Old timer pranks / shop jokes

[Baileigh Inc]

if they have a flip top toolbox, tape a big glass of water to the top while its open, when they go to close it at the end of the day!

Here is the best: buy them a cold fountain drink
remove the straw & lid as one
tear open corner of a mustard packet
place bottom of straw into mustard packet
place straw/lid & mustard pack back into soda
the look on their face when they go to drink that cool sweet refreshing soda
and an alarm goes off when the mustard hits their taste buds: Priceless

I'm trying the water thing!

Awesome!

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[ciscokid8]

ive sent the newb out to the supply house for:

-4 oz of bubble fluid for the level
-10 gallons of air for the compressor

and i always tell him to ask for it at the main desk and they will get it for you, hahahaha

[J Caster]

Had a co-worker who would always set his personal stuff (keys, clothes, and phone) on a shelf in our work area.

After he would walk away we would always mess with his stuff. I can't tell you how many times we took his phone and took pictures of him working. We would fill it up until it wouldn't take any more. He would find them a day or two later and they were all of him!

We also superglued all his pockets shut on his personal clothes.

And then to top it off we took his truck keys and hung them in a cup filled with water. We then stuck this in the freezer for the day. End of the day came and he found a note telling him to check the freezer. We were all long gone before he could break his keys free!

[Ryan B]

ice keys...

pure gold

[Superfab]

A couple of guys hooked a smoke/whistle/bang firework to the sparkplug of a fork lift that had just been rebult. The newbie got permission from the boss to use it. It was priceless to see him go diving for cover when it went off. If you're feeling mean, smearing some dog poop on the inside of someones door handles and letting it dry will drive them nuts. It will transfer the smell to their fingers bun not enough poop to be visible. Drives them crazy trying to figure where the smell is coming from.

[SROWE]

On someone's pickup, reroute the windsheild washer line with some vacume tube pointing at there croch in the drivers seat,just make a little sprinkles of water in there line of sight and for sure they hit that washer fluid.they will laugh so much they wont even be mad at you.

[ChromolyKid]

Oil funnel, hose and coaches whistle.
Tie the funnel with the hose attached under the front bumper, run the hose with the whistle attached up to the firewall.
Usually starts going off at about 45 mph, they slow down.......goes away......repeat cycle.

That's hilarious! I've gotta try that on a redneck friend of mine...

Be a good friend and bring a box of donuts for everyone to chow on, but take a straw or syringe and put a little mayo or horseradish in one of the jelly ones first!

[jps1145]

This isn't shop related, but I think still funny. I spent the 80's as a framer in San Diego. I wasn't too green to fall for a lot of stuff, but I had my share.
I worked with a guy that was a prankster. I was still pretty new so I would often set my tape or hammer down on the ground rather then back in my tool belt. When I wasn't looking he would pick them up and throw them accross the street. When I would look around where I left them and couldn't find 'em he'd start laughing.
If I set my tool bags down on the floor for a break or lunch, he would nail them to the floor. I would reach down to put them back on and could not pick them up.
After a while I got to pass this stuff on. This one is my favorite:
Tell one the new Labors to fetch a box of "Toe Nails" from "Joe" in the next house in the tract. Watch him ask "Joe" and see "Joe" point to the house accross the street. Off he goes accross the street. Then watch this repeat as he runs back and forth down the street.
Greatness!

[Ol' Curmudgeon]

Just heard one from one of my dad's salesmen at Warren-Anderson Ford, circa 1957: The lot boy, Paul, was getting a little slack on his detailing duties. Dad went to inspect his work, palming a $5 bill (worth over $50 of today's "dollars") and making out like he had found it under the right rear floor mat of the car in question.

"Look what I found!" exclaimed Dad, grinning.

Paul never missed a spot after that!

[fatkid]

An old co-worker of mine would put flour in peoples cowls. Talk about snowman when the outside air was turned on! Usually he did it to people who pissed him off.