What are your best memories of harmless pranks pulled off by kids

[malaise]

in your neighborhood. One of my brother’s best friends died recently and tears of laughter were streaming down my face when I remembered the wallet prank.
Our family home was on a corner. There was a street light which shone brightly at night.
During the holidays, the neighborhood teenaged boys often stuffed a wallet with cut up newspaper, tied it to a lengthy cord and placed it strategically on the corner. They hid behind one of the dad’s trucks next door to us. Of course the parents were always out when the wallet prank took place.
Mostly men on their bicycles or motor bikes would spot the wallet as they rode/drove by. They would look around, circle and attempt to pick up the wallet at which time one of the boys would pull the cord. All the kids in the neighborhood who lived near the action would be at windows or balconies watching. We would howl with laughter as they scared the crap out of people. We would laugh and laugh and prepare for the next gullible person.
I am still trying to figure out why we were so amused, but even now I still laugh.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Are Ex-Lax brownies considered harmless?

[malaise]

2. Depends

Literally😀

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Good one.

[Emile]

44. Reminds me of Angie.

Angie was the only girl in our department at work. One of the guys was stealing her lunch dessert from our refrigerator. She made up a strong ex-lax brownies and had it with her lunch. After first break I saw Hoagie eating her brownies. At lunchtime Hoagie was sitting on the toilet bowl and Angie let us in on her joke.

[underpants]

3. I pranked my daughter when she was about 5

It started with planting “candy cane seeds” - little peppermint candy balls about a month before Christmas. On Christmas Day I kept going outside and moving up the candy cane sizes from 1 inch up to a couple really big ones. 3 or 4 sizes. Throughout the day I kept saying “Hey! The candy canes are sprouting!” and we’d go outside and check them out.

[malaise]

9. Sweet

😀

[malaise]

10. Sweet

😀

[Nittersing]

20. When my nephews were little

We were all visiting my parents in Tucson (with their pool). I had given them some "eggs" that were supposed to bloom into full grown critters when you dropped them in water... like the old sea-monkey ads in comic books.

Well, they grew about 1/4 of an inch... so at an opportune time, I trekked to the toy store and found a few large floaties and replaced the "eggs" over night.

[underpants]

21. Nice!

[malaise]

36. Good one

😀

[hunter]

5. We played "ding dong ditch" on a neighbor all the kids were a little afraid of.

The only clear escape path was climbing a nearby large tree and hiding in the branches, which is what we did.

The neighbor came out with a flashlight, grumbling about "damned kids" and looking behind parked cars, etc. He even circled the tree a few times, muttering threats about calling the police, before he went back inside.

We truly believed we'd gotten away with some great crime and stayed in the tree for what seemed hours before the neighbor turned off his porch light and apparently went to bed.

Looking back through adult eyes he knew we were in the tree and probably went back inside for a good laugh.

[malaise]

11. Good one

😀

[Goatguy]

6. Snipe hunting

Have people go in woods put sack on head and yell snipe snipe snipe while everyone else ran back to house.

[malaise]

14. Explain more please

How did that work

[Goatguy]

17. Gulible

Take your gulible friends into woods to seek “imaginary” snipe. They would hunker down on ground. Put towel or sack on their heads and tell them to keep yelling snipe snipe snipe. Go back home and wait till they got tired of that and come back and chuckle chuckle. Some would get mad though but it was harmless

[malaise]

18. Got yah!

😀

[mitch96]

7. Did the exlax thng to the football team..Great fun. The other one was to take the gym coach VW bug and

with the help of a bunch of strong guys, Take it all the way to the top of the school steps and park it diagonally.
Again great fun but he took his revenge on all the gym classes. Phew what a workout...but worth it
Needless to say, He was a dick...
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[malaise]

12. Haha

😀

[multigraincracker]

8. Use to glue a quarter to the sidewalk.

Laugh when someone tried to pick it up

[malaise]

13. Similar to ours

We had an English born English teacher. She used to wear these long wide A line skirts.
She would come to our desks to check out work and one day as she leaned over , the twins (ironically their parents were English) in the class emptied the blue ink from their fountain pens onto the back of her crimson skirt. Those who could see cracked up laughing but she never knew the joke until someone in the staff room asked her about it.
The principal came to the class the next dat but we refused to snitch and we figured out that they already knew and gave them a pass.

[Shermann]

19. We took a cafeteria tray in the dorm cafeteria and glued a glass and plate and silverware to it.

Somebody dropped it off while we all watched and laughed while the employees wrestled with it.

[malaise]

37. That was funny

😀

[4TheArts]

15. Bubbling tunnel of love

During senior year of HS bunch of us gathered up a huge amount of Salvo Laundry Detergent tablets. Pockets stuffed ful we stood in line together at the tunnel of love at the Mid South Fairgrounds (Memphis). five or six of us managed to do the ride together and unloaded the soap tablets, then watched nearby as the bubbles came floating out of the end of the ride.
Good clean fun.

[malaise]

16. Sweet

😀

[bluescribbler]

22. I was in college for this one.

It was Parents' Day, so the dorm lobby was filled with students and their parents. One guy filled a large baggie with Dinty Moore Beef Stew and stuffed it under his shirt. He walked to the center of the lobby, bent over and squeezed the baggie while making retching sounds. The clincher was when four or five other guys came running out with forks and started arguing over the "big pieces." The lobby emptied out pretty quickly after that.

[malaise]

23. You win the thread- tears of laughter here

Great prank 😀😂

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Got A Backfired Prank

When I was in HS, I was a glitter boy. (Yeah, I know; big surprise).
One day I put on my baggies, and decided to wear 2 different color shoes. Both platforms, but one in blue suede, the other in gray leather.
So, I put on socks to match. 2 different colors.
On April Fools' Day, this happened. My sister, who is 11 years younger than me, so around 5 years old, wants to "fool" me
I come down the stairs without my shoes on and she says (without actually looking at my feet) "Did you know you had 2 different socks on?" She's ready for me to look then say "April Fool!"
Instead, without missing a beat, I said "Yeah, I know."
Ruined a 5 year old's April Fool prank!

[malaise]

25. Haha

Good one😀

[questionseverything]

26. One halloween we found an unlocked car and filled it to overflowing with dry leaves 🍁

I still chuckle imagining the look on someone’s face seeing that in the morning 😉

[malaise]

27. Hahaha

😀😀😀

[Shambala]

28. Our betta fish died

My kids and I thought it would be funny to replace it and try to convince my wife he miraculously recovered. I’d heard of parents swapping out dead goldfish so their kids wouldn’t get upset but never thought it work with my wife. But the “he must’ve been sleeping” line must’ve been convincing because she fell for it. After a couple of days of giggling to each other, “what’s going on?” from my wife and “oh, nothing” from my kids, they couldn’t keep the secret any longer and had to spill the beans. She got a good laugh out of it.

[malaise]

29. Great prank

😀😀

[nuxvomica]

30. We did the invisible rope trick

The road in front of our house was S-shaped on one side so drivers could see the spot in front of our driveway well before reaching it. When my cousin visited, we'd stand together across the street late in the afternoon as twilight approached and when we got sight of a car coming around the corner, one of us would run across and we'd both stand miming like we were pulling a rope taught across the road, at car-grill level. Cars would suddenly stop to avoid running into the invisible rope. Us two idiots thought that was hilarious

[malaise]

31. Too good

None of us would try these pranks today - they’d shoot us😀

[nuxvomica]

32. Every so often a driver would stop and get out of their car

And we'd run like hell.

[malaise]

34. LOL

😀😀

[Elessar Zappa]

33. Ex lax trick on girls cross country team.

We (boys cross country team) spiked their gatorades with some kind of powdered laxative. It worked lol. The bus had to stop every 15 minutes. Looking back, that’s probably some kind of crime and I’d never advise someone do that now but yeah. It amused us lol.

[malaise]

35. That was wicked

Yes indeed

[Skittles]

38. watermelon field, farmer was pissed about thefts

he put up a sign that said ONE OF THESE WATERMELONS IS POISONED

my brothers put up a sign next to it that said NOW TWO OF THEM ARE

they only let him sweat it out for a couple of days though

it was all bluff, of course

[malaise]

40. Haha

I heard about a rural pumpkin farmer here who experienced a similar prank.😀

[Skittles]

47. yeah they had heard about a previous incident

[Wolf Frankula]

39. Ain't no such aminal

Pranks are bad.

Wolf

[malaise]

41. Nah

I remember the fridge pranks.
Kids would call strangers and ask if their fridge was running. Folks would check only to return to the phone and hear ‘then run after it’ and similar harmless pranks.

[KitFox]

42. At slumber parties

we always pulled telephone pranks. Our favorite was someone in an an overly nasal voice would say, “Is Hubert there?” Then wait a minute or two and call same number and ask for Hubert. Call one more time and then on the next call someone in a deep voice would call and say, “Hello, this is Hubert. Have there been any calls for me?”
A good prank I pulled on my students (3rd grade) while learning measurement. I had them go about the room measuring and recording things they chose. Then we would gather on the carpet and I would bring out my very realistic looking can of Peanut Brittle which was actually one of those jokes that had 3 big coiled cloth covered spring snakes in it. I would ask someone to measure the can and then ask if what I had in the can would have to be the same measurement or could it be longer. Some kids thought no. Some said yes and concluded things like string. Then I would say let’s open it and find out. Boing! The snakes sprung out of the can and the kids rolled with laughter!

[malaise]

43. Love them

Rec. 😀

[bif]

45. One of the best ones I ever pulled

I was about 10 or 12 at the time. My best friend was over and he accidentally dropped a spoon into the garbage disposal. I told him he had to reach in and pull it out. Well, as he reluctantly stuck his hand in, trying to retrieve the spoon, I noticed our Osterizer/blender on the counter. So I turned it on and it made this incredibly loud noise. Not unlike the sound of a garbage disposal. My friend shot straight up in the air. When he returned to earth, he was white as a ghost.

[malaise]

46. And you remained best friends?

That was wicked but harmless😀

[bif]

48. Best friends for over 60 years!

[malaise]

49. That is wonderful

Happy Holidays 😀