Thread: Prank with a time-delay fuse

I can remember tinning a penny with solder so it looked like a 2 bob piece and nailing them down to the crack between slabs in the concrete footpaths.
The fun would last days as everyone tried to pick up the 2 bob.

I brassed a 4" screw onto a 50c piece once & belted/ screwed it into the bitumen footpath outside the office where I worked at the time. It was funny for a while. But before lunch some I don't know what had lifted it screw & all. How & what with? Nobody saw?

I new an old retired bloke from Bendigo that was into gold mining but hated these guys running around with metal detectors getting the gold before him.

He was from and engineering background and cut small pieces of Aluminium, which he stamped D..k Head on and distributed around the area's that the metal detectors raomed.

He told me it was the talking point in the pubs around the Bendigo area for many years. The metal detectors would sense a gold like object and after a bit of scratching around in the dirt they would find this piece of aluminium stamped, D..k Head.


Daniel

Sounds like theres a few comedians around...
The last cabinet I made had a little supprise for my mate who I made it for, his SWMBO was undecided on what handles to run so I delivered it without any handles on the draws... under the draw faces(false fronts)I wrote a few words for him to find!
He's still abusing me for it(in a mates way that is...)especialy since his SWMBO gives him heaps about it.

on the bar of the bullabulling hotel there was a 50 cent coin glued to the counter. many people were caught trying to pick it up with their change. :mad:

There's a nice image in Arthur Hailey's book 'Wheels'.
When a special order for one of the executives comes through, an executive whom the workers didn't like, they'd hook a nut onto a piece of wire, hang it in a box section, then weld it shut so the rotten thing would rattle but couldn't be got out. Love that, even if it is only fiction.

Cheers
Richard

The simplest trick I ever saw was in a coffee shop with glass tabletops. We'd had crumpets and honey and we used a drop of honey to stick a 10 cent piece under the glass. We watched from the doorway as the poor girl cleaning the tables made three attempts to pick it up.

Originally Posted by Daddles

There's a nice image in Arthur Hailey's book 'Wheels'.
When a special order for one of the executives comes through, an executive whom the workers didn't like, they'd hook a nut onto a piece of wire, hang it in a box section, then weld it shut so the rotten thing would rattle but couldn't be got out. Love that, even if it is only fiction.

Cheers
Richard

There's another one in the same book, where a bloke comes home from holidays to find his car completely dismantled by his mates(?) and all the parts wired up on pegboard on the walls of his garage.

My grandfather was a motor mechanic and the garage he worked for had this one customer who would always complain. So one day they soldered a tin whistle in behind the grill. The car had this horrible whistling sound when in motion, but as soon as it stopped sound was gone. It's a Small town with only 2 garages, both were in on the joke and nether garage could ever seem to find the problem .

All right looks like this is decending into a practical jokes post.
In keeping with the time delay theme.
One particularly cunning aquantance was rubbed up the wrong way by some one. He proceded too take a length of hose & shove it up this blokes car exaust pipe untill it was past the bend that goes over the rear axle.
He then connected a funnel & filled his mufler with 2 quarts or gear box oil.
This was on a friday arvo & the fella always went up the coast after work friday.
Half way up the highway the car was belching foul smelling smoke.

Ive done soimething similar but used diesel instead of oil.
Then I closed one sparkplug gap so it ran on 5 cylinders (to the bosses son's car which was only a week or so old)