Halloween pranks.

[bluedigger]

Tis the season, so I thought I would share a hilarious trick my friend pulled on the neighborhood kids.

First, about a week prior to the big night, he set up a scarecrow style dummy on a lawn chair in front of his house. Jeans, plaid shirt, paperbag head, stuffed with straw. Then he got one of those kareoke machines/magic microphones and started harrassing the kids as they walked home from school. Every afternoon. They quickly got used to it and ignored it.

Halloween night he took the dummy away, dressed up in the clothes, and sat in front of the house. Let the games begin! Funniest reaction was a mom with a couple toddlers. When he moved she screamed and put the toddlers in front of her for protection.:rofl:

Anybody got any good pranks to share?

[kentauros]

1. No, but that's a great prank!

:rofl:

A little too late to try it here, but I'll have to remember that one for future use :D

[bluedigger]

4. Yeah, I should have shared it sooner, lol.

[txwhitedove]

2. Yes, one year my husband ran back 'n forth, climbing onto the roof

to jump down on unsuspecting trick or treaters after they rang the doorbell!

[Roon]

3. My first year of not trick or treating

I stayed home and pretended I was a dummy on the porch all night. People talked about it for years afterwards. I had a blast!

[HopeHoops]

5. My dad dressed as a giant Jawa with LED lights on his glasses right after Star Wars came out.

He had a switch in his pocket so he could make the eyes come on unexpectedly and freak the hell out of the kids. It worked.

[Rhythm]

6. We scared the hell out of a bunch of teenagers doing something similar...

The wasband dressed up like this demon biker (all in leathers, with furry gloves and a huge, evil-looking mask), and just sat on the porch by the 'help yourself' cauldron of candy.
I hid in the bushes beneath a life-sized human rescue dummy (think the kind that fire-fighters practice with) that we had dressed up, wired like a puppet, and hung in the front-yard tree.

The little kids got a pass... the obnoxious teens in that neighborhood, not a chance.
One of them tried to snatch the cauldron, and got the piss-his-pants shock of a lifetime when that big rubber monster grabbed his hand!
The others decided to go fuck with the dummy in the tree, which proceeded to kick them vigorously!

My friend Sherri (whose house it was) could be heard cackling in the house like a mad woman...

[driver8]

7. The "wasband"!! That cracks me up!

Good for you for scaring the crap out of the obnoxious teens, too!

[MilesColtrane]

8. That doesn't always turn out well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPkfuNDxhbk

[bluedigger]

9. It made me laugh!

That guy got clocked! And his assailant was obviously regretful. I used to serve with a guy who would punch you when you woke him up for guard duty. We learned to grab the foot of his sleeping bag.

[tigereye]

10. well, running around the neighborhood, hiding and throwing field corn

and then running away when the neighbors chased you. I really miss that sound of corn on the porch. (I grew up in a small town in a semi-rural area)

And then, taking a wooden spool, notching the ends, running string around the part where the thread would go, and pulling it so that the spool would make a rattling sound up against a window.


Now, someone would probably get shot or sued if that did that. Ah, the 60s, a different time.