Really good pranks

Hook their car alarm siren to the brake lights

Take a screen shot of someones desktop. Make that screen shot their background and then delete all their shortcuts.

While someone is gone pour clear jello powder into their toilet.

93EXCivic wrote: Take a screen shot of someones desktop. Make that screen shot their background and then delete all their shortcuts.

Don't forget to hide the taskbar too

akamcfly wrote:

93EXCivic wrote: Take a screen shot of someones desktop. Make that screen shot their background and then delete all their shortcuts.

Don't forget to hide the taskbar too

Yeah that too. Or crop the picture so the taskbar is still there and then they get really confused.

You can also set their Windows sound scheme to something innapropriate. Like say, Alvin and the Chipmunks or Porn sound bites.

If they leave their Workstation unlocked, you can change their wallpaper to Hello Kitty or Justin Bieber, etc. then lock the machine.

Place a shutdown or restart script in their Startup folder, then restart the machine. Or use the scheduled task tool to set a scheduled task to run something at specific intervals.

While I've never done any of these, I've, uh, heard of them (yeah, that's it) before. Hehehehe

I still like having an extra set of keys to someone's car and either moving it in the parking lot or just dropping the random macdonald's bag, etc. in the back seat. Nothing super obvious, just enough to make them question their sanity.

Hungary Bill wrote: Hook their car alarm siren to the brake lights

I've done this before... but hooked the horn to the brakes.

My ex downloaded and installed a 'Simpsons' sound scheme on all the computers where she worked. She said for two days all you heard around there was 'D'oh!'. The co workers finally all came to her desk and demanded she change it.

Phantom Keystroker

Put saran wrap over the toilet. Another good one is the "upper decker."

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

Hungary Bill wrote: Hook their car alarm siren to the brake lights

I've done this before... but hooked the horn to the brakes.

Add the dome light in there and you have a REAL party. Not that i'd know about that or anything.

Also- put a piece of bicycle innertube over the end of someone exhaust tip. The noise is HILARIOUS.

mndsm wrote:

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:

Hungary Bill wrote: Hook their car alarm siren to the brake lights

I've done this before... but hooked the horn to the brakes.

Add the dome light in there and you have a REAL party. Not that i'd know about that or anything. Also- put a piece of bicycle innertube over the end of someone exhaust tip. The noise is HILARIOUS.

I keep forgetting to try that on the MX6.... I can only imagine the lulz.

Connect air hose to (empty) bottle of oil. Throw under car being worked on. Run.

noodle wrote: Pull out toolbox drawer..... fill syringe with hand cream..... duct tape syringe underneath drawer.... sit back and wait for victim

It's all fun and games until the victim finds our who did it, goes to the uniform rack, and "applies" a half bottle of anti-sieze to the inside of a pair of the pranker's pants.

This counterprank was in response to a smearing of Meyer's rim sealer (the thick gooey stuff, like moly-enhanced peanut butter) to the underside of a toolcart handle.

griffin729 wrote:

EastCoastMojo wrote: On a windows machine, use control+alt+arrow key to rotate the display. Freaks people out.

I am so doing this tomorrow at work. Thank you!

I tried this. No workie on mine.

I have a habit of doing it to people at work. Right after the changing the cell phones to portugese.

In reply to 92CelicaHalfTrac:

My Mom's car came that way from the factory ( new '84 Pontiac Parisienne wagon).

I know a few people getting pranked when I get back to work next week with the twisted screen trick

Conquest351 wrote:

griffin729 wrote:

EastCoastMojo wrote: On a windows machine, use control+alt+arrow key to rotate the display. Freaks people out.

I am so doing this tomorrow at work. Thank you!

I tried this. No workie on mine.

Mine either.

93EXCivic wrote:

Conquest351 wrote:

griffin729 wrote:

EastCoastMojo wrote: On a windows machine, use control+alt+arrow key to rotate the display. Freaks people out.

I am so doing this tomorrow at work. Thank you!

I tried this. No workie on mine.

Mine either.

Works on my wife's.

-Volvo 240 rear defroster relays and fuel pump relays can be swapped easily.

Car starts and runs for 10 minutes, then dies. Resatarts for 10 minutes, then dies.

-Same co-worker that did this on a regular basis also put fish guts up in the fender of another co-workers truck. Was made especially funny when he was coming back across the US/Mexican border after visiting family. Customs dogs are intrigued by rotting fish guts I guess

-Installing large wheel weights to the inside lip of friends wheels is also fun.

-Large stack of paper restaurant napkins in the bed of a truck usually don't fly out until freeway speeds too. But I don't want to promote littering

Sorry guys, it doesn't work on all machines

I got to set up a new laptop for a coworker. His wallpaper was a nice clear shot I had taken of a laptop with a smashed screen. All of his sounds had been changed to .wav files from Redneck Rampage (albeit not the Cusspack versions).
I couldn't find a copy of Winroach to install.

Wheel weight stuck to the driveshaft causes a helluva vibration. I advise this only on older rwd cars or trucks, as new ones might lose all the damn seals.

A buddy once pranked my friend by taking a vacuum hose off his 70's Ford truck and sticking into a quart of transmission fluid, tucked under the hood. We followed my friend out because we were going the same direction.

My friend got about 3 miles down the road before he noticed his junk was smoking like a motherberkeleyer and got stopped at a 5-lane wide traffic light. That entire intersection filled with smoke to the point that when the light turned green, oncoming traffic was coming through the cloud with their headlights on. One of the funniest things I've ever seen.

EastCoastMojo wrote: Sorry guys, it doesn't work on all machines

On older machines, ctrl-alt-arrow isn't bound to screen rotation. Instead, try alt-F4.

When I find people's cell phones I usually record a "burp" and set it as their ring tone... Kind of funny to watch the reaction when they get their next call.