Pranks

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Okay, I might get in trouble for suggesting this, but I want to hear some pranks that you guys have pulled, or have been pulled on your campus. NOT because I want to repeat them, just because I think they are funny.

As for me, my originality is lacking, so most of my involvement has been in prank phone calls and stolen paddles.

[AngelPhiSig]

I know one time last year I think... there were a bunch of sorority charters stolen (charter def: A paper from nationals with all the founders of the chapters names on it... usually framed and hung) and well... A few of our sisters decided it would be funny to take ours, photo copy it and then hide it- hanging the photo copy in its place... and well... it scared the shit out of us, we were so worried that it was taken... but eventually they told us, or I think someone may have found it... (I think it was hidden in plain sight) Anyways, it was really funny... once it was over!!!

I remember in the dorms, we used to just pull out the stalker book (campus directory) and call random people... Speaking of, my little's last name starts with Zy, so shes the last person in the stalker book, people would call her machine and say "Did you know you're the last person in the phone book?!" lol...

Also: (gee, Im long winded tonite!) at my best friend's school, if you dont dial 9 to get off campus and try to call Papa John's Pizza, you call her room... so they would always get either freshman or drunk people calling for Pizza, their answering machine told you to dial 9, but if they answered, they would take the order and tell people how long and how much... it was funny... I got to do it once... I know its mean, but it gets annying! Just like back here at my real home, our number is the same number as a car service in the city, so at 3am we always get calls where you pick up and someone says "Can I have a car?" So when my dad answers, he tells them it'll be about 15 minutes... and hangs up... I just tell them that its the wrong #!

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[KillarneyRose]

Ok, this is so gay but here goes! My senior year, my roommate was the pledge mom and she told me about a really scary dream she had had where all the members of the sorority except her had joined a satanic cult and they got their names tattooed backward on their chins. The dream really freaked her out!

So that night before the pledge meeting, I called all the pledges into my room before they went to meet pledge mom in the chapter room and got eye liner and wrote each of their names backward on their chin.

When my roomie walked into the chapter room, there were 21 little pledges sitting there with this "satanic marking" on their chins.

She screamed and ran from the room; it was great!

Hey, it was funny at the time! Honest!

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[greeklawgirl]

KillarneyRose,
ROTFLMAO!

[Thrillhouse]

Originally posted by AngelPhiSig:



Also: (gee, Im long winded tonite!) at my best friend's school, if you dont dial 9 to get off campus and try to call Papa John's Pizza, you call her room... so they would always get either freshman or drunk people calling for Pizza, their answering machine told you to dial 9, but if they answered, they would take the order and tell people how long and how much... it was funny... I got to do it once... I know its mean, but it gets annying! Just like back here at my real home, our number is the same number as a car service in the city, so at 3am we always get calls where you pick up and someone says "Can I have a car?" So when my dad answers, he tells them it'll be about 15 minutes... and hangs up... I just tell them that its the wrong #!

That is hilarious. That will be 10.64 and should be there in 30-40 minutes

[Kevlar281]

My best pranks have always been phone related, probably because im a nerd. Anyways, the first is when someone’s phone has call forwarding (every company’s is different so you’ll half to do some research) but once you have it down you can program their phone to send all incoming calls to another number, the more creative the more funny it will be. Forwarding it to a phone sex line, pizza place, another House, suicide hotline, admissions etc. It will take awhile for them to figure out what is going on and most people have it and never use it so they will half to call an operator for help. Another good one is a exaggerated version of the pizza delivery instead of calling one pizza place and ordering 20 pizzas call 20 pizza places and order 1 pizza from each. If you really want to get creative and have a lot of free time on your hands get the yellow pages out and start calling companies such as AC repair, exterminators, pool cleaners, plumbers, TV repair and of course make sure that you set the appointments for Saturday at the earliest time possible. If you really put some effort in, you can cause a mini traffic jam on the persons street. Another good one is to place a classified add in the newspaper with the persons (victims) number in it, make sure what ever you list is a great deal and what someone would want (so they will get a lot of phone calls) and make sure that you put down the best time to call (early morning). Anyways a lot of papers charge so put it in one of those free circular add papers or just print up your own fliers and pass them out or post them on campus. Well this is pretty much what im up to when I want to pull a prank its pretty fun and all you half to do is set it in motion everyone else does the work for you.

[juniorgrrl]

My soph year of college, my boyfriend and I were bored, so we decided to make an effigy of his roomate (and one of our good friends), who was later than the rest of us coming back from Mardi Gras break. We took a pair of his pants and stuffed them, put a shirt on top, and stuffed it with another pair of pants to make "arms" The shirt "fake-dave" was wearing was this ugly tshirt he had that said "not only am I gorgeous, but I'm southern too!" We made a paper plate head, and cut hands out of computer paper.

Another day, we got really bored and went to www.totallyfreestuff.com and had all sorts of stuff mailed to his roomate. We've actually done this a few times. He's gotten dog food calendars, astro-glide, posters...all sorts of crazy stuff

Dave has gotten used to the fact that when Josh and I are bored, he'll usually get a surprise in the mail

[Corbin Dallas]

My freshman year, I lived on the smallest floor on campus, only 22 guys, and that's including the RA and 2 SA's (soph. advisors). At the end of the hall was an apartment, where a grad. student, usually from Indiana State, lived. She worked for student affairs. One weekend, she was gone to a conference with several RA's from campus, so we decided to pull a prank on her. Incidently, the whole idea for the prank was mine, but when I came up with it, I never thought we'd do it! We went to the lumber store and bought several 2x4's, nails, drywall, drywall mud, and paint. Then, we built a frame in the hallway out of the 2x4's and nailed the drywall to it. One of the guys spent the previous summer drywalling, so he finished the drywall with the mud. After the mud had dried, we painted the wall, and then took some of the baseboard trim that had come loose around the rest of the floor and put it at the base of the wall. It looked perfect. Her boss, the guy in charge of student life at the time came over while we were building it and thought it was the funniest prank he'd ever seen. The next day she got back, and to make things worse, had to pee really bad. She came in and there was just a wall where her door had always been. She thought it was just paper and told us to tear it down. We told her it was permanent, and then banged on it to show her it was real. She got so mad, and said she was going to tell her boss. She went to his apartment, which was on campus, and told him what had happened. He told her he couldn't believe it and would deal with us accordingly. It was great!

By the way, this prank got voted the best prank of the year by the campus paper. It even beat the senior prank that year.

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

[This message has been edited by Corbin Dallas (edited July 23, 2001).]

[queequek]

This used to be "legal" and tradition for all Greeks in ISU, but couple years ago some houses got trouble by doing it, so, yeah ...

The tradition goes, that a house come to other houses and "borrow" the big composite ... you know, the ones that usually hang by the fireplace ... and keep it for couple days/weeks .. then call the house, and ask them to serenade the borrower house ... then, they sign their initials behind the composite and return it.

(before the story goes, I use names - no offense or anything!)
So, if we see our old composites, the back of them usually full of names, dates, events and houses ... kindda neat, and historical.
Greek Week 1999, we tried to "borrow" Thetas' and they were so anal about it, and oh well, it ended up nasty. They threatened to call cops and stuff.
Yup. After the homecoming last year, some AChiOs stole our composite .. and we never had to serenade them, because they returned it back to us, with all these comments and additional pictures all around our pictures. Some of the comments were really funny, and we worked with Aggers and stole their composite. Oh, well, so AChiO broke into Aggers house and borrowed their composite ... it would never end, and I never imagine how hard it have to be to carry the huge composite back to other place until this year.

We won Greek Week 2001 this year, and we were pairing up with Pi Phis and Delta Sigs. I talked with some of the Delta Sigs about our possibility of us borrowing Pi Phis composite, and the dude said it was impossible as he had tried it before ... so I said, what the heck .. I would give it a try.
So that night, we went to Pi Phis house, and finally could break in .. and yeah, I had hard time to take it down, and walked back to our house with that huge composite ... I am wondering now how we managed that ... anyway, so we signed their composite, and returned it the day after. I brought it back, and wearing this expression like, I found this on the street and might belong to you guys ... seemed that their composite just walked away from their house and ended up in random street or something! Of course, obviously they knew me, and they thought it was neat, so all our sweat worth every drop!

[lifesaver]

Originally posted by Corbin Dallas:
We went to the lumber store and bought several 2x4's, nails, drywall, drywall mud, and paint. Then, we built a frame in the hallway out of the 2x4's and nailed the drywall to it. One of the guys spent the previous summer drywalling, so he finished the drywall with the mud. After the mud had dried, we painted the wall, and then took some of the baseboard trim that had come loose around the rest of the floor and put it at the base of the wall. It looked perfect. Her boss, the guy in charge of student life at the time came over while we were building it and thought it was the funniest prank he'd ever seen. The next day she got back, and to make things worse, had to pee really bad. She came in and there was just a wall where her door had always been. She thought it was just paper and told us to tear it down. We told her it was permanent, and then banged on it to show her it was real. She got so mad, and said she was going to tell her boss. She went to his apartment, which was on campus, and told him what had happened. He told her he couldn't believe it and would deal with us accordingly. It was great!

OMG thats the funniest thing I have heardof in a long time. That would be a great prank to pull on our former chapter president....hummmmm

[lifesaver]

I love me some pranks. In HS we had this really anal uptight librarian, who was also the principals wife. We were senoirs and were being warehoused in the library for a class period one semester (forget offering classes, we'll just do study hall). Wed' fight battles with her over stupid $hit like pushing in chairs and stuff. So we declared war. Me and a few friends brought books from home, and stashed them on the shelves amongst the other "legit" books. When the freshman lunch bell rang (we werent on that schedule, so we disregarded the bell) one afternoon, we (all who were in on the plot) got up, went to our books,got them off the shelves, and started tearing pages out of them. There were about 10 of us, she went nuts! I thought she was goingto be hospitalized. We got Detention. Totally worth it. She got worse to us after that so prank #2 was crafted.

Prank #2 consisted of sneaking in confetti filled helium balloons into our 3 story library (it was an atrium/galleria looking place) and letting them go about 30 minutes before we were to leave. They would float to the celing where they would remain for about 30 minutes till they popped from the lights, raining confetti everywhere as we were going to lunch. They never could prove it was us. HAHAHAHAHAHHA

Finally, the best prank...We brought some hollowed out books from home that we had prepared in advance, with wind up alarm clocks inside them. We stashed them on the shelves and for about 30 minutes, every 3 minutes another one would go off...RRRIIIINNNNGGGGG. So she would be frantically running around the library trying to locate the ring. As soon as she did, another "book" would go off. God we got suspended for that stunt. Totally worth it.

[This message has been edited by lifesaver (edited July 23, 2001).]

[Liv4ChiO]

OMG! These are too funny, I just had to add my own. Our house had some very funny pranks. One year, our president had her 20th birthday, and as it was 2000, the girls decided to do something special. The day of her birthday, they took every piece of furniture in her room, and rearranged the bathroom! She was so drunk when she got back that night, that she ended up sleeping in the bathroom!

Our sorority has a tradition of holding "pledge pranks" where the pledges get to do whatever to the house. On year, in the middle of the night, the pledge class got hundreds of styrofoam cups and filled them with water, and lined all the hallways and stairs with them, right up to the front door. The sisters living in had to take each cup, starting with the ones outside their doors, and dump them out the window, so they wouldn't spill water all over the house.

Our pledge pranks were pretty bad, the house girls werent' too happy! One thing we did was, during chapter, we toilet papered the entire house (just the inside) which isn't so bad, except there was a panhel meeting there an hour after we were done!

My favourite pranks were all in high school tho. One year, we managed to climb up to our flag pole (it's on the roof of our school) and hung a pirate flag. Our school building is a historic landmark, and faces a very major road. Nobody really noticed, until a driver came and reported it to the office. And my senior year, we stole a bunch of concrete blocks and cement from a construction site, and started to brick up the front door. Unfortuantely, (this was around 3 am) a cop drove by, and caught us doing this! Nothing happened, tho the wall never did get finished...oh well, it's the thought that counts!

[lifesaver]

Those are great. We used to pennylock this freak in his room when I lived at the dorms. We calle dhim the brown bomber because he would take a crap inthe showers. So we decided revenge was in order. So we pennylocked him in his room, had the IT majors disconnect his phone line from the connection at the switchboard down the hall, so he couldnt call for help. Then we duct-taped his door, and opened the vent above his door that went out into the hall. We then began filling his room withthe fire hose. We got it about 2 feet deep in there before security got ahold of things. Come to think of it, i guess he could heve been electrocuted. Oh well. He continued to bomb, so we continued to torment. Our doors used to open into the rooms, not out, so we would get the trash cans from the bathrooms (they were our public trashcans), full of nastyness, vomit, old rotten food, we would all pee in them, one guy took a dump in them, and we would fill them as full of water as we could, and still carry them. We'd then drag it down the hall, tip it against his door and knock, he'd open the door, and the trash can would fall over into his room, andall over him. After that i think he got the clue, so started showerign on another floor, because the bombs stopped.

Ah, dorm life.

One I have been dying to try is the shaving can trick. Get soemone who has access to liquid nitrogen to freeze solid about 3 cans of shaving cream. PAck them in dry ice for transport. Cut the ends off the cans with a kitchen knife(but they have to be frozen, or they will go everyhere and you'll be covered), then place three to four cans in soemones car you want to pull the prank on. As the cans thaw, the foam will expand. 3 or 4 cans can fill a midsize car. I just need a victim......

[Corbin Dallas]

Originally posted by lifesaver:
One I have been dying to try is the shaving can trick. Get soemone who has access to liquid nitrogen to freeze solid about 3 cans of shaving cream. PAck them in dry ice for transport. Cut the ends off the cans with a kitchen knife(but they have to be frozen, or they will go everyhere and you'll be covered), then place three to four cans in soemones car you want to pull the prank on. As the cans thaw, the foam will expand. 3 or 4 cans can fill a midsize car. I just need a victim......

I've heard of this one but never seen it done. I think it would be hilarious to see a car FULL of shaving cream, and it would smell like a fresh shave for months. Also, I bet a hacksaw would work better to cut the bottom off. haha

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

[This message has been edited by Corbin Dallas (edited July 26, 2001).]

[lifesaver]

Originally posted by localsororities:
what does "pennylock" entail? and while I am asking for definitions, would someone please tell me what "shortsheeting" means. I've heard that word a lot in reference to pranks, usually summer camp pranks, but I have no clue what it is...

I cant speak for the shortsheating thing, but can explain the pennylock thing.

It only works on doors that open in. From the hallway, the doors open into the room. What you do is get the bigges or fattest guys to lean agains the door, puttign all theirweight on the closed door. while the door is closed, but pushed against the frame, you slip a stack of pennies between the door and frame, possibly using a screwdriver and hammer if need be. Do it near the handle. The effect is that there is so much pressure on the door, by the presence of the pennies forcing the door away from the frame, you cant turn the door handle from the inside or outside because of the pressure. Confusing? It's really a simple thing if someone shows you.

Explination from rottenegg.com, an online pranksters resource;
"A penny-lock is very simple. If the door you want to lock opens inward, from the outside place pennies between the door and the frame on the side opposite the handle. This will prevent the door fromopening inwards, effectively locking the person inside.

Depending upon the space, you may have to purchase thicker/thinnershims from the local hardware store, or use dimes or quarters. It's cheaper to buy shims than use quarters."


So I guess theres two ways of doing it.