OT What pranks did you pull when younger?

[John B.]

My older brother and I were always playing pranks on our parents. We got a hold of an old TV set and I pulled the step up transformer out of it. We wired it to the recliner in the living room. I hid under some furniture in the next room with the power pack powered by one "D" flashlight battery. I started the shock treatment when I heard one of them sit in the chair. Dad usually always sat in the recliner when watching the news. Well this time mom did along with her cup of coffee. I heard dad say "What's the matter mom"? She spilled her hot coffee on her and I never saw dad so mad. I never saw the power pack-shocker again either which was in an old cigar box.
My older brother and I one day got an idea to put a dummy in dad's old outhouse along with a holloween mask on it. There were boards off the side of the outhouse and when dad went out to feed the chickens the next morning he could see shoes of some one sitting in his outhouse. He came running in and told mom, "There's somebody in my sh!t house... We all got a good laugh out of it when he had to unlock the door from the outside and said, "Alright You come on out" and when the door swung open there the dummy sat with a smile on it's face/mask. Dad never did live this one down.
Best one I heard from a friend of mine. He and his dad always played tricks on each other. Well one day his dad (who loved talcum powder) was going to a ball game. My friend emptied his dad's talcum powder bottle and refilled it with powdered sugar. I bet his dad looked like a glazed donut at the ball game that day...LOL!
 

[McBride]

If I posted them..................
Let's just not go there.
 

[Leroy]

Could never understand why anybody would try to do that kind of stuff. Doesn't make any sence to me.
 

[ericlb]

a lot of them, cant list them as some people are still around, and would still like to know who set that up
 

[McBride]

That's because the word sense was never in a young boy's vocabulary.
 

[rabbit]

A dry bean, and a dried up crown from a tomato glued together made quite a convincing spider. Mom was not amused when she took the lid off the sugar bowl!
 

[Paul from MI]

Can't tell--the statute of limitations hasn't run out on the results!
 

[DownSouth]

Gee Leroy, I bet your the life of the party at the family reunions.
Oh wait, all your family probably disowned you because of your chipper attitude.

Smile once in a while, it really doesn't hurt that bad.
 

[GordoSD]

When I was about 10 (1950) my Grandpa was talking about the old threshing crews and the jokes they pulled on each other . He said a popular one was to slip an egg into a guys back coveral pocket.
I thought that was a great one. The next day Grandma gave me an egg from the chicken house and as Grandpa headed out the door to do morning chores I slipped it into his pocket. He was gone several hours and when he got home I couln't wait to hear his tirade. But he went over to the coat rack, hung up his jacket, and headed for the kitchen table. Just before sitting down he reached into his pocket pulled out the egg, and handed it to me with a really gleeful smile on his face. He obviously felt me slip it in there and set it aside while he did chores.
 

[Fawteen]

Yup. Never went for that stuff myself.

If I'da pulled any of those stunts on my parents or brothers, the asswhipping that would have followed would have cured me of it forever.
 

[bill mart]

anyone remember the story that was in green magazine some years ago about a couple of kids peeing down the muffler of a tractor,guess there was hell to pay when it got started up. Bill
 

[pete black]

sneaked into my brothers apartment while he was on his honeymoon and padlocked a cowbell to the open bed springs.
 

[Billy NY]

We used to make use of the telephone, and would think up plausible gags, ironically it used to work quite well, and sure wish we were smart enough to have recorded them, good clean fun, some of the reactions were priceless, a few would get angry, most would laugh/fall for it, resulting in actual appointments and what have you. Business's were the most fun as they provide services and gave you more content to work with, vs a residence which was really no fun to be honest, whomever was on the extension listening had to play it cool or lose your cover. Now whomever was the perpetrator, also had to keep it cool, fight off laughing.

The other thing I can recall is using cigarette loads and placing those in my mothers cigarettes, I hated the darned things way back then, and you would have to carefully push the load back far enough into the tobacco so it did not go off when she lit up. Just like the cartoons, the splayed paper resulting from the pop, was picture perfect, and these little white pieces of thermite or what the heck they were certainly loud or powerful, kind of ticked her off, I just hated cigarette smoke in the house, car what have you, never worked, she's still smoking like a feign today.
 

[Billy Shafer]

Talked my cousin into jumping off the barn roof. With a tractor umbrella. He got a broken leg. I got my butt tore up. Three times in one day.He still doesn't talk to me much.
 

[Greg K]

One spring dad ran over a young coyote pup and brought it home for us to see. That night Grandma and Grandpa came over to visit so us kids propped it up next to the porch steps and scared the dickens out of grandma. Grandpa and Dad used to, on the Fourth of July, unwrap the firecrackers and untie them but keep the wick that kept them all tied together. When it got dark out they would light them and throw them behind you and you would think it was a real one! Tried an auto bomb on grandpa's truck once but he found it first. Sometimes when someone would go in the bathroom we would lean a broom against the door so when it was opened it would fall on them. Grandpa used to tell about putting pots and pans on the top of a door so they would fall when someone opened it.