What's your all time favourite prank?

Daqster

One of my favourite pranks that I remember myself was years ago when we were at school and convinced a mate of ours on a Saturday morning to get up for school. Also had a mate who was afraid of dogs and about 1am we arraged to be walking up a local lane near us were a mate was waiting, wrapped in a black rug and jumped out a my friend's legs barking and he took off like lightening up the lane and didn't speak to us for an hour or more.

Love many of the old Mike Murphy / Dermot / Fran parnks also but my favourite current day one would be Vitalyzd's Chainsaw prank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYSa8gRvxCg

So, what's your favourite prank of all time and have you ever pranked anyone yourself?

Sir Arthur Daley

Had some craic with this prank in the Celtic Tiger era.

Capt'n Midnight

Back in 2006 April 1st fell on a Saturday.

One radio station did it's normal Friday morning show, complete with traffic reports where they marvelled at how well the traffic was moving.

Lots of tired/hungover people thinking they were late for work

.Henry Sellers.

A bit long but I like it.

One of my favorite pranks was one my Dad told me about which he pulled many years ago. Himself and his mate were working in an old factory that was being refurbished. There were lots of units, presses and lockers placed into the middle of the rooms as they were painting the factory.
Being an old factory it was full of rats that were disturbed from their hiding from all the movement and work taking place, he told me when they came to work in the mornings and turned on the lights, all the rats would run for cover.

Being a opurtuirnistic prankster and knowing his work mate had a big fear of rats , he thought it would be funny to roll up some wire wool into the shape of a rat. He then placed the rat into a drawer hoping his friend would open it up but the fella scared of rats never took the bait.
My Dad not wanting his prank to go wasted made sure they had lunch that day near the drawer and while his friend was happy eating his lunch my dad opened the drawer and started screaming "RAT!!" and threw it in the direction of his friend.

Now sure enough his friend got a fright but my Dad didn't expect the wire wool rat to stick onto his friends beard. Cue yer man nearly having convulsions on the ground and going absolutely ape**** trying to get the rat off his face, it got kind of serious when his friend got such a fright he ended up shaking and trembling so bad from it he had to go home early, he was fine the next day and seen the funny side of it.

Always makes me laugh when my I hear it.

hatrickpatrick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3EPPYbn44

toastedpickles

This IMO is the greatest prank in the history of the world ever

Mickey H

Teabagging's usually funny.

bodhrandude

Daqster

.Henry Sellers. wrote: »

Always makes me laugh when my I hear it.

Yeah, classic for sure.

One of my Dad's was when he was working in the airport as a baggage handler, he and other wearing loading a flight for LA and.. (this is terrible) .. they locked one of the lads in the baggage hole. It wasn't a young lad either, proper lead loader and they let the flight taxi out and all before stopping it. Was the late 80s and so no mobile phone on him or anything. Have to say I would not find it one bit funny if it was done to me, but we laughed at the time and the guy it happened to always brings it up now and pisses himself laughing. Says all he could think about was how he was gonna survive a 14 hour plus flight in there.

Insect Overlord

This one

Oranage2

I'd be known to pull a prank every so often.


I worked in a supermarket, it was around Christmas time.so very busy, I told all the temp Christmas staff the manager wanted to have a meeting at the back of the shop.

So they all went down and waited for about 30 minutes while nothing was getting done on the shop floor. Got a bollocking from the under pressure manager as well as the staff.

Worth it though.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Oranage2 wrote: »

I'd be known to pull a prank every so often.


I worked in a supermarket, it was around Christmas time.so very busy, I told all the temp Christmas staff the manager wanted to have a meeting at the back of the shop.

So they all went down and waited for about 30 minutes while nothing was getting done on the shop floor. Got a bollocking from the under pressure manager as well as the staff.

Worth it though.

Doesn't sound great..

hefferboi

I've got 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4awVqRr1eCo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6f6WQHjys

Oranage2

Walkin Talkin Stephen Hawkin wrote: »

Doesn't sound great..QUOTE]

It doesn't read great, but I was late teens maybe 20, It's also a you have to be there moment, but imagine a frantic manager looking for his staff and not being able to find anyone at one of the busiest times of the year, and also imagine 30 staff members standing around for half an hour doing nothing at the back of a shop.

Not amazing but it was funny at the time.

osarusan

I use this one in my classes as an example of making conditional sentences:

aziz

One of the best pranks I ever heard was about a guy who brought a load of his mates to a different town for his stag night.
In the hotel bar before they left to go on the piss , the stag says "ok lads we are here for a good night ,hotel and drinks are on me but there is going to be no dicking around,tying me naked to lamposts or shaving body parts" etc.
So the group goes off for the night and get well and truly hammered and eventually get back to the hotel and get the now comatosed groom to be into bed.
In the bar before the rest turn in for the night ,a couple of his buddies are plotting what can they do to him for a prank and one sick twisted individual come up with this,
He will get a condom and roll it onto a pencil, then get into the stags room and insert pencil and condom up stags bottom,withdraw pencil carefully leaving the condom lodged there.
Apparently the next morning at breakfast it was interesting as the stag just sat there trying to have his breakfast, staring at everyone else there and not remembering a thing

AngeGal

People don't answer private calls anymore so this wouldn't work these days.

A few years ago though we to hold two phones close to each other, dial two different people using #31# to hide the incoming number, hope they answer around the same time and let the conversation flow. It worked especially well if the two people knew each other but didn't especially like each other or if they had a quick temper, there was some very heated conversations about who called who!

YellowFeather

Ahhhhh - I spend half my working day dreaming up things to do. One of my favourites was setting up an email account under my boss's name and sending an email to one of the girls asking her to ring up one of our (very busy) contractors and ask him his favourite brand of biscuit. I didn't think she'd fall for it, but she got the mail just as the boss was walking by and threw a fit - "I CAN'T GET THIS GUY ON THE PHONE TO ARRANGE A FCUKING MEETING AND YOU WANT ME TO CALL HIM UP TO ASK HIM HIS FAVOURITE BRAND OF FCUKING BISCUIT!!!!!!" all the while I'm making frantic shut up gestures and the boss is standing there totally bewildered. The look on her face when the penny dropped was priceless and fortunately the boss saw the funny side. And I will never, ever, let her forget her postal episode.

Terry1985

Has to be the buttered floor prank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEgM92_LGU

eamonnq

bodhrandude wrote: »

This.

BizzyC

Did this one recently to a guy in work, took him 3 hours to cop what had happened....

Step 1, take a screenshot of the desktop on their compute
Step 2, make said screenshot the windows background
Step 3, Hide all icons on the desktop and the windows taskbar
Step 4, enjoy watching someone waste their time trying to figure out why windows is broken

dmc17

I like to do this one occasionally

jester77

This is a good one as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsE4qEfEfO4

keeponhurling

Getting on to a colleague's computer and sending out a heartfelt email to the whole company announcing they were comig out of the closet

A difficult decision, better you know, hope it doesn't affect our professional relaitonship etc.

(put all the names in the bcc, so they aren't able to know who to email if they want to deny it)

Elmer Blooker

FG / Labour convincing us that they were different from FF.

HalloweenJack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEgM92_LGU

Walt Jabsco

This was one of my favorites from Derren Browne. A little cruel but still funny all the same. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsn25WHbLc4

brummytom

My uncle's a portering manager at a hospital...

One day, he had to go down to the mortuary to get a body ready for a viewing. One of the other porters planned to get down there before him, hide in one of the mortuary drawers and jump out.

My uncle got wind of this, and he himself went down earlier. When the porter got into the drawer, giddy about scaring his manager, my uncle (already lying on a tray inside the morgue) turned to him and said 'fuck it's cold in here isn't it?'.

The lad let out the biggest scream ever.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

A Nigerian man, and his family were renting the house next door from us, whilst I was working down the country. Real nice fella. We asked him to help us carry out a prank one day.

This one lad we knew was known for being short tempered. So, we decided to ask the neighbour to call him up (with his thick Nigerian accent) and ask him for his bank details.

"GOOD DAY SIR , HOW ARE YOU?"

"Who's this?"

"I AM CALLING FROM YOUR PERSONAL BANK"

"Wha'"

"WE ARE JUST CLEANING OUT THE VAULTS AND I NEED YOU TO CONFIRM YOUR DETAILS"

"Are you taking the p1ss?!"

"NO SIR I..."

"Do you think I'm stupih or wha'?! Don't you ring dis number again! I'll get this call traced ye f&ckin beluba ya!!"

"I ASSURE YOU SIR..."

"F%#K off......."

:pac: :pac: :pac:

Tazio

BizzyC wrote: »

Did this one recently to a guy in work, took him 3 hours to cop what had happened....

Step 1, take a screenshot of the desktop on their compute
Step 2, make said screenshot the windows background
Step 3, Hide all icons on the desktop and the windows taskbar
Step 4, enjoy watching someone waste their time trying to figure out why windows is broken

We used to just swap all the cordless mouses (mice?) in a group of 4 staff. 8 mins was their record... to figure it out.

d.pop

Long story but in a nutshell...
in the early 90's my 2 oldest friends from school flew to visit me for holiday in Middle East where I was working and where I had arranged my local mates who were armed with handguns to rough them up outside airport, bundle then into back of van and kidnap them. Drove for about 2 hours through desert at night before dragging them kicking into their accommodation where rest of my mates were waiting with beers. Ended up great night and holiday but 20 years on and they're still plotting to get me back.

anncoates

Daqster wrote: »

Yeah, classic for sure.

One of my Dad's was when he was working in the airport as a baggage handler, he and other wearing loading a flight for LA and.. (this is terrible) .. they locked one of the lads in the baggage hole. It wasn't a young lad either, proper lead loader and they let the flight taxi out and all before stopping it. Was the late 80s and so no mobile phone on him or anything. Have to say I would not find it one bit funny if it was done to me, but we laughed at the time and the guy it happened to always brings it up now and pisses himself laughing. Says all he could think about was how he was gonna survive a 14 hour plus flight in there.

Did the poor fella have a lot of baggage after that experience?

Daqster

anncoates wrote: »

Did the poor fella have a lot of baggage after that experience?

Over 20 years of the Michael O'Leary being taking out of you? I'd call that excess baggage.

bodhrandude

While out playing at a traditional music session in Galway, one of the lads went into my computer and changed my default browser (Google) into Youporn, so every time I hit home Youporn would pop up, I thought I had a feckin virus :eek:

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

the food pyramid

killanena

I get some of these fun snaps you can get in the 5 boxes in the €2 shop for €2, sellotape 3 or 4 under neat toilet seats and wait Makes a big enough bang in a small bathroom / cubical and is pretty harmless

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

killanena wrote: »

I get some of these fun snaps you can get in the 5 boxes in the €2 shop for €2, sellotape 3 or 4 under neat toilet seats and wait Makes a big enough bang in a small bathroom / cubical and is pretty harmless

unless you have a heart condition or an anxiety problem

killanena

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

unless you have a heart condition or an anxiety problem

Harmless compared to rubbing butter all over the floors or making people think they are being kidnapped

Daroxtar

Inspired by an old ad for water safety when I was about 6 I threw my younger brothers wellies into a rainwater barrel and told my mother he had fallen in. She nearly lost her mind trying to reach the bottom of the barrel. He was hiding just beside it in a big cardboard box and jumped out laughing as she started screaming.
We got clattered.
We still laugh about it though (well, mam maybe not so much)

Anyway, some of these are brilliant. Can't beat the Japanese for pushing the limits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koEu7-zzN-I

Daqster

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

unless you have a heart condition or an anxiety problem

Speaking of which, I don't know how the show Sacre Tactics never killed someone, or at least given them a nervous breakdown, as they have pulled the most frightening pranks I have ever seen. The following guy is young, so handles it, but he is absolutely petrified.

He's sent to some ranch in the states thinking he is there to inspect animals that the owner has put in an insurance claim for as they were mysteriously killed. Good part starts around 3min07sec:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8zNKv9m3ws

Tiddlypeeps

aziz wrote: »

He will get a condom and roll it onto a pencil, then get into the stags room and insert pencil and condom up stags bottom,withdraw pencil carefully leaving the condom lodged there.

Isn't that a little bit rapey :eek:

irishbuzz

Before selling a home I like to get load of worthless dirty crap and put it in an industrial strength safe and then bury it in floor of my shed.

uch

Used to work near a Bakery, owner would send in loads of various cakes at end of the day, we used to take the chocalate off the eclairs and rub it on the Jax seat and watch peoples reactions when they seen it.

downwesht

Lads I worked with were staying in a homely B@B when one of them (a hypacondriac at the best of times)got a severe stomach bug.
They dosed him up with brandy and port and paracetemols etc and he went into a deep stupor sleep.

While he was sleeping the lads got a statue of the virgin Mary and some candles and set them up at his bedside and proceeded to say the rosary around the bed.

The patient woke up and thought he was on his deathbed....priceless

gimmick

May have told this story before - in college in the place we lived myself and a buddy discovered his key worked in a different fellas room. We decided to put our discovery to good use by stealing biscuits and tea bags. The usual student petty theft.

This got boring, so we decided to make a small but significant change to his room every day. We have to play the long game for this to work. So we did it for a good 2 weeks. Told no one at all. It was from around day 8 or 9 that we realised he was slightly spooked. If his bed was made, we would unmake it. If the radio was off, turn it on. If there was clothes on the bed, we would put then back into the wardrobe and vice versa.

It was going so well, until one day, he came home from college early, and we had done nothing yet. So we rushed it and turned a poster upside down. he walked in, left a "JESUS CHRIST" out of him. We were across in my room, and Paul stormed in, fell to his knees and started rocking forward and back "I'm losing it, I'm going mad". Myself and the other guy were inconsolable from trying to hold the laughter in. Paul looked up, saw us, and the penny dropped.

He didn't speak to either of us for a while after that.

Our end game was we wanted to hang a cheap blow up doll off his ceiling as the silhouette from the street lamp outside would have made it look semi realistic. The fact he would have been on the edge of sanity at the time would have made it look perfect.

Munstermad

I love this thread!!! PMSL

stpaddy99

few silly pranks

1) replacing a mates golf ball with a comedy golf ball.....so when taking an important putt he hits the ball and it wiggled its way in the opposite direction. he took it awfully seriously which made it funnier
2) betting a man to carry too full pints of beer on the back of his hands from across the bar to the other side without any spillage. he smugly said easy heres a tenner.....so he carries it all the way not a drop is spilt, hes cocky and confident.....then finally he reaches the other side and suddenly it dawns on him , he cant put them down without spilling it....the bar was in hysterics as he said Fff it and flung the beer all over himself lol
3) this was a very elaborate gag a mate of mine played on me in cardiff.....it wasnt planned but it just worked out this way.....hes listening to talk radio and a bloke is algging off Christianity and the catholic church. i said thats disprespectful....he says why dont you ring up? Ok I say...so he gives me the phone, I ring and I wait....eventually I get on live to argue religion....ok we get to the ten commandments and I can only remember about half...I ask my mate in desperation to grab a Bible.....Im getting hammered now live to the nation...my mate comes in and hands me A WELSH BIBLE.........he leaves the room crying laughing. I was duly ruined by some cockney dj..lol

bodhi085

Couple of years back when flights were cancelled due to the volcanic ash cloud, myself and my wife went round to my mother in law and we put on builders dust masks and told her that it was just on the news that everyone had been advised to wear them because the ash cloud is over ireland and the toxins in the dust can clog up your insides and kill you and that cars were getting destroyed also. She ran out the house to bring in the washing. How typical. She did believe it for at least half an hour though.

Daqster

stpaddy99 wrote: »

3)...he says why dont you ring up? Ok I say...so he gives me the phone, I ring and I wait....eventually I get on live to argue religion....

Reminds me of being on the bounce with my mate back in '89 or '90. We were in my house and for some reason, decided to ring Gerry Ryan. Think they were taking about parents mentally abusing their kids and my mate got through and told them his mother had cut up his black jeans as they were too tight and kicked him out of the house and that he was now homeless, staying with mates when he could. Gerry went for it bigtime, but I was doing my best to make him laugh, pulling moonies and the like and eventually he couldn't hold it it, shouted something like:'Ah Gerry ya bollox, I'm only winding you up' ad hung up. Most likely was a ten second delay or something, so maybe wasn't heard over the air. Wish I had a recording of it.

Daqster

Like this new one which seems to be part of the promotion for the film Devil's Due:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUKMUZ4tlJg

ArnoldJRimmer

This is genius

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