April Fools Prank Ideas

stressd1mom
stressd1mom Posts: 151 Member
edited September 25 in Chit-Chat
Ok, so I know that April Fool's Day isn't until Friday but I want to get a jump on some suggestions. Last year my co worker got me pretty good. I came in & there was a small Mcdonald's coffee cup sitting on my desk. I was wondering who had been at my desk & why they didn't throw their cup away. I picked it up to throw it away & there was no bottom & it was filled with coffee grounds that went everywhere! Of course, this means war & I need to get him back this year. Anyone have any good suggestions?

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  • UpToAnyCool
    UpToAnyCool Posts: 1,673
    bump for later. *evil laugh*

    ETA: did you save those grounds? could have raised some of those nice compost wormies in the coffee grounds and saved up the 'goodies' for your co-worker this year!!
  • JanerZzz
    JanerZzz Posts: 276
    Switch sugar and salt in his coffee??!!! tape everything down in his cube? TP or Saran wrap his desk?
  • jenneyd
    jenneyd Posts: 308 Member
    lol loopy!
    Attach a string to the back of the victim's desk drawer. Then run it up the wall, into the suspended ceiling, to a small container attached to the ceiling directly over the victim's head. When the drawer is opened the string will be pulled, dropping a shower of confetti onto the victim's head.
  • alonnadodd
    alonnadodd Posts: 66 Member
    Wow I need some ideas too! Bump!!
  • bast2112
    bast2112 Posts: 63
    I would really love to get one of those remote control tarantulas. Bwahahahahaa!
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    Not a suggestion...just a funny story, but back in 2006 I was due with our first (and still only) child on April 10th. I woke up at 7:30 am on April Fools Day and thought, "Wouldn't it be funny to tell my husband that my water broke??" So I thought about it for a few mintues. Decided against it because that is pretty messed up...the very next morning at 7:30 am my water broke! How awful would it have been if I had tricked him the day before, then it actually happened the next day! Have fun with whatever you do!
  • krklstephi
    krklstephi Posts: 182 Member
    Freeze a half bowl of milk. Add some cereal on top of the frozen milk with a little extra fresh milk. Watch him try to eat the cereal... This would be fun to play on kids in the morning...
  • AndrewTheWise
    AndrewTheWise Posts: 42
    The old, "I'm pregnant" trick works out just fine.
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    Hee hee hee....

    Last year I allegedly put an add in the paper for a silent goat auction at a friends house.
    My dad came home to changed door locks and an eviction notice. I don't know anything about that either.
  • jenneyd
    jenneyd Posts: 308 Member
    Using fishing line or black thread, tie everything on your victim's desk--stapler, tape dispenser, pencil cup, etc.--to his chair. When he pulls the chair out, everything on his desk will go crashing to the floor! Or, attach everything on your victim's desk to the back of one or more of his desk drawers (string the line through the holes in the top of the desk). When he open the drawer, all his stuff will go crashing across his desk.
  • healthyjen342
    healthyjen342 Posts: 1,435 Member
    BUMP!

    Tape the Ethernet Plug for your co worker's PC and plug it back in...They wont be able to get online..and they can't see the tape....BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
  • merrillfoster
    merrillfoster Posts: 855 Member
    Individually wrap EVERYTHING on his desk--pens, pencils, files, etc. Including his chair and desk and computer, etc.
    Piece of tape over the infrared mouse or steal the trackball from his regular one.
    If you work in cubes, switch the cords from his computer and the person on the other side of him (so that his mouse, etc, controls their monitor and vice versa).
    Fold up paper and stick it in one of the wheels on his chair.
    When he gets up to go somewhere, change his 'home page' to something completely opposite of him (for example, if he's a hardcore Democrat, change it to something like the NRA's homepage). In this same vein, change his desktop, screen saver (preferably to something like 'your name here is awesome!'), or, if you know it, his password.
    Sign him up for a whole bunch of email chains ("joke of the day" "motivational tip of the day" etc)
  • hjsyndrome
    hjsyndrome Posts: 215
    Saran wrap the top of the toilet. Put a false motion control camera in the bathroom. Never did either, I just heard about them from a friend.......hehe
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    Most people now use optical mice... place a small piece of tape over the eye. The mouse won't work.

    Replace your coworkers office door with a shower curtain (did that... the coworker in question promptly stormed into his office and slammed his curtain.)

    Turn the door handled backwards and lock it.

    If they have an old phone that is about to be replaced... crazy glue the receiver to the phone and call them.

    Replace the sound files on their computer with disgusting and vile sounds (flatulence, Homer Simpson saying "Who's your daddy", sounds of a couple in the throes of passion) Nice thing about this is it can be triggered by something as inoccuous as opening an email, or opening folders etc)

    Place a couple of hot air popcorn makers in their cubicle turned on and loaded.

    Take a screen shot of their desktop, use it as a background and hide all of the icons... they'll be clicking on the background image and their programs won't work.

    Draw on their phone handset with black dry erase marker. Call them.
  • skinnyjeanzbound
    skinnyjeanzbound Posts: 3,932 Member
    Bump for sure! I want to keep reading these sinister schemes.

    This is the best prank I've seen: co-workers removed everything from the top of a victim's desk, moved the desk to some hidden location (I still have no idea where they put it), and then arranged everything on the floor exactly as the victim had it arranged on the desk. This is only funny if the victim is super meticulous about everything being exactly where it belongs. This victim would complain if you borrowed a stapler and didn't put it back in the exact place and position, so the joke was that all of her "stuff" was exactly where it should be, but it was on the floor.
  • dkopka
    dkopka Posts: 4
    bump
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    can you get access to their computer? If so, go to Open MS Word. Turn on their Auto Correct. Set it so when someone types in "I " it changes the word to Satan. THEN go into their Outlook program and have Word edit their emails.
  • jeffrodgers1
    jeffrodgers1 Posts: 991 Member
    can you get access to their computer? If so, go to Open MS Word. Turn on their Auto Correct. Set it so when someone types in "I " it changes the word to Satan. THEN go into their Outlook program and have Word edit their emails.

    Love it!
  • UpToAnyCool
    UpToAnyCool Posts: 1,673
    lol loopy!
    Attach a string to the back of the victim's desk drawer. Then run it up the wall, into the suspended ceiling, to a small container attached to the ceiling directly over the victim's head. When the drawer is opened the string will be pulled, dropping a shower of confetti onto the victim's head.

    WOW this is just like in Stephen King's 'Carrie' except with confetti, not pig's blood! :laugh: :wink:
  • geonote
    geonote Posts: 12
    Wow! That's a really thorough thought process on a prank! Remind me never to get on your bad side...
  • FORKDOWN
    FORKDOWN Posts: 1,754
    I raise and lower their chairs. Remove the phone cord plug from the receiver and place it back in enough so it does not look suspicous. Sometimes when i call them, they actually hit themselves in the head with the receiver (no cord, no resistance). I have put tape or glue stick on their receivers too.
  • Temporalia
    Temporalia Posts: 1,151 Member
    Put a tape or a small piece of post it under their mouse (where the red light is), the mouse won't work :) When I did it, I saw someone restarting his computer and plugging and unplugging the mouse many time before realizing it was the tape under.

    Also, you can switch keyboard keys.

    There's also a classic one where i've heard that you copy an image of the screen including the shortcuts, then put it as the background and then remove all the shortcuts. They still see their shortcuts but can't click on them because it's a "picture" of their shortcuts.
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    Easy prank...thin coating of clear vasaline on their earpiece for their phone...when they get to their desk...dial their extension.

    Really this request depends on how evil you want to get. I have some true horror story pranks I have pulled.
  • bmreed0920
    bmreed0920 Posts: 139 Member
    Before you leave work and after he has left, put a raw fish in his desk drawer and duct tape over the top of the drawer so he cant get to it. Make sure the letter openers, scissors or any sharpe objects are in there as well (makes it harder to get the duct tape off). He wont be able to get the smell out for days.
  • steffilily
    steffilily Posts: 149
    This happened to a friend of mine. A co-worker of hers put rings of onions on top of her desk lamp bulb. She couldn't see it because of the lamp shade. The smell that the light and onions gives out is similiar to a body ordor and she kept thinking it was her. She would try to discreetly smell her own armpits, go to the bathroom and smell again. Then back at the desk, do the same thing over again. I thought it was funny!
  • stressd1mom
    stressd1mom Posts: 151 Member
    Easy prank...thin coating of clear vasaline on their earpiece for their phone...when they get to their desk...dial their extension.

    Really this request depends on how evil you want to get. I have some true horror story pranks I have pulled.

    I can get pretty evil too, just not quite so much at work!
  • kimd1974
    kimd1974 Posts: 113
    Switch the keys on his keyboard around or change his mouse setting to very slow
  • Temporalia
    Temporalia Posts: 1,151 Member
    Taping everything on the desk, earpiece to phone, phone to desk (last time I did this the phone flew off the desk), then tape everysingle thing on the desk... a whole day of pleasure.
  • hroush
    hroush Posts: 2,073 Member
    If the person in question always has the sound on on their computer, you can change all the little sounds the computer makes, including start up, shut down, error bells, etc. To do this go to Control Panel -> sound and audio devices -> sounds. You can scroll through the list, select one, and change it to what ever sound bite you desire. How I got this idea was from a video of a kid with a laptop that his friends changed the start up sound to an adult movie audio clip.

    For a while my wife had the intro to "Crazy Train" as her computer start up sound (her choice).
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