Folks Of Interest Butthead tricks you have pulled on your friends!

I just read a post that reminded of some of the stuff I have pulled on my friends. My friend ordered a special set of rings for the engine I was building for him. He had to paid a bunch for them and had to wait a long time to get them. I kept several junk rings on the shelf near my vice. I was putting the rings on one piston and when my friend looked away I grabbed one on my junk rings and when he turned back I spread the ring….breaking it right before his eyes! ….I thought he was going to kill me before I could tell him of the joke! We still laugh about that after 25 years!
Maybe others have a story ?








Bones

 

I've never been the asshole that played tricks on others. Too many times I was the guy who got tricks played on me and it stopped with me. Even the harassing the FNG in the unit in Nam didn't go past me. found out that the guy who was giving me a ration of crap about being the new guy had been there three days longer than me.

 

Replaced my buddy's SAE sockets with my Whitworths.
Farted into the air intake for his supplied-air respirator. There were Old Viennas and Taco Bell involved...

 

This has nothing to do with hotrods but a coworker was a notorious hothead. Another coworker was a crafty prankster. One day hothead was not at work and a nice new pair of dress shoes arrived from Nordsrom. The receptionist placed them in the middle of hothead's desk. Prankster couldn't resist. He opened the box from the bottom and on his lunch hour went to a thrift store. He bought a pair of the worst, most worn out, hideous pilgrim buckle looking shoes he could find. Carefully placed them in the Nordstrom box and sealed it up so carefully no one would have a hint.
The next business day prankster was out at client meetings and didn't get to hear the expected explosion. The rest of us weren't privvy to the joke, so we thought the explosion was business as usual. Didn't give it a thought. After some time, prankster just had to ask hothead how the shoes worked out. Hothead said he called and reamed Nordstrom customer service, they apologized a thousand times over, said they had a "trade in sale" and must have sent him some old customer shoes by mistake. His correct shoes were en route!!!
I don't know if prankster ever told hothead the real story, but I laughed my ass off when I heard the real deal.

 

My buddies listed one of our friends caddy on Craigslist. Something about having an unplanned pregnancy

 

Back in the '80s we had "Barrett the stealth prankster" working with us in our wood shop.

If you were using a 50' extension cord and stepped away, he would replace it with two 25' cords unplugged in the center disguised under box or board.

Whenever you set down a power tool, and picked it back up, mysteriously, there would be glue on the trigger.

More than once in the winter, I would start my truck and get a styrofoam snow storm. Barrett would take a piece of styrofoam and break into those little balls and put them down our defroster vents.

If you were on the ladder in the back room getting lumber out of the racks, in a flash, Barrett would be there with a screw gun and screw the side of your boot sole to the ladder rung.

I was cutting a new wood stove vent hole in the side of our steel building with a pair of tin snips. I could make only one cut and they would stop...try it again and I could only make one cut and it would stop. Unbeknownst to me, Barrett was on the other side of the wall and would stick a piece of 1/4" steel in the tin snips on every other cut I tried to make. This went on for almost half an hour.

The Barrett stories are endless...

 

More than once I've seen oil poured on the ground under an engine at club gatherings.

 

I was on vacation and started getting calls about my OT one ton diesel!Seems one of my friends had put a for sale sign on it real cheap!





Bones

 

I was the prankster of the crew . Carbon Paper between the welding helmet lens was always a good one after 14 hours of welding . Loosening up the u joint strap bolts on an assholes truck . Wiring the new guys locker shut while he is in the shower , with a note your truck keys are inside . One profession BSer , 1st day on the job tells us all we are doing it all wrong . At the end of the day his welding helmet , hammers , files , gloves all in the helmet filled full or water and into the ice chest .

All of the crew all got along very very well , we could joke and have a blast working , but dont let an outsider , try to butt in the whole crew would light him up . One new guy went to HR “ he told HR in a meeting , I have never worked around animals like this ! Every damn one of them is a Section 8 and they all protect each other ! “

 

Bottle rockets under the restroom door.
Swapping tools around in other guys tool boxes.
Swapping keys with the paint rep behind his back. Watched him go nuts trying to crank his ride.
Never seize on the clean freaks wrenches.
Mooning the camera guy while a magazine was shooting a cover shot.
Mooning the bosses mom.
Mooning the bosses wife.
Mooning customers
A customer left his camera after taking photos of the XKE I was restoring. So I took the camera to the toilet and gave him a moon shot. His GF picked up the pictures.
We had an acorn tree behind the shop. Each fall I hide acorns all over the place. Desks, paint guns, paint cans, tool boxes, parts boxes….those things would pop up for months.
Unroll toilet paper rolls and write messages then roll it back up.
Charge condensers and put back in boxes.
Set delivery trucks on jack stands with the rear tires barely off the ground.
Hid dead snakes where folks could find ‘em.
Sit a cup full of fresh dog poop under the painters fresh air respirator intake.
Dog poop in tool boxes

 

Tie wraps on the drive shaft, nuts in the hub caps, poured oil under the engine, whistle bombs hooked to the coil…fun times. Sent a dating service reply with a big red Rejected stamp on it to an ass boss I had. Our mail guy was laughing so hard he walked into the door. Guy at work was bragging about his new Mini Cooper. I snuck out and put a cardboard wind up key I made on his trunk. Drove all the way home with it. I had a bunch of good ones pulled on me too. Made the day bearable.

 

Wanna see the dick head dance, run a wire from one of the spark plug leads through firewall under the carpet and up between seat and back, ground wire as well from close source, have fun rmv

 

LOL, They did that to the boss’s nephew when I worked construction. Let us all in on it and we watched from the window. Dumb ass tried to start it twice before he caught on.

 

I'm with you. I've seen too many temper-flares, items damaged, grudges started, etc. What may be fun or funny to me might REALLY piss you off, and vise-versa. No thanks...

 

I zip-tied a small cowbell to the underside of a friend's brand new truck when he wasn't looking. Thing is... he took it in for service for a "noise" TWICE. They missed it the first go around. . That was a phone call I'll never forget.

 

Put dead fish under the back seat of a guys Buick Chicken hawk in the winter. Finally found em in the summer. My buddy was under the dash of his Challanger I farted Whitecastles in the car then closed the door on his legs pinning him in the fart car! 2 mos later he has his wife’s friend leave a message on my machine honey I can’t meet you tonight but I can tomorrow. She had a sexy voice but an ugly face. Well car club had canceled we’d night cruise night because of rain for Thursday. Wifey got the message before I did. Almost ended my marriage then and there. No luck it didn’t. But I got him back again and gave his name to an aids hotline told them Al liked guys and had full blown aids. His wife was the one who got the call back from the hot line. He got to sleep in the basement for a week. Good times!

 

You can separate the rear tail lights on a fox body mustang pretty easy . I split the tail lights on a buddies car and with tape spelled out “ I LOVE KITTENS “

he drove like that for 3 days before he realized . Pissed his pants laughing as he could not figure out why everyone was honking , thumbs up and laughing when he hit the brakes or drive at night .

stuck a strip of sticky wheel weights to a buddies drive shaft , he didn’t make it out of the parking lot , thought he had 4 loose wheels !


Worst one I saw at a shop ( I didn’t do this ) was a ford van cam in for overheating . Pop the rad cap off and this white goo came out…… hmm….. it was rice !!!!! Someone filled his cooling system with rice !!!!!


Rad out , heater core out , all hoses water pump etc etc and as many frost plugs we could get to to flush the system out .


That was a very costly “ prank”



I went on holidays one time years ago and came back to the shop and the wheels on my tool box where gone and my box was on blocks !!! I got told “ hey man it’s a bad neighborhood!!!!

 

Years ago two of my buddies were going to the University of Connecticut. Somehow they had a falling out about a SBC. While one of them was home for the weekend, the other buddie and a couple of us other guys took the dis-assembled SBC up to the guys third floor dorm room, and re-assembled it there. I wasn't present when that guy got back, but they say that you could hear him yelling all through the dormitory. This is a true story.

 

WOW, some of you guys are brutal.
My pranks are rather tame, rubber bat hanging by fishing line in front of neighbour's kitchen window.
Electrical outlet screwed to post at the back of the lot with no wires running to it and
watching the neighbour try to use it.
At work in the 70s I sometimes sat on a 5 gallon steel pail and welded at a table, just when I was
part way done some idiot would slam a sledge hammer to the table and think that was just great.
Had my tool box welded shut, overhead crane chain cut part way through ( that guy got fired).
The thing is most of the people that fucked others over couldn't take it themselves or would run to the boss.

 

Couple of large honkin' zip ties on the drive shaft is always a good one...

 

There's always the simplest one of all: 'Testing' the horn while your buddy's under the hood.

 

We had a young kid at the shop that wanted to do this to the boss. We showed him how to wire it incorrectly. He got shocked several times. But he finally thought he figured out how to wire the ignition to something on the seat to shock the boss. We reminded him the boss took heart medicine. He didn’t care. So we made sure the boss knew. The boss walked out to the van, turned the key, grabbed his chest and shook violently on the ground.
The kid thought he killed the boss. Was in a panic. He was almost in tears when the boss stopped shaking and winked at the kid. “Gotcha again”

that’s the last prank that kid tried to pull.

 

All us kids were packed in the wagon headed to the beach. My aunt was driving. I kept rapping on the door with my knuckles, timing it with the speed of the car. She would slow down, I would slow down, etc. Went on for a good while until my cousin ratted me out. I got the riot act followed by laughter when the threat of being stuck on the side of the road with a half dozen rug rats vanished.

 

I always only did the “ harmless” quick pranks. Like mentioned some pranks are brutal and really no fun! I am the guy that also likes to be had…..if it’s a good one!
33 years on the Fire Dept as the maintenance officer , I told the guys all the time “ parts on order” due to the difficulty of getting Fire truck parts! Well twenty of us retired on the same day and at the ceremony all of the retirement axes were displayed out by our papers ! Well my ax was not there! The brass said my ax was coming , but it was on back order! I went ballistic…… then noticed some of the guys grinning…….I knew I had been “had”real good, for the final time at the dept as they reached under the table and brought my ax out to the laugher of the whole dept!




Bones

 

[QUOTE="Von Psycho, post: 14511076, member: 118040")
The thing is most of the people that fucked others over couldn't take it themselves or would run to the boss.[/QUOTE]
They were ostracized immediately, never to be seen or heard from again. As far as the “fucked” part…inter company romances were not tolerated.

 

Zip ties on drive shafts.
Stick on wheel weights on drive shafts.
Adding weights to a guys car that just got new tires. A little at a time.
adding a little gas to a car a guy just bought. Thought he was getting killer MPG.
Swapping a couple spark plug wires.
Placing the large bubble wrap bubbles under tires.
Smoke bombs in the bathroom.
Thinner soaked seat foam on a work seat. Guy thought his butt was on fire.
Adding bolts and washers to guys parts just before they started re-assembly.

 

Friends like that who needs enemy's? HRP

 

The best one I seen was a very good friend of mine posted a want add in the local news paper the next 3 days after Christmas "Wanted all old used Christmas trees, size, shape, condition doesn't matter, paying top dollar! Call this number" then listed my other buddies phone number.

It was hilarious, his phone never stopped ringing. Took 2 months for him to find out who posted the add.... took a big bottle of crown royal for him to calm down once he found the culprit.

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Yep. The boss/shop owner was in his early 30s when I started working there. He was the best prankster.
A young shop employee challenged him. Said the boss couldn’t prank him.
The boss arranged for an official sounding person to call this young man.
The kid was called to the phone. An official sounding voice sated they were from the health department. The voice on the phone had the kids name and address. The voice then stated that his girlfriend had tested positive for an STD and that his name was on a list of people she had been with and for him to come by and get tested.
The kid, in obvious shock, hung up, called his mom (she was also in on it) She stated that she had suspected the girlfriend was “whoring” for a while.
the kid pulled out a cigarette, lit it, and finished the entire cigarette in one large drag.
About that time the boss walked in, looked at him with a big smile and said “gotcha”