Office Pranks

[The Tazman]

Those were great.

The things people come up with to pass the time!!!!!

I have to say the coffee one really made me laugh as I know some good coffee drinkers.

[MOTOXXX]

i always like the one where they tie a bit of fishing line through everything on the desk and then tie it to the office chair. then when they pull out the chair to sit on it, it pulls half of the shit off the desk.

[Wonko]

Things we've done:

Fishing line tucked away across the room, tied with a little knot right neer the end. The knot was placed under the pen holder of coworker. When the fishing line was pulled gently, the pen holder slowly moved across the desk. When he lifted the penholder, the line was pull fast, and was never seen. Took him 3 weeks to figure it out.

Win XP can accept more than one input device for the pointer on the screen. This meens you can have 2 mice pluged in. Mouse was down on the floor undr my foot where I could move it at random times throughout the day. 1 and a half weeks of fun on main prankster as his pointer slowly drifted over the screen without him touching anything.

I have been tempted to newspaper a desk before. You wrap up everything on the desk in newspaper, and everything in the drawers too. Chair, telephone, everything

[What?]

Way back, when I were a lad, the factory I worked at was getting a PABX phone system installed. While this was happening, I was reading the manual. As soon a sinstallation was complete, I wandered around the site setting each and every phone to divert to the next one after one ring.
Took the office girls an hour or so to figure out how to undo it.

[T.I.E]

ha ha ha ha i'm the office prankster and i am having so much fun with it all.
more things to do.
i have wrapped the desk in paper before and all the pens even rubbers. and the chair that was fun.
but this is just more ammo to use. ha ha ha ha
thanks a bunch

[phantom]

used to work for a sparky and if we were wiring up a building we used to run all the cables before the wall lining went on . Well if "someone" just happened to put an offcut of cable through one of the holes ( nailed at the far end so it didn't pull out ) and the wall linings were put on it would take the poor buggar who was wiring up the plugs and switches a bloody long time to work out what was going on

[Biff]

..when your co-workers are on leave.

Some old - some not.

[Waylander]

Found the original for ya Biff. I think there may be another one around aswell.

[Hitcher]

Other fun can be had by changing the system language and by setting up MS Word so that the text is white on white. Tee hee...

[bear]

The swapping of the M and N keys is a classic (as mentioned in the first post)...done that a few times - always good results.

[Beemer]

I lived at the nurses home at Wellington Hospital for a while and we were wracking our brains trying to get our own back on a practical joker there. One day we got him a beauty - he'd gone out and left his window open, thinking that because he was on the third floor, he was safe. Wrong! One of us entered the room next door and climbed in through his window and opened the door. We took everything out of his room and put it in the sunroom at the end of the floor, and then we put the contents of the other room into his room. He came home that night, opened his door, thought "shit, wrong room!" and walked out. Then he realised it was HIS room number and you could see him trying to work out why none of his stuff was in his room any more! He was so lazy he slept in the sunroom for about a week until he could be bothered taking his stuff back in!

[hXc]

We do this in the school computer room. Put every mouse on Left hand setting and then put one mouse on as slow as it can go with a long lasting trail and the next on as fast as it will go with no trail and do it consecutively(sp) It's really amusing to watch people. Occasionally we put the hompage on www.trademe.co.nz and I even put it on www.kiwibiker.co.nz once.

We put the desks around the other way because they have a big bar going across the front underneath that really hurts your knees.

We program the stereo's in teachers rooms to 'The Rock' and they are usually on 'Classic Hits' or 'Hot 93' or something.

Our english teachers projector looks exactly the same on the top as is does on the bottom so we flipped it over once. He was rather confused.

Somebody put shiny silver tape on a teachers cage windows last year. Looks just like tin foil.

[Wolf]

A guy left his car unlocked while he was visiting and we went in and turned everything on - except the lights, they came on without the key in the ignition so we turned them off again. Radio on, full volume, indicator switch down, wipers on, in gear etc. Also made some other "enhancements" and sat back to watch the fun.

It was good: he got a lovely blast of loud music - seems he was tuned to a rock station - when he turned the key, the wipers waved, the indicators blinked. He was rather annoyed as he shut them off, tried starting the car and lurched forward against the handbrake, took it out of gear, started up, slammed into reverse, raced backwards and screached to a halt, lept out and ripped the tin-cans-onna-string out from under the car, got back in, continued reversing, stopped again, got out and nearly went mad trying to find the other tin cans... to no avail.

So the moral of the story is this: On old-style cars, if you're going to tie some cans under the car, go the extra distance and throw a few small stones into the hubcaps as well, - it's worth it in the long run.

[Eurygnomes]

When I was at university halls, we did a few pranks on the same guy (nothing like making someone feel paranoid). He'd disappear up the Naki for the weekend and we'd do one of the following.

a) turf the room. A friend's father was one of those lawn growers. Halls rooms are really small so we got a whole load of offcuts. And the day before he got back - we added a sheep from the vet faculty...

b) wrap the room. Newspaper. This poor guy was still unwrapping his pens and papers well after we'd all attended monday lectures. We also turned everything upside down...

c) foam the room. Fill as many bin bags as possible with shaving foam (non gel obviously). Thread them under the door carefully (ensuring the opening really IS well under the door). Then slowly squeeze the goods into the room. Mwahahahah!

[Wolf]

The marriage between grease monkeys and Oxy-Acetylene mix is well established. Dude I know took his car into get some stuff done on it that he couldn't do at home (was a grease monkey himself). When he got back to his car and turned the key the explosion lifted his bonnet right off and flipped it onto the floor (they'd kindly unbolted it to facilitate the effect as acetylene is only a low explosive and would not normally do a lot to a metal hinge) - courtesy of a couple of plastic bottles full of oxy-acetylene mix and capped with sparkplugs...

They did it to him because he was a mate and one of their own - they knew he'd take it in the spirit intended. Must've made their day to have free-rein like that. Not the kind of thing you can do to the average punter - not a good "Kiwi Host" practice.