Friendly Prank Ideas
 

My sisters and I have been pranking all the fraternities on campus and we're almost out of ideas for the few remaining houses! We're looking for cute/funny/not offensive or illegal ideas :P

Examples of things we've done:
-Forking a lawn
-Chiselling a single brick out of the Sigma Pi house and painting it with their colours and letters and sending them pictures
-Tie bunches of balloons to the trees outside their house, and wrote "XOXO, YOUR SECRET ADMIRERS" on them

Any ideas/pranks you've pulled and want to brag about are much appreciated :)

Also please remember, we're poking fun at friends here, not making enemies.

QFP.

Anyone care to comment, or is this a troll? Isn't the brick business defacing property, which is illegal? I know there's some disagreement about forking being funny or something else as well.

Hide their shower curtains so they have to pretend they are in prison.

I haven't heard that about forking but around here people 'flamingo' houses (not on campus afaik). But even if your intent is just being 'friendly' vandalism is probably a bad idea. Our campus did pranks for one of the fraternity's philanthropy week competitions and it led to accusations of theft. They were true, but the taker's intent was participating in the pranks, not keeping the item.

Why would you want to be "that" group?

Why not be known as the sorority that brings the fraternites homemade cookies, raises money for their philanthropies, or rakes their lawn because they wanted to be nice?


I know, I know. I'm going back to my rocking chair. Somebody get the lemonade pitcher.

Honestly? There were fraternities that we were close with, and we had fun doing stuff like this. For example, we TP'ed the house one night in the middle of the night, and the guys came out and threw buckets of water at us, and we ran around and had a good time. Context is everything.

Real stealth like putting all that out on the intarwebz. No one at your school will ever figure out it was you! :rolleyes:

I agree 100%. Which is why I said what I did. The OP reads to me they are pranking EVERY fraternity...not just the ones they have a relationship with. Plus, I remember that it was the Pikes who made us a ginormous Valentine's card for our front lawn. I can't for the life of me remember who put the potatoes in our car tailpipes.

There are hundreds of Delta Psi Delta sororities out there. I'm sure no one would figure it out.

By the way, Wisconsin is probably pretty cold this time of year, right?

Right, right...we also didn't post on the internet about it.

You mean Ottawa? ;)

This world is small. Be careful of retaliation in the form of pranks, university sanctions or broken laws.

I always wondered why a sorority would want to randomly (not for special occasions) bring a fraternity homemade cookes, raise money for THEIR philanthropies (which seems different than a co-sponsored event), or rake THEIR lawn.

That sounds like much more than just having friends in other GLOs and having a bond with another GLO or chapter.

*lightbulb*

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Sometimes, you just want to do something for somebody without ulterior motives.

I see those things as about more than doing something for somebody without ulterior motives.

But, the theme of GC this week is: YKINMK. :)

Yeah different concepts of "nice." That screams something other than "nice" to me.

I've just attributed this to IFC/NPC vs. non-IFC/non-NPC. The only times that we received "OMG COOKIES!" were when people wanted votes in student elections. Aside from that, it would just seem weird.

When we had our on-campus house, we would never expect sorority women to do our chores/yardwork.

Yeah I couldn't tell whether this was an NPC thread or whether this was about what "good sorority women" should do. LOL.

Will you be my wifey
Yes I'll be your wifey
Will you be my wifey
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahhhhhh.....

Why? Are you that suspect of people?

Is it less weird that we did a rake-n-run with Delta Zeta involving random peoples' lawns, rather than fraternity houses?

Because different group cultures and campus cultures call for different things.

No. That's even stranger than raking a fraternity's lawn.

Not everyone wants randoms to rake their lawn.

I think playfully pranking the fraternities is fine. However, defacing the structure of their house isn't cool. No, it probably won't do any permanent damage, but it does cross the line from fun to damage. But then I'm a fun sucker. If a fraternity tpd our yard I'd be furious.

The only thing they really did on my campus was the fraternities would kidnap the composite and make the sorority come serenade them to get it back. But sometimes that would get out of hand and they wouldn't admit they had it and it would get ugly. Or a not very nearby fraternity would do it and then getting it back was a HUGE cluster.

And doing something nice for a fraternity is nice, but there's also a fine line to creepy or pathetic. If my chapter had done any of the nice things listed above, we'd have been laughed off the campus. Maybe it's a local culture thing, but we were much further from the TV show Greek than that. And I'm assuming she meant PARTICIPATING in their philanthropy, not raising money for it. Doing their philanthropy for them would be SERIOUSLY creepy and pathetic.

Alright...I guess I'll just say that I'm glad I went to a strange university, where it was more common to come home to random flowers from a fraternity rather than your composite missing, and leave y'all to your pranks.

You're taking this exchange WAAAY too seriously.

Not really. Nothing much else going on and I'm avoiding working on the lien waivers I need to send out.

I agree with you. I wouldn't appreciate people trampling my lawn. I recently saw an event where GLOs got together to rake the lawns of elderly residents as a service to the community. But, the residents had given prior consent.

I would!!! I would!!! I would!!!

If some random strangers jumped out of a car, raked my lawn and did not charge me??!!!???

Sign me up for that program! :D The leaves are really starting to fall in my area, so I would love it!

(Can't you tell that I am really excited about the idea of this by all of my exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Hmmm. "Leave ya'll to your pranks" makes it seem as though AlphaFrog doesn't understand what some of us are saying.

No one is saying that pranks > nice things. We didn't really do pranks. Sororities and fraternities at the collegiate and graduate levels do nice things for each other all of the time. What is considered "nice" is what we're talking about here. You didn't just say "focus on bonding with the fraternities and doing nice things for each other," you made a list of things that you thought the good sorority women could do as if that's an objective standard. That's where the discussion lies.

For the record my chapter, as a collective, would've hated coming home to flowers from a fraternity. If the fraternity men knew us (and our friends in fraternities did) they knew that many of us weren't/still aren't flower women. Giving us flowers other than a Violet (to symbolize Delta) would be seen as a prank (LOL) or let us know that you just did what you assumed women would like. LOL.

LOL.

I would rather pay someone I have given consent to (and therefore know who they are and what they are doing on my property) than get a Random Rake for free. That is especially the case since the person I pay will often do the job when I'm not home. If I'm not home and come home to a Random Rake, I will be nervous and will make sure my house alarm wasn't tampered with.

You know, DrPhil, I get pretty tired of you telling me that I don't understand your crap. We obviously come from two different places on most things. Just because I have a different perspective, doesn't mean I don't understand what you are saying.

I realize that pranks and nice things don't have anything to do with eachother in this thread, other than the fact that I suggested examples of things that would have been normal on my campus as an alternative activity to pranks. My list was neither exhaustive, nor a "must do" to be "nice". As I said, things that happened on my campus, not necessarily something that would fly on all campuses. I'm not sure why this came to a debate of specific items, rather than intention. If the OP doesn't like my suggestions she would be free to fill in her own.

I'm not the only one who sees irony here. I stopped reading here. LOL.

I think the take away from this is that campuses are so vastly different that the definition of a cute prank vs obnoxious vandalism or nice versus creepy or bizarre is too relative to be helpful to anyone.

If the OP and her chapter are successfully doing pranks that are winning the hearts and minds of the fraternities, then great. But before you start dredging the bottom of the barrel of creative ideas, I'd make sure the guys are appreciating these things as cute and not annoying or obnoxious. And if this is anonymous, I'd drop the whole thing before it bites you in the ass.

OK, what the fork is forking? I don't get it.

The balloons seem less like a prank than a fun girly thing, but chiseling a brick out? Hello, that can break nails.

Whatever happened to the old standbys - "borrowing" composites, tping trees etc? I'm pretty sad if they never thought of these.

The chapter I advise does a rake n run with the Delta Sig's every fall. They just knock on doors in town, or they'll rake the yards of other greek houses.

It was always a big deal for the 4 sororities at my alma mater to paint the PMD lions. They had stone lions outside of their front door, and it was always a big deal when someone was able to paint them without the brothers finding out about it until the next morning. But we also did nice things too, like make them baked goods, or invite them to the house for a meal. They did the same for us though, or would send flowers. that was for all the fraternities though, not just our "favorites."

A really HUGE deal back in the day was if a sister was able to steal a pledge pin from a new fraternity member. If the sorority was successful, for each pledge pin stolen, a keg of beer was owed. This has changed though, as the campus has gone dry and I don't think current students even know what a keg is.

Sticking hundreds of plastic forks in their lawn or yard.

Oh, OK. That sounds amusing.

As far as doing anyone else's yard work - we didn't even do our own. That's what the landlords were for. I don't think we even had a rake or mower in the house. Not only that, most of the groups didn't have very large yards to begin with.

I can't believe adults would do this.

Yep.

1. It's past the point of cute and silly.

2. Who has time to stick hundreds of forks in a lawn?

We invited a fraternity to a poolparty by putting hundreds of plastic cups of water in their hallways (as in door-to-door) while they were sleeping.