College Pranks

[Zkribbler]

In another thread, C0ckney said:

i lock my door, everyone in my flat does, because the funniest game at the moment is waiting for someone to go out with their door unlocked and then move/hide all their stuff. one guy had his whole room moved into the kitchen the other week, i had my curtains nicked when i went out on the lash last month and another guy had his bed put outside perfectly made up and everything, ah the fun of uni...

...which got me thinking about pranks we pulled at college (and/or summer camp):

Filling someone's room with balloons or crumpled-up newspapers.

Short sheeting the bed.

Removing all the furniture.

Writing bogus letters "from the Dean."

The prank was by one of my buddies, who blocked his neighbor's door from the inside with a chair, then made his exit by going out the 6th floor window and creeping along the ledge to his own window.

The guys from the floor above tossed a red smoke grenade onto our floor. That wouldn't have been so bad except someone has his underwear in the dryer. The red smoke was suck in, and all his underwear came out pink

[CyberGnu]

The president at Caltech recently complained about how devoid of pranks this last year had been.

The next day he found the door to his office bricked over... Yes, with mortar and everything.

[Zylka]

HAHAHAHAHAHA on that last one - genius!

[Shi Huangdi]

Back during room inspections last year some of us got fake letters telling us we were fined as our rooms didn't pass inspection taped to our doors.

For someone I knew a bunch of people on his floor knocked on the door, and when he opened it they all rushed in and stole all his porn.

I also heard of happening to one person that he had his towel stolen while in the shower.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by CyberGnu
The next day he found the door to his office bricked over... Yes, with mortar and everything.

That's old. We did that to somebody living in the residence halls one night, when he was sleeping inside.

[CyberGnu]

UR: hehehehe

At my old school a bunch of students welded a tram to the tracks, with passangers still on board.

The were clad as tramline maintenance workers, and simply stopped the tram at one of the local stations while the guy with the welding equipment started working...

It unfortunately backfired... The tramdriver didn't realize something was wrong, so he kept hitting the gas until the engine burned out. The school had to replace it, with a cost of about $100.000...

[CyberGnu]

I think the worst thing I did personally was to staple a friend to a table after he passed out... I had to - I was drunk and he was disguised as an amoeba...

Other memorable ones: filling the hood of a friends coat with tiny (2mm) polyethylene pellets, so when she put on her hood she was treated with a cascade of pellets... Which happened to be on the bus on her way home! Unsuspected success!

Freezing a can of shaving cream in liquid nitrogen, then peeling of the metal with a pair of pliers. Putting the frozen block of shaving cream in a thermos, and finally releasing it in a friends car right before getting out. Sadly no one was present for his reaction when he got back to his car the next morning and found it full of expanded shaving cream... Judging by the amount of cursing he displyed afterwards it was most likely livid, though.

And one that we still don't know who exactly did - we were all quite intoxicated at the time. All we know is that one guy, let's call him Steve, passed out before anyone else. The day after Steve had to go for an annual medical checkup with the company he was working for. After taking off his clothes the doc starts laughing, saying stuff like "ooh, never seen that one before!". Steve answers "what?". The doc says "that's a good one!". Steve again says "what?". Doc: "eh, you mean you don't know?" Steve: WHAT?!! (worried this time). The doc laughs even harder, but finally lead him to a mirror, turns him around, and prominently displayed on his lower back is an arrow poiting downward, with the worlds "here comes poop" written above it.

[Zylka]

We only really played pranks in Junior High, when we were happy and before drugs took over my life

Like grade 8 English, while the teacher was gone (5 minutes before class). Someone grabbed a full roll of masking tape and taped a web around the legs of his desk then passed it on. Most contributed and sent it zig zagging back and forth across the room - then the garbage bin was emptied and everyone contributed bits of their lunch onto the adhesive web. There was eventually a bunch of garbage, magazines, bananas etc. hanging on it and floating all about the room. She got back just as the bell went and everyone was leaving HAHAHAHAHA

The Social Studies "GAUNTLET", two rows of opposing desks up against each other. We'd make the geeks crawl underneath from end to end, inbetween the crooked desk legs while everyone kicked back and forth and chanted. HAHAHAHA they went everytime, sometimes for 4 or 5 consecutive "initiations". Thing is, our rather quiet and VERY easy going comedian teacher finally cracked when he found us doing it one day - and took 3 kids out into the hallway and screamed at the top of his lungs while slamming lockers, everyone inside just froze in terror

As*hole Mc Ritalin was good at small scale, high intensity pranks - like grabbing his girlfriends' purse and throwing like a DOZEN of her tampons across the room in the middle of class instructions. He also sent a note to my girlfriend with a massive detailed penis drawn on it, with the question "How about one of THESE in ya? - From (Zylka)" hehehehe

A Science teacher "Mr. Male" had a big lab like setup with his writing space between the blackboard and a room length covered desk. When he lectured and wrote on the board, he became rather quick and enthusiastic, walking the length of the class in short yet fluid sliding bursts, so it looked to us (behind the desk) that he was floating along while getting all intense in writing and explaining. We couldn't let this happen without laughter, and eventually devised a little game where we repeatedly chanted "Male" while he scribbled, starting softly and not even noticebale to ourselves, and working up to a frenzied, loud pace which sounded more like "MELL-MEOW-MELL-MEOW-MELL-MEOW!". He eventually caught on and busted *us* in pride - screaming "CHANTERS, IF YOU'D LIKE TO CONTINUE MAKING A MOCKERY OF MY NAME, YOU CAN STAY AFTER SCHOOL, (ZYLKA)!"

I wasn't even involved in that chanting session though, as I was trying to stay out of trouble that day - and it landed ME a detention???

My prank was the most legendary, back in Grade 8 English. I was placed at the front of the row and it was an hour long Thursday quiet reading period. The teacher was at her desk reading as well, her eyes down at the book intently and not moving up an inch. Soooo I propped my thighs under my desk, loosely grabbed on to the front edge of the top, and inched my desk forward ever so slightly and without a sound, at a constant, non noticeable rate literally of about a foot a minute. One person finally looked up about 10 minutes later and saw me well at the front and middle of the class, my desk twisted 180 degrees facing everyone else. He barely held in his laughter, and I guess the teacher took it for enjoyable reading, as she didn't notice. Over the next 5 minutes I progressed, and he let others know quietly and you could hear people randomly burst out laughing throughout. Luckily, most of my row were full of like prlcks, and soon the entire row did the same thing and slowly moved across the room - headed by myself (who was eventually out the door and in the hallway). So the desk train continued, and everyone in the class was beat red at the unnoticed disorder, until the teacher finally became aware.

"(Zylka) - you can keep going all the way down the hall and to the office unless you all get your desks back in order immediately!!!"

Not really pranks, I suppose. Sh*tdisturbing nonetheless - amazing times!

[Zylka]

Damn you guys have had some brilliant projects... the welding of the car to the tracks is definitely a proffessional one!

[CyberGnu]

That's what happens when you go to an all-engineering school...

Other pranks from the past:
You know the kind of speed meter that displays a message along with your speed (like "you are driving too fast" and " you are driving legally"). A bunch computer engineering students reprogrammed a whole set of those those signs to say "the gas is the pedal in the middle" instead of "you are drving too slow" and "you can do better than that!" instead of "you are driving to fast"

A large group of civil engineering students obtained a set of municpal worker uniforms, blocked off and dug a big hole in the middle of a fairly heavily traficked street.

Then they called the municipal department and said that "a bunch of ****ing students have played a stupid prank: they have dressed up as you guys and dug a hole in the street. You have to go out and fill it in".

about two hours later the same students called the police and said "Some bloody students are playing a stupid prank. They have dressed up as municipal workers and are currently filling in a hole in the street. You have to go and get rid of them".

And yet another 30 minutes later, a second cal to the municipal department, saying "OK, the students aren;t finished with the prank yet. It seems they have dressed up as policemen and are going to try to stop your guys from filling the hole"

Then they watched the ensuing mayhem when police and municipal workers got into a nice little scrap, both of them thinking they were dealing with disguised students...

And the best of them all:
Two students bought a park bench from the city goveremnt and carried the bench around downtown gothenburg. Efery few minutes they would be stopped by a policeman who would tell them to put the bench back where they got it. They would politely tell the policeman that they bought the bench, and show him the reciept. After a couple of hours the police caught on, and went out over the police radio that two students were playing a prank on the cops - The bench is actually theirs and the cops should just ignore them.

However, the police radio was also monitored at the student union building, where the majority of the school had gathered. As soon as the police edict went out the students spread out all over town and stole every single bench they could find, collecting them in the city square where the built a huge pyramid.

First page newspaper stuff

[Zylka]

Originally posted by CyberGnu

A large group of civil engineering students obtained a set of municpal worker uniforms, blocked off and dug a big hole in the middle of a fairly heavily traficked street.

Then they called the municipal department and said that "a bunch of ****ing students have played a stupid prank: they have dressed up as you guys and dug a hole in the street. You have to go out and fill it in".

about two hours later the same students called the police and said "Some bloody students are playing a stupid prank. They have dressed up as municipal workers and are currently filling in a hole in the street. You have to go and get rid of them".

And yet another 30 minutes later, a second cal to the municipal department, saying "OK, the students aren;t finished with the prank yet. It seems they have dressed up as policemen and are going to try to stop your guys from filling the hole"

Then they watched the ensuing mayhem when police and municipal workers got into a nice little scrap, both of them thinking they were dealing with disguised students...

And the best of them all:
Two students bought a park bench from the city goveremnt and carried the bench around downtown gothenburg. Efery few minutes they would be stopped by a policeman who would tell them to put the bench back where they got it. They would politely tell the policeman that they bought the bench, and show him the reciept. After a couple of hours the police caught on, and went out over the police radio that two students were playing a prank on the cops - The bench is actually theirs and the cops should just ignore them.

However, the police radio was also monitored at the student union building, where the majority of the school had gathered. As soon as the police edict went out the students spread out all over town and stole every single bench they could find, collecting them in the city square where the built a huge pyramid.

First page newspaper stuff

HAHAHAHAHAHA... absolutely brilliant. What city was this in?

[CyberGnu]

Gothenburg, Sweden

[Grrr]

My mates and I once disassembled the principals car, and stacked it up in a storeroom.

[ajbera]

My roommate and I stole about 500 lbs. of kiln bricks from a storage area on campus and kept them in our room for a week. Then we bought some Sacrete (a concrete-like brick mortar). Then we got drunk/high/spaced on ethyl ether (stolen from the chem lab) and proceeded to build a brick wall in front of the door of a guy in our dorm that we didn't like. There were about 10 drunken idiot friends of ours sitting in the dorm watching us, taking pictures... we were trying to be quiet, but we kept laughing (trying to do so silently - no luck) and generally being idiots. We got the wall about a foot high when the dude we were bricking in woke up and opened the door on us (this was 3:30 in the morning), and said "Hullo..." I said "Hi Scott" and then we all ran out of the dorm and went to the girl's dorm next dor to laugh hysterically for a half-hour.

We went back shortly afterward and our victim had moved the brick wall and reassembled it in front of my and my roommate's door. After laughing (again), we were so impressed with this display of bravado by Scott (he was something of a weenie) that we woke him up again, called him into the common room, told him how proud we were that he finally retaliated (however feebly) and gave him a rousing round of applause as he blinked mole-like at all of us.

Ah, good times.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by CyberGnu
Other memorable ones: filling the hood of a friends coat with tiny (2mm) polyethylene pellets, so when she put on her hood she was treated with a cascade of pellets... Which happened to be on the bus on her way home! Unsuspected success!

This is a good one. I have always wanted to do something to friends who wear jackets with hoods.