OT work prank

[Young Ed]

Ok not sure how many of us in here have seen the movie office space. Anyway I personally own a stapler like the one in the movie. It is now being held for ransom as an office joke. So of course instead of playing along I need to retaliate. On monday I am supposed to leave a bag of fun sized snickers on my desk that at some point during the day will be picked up by the thief. So anyone got an idea on how I can boobytrap the snickers so I can catch the perp? Homing device? Superglue? I suppose an exploding dye pack would be a little much?

[Plymouthy Adams]

be sure the bag is heavy enough to keep the spring loaded bails on about 3 mouse traps from snapping till they lift the bag..snap snap snap..of course depending on who the perp is may dictate wether you have paper towels or other carpet/shorts cleaning material on hand.

My favorite gag at work is the ever present bag is desicant (dryer agent usually silica or clay) I slit these..place a piece of paper on top invert and pull out paper..when they lift the bag..well lets just say it sometimes gets vocal..

[Normspeed]

Slit the bottom out of the bag so when the perp lifts it, the little snickers bars will all fall out all over the place.

[Young Ed]

So I could cut a hole in the bag and make sure all the snickers fall out all over the place! Or maybe a smaller hole and try to follow the snicker trail to the perps desk.

[Plymouthy Adams]

did not like the movie as much as I thought I would..but did get it on DVD..3.00 so did not get ripped to bad. Gota friend that works in a bank...borrow a dye-pack

[HalfdollarMayflower]

Why not replace the snickers with ex-lax?

[builtfercomfort]

A radio shack door alarm? Any sort of loud thing (radio?) with a jury-rigged dead-man switch would work.

[Reg Evans]

Why not replace the snickers with ex-lax?

You beat me to it. I was gonna say to inject the bars with liquid ex-lax and follow that trail.

[Norm's Coupe]

Here's what you do. Let the person take the Snickers so you can see who does it. Then get even with another prank on them.

Some of the pranks we use to do to other salesmen in our office is as follows:

1: Guy leaves his car keys on the desk all the time. So.........while he's away from his desk, take the keys and move his car about a block away from where he parked it. Then return his keys to where they were.

2. Take his keys and hide them someplace.

3. If he has a desk pen set, you can glue or stuff tape in the holder so he can't get the pen out easily. Or, unscrew it at the middle so it falls apart when goes to use it. You can also simply remove the cartridge from the pen.

4. If his desk is on short legs. While he's out or when he goes home you stay late. Remove the desk legs so when he sits down the next day, he sits too high in the chair.

5. Don't know what type phones are on the desk. But you could also remove either the ear microphone or stuff paper over the speaker part inside.

Those are just a few of the pranks we use to pull on people at the office. Have lots more if needed.

[HalfdollarMayflower]

Don't try this...but, back in High School auto shop, we put a drop of brake fluid in a guys soda...he was on the crapper for 3 days straight...or so we were told.

Now days you'd likely get sued for something like that.

[HalfdollarMayflower]

Norm, who'd have thought you were so devious? I love it!

Or you could take a prank from "The Office" and encase his/her stapler/tape dispenser/pen set in jello.

[Young Ed]

Now here's one someone told me that I might try out after I find out who did it. Replace the ball in their mouse with a milkdud. Leaving the snickers so I can see who takes it might not work. I'm supposed to leave it on my desk all day. I'm sure they will pick them up while I'm at break lunch in the bathroom etc. Maybe I need a covert camera for my desk!

[Merle Coggins]

Office Space is a classic, especially if you work in an office environment.

I remember a movie or TV show (can't remember which one) where they caught a thief by coating an item, your Snickers bar, in some chemical that caused the perpetrator's hands to turn purple. The chemical reacts with your sweat and turns purple. I don't know if it's true, or what chemical it was, but it sure worked on that show.

[Norm's Coupe]

Norm, who'd have thought you were so devious? I love it!

Or you could take a prank from "The Office" and encase his/her stapler/tape dispenser/pen set in jello.

Actually, all the pranks we played was during the 60's - 80's. At that time, there were no PC's on the desk. Now, with the PC on the desk, it also opens up a whole new world of possible pranks to play.

1. Is as Ed mentioned about the mouse ball. Or, just add a very small piece of dirt to the mouse ball so it doesn't work properly. Or, put a little very fine dust particles on the mouse pad.

2. Simply unplug the mouse from the back of the CPU.

3. Unplug the keyboard from the back of the CPU.

4. Unplug the printer from the back of the CPU.

5. Unplug the monitor from the CPU.

6. You could also unplug the whole computer from the wall.

7. Another old time favorite was also to simply unplug the telephone from the wall jack, so the whole phone is dead when the person tries to use it.

[Norm's Coupe]

Office Space is a classic, especially if you work in an office environment.

I remember a movie or TV show (can't remember which one) where they caught a thief by coating an item, your Snickers bar, in some chemical that caused the perpetrator's hands to turn purple. The chemical reacts with your sweat and turns purple. I don't know if it's true, or what chemical it was, but it sure worked on that show.

Along those lines Merle, Ed could coat the snickers package with "Itch Powder". Should be able to find that at a novelty or joke store.

[Merle Coggins]

Iching powder would probably work too.

As for messing with the guy's mouse... just take the ball out altogether. It doesn't work very well after that. ONly problem with that trick is if he has an optical mouse (no ball). Other than this, I make it a point not to mess with another man's balls.

[Plymouthy Adams]

I like the guy who had the destop with about 2 kazillion shortcut icons...when his head is truned grab the mouse..click and hold to sellect all icons..hit enter..it will open then all ..he will spend 20 minutes shutting down programs.

[Young Ed]

Ok got a good update for you. Right at the end of the day I found out who did it. So now my plan on monday besides probably letting the open snickers spill all over is to try and steal back my stapler without him knowing. Of course I will not say I have it back!

[HalfdollarMayflower]

go for the itch powder!

[Normspeed]

Ed, to quote Daffy Duck, "That's Des-picable!"

[Young Ed]

Glad someone appreciates the evil genius. My goal is to be so good at the pranks that I can pull them without fear of retribution because they fear what I will do back after that

[Normspeed]

No offense intended to anyone on the forum, but this is a chuckle. Last year when my street rodder friends descended on my place, I found this at the big swap meet. The night before their departure back to Florida, I went out and snuck this on my buddy's license plate. He very strongly resembles an ex-biker, which he is. He phoned me from Arizona and said, "You are in so much trouble..."

I hate to think what the payback will be when they come back out this June.

[HalfdollarMayflower]

I dunno what's worse...the fact that you put that on his plate, or the fact that you bought it.

Um...uh, I'd like the, ahem, uh...it's okay to be um...yeah, that sticker right there please.

[Young Ed]

Another classic car plate is a student driver magnet

[Don Coatney]

Ed;

What you need to do is copy the picture that Normspeed posted and install it as a background picture or screen saver on the guys monitor.