Best Job Site Pranks!

wackman

That other thread has inspired me. I want to hear all the best job site pranks you can think of from harmless and funny to the real A hole pranks that are usually really funny.

A prize for the best one.

wackman

One guy we didn't like was taking a nap at lunch. Real sneaky like we superglued a quarter to his forehead. We didn't really think it would stay there for a week but it did, he finally got it off with fingernail polish remover.

I nearly **** myself and puked at the same time I was laughing so hard...

mickeyco

Grease the telephone ear piece, wrap an ultra thin wire across the blades of a plug, gives a nice spark when plugged in, leave a charged capacitor laying around, someone will always pick it up and get zapped. Heat up a quarter with a torch until it's glowing orange, let it cool for a few seconds and put it on the floor (cement) in an obvious spot and wait for the cheapskate.

__________________
Some people climb mountains. I take out the trash. But we both do it for the same reason.

NCC

I once convince an apprentice you could sharpen a saw blade by turning it around in tha saw and while running lower it onto a concrete curb. Lots of noise and dust and many missing saw blade teeth Foreman didnt find it as funny as all of us.

KentWhitten

Lesse, dropping a rock in the vent hole of the porta potty while someone is taking a dump, the ever tasteful pooping in the drywall bucket and leaving it for someone to find, and my personal favorite to do to a n00b is give them a power drill with a 4½" holesaw and tell them to go drill out the dryer vent on high speed. Can't forget about the board stretcher either.

__________________
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place ~Lao Tzu

Custom Cabinetry - Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough, Kennebunkport, Yarmouth, Falmouth, Cumberland, Ogunquit, Maine

Salmon Falls Cabinetry

Luke's Dad

My brother and I were installing a slider on an elevated opening. I was standing inside and my brother was standing on the outside. Well, while I wasn't paying attention he proceedes to push down on the toe of my boot with his thumb and fire a nail from the nailgun into the bottom plate of the opening. I think I pooped a little on that one!!

L. B. Condulet

Back when I was coming up in the trade, I worked with this foreman electrician, his name was Bud and he was the most cantankerous guy around, he was also a very, very good electrician....

Anyway, we were pulling wire, actually he was doing all the pulling, I would tie the wires on the leader, soap them up and feed and push while he pulled.

'Ol Bud was several rooms away and would yell at me what wires to tie on to the fish tape.

Bud: Red! Black! White! Green!

So I would tie on a couple of oranges, a blue and a red...

But my wires were only a couple of feet long, behind them I tied on the correct wires.

'Ol Bud huffed and puffed and tugged and pulled, it was a hard pull, he was grunting and swearing. But the swearing was about to get lots worse. When the wires finally appeared in the box, Bud saw the wrong and totally nonsensical colors and blew a gasket.

I thought he was going to strangle me with his bare hands, but I was laughing like a lunatic. I pulled some more wire out to reveal the proper colors, and Bud started to calm down.

I guess you had to be there, it was hysterical.

mickeyco

Not sure if this will work in newer cars, but we'd run a wire from the coil to the inside of the car, strip a large piece and put it on the driver's seat from behind, the person starting the car got one hell of a shock.

Hook the car horn up to either the turn indicator or brake light switch, every time the driver hits the brakes or uses the turn indicator the horn honks.

__________________
Some people climb mountains. I take out the trash. But we both do it for the same reason.

wolffhomerepair

Took skunk cover scent and poured some on the heater hose. Every time the engine warms up it smells like fresh skunk.

__________________
http://www.wolffhomerepair.com


" Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time "

Brockster

Twenty some years ago a pettybone (sp) driver put my Pinto wagon up on the second story floor of a house and waited until the end of the day to get it down.

__________________

tinner666

Jokes are OK, but I never saw the need or purpose of pranks on a jobsite. Sure seperates the men from the children though!

__________________
Frank Slate Roof Repairs, Richmond, Va.

Mbskye

I filled my apprentices car up with styrofoam peanuts once,. & another time ( this wasent ment to be a joke, but it was funny as hell ) I was asked to move the Shi**er with the skytrack because they were about to lay the sod, I got it about 5 feet off of the ground & we heard screaming from the inside so I set it down real quick & went inside the building, We sat inside & watched out the window to see who it was & our dump truck driver came out fumeing. laughed about that for a week. also a guy got me once by locking the triger on the belt sander & leaveing it bareily unpluged, when I pluged it in it took off accross the floor.

__________________
"Some days, it just isn't worth chewing off the restraints."
" Second place, is the first loser."

Pearce Services

I was having a bad day, so my helper decided to switch one of the dry sponges I added to my knee pads with the wet sponge from the grout bucket. When I kneeled down on it, he laughed, I didn't.

So I decided to get revenge, as he grouted, I emptied a sponge full of water down his plumber's crack. That didnt make me feel better, so after he started grouting again, I decided to throw a handful of dry thinset powder at the already wet area. What started out as an uncomfortable situation for him, turned into a very painful experience by the end of the day. I actually felt bad for him, especially since we had at least an hours drive to get back to the shop.

Taranis

A couple I've enjoyed in my time.
fix a coin with epoxy resin to the ground, preferrably outside. Then watch passers by trying to pick up the coin in their stride. (then falling over) Funny as f***.
One time when we were finishing off a large supermarket floor, the fitout contractors were in to load shelving. Tonnes of it. 2 guys were bringing in pallets about 8 feet high. The guy at the back stood on the back of the pallet and let the other guy pull without him knowing. After 3 runs #1 (at the front) cottoned on to this and told #2 to pull, so he went round the back. When they got going again #2 sat on the front of the pallet 2 steer and let #1 push. This went on all day and poor (stupid) #1 didn't realise why all us contractors were falling about laughing every time they came in with a new pallet. Still laugh at it to this day.

TaitINC

i was always the jobsite prankster. There is one that stands out as the funniest. So we were framing an addition, and we always sheeth over the windows then cut them out later. another guy and I went around back to get a couple ladders. as i rounded the back i see his sawzall blade come through the ply. i walked over pulled out my hammer and jambed it under his blade. he tried it for about 30sec without moving. then he pulled the blade back in and we could hear him talking to himself "what the hell am i hitting" he changes the blade and tries it again. so i repeat what i already did. He pulls the blade in and changes it again and tries it on the other side of the window this time and i chased him right over there. after about 3 mins i let him cut it. When he finished cutting the window out the 2 of us were rolling on the ground laughing. to this day everytime i look at my hammer i laugh. it has a few sawzall cuts in the head of it. I'm not sure i've ever laugh so hard in my life. Hearing him talk to himself was priceless!

spencer

CCSowner

Every know and then I will put thin-set under the Trowels handle and walk away.

__________________
Adam Forsythe
Creative Covering solutions
"New England's Answer to Brick paving and Tile/Stone"
www.creativecoveringsolutions.com

RidgeWalker

A few years back we used to call in fake leads and ask for the dick head salesmen that no one like, we'd find an address for a new construction side that was not completely framed and send the salesmen to the address. hehe

wackman

We were doing an all new exterior (windows, doors, stucco, flashings, decks etc..) on a 9 story condo unit in downtown Seattle and had scaffold all around the building. The guys come get me one morning and tell me a homeless guy climbed our fence, slept under our scaffold and won't get up and leave so I go talk to him, tell him it's private property, work site, dangerous etc.. and he leaves cursing under his breath.

Well he's there again the next day and I shoo him off again but tell him he better not do it again or I'll call the cops.

Next day he's there again and I call the cops but he leaves before they get there.

That night we took 5 5 gallon buckets and filled them with water then stacked them on the scaffold directly where the guy was found sleeping every day and we said if he comes back he's gonna get it.

Next morning he's there and we dumped all 5 of them at the same time from 5 stories up. I must have hit him like a brick cause he let out a sound that reminded me of punching someone in the solar plexus and then he coughed and wheezed.

We were laughing so hard we couldn't understand what he was yelling but he was mad.

Never saw him again.

wackman

I always like to see someone working up on an extension ladder. I get a run and jump up on it pretty hard causing the whole thing to flex and shake.

Should note I only do this to guys who I don't think are going to fall and only when they don't have a tool in their hands.

Pretty funny though.

wackman

I like to open a guys thermos top fill the "cup" part of the lid with coffee then turn the thermos upside down and screw the top back on. When they open the thermos they get a lap full of coffee.

Then once they catch on to this trick they start to open their thermos upside down so the coffee stays in the cup. Well then you just leave the inner top unscrewed too so it still pours all over.

After a while they're so paranoid, they don't know which way to open it.