# One, two, three, four - I declare a prank war! **URL:** \ **Category:** general\ **Created:** [October 2, 2015, 4:39am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061 "2015-10-02T04:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![moufassa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/moufassa/32/41_2.png) [@moufassa](https://cog.discourse.group/u/moufassa)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/21 "2015-10-20T02:29:10Z")
Love it. Makes me wish my manager had a window on his door… and that there were more than 2 people (including me) in our department. 😞 ---
**Author:** ![moufassa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/moufassa/32/41_2.png) [@moufassa](https://cog.discourse.group/u/moufassa)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/22 "2015-10-20T02:35:41Z")
> [@CaffeinatedNoms](#): > > His fury is exquisite. This whole thing is exquisite. 😄 Bonus lulz if you can capture him on CCTV scratching his head while pulling out the cultivated weeds. ---
**Author:** ![Darktan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/darktan/32/36_2.png) [@Darktan](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Darktan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/23 "2015-10-20T13:06:42Z")
Be glad you weren’t around in the Victorian age. Their pranks went a little nuts. [Victorian Prank Inventions](http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2012/01/extraordinary-inventions-victorian-era.html) My favorite was the pledge altar. > The candidate kneels before the altar in a darkened room, when–Lo! Up before him jumps a skeleton with large, illuminated, glaring eyes; a blank cartridge is exploded; a stream of water hits him in the face; an electric shock is shot into his knees. $76.00 ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/24 "2015-10-21T10:30:08Z")
Sounds like your average night out in Newcastle… ---
**Author:** ![Viking](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/viking/32/32_2.png) [@Viking](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Viking)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 9:33am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/25 "2015-10-26T09:33:56Z")
Get an old mobile phone and program it with the same ring-tone as your victim’s phone. Turn the volume down to just above the limit of hearing and hide it in / near the victim’s desk. Call it randomly throughout the day. ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/26 "2015-10-27T23:35:25Z")
Swapping the ‘raspberry’ scented washing up liquid with ‘raspberry’ flavoured syrup. “My hands are sticky, pass me the washing soap would you? … _HEEYYYYY_!” ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/27 "2015-11-06T17:26:11Z")
At technikon we were still using overhead projectors (back in the 1990’s) The lead from a pacer pencil carefully laid on top of the neutral and live prongs of a 3-point plug, and said plug be inserted carefully into the wall with the power switched off… Or swapping a whiteboard marker out with a permanent marker… ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/28 "2015-11-07T12:15:13Z")
I’ve done something similar by removing the ballast from the sports-hall high-pressure sodium lights. Gym teacher came in, threw the switch, and BANG, that’s a dozen bulbs exploded all over the gym floor. We did rugby instead. Rugby is superior to gym 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GITM](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/gitm/32/540_2.png) [@GITM](https://cog.discourse.group/u/GITM)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/29 "2015-11-07T13:34:47Z")
Popping a breaker is a prank. This could have been mistaken for a terrorist attack had anybody been in the way of flying glass. Where do they draw the felony/misdemeanor line over there? ---
**Author:** ![CaffeinatedNoms](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/caffeinatednoms/32/3779_2.png) [@CaffeinatedNoms](https://cog.discourse.group/u/CaffeinatedNoms)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 1:39pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/30 "2015-11-07T13:39:49Z")
This was pre 7/7 so the whole ‘terrorism’ thing doesn’t apply really. It was a prank I got detention for, but it was worth it because gym class _sucked_. At most it could have been criminal damage as a police charge, but nobody calls the police because nobody can put up with the bureaucracy. EDIT: It just struck me, I’m probably the last generation to be able to get away with such pranks and _not_ be immediately arrested for terrorism. 7/7 happened when I was doing my GCSEs and I’d grown out of school-targeting pranks by the time I got to Sixth Form. ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/31 "2015-11-07T17:11:45Z")
During the Apartheid era, most whites were called up for compulsory Army service. One of my friends who got conscripted, told me this tale : In the barrack showers they utilized three-phase electrical geysers, with the elements connected in a star form. Enter Mr Wiseguy. He decided to connect the elements in a delta configuration “so as to heat the water quicker”. When the switch was thrown, every single hot-water faucet got blown out of the wall and the geyser itself did a magnificent explosion, something that would do Mythbusters proud. For more than a month afterwards they had to do with cold water for showers and general washing. And when the geyser eventually got replaced, Mr Wiseguy had somebody shadow him whenever he went to the bathroom " to ensure no fiddling with geyser electrics"… ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/32 "2015-11-09T18:06:00Z")
> [@CaffeinatedNoms](#): > > This was pre 7/7 so the whole ‘terrorism’ thing doesn’t apply really. It was a prank I got detention for, but it was worth it because gym class sucked. At most it could have been criminal damage as a police charge, but nobody calls the police because nobody can put up with the bureaucracy. > > EDIT: It just struck me, I’m probably the last generation to be able to get away with such pranks and not be immediately arrested for terrorism. 7/7 happened when I was doing my GCSEs and I’d grown out of school-targeting pranks by the time I got to Sixth Form. Yeah, over here the same thing happened after 9/11. Our generation grew up in a simpler time. ---
**Author:** ![moufassa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/moufassa/32/41_2.png) [@moufassa](https://cog.discourse.group/u/moufassa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/33 "2015-11-10T03:15:58Z")
Just the other day I was in the warehouse, and noticed two large permanent markers: red and black. So I surreptitiously swapped the caps around. They won’t know that they’ve grabbed the wrong colour until they’re allllllll the way down the back of the (100+m) long warehouse. Teeheehee! ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/uploads/cog/original/1X/f52b0f223befa7c828a15d0e696f06552c10c154.png) ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/34 "2015-11-10T06:11:27Z")
Excellent. Well done. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nabiki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/nabiki/32/935_2.png) [@Nabiki](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Nabiki)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-prank-war/1061/35 "2015-11-13T14:06:15Z")
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