escaped the mental institution. Everyone was in tears as he recounted the story. The stunt was reckless and dangerous and we're lucky he wasn't injured. He should have kicked our asses. Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell | |||
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No. Causing another minor embarrassment is one thing but too often I've seen "pranks" taken too far - ridicule, injury, and loss of work/pay. Why the need to have someone suffer months or years of being the butt of a so-called joke? Is there really no other way to foster co-worker comraderie and cohesiveness? Welders putting hot metal in a junior guy's gloves; spraying Pledge on the floor so somebody slips and falls; locking a guy in a windowless metal storage container on a 100 degree day. Burned hand that is painful for days; broken arm caused by the fall; dehydrated and mild case of heatstroke. Yeah it's all so funny and team-building. People that do this stupid crap absolutely deserve it when the target of their "prank" goes postal. | |||
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Some people are way too stupid to be playing pranks. They're also too stupid to vote, but that's another matter. | |||
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Bastards used Armor All on my motorcycle seat. Do you have any idea how long that shit lasts? I would have been pissed if it wasn’t (deserved) payback.  “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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A very large percentage of responses are cops...I am not surprised... | |||
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Yes we do, plant worker here. We have one guy who is supper jumpy and screams and throws in the air whatever he is holding. Banging metal, small firecrackers, and air horns have been working wonders. I'm pretty sure one of the other guys has it all on TikTok. I'll see if I can find it. https://blessingsofliberty0.wixsite.com/mysite Veteran owned 07 FFL/ 02 SOT LandWarfareNow@gmail.com Instagram @land.warfare | |||
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I would doubt that practical jokes in any work place pale in comparison to the creativity of those pulled in a firehouse. Yes, the legends absolutely have to remain secret. In the normal work place, I was known for this for years (yup... you see where it came from) but of course toned WAY down. Now that I'm in management that all had to stop. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Reminds me of a joke we played on our Co in the 101st Airborne 1986. Cpt Norton sir, I swept those 10 cages of crickets under your office door. | |||
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Well it is summer, so it's only right that when you come across someones truck/van idling empty with the A/C, that you hop in and change it over to heat. All summer every summer. | |||
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No time for that nonsense I can barely keep up with my workload let alone have time or energy for juvenile pranks | |||
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Keeping the economy moving since 1964 |
We have a fairly fun workplace and I love to dish it out, as well as take it. I've taught the younger guys well. We were on a jobsite this morning for a site observation report and one of them took this photo of me, attached it to the report with the comment: "Remove large, unattended and confused mammal from Room 1.492."  ----------------------- You can't fall off the floor. | |||
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I work remotely and I fall for about 75% of the tricks I play on myself. | |||
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