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snooper2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 01:26 PM
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Ever do office pranks? I think this one takes the award..
now I just have to plan my victim :evilgrin:

There was another video that got removed by the powers at youtube with some more context, but basically they have had back and forth office pranks. One guy decided to take it to a whole new level :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsi8H7k1lMU

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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 01:28 PM
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1. at my previous job, I once stuff packing peanuts in a coworker's desk drawer
Every single one of them filled to the brim with packing peanuts.

Years after the prank she would still find peanuts in her desk.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 02:12 PM
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2. There's a line between a prank and an assault
Shit, putting a staple in a guy's head? That fucker'd better work with one eye on his surroundings at all times if he'd done that to me. Pranks don't make people bleed.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 02:27 PM
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4. I'm with you. That asshole should be fired and charged with assault and battery.
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 02:29 PM
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5. Amen! That is assault and battery.
Edited on Wed Mar-09-11 02:39 PM by raccoon

And the victim needs to have a tetanus shot if he hasn't had one fairly recently.




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curiousabout... Donating Member (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:07 AM
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12. Definitely.
That is not funny. He shoudl be fired by now.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 05:54 PM
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14. I would have done some serious damage to that ckskr.
Soonest.
Get the staple out later.
Not funny.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 02:23 PM
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3. Upon returning from vacation several years ago, I found my office totally packed with all of the
plants from our floor. There was everything from small potted flowers to trees that were touching the ceiling. The kicker was a couple of dozen parakeets flying around the office and roosting in the trees squawking like crazy.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 02:32 PM
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6. Now that's a prank
I had a co-worker who was a reliable over-reactor to everything. From time to time, I would put a rubber mouse or spider on her keyboard, which slid away under her desktop. When she pulled out her keyboard, comedy. One time I attached a rubber band to the spider, and taped it to the keys, so that when she pulled out the keyboard, it "jumped" off.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 02:35 PM
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7. That's some funny shit.
:rofl:
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 06:01 PM
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23. The parakeets were the piece de resistance! I bow to the perpetrator of that prank.
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 06:13 PM
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24. It was a conspiracy headed by my Executive Assistant, Director of Leasing, and Chief Engineer.
The parakeets were provided by my Garage Manager who bred birds.

One element I didn't mention was that when I entered the reception area "Welcome To The Jungle" was playing on the PA system. :rofl:
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kentauros Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 02:37 PM
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8. If you're considering doing a "prank" like that,
you might want to retain a defense attorney first.

Now here is a prank, and it's totally harmless and will drive the recipient nutty for a few minutes (or more if they can't figure it out):

Put a small post-it note (or half of one) over the sensor on the bottom of a light/laser mouse (won't work on old-style mouses.)

As an added level, write on the note stating "Co-worker was here!" :P
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 02:47 PM
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9. That "prank" is indictable. nt
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davsand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 03:37 PM
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10. Prank? Hell, he's have my foot up his ass if that had been me.
As others have said, that is an assault and that guy needs his ass kicked. He was standing there laughing while that guy was trying to pull that staple out of his head...

There would be bloodshed.

Pranks are funny, harmless little things. Pranks should never involve blood.



Laura
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-09-11 09:53 PM
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11. The "felony assault" award?
I would fire that dude on the spot. I do not condone violence in my work place.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 12:34 PM
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13. Be careful.
One man's prank is another man's ticket to a righteous ass kicking.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 06:04 PM
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15. College prank.
This happened every spring during 'Silly Season'.
I wasn't the first victim.

Went home for the week end.
Got back Sunday evening and when I opened the door to my room at the frat house (Yeah, I was a frat boy. Sue me. ;-)) it sprang into the room.
The hinges had been removed and bungee cords hooked to it.
(Kinda' hard to describe the mechanics involved, but you can do it.)

My room was totally empty.
Not a stick of furniture.
Ditto for my closet.
Not a stitch.

I spent the next week rounding up furniture, clothes, and possessions from various places around the house, from basement to third floor.
I think I'm still missing a sweater and a fifth of Scotch.
:-)
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 07:23 PM
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16. Yeah, it takes the award
for absolutely fucking stupid. :eyes:
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 10:05 PM
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17. wtf
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-10-11 10:11 PM
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18. I would agree with the first comment
" If someone tries that shit on me I'd staple their nuts to their forehead"
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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 11:21 AM
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19. When I was much younger, I was an office clerk.
Edited on Fri Mar-11-11 11:22 AM by Pool Hall Ace
One time, I was assigned to type names onto wallet-sized cards of recently-certified technicians. On this particular day, there were 11 new technicians, but there were 12 perforated cards to a sheet. The manager who signed off on the cards had pre-signed before I typed the names, since he was going to be out of the office.

The technicians were -- Laotian, I believe? They all had names something like Somphone Chanthavilay. Anyway, on the twelfth card, I typed Wangdang Sweetpoontang.

You may consider it un-PC, but I was young, meant no harm, and the supervisor laughed! He kept the card taped to the wall behind his desk for quite some time.

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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 01:17 PM
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20. This one's pretty funny
Edited on Fri Mar-11-11 01:19 PM by bif
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blockhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 05:28 PM
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21. that was funny!
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 05:58 PM
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22. I TP'd a cubicle -- also I sealed off a cubicle and filled it with packing peanuts.
I would also make prank calls to the front desk. I replaced the front desk candy dish with candy that tasted like fish.

I had a 9-month stint of working in an office with cubicles and felt like a hamster on a wheel. Almost lost my damn mind.

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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 08:27 PM
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28. oooh -- I like this.
Do tell about some of the prank calls! :D

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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 06:16 PM
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25. That fucker would be picking his teeth off the floor if he tried that with me.
I'd have sore knuckles for days.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 06:22 PM
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26. When I was a couple weeks short of getting out of the service...
They stuck me in the platoon sargeant's office. I had been waiting for two years to get this guy and here was my chance. He had a habit of reclining back in his chair with his boots up on the desk. Every time he left the office, I'd tighten the tension spring on his chair a tiny bit so it progressively took more force to get it to move. He never said anything about it, but I could see him struggle a little more each time he sat down. He wasn't very mechanical (go figure - he was the platoon sargeant for a tank repair shop!) so he probably just figured the chair was getting old. Finally, when I could see that he was really struggling to get his chair to move, I took all the tension off it the next time he was out. When he came back to the office, the first thing he did was sit down hard on the chair, shoving all his weight backwards. With no tension the chair flew back and he went flying off it on to the floor. He got a new chair the next day and I got on a plane to go home. :)

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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 09:40 PM
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29. hahahahaha
I like the drawn out kinds of pranks - excellent!
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-11-11 06:23 PM
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27. I hope he laughs when I shove my letter opener in his ear.
cause you know, I would find that really funny
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