What Are Your Best Pranks Ever?

My father is extremely conservative and straight laced so I couldn't resist teasing him once. While in college I bought this page boy style wig in omg what were you thinking HOT PINK. When I went home for break, I went into the bathroom, pinned my hair up and put the wig on. I soaked the wig thoroughly with water and put a towel over my head like I was drying it. I marched out of the bathroom with this pleased as punch look on my face, announcing, "Dad, I just dyed and cut my hair. What do you think?" The look on his face when I took the towel off my head...utterly priceless. So worth the $25 bucks on that wig. He still can't talk about that episode because it makes him so mad. Sorry, Dad, but you have to admit it was funny and harmless.

I suck at pranks because I can't use the ones that have already been done but can't think of anything new. :(

My husband thinks I'm a weirdo--I always try to catch lizards and baby snakes out in the yard to talk to them and show him and my son. One day, hubby and I were outside and I was trying unsuccessfully to catch a little lizard. Hubby went inside and laid down on the couch. I picked up a small stick to take in the house with me. I walked in and yelled, "Lizard!" and threw the stick on him. He jumped so high and yelled, "Dammit, Babe!" He really thought it was a lizard until I found the stick and showed him. Ha!! He was not happy, but I was rolling!!

My husbands friend posted a pic of a loaded nerf gun and a pair of goggles. She left a note for her husband:

You are now under attack. Here is your weapon to defend yourself. I suggest you put on the goggles because we all have guns too. You have been warned and good luck.

Then she and the kids went and hid, and they got into a fantastic nerf gun fight.

Best idea ever. :)

ETA the best prank I ever pulled. Me and another co worker got together and planned this. I sent a fake email to our internet department pretending to be a customer asking questions. I made it sound like the person spoke very little English. I even asked for a phone call back, because I have answers and needed questions. Then left my work number as a contact number.

My co conspirator gave the email to the intended mark and asked her to call it back. The mark grumbled and complained, but did call the person (me) back. I answered and made this really weird accent, "ELLLO?" When she went into her spiel about being from the bank I acted like I had no clue what she was talking about. It only lasted about ten seconds before she realized it was me.

You could hear her shout. "J.!" from the next officer over. So funny.

Before we were married I had a co-worker call my apartment that I shared with my husband to be. I had her leave a message on the machine saying "this is dr. so and so's office and we have your test results, congratulations. If you need a referral to an obstetrician please feel free to call our office." I knew my husband-to-be would get home first to hear it. It was all I could do to not lose it when I got home and play again in front of him. He was white as a sheet while I totally broke down laughing. I still love that prank!

WAY BACK WHEN!! I gave my friend a fake winning lottery ticket!! She was NOT happy when she found out it was a joke.

My brother and I did the sprayer thing on our mom - and it ended up backfiring and my dad got it!! OOPS!!!

One of my kids got this creepy noise thing (link below) from a friend's mom and left it in my car. There's way too much noise in a car for me to have heard anything but a creaking/clicking noise (which sounded like an engine or mechanical noise) but for 3 weeks I did wonder what that weird noise was. My son finally fessed up. Well the button makes 5 other much creepier noises, one of them being a guy whispering "hey...can you hear me?" Creepy as hell. So I planted this in my boss's office. It totally freaked him out for a half hour until he finally realized he wasn't going crazy and searched and found it. He then spent another few hours trying to figure out who planted it and I finally caved. He thought it was hilarious and we're picking our next mark together....

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/c427/?srp=2

Scrape off the filling of a few Oreo cookies. Then fill them with white toothpaste. Leave the cookies out where somebody can find them.

There was a man going bald at a place I worked at years ago. He was very self-aware of it and it wasn't a joking matter around the workplace. Well, we called Rogaine and Hair Club for men and asked for brochures etc. to be sent to the work address under his name. It was the funniest thing ever, lol.
Another time there was a guy that always played Sodoku and he would always leave his sheet on his desk, and he used pencil to do it in.
If we ever walked by and his Sodoku paper laying there we would change numbers he had written in or erase a number and write it in another block, so funny to watch him try to figure out what the heck happened.

every April 1st, I "nail" my DH & sons! During the middle of the night, I paint their toe nails! Sometimes I only get one (each) done....sometimes I can get an entire foot....sometimes I use red ....& sometimes I use clear glitter - which is the best!

& yes, both dogs have to be thrown outside before I can do the sneaky snake! No way to sneak into a bedroom with 2 80lb dogs!

My best friend's daughter enlisted help from her school principal on 2 occasions: once she came home with a noncompliance on the dress code ....with an afterschool detention - totally fake! & on the other time, she sprinkled salt on her scalp & told her mom she had head lice & had a note from the principal. Love her pranks!

I had this huge furry black spider from Halloween. Got our store manager to lock it inside a small safe. I asked the other manager if she could get some change out for me. All 14 of us employees stood behind her in the office as she opened the safe. My Lord...if it had of been a jumping contest....she would have won.....and the scream was unforgettable!!!!!!!

I'm loving these! My niece is coming to visit in a week and we ALWAYS try to see who can pull the best prank. She always scares me, but this time I have some things lined up for her!

One of my best April fools pranks was when my daughter was about 12. She loved getting mail from people, so I made up a box that looked like it was from her grandma in Iowa. Inside the box we put a very brown banana. (She hates bananas.) She was so excited to get home from school and have mail.. she tore into the box and found the banana! I don't think she's ever forgiven us for that one!

I bought a thing called the bog monster that fit under the toilet lid. When you opened it up the thing's arms reached up (they were attached to the lid) and it's face was right there staring at you. Scary. I pranked my nephew with it. He acted like he didn't see it. But I know he did. Funny thing is, later on that day, we were in a hurry to get somewhere and I ran to the bathroom quickly, forgetting the stupid bog monster was still attached to the toilet. I lifted up the lid and it startled me so much I wet my pants a little!

Sometimes we buy life-sized cardboard cut outs of people to scare each other with. My niece and daughter took our Edward Cullen cutout and put it in my closet one day and when I went to bed that night I opened up my closet and it scared the hell out of me! I grabbed it and threw it down the stairs and it broke in half. They spent a lot of time taping it back together because they just loved looking at him! LOL

For my niece's visit, I've purchased a life-sized horse head mask that I'm going to have a friend wear and stand outside my kitchen window. When my niece goes to the sink my horse head wearer is going to pop up in the window. Should be a good one! We'll see!

I like to call my husband when he is at work and tell him I ran out of gas and he has to come rescue me. I have done it like 3 times and he falls for it everytime! He gets soooo mad!
I have NEVER run out of gas btw! Whatta turd!

He, likes to scare the beejus out of me when we watch scary movies. Jerk.

my son got me 5 times in one day with that tape on the nozzle prank. the last time tho< i hosed every one in the kitchen. i figured its just water.....

but I used to give people shots of just straight juice minus the alcohol. Not cuz I was being a witch or sly. But if someone was too "happy" and I hated to be rude and cut them off cuz they werent causing issue I was just concerned for their health and hangover, I would trick them into juice shots....i never charged, or anything. it was just easier. and not one ever caught on. theyd say "this is the strongest shot ever" and Id be like "yeah right...whatever" and lmao.

however the bros got each other really good once. they got a bullhorn thing...what is called.....megaphone. and it had a cop siren on it. so at 3 am they came home and awoke their brother to banging on the door real loud and the siren going off and a guy saying "okay we know you did it, come out with your hands up...." there was yahoo standing in the front yard half asleep in his boxers at 3am. lol. luckily I livve on some land.

A friend took his wife's bikini and had the straps and strings re-attached with watersoluable thread. She was so mad. The trouble was the madder she got the more we laughed and the madder she got. She couldn't hit him because she was too busy holding the parts of her bikini in place. The more she tried to hold them in place, the more pieces came apart. She yelled for a towel and someone threw her a towel. It got wet in the water and then proved to be too small. she walked out of the water with her arm across her top and her other hand trying to hold the towel around her bottom. She ended up running all of her bathing suits through the washing machine to make sure there were no others with water soluable thread. (ETA: Since you asked . . . She wasn't careful with her cover ups and everyone that cared to look saw everything she was trying to hide, including a completely shaved area normally hidden by her bikini bottoms. We teased her about that too!! She claimed she and her husband have called a truce, but we don't believe it.)

Why did he do that? He loves catsup on his meat, fries, everything. He hates spicy food. She put cayennepepper in his catsup and shook it up to blend it in. He took a bite of his fries dipped in catsup. He recoiled in pain. Someone yelled, "Eat a bite of hamburger. It will cool it down." The hamburger had a liberal amount of the cayenne catsup on it. He ran for the kitchen sink and kept washing his mouth out with the cold water. We all laughed and laughed.

Then there is the time he left a thin layer of cooking oil on the shiny new toilet seat . . .

Or the time the electric blanket controls were switched so he controlled her side and she controlled his side. ;~))

Good luck to you and yours.

My husband was annoyed at me (jokingly so) because he forgot to tell me or ask me something and I was a smartass about it.. I had to get ready (I think he forgot I still have to take a shower and it was interfering with how he thought things should go) So i'm just about done in the shower, I took a longer one because I was cold and the hot water was amazing, I was JUST about to turn the shower off when I see his shadow come in and it looks like he's going to throw a towel over the top of the shower for me (how sweeet) so I sorta take a step back to catch it so it didnt get wet, turns out that "towel" was a bucket of ICE cold water. I laughed and it was even funnier because he poured half the bucket on himself by accident. I'm totally going to do the tape in the doorway that's HILARIOUS. I also mess with him a lot when he annoys me, when he's taking a shower I'll go into the kitchen and turn the hot water on full blast, after about 3 seconds it takes hot water away from him so he'll adjust then I cut it off and it'll gradually get hotter again, once again he'll adjust then I just keep doing that so his whole shower he's just adjusting water and it's never the right temperature for him to enjoy it.. then he'll get out and ask "were you messing with the water?" and I'm like "no, why?" he thinks he's crazy. obviously he isn't aware of that one because I'd get major backlash if he found out!!

We have baked cotton balls in muffins.. and also in Pie crust.

The secret for the muffins is to put a little batter in the bottom of each muffin space, then place 2 or 3 cotton balls and then pour the rest of the batter on top. Bake as usual.

For the pies, we used the individual foil pie pans, placed the crust on the bottom, fill with cotton balls, then place the top crust, lightly butter the top of the crust and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar and bake.

Another time, we used an adhesive to glue coins to the sidewalks all around the school. It was pretty funny to see the children and adults all struggle to get the coins..

On April fools day I switch the salt and sugar. Makes for a great spit take on that 1st morning cup of coffee.

I can't contribute to this because I'm not a prankster at all - but I'm thinking you all ought to be writing these down for April Fool's Day - it's not far off! ;^)

so one of my managers had this huge wall of pictures of her and all of her friends. Mostly USC buddies. They were all posing with the USC "V" for victory (like a peace sign). I snapped a bunch of pictures of other people in the office and added them to her collection. It took her a while to find all the pics I added. Some of the people were cool. But I did include pics of the creepy people in the office and the strange. She got a startle every now and then when she discovered one of THOSE.

Another time when my parents were out and we were "home alone" we made all of the picture frames crooked. That was fun. We did that to a former GM too. He was crazy OCD about the straight pictures. Problem was everytime the heavy fire barrier doors closed they would mess up the pictures. We just exaggarated it.

We love to watch those prank shows too. And the couple ones are the best. BUT sometimes they are pretty mean. Like the one where the guy put the blue dye in the girls shampoo and her blond hair turned blue. OUCH!
I am a big prankster. Especially at work. I get my guys all the time.
Almost daily. hehehe. I turn off their wireless mouse. I get a staple gun and staple the drawers of their desks shut or staple the papers to their desks. I push the chair up to the wall and tape the phone cord to the back of the chair so when they pull the chair out the phone falls. Last April 1st I took caution tape and taped the whole office. I took toilet paper and wrapped their chairs. I taped the sprayer nozzle down in the kitchen. Got three people cuz the first two left it. The last guy that got sprayed got mad and didn't talk to me for a week! ooops! heehee.
I am always scaring my kids. I wait around the corner and jump out and scream. My hubby used to get my oldest alot. He rigged the door so when you opened it a pillow fell in your face. When my son came home one night from watching a scary movie, he screamed like a girl. He set up a plastic spider on a fishing line and hid down the hall, when the kids walked by he pulled on it! SCREAMS!!
Y'all have fun! Don't be too mean.
Blessings!

lol Ohhh these are funny. My best prank was when we moved into our house and my husband kept telling me we needed another big garbage can. I bought him one for Christmas. Wrapped it up so you can tell what it is. His real present was a gun cabnet that was at my parents. He kept checking that can out though, shaking it, picking it up... he kept getting more and more mad over it and when he opened it and it was empty he really went into a pouty mode until my parents came with his gun cabnet...lol

Our biggest pranker was my youngest son. He did the tape on the nozzle so it would spray me, one time it worked.. after that I checked each time I turned on the water. He also tried the toilet seat wrap and as he got older his pranks go a bit more crazy. He died almost 2 years ago and he is still pranking. At his funeral when we were all standing in line, his wife's bra come undone, no reason, just unhooked itself. We knew it was him, something he would do. Then when his grandfather did masonic rights at the grave site a car alarm went off and the people who owned the car had to walk quite a ways to even turn it off. We knew he was letting his grandpa know he approved of the Masonic rights. Then the night of the funeral his 3 year old daughter was playing with the stereo, turning it up and down. She would run to me and say "grandma, that man is saying my name" She turned it back up and it was Johnny Cash, one of Jordan's favorite singers. I told my husband that it is cool that it would be on the radio because it meant so much, then it started skipping. I said "Oh that is a CD" and went to open the CD changer. I didn't see any CD's in there and said "None are in here" My husband jumped up and ran from the livingroom saying "I'm out of here!!!!" Turned out that it was black and you couldn't see it in the back. I still don't know how it was in there since the last CD I played in it was Carpenters. It had to be left from when Jordan stayed with us months before... or perhaps one of Jordan's pranks... Many of his friends also tell us of pranks they believe his is still playing on them.

Best.prank.ever.

When my HS boyfriend graduated from HS (two years ahead of me), the entire graduation class had a piece of gum during the commencement ceremony. The chairman of our Board of Directors was a huge jerk and made some pretty derogatory remarks about a beloved teacher who was retiring- in a public forum. So... as they started calling names everyone put the gum in their hands and pressed it into his palm as they shook hands before receiving their diploma. By the end of the ceremony, he had a wad of gum in his hand and couldn't do much about it.

Aside from that, several years ago (when our son wasn't even 1 yet), I had a pregnant friend tinkly on a test for me and left it next to his coffee on April Fool's Day. He completely freaked out. Hilarious.

Oh, I'm getting lots of great ideas here!!
I try to do some stuff for April Fool's day (especially at work), but have to keep it really low-key. Last year I staged 3 of my co-workers cubicles as "yard sales." I put price tag stickers on everything and hung up signs around the building with: "Yard Sale, today only, 8-12."

I've also put spiders all over the place for a co-worker who is terrified of them! The best was the 2 that fell out of the handle of her car when she tried to unlock it!

We work in a lab, so I've also played with the gloves (putting small gloves in the LG box that a certain coworker uses), coats, and other stuff.

It's hard for me to get hubby because most of the time he doesn't even pay attention... the bullion cubes in the shower and crooked pictures could work on him...