Mythbusters took on the shaving cream myth. Busted.

KeithTanner

mzs

mzs

mzs

At my dads factory they used their high reach forklift to put someones smart car on top of a 20ft stack of pallets. That was the best prank I've heard of.
When I was in highschool working in a shitty supermarket our manager left his car in the car park overnight while he went out. Myself and the rest of the nightshift encircled the car with about 300 locked together trolleys. He was seriously pissed in the morning.

hairykrishna

my ex boss made the best prank i ever heared!

while his friend was on his wedding, they took his VW beetle part for part up in his apartement and rebuilt it in his sleeping room.

imagine his face, when he went home :))

poisoned

so we were four guys which lifted the car in the parking lot and turned it for 90 degrees. ( like |||-||| )

in front as as in back where only half an inch space to the neighbour cars.

it was really funny to see the owners face when he saw his "car".

poisoned

bmoredlj

@something_unique_and_descriptive: Did your uncle go to Nathan Hale in Seattle, because I swear to god, my uncle has that exact same story and it would have happened around the same time.

EJohnson

b20a

joneez

blogsdo

hazlo1

Sketch d[-_-]b

One night this past winter it was forecast to get down into the single digits perfect time I thought to mess with my friend's F-150. It took a half hour but I put about 1/2 to 3/4 of a gallon of water into all 4 tires and left them to freeze over night. Next morning while waiting in the parking lot we hear this horrible rattling noise and sure enough here came my friend (now ice filled) tires and all. He still hasn't figured out who did it and I don't know how he got the water out.

chrisLa

valeriomassaro

Probably the worst thing I've ever done to someone's car is pull gently on the handbrake as my friend was driving around a corner in the rain. He didn't like that very much.

The worst car-related prank I've heard was a variation of the potato in the tailpipe trick, but this one involved a box of firecrackers and some expanding foam insulation stuffed into the muffler.

discontinuuity

Stuff I've done:
Wrapped a random car with Pallet Wrap vertically over the doors.

Pulled the drive shaft out of my High school Treasurer's brand new Miata.

Picked up the keys that some drunk girl had dropped and moved her car around the block, then put the keys back into her purse while she wasn't looking.

Changed all the radio presets on my friends radio to the spanish channels (he doesn't speak a word of spannish).

One of my friends had a stereo that was real easy to pull out so we switched the left / right, front / rear audio channels. So what was normally the right rear was front left.

My friend's family owns a tire shop... so I pulled the valve core out of one of his wheels, let the air drain, then put it back (leaving him with a flat tire). He puts the spare on, goes down to the shop, fills the flat, checks it in the tank, no holes, puts it back on his truck. Next night I do it again, same thing. Next night I do it for a third time, the next day he's talking to me about how one of his tires keep going flat but there isn't a leak anywhere... I lost it and started laughing... so he figured it out.


Other Stuff My Dad did:
He and his friends would do the pick up and move thing but with people still in the car.

They filled the Principals brand new bug with popcorn (which they later had to clean out).

Swapped a drive shaft rigged to fail immediately into a guys Mustang. The guy would peel out of the gravel parking lot every day and spray rocks all over, so my dad went down to the junkyard and got a drive shaft that he weakened the hell out of, next day he skipped class swapped the drive shafts and then after school kid hops in fires it up, goes to peel out and bang, drive shaft fails. The kid goes "what happened?" My dad slides under the car and tells him he broke the U-Joint and that the part only costs like $15 and he can fix it that day. The guy needs to get to work so my dad lends him his truck, as soon as he drives off, swaps stuff back and he and his friends spent the afternoon hooning in a Mustang. The guy payed for the part and never peeled out of the parking lot after that.


The best one I've ever heard:
For a senior prank my uncle and his friends messed with their principal. The guy had just gotten a new white Bug and he was just so proud of it. Well, one of my uncles friend's family owned a local wrecking yard and they had a white beetle shell just sitting, it was a couple of years older but from a distance it was pretty hard to tell. Another friend's family had a construction business and access to a crane. So they took and put this VW shell up on the roof of the school, did the pick up and move trick to the Principals car and then as the principal was getting ready to leave for lunch, they pushed the shell off the roof. The principal, noting that his car wasn't where he left it, thought that it was his car that had just plummeted to its death and, as you would expect from someone who just saw "their" car fall from the top of a two story building, freaked the fuck out. Yeah, they got suspended for that and ended up having to repair the section of concrete onto which the bug shell landed, but by all accounts it was well worth it to see the expression on the principals face as he watched "his" car fall.

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camp6ell

We used to ride around after work when I worked at the Pizza joint in H.S. Thursday morning was 'yard debris pickup'. So, you had all these cars parked, unlocked, on the street, and all these bags of grass clippings. A natural combination.

The best? An employee who always drove the company van home...and bragged about how he got to do that. We rigged a sign that would pop up at city driving speed and lay back down as you slowed to a stop. He was short, so he never really saw it. Usual messages, "Honk if you're gay" or "Wave at the moron driving this POS".

Also, got my buddy with a magnetic bumper sticker that said "I (heart) Gay Porn!" Good times. Good times.

lemondriver

We swapped four space-savers on to someone's prized customized Miata one night. He had an alarm on the car, must have been a pretty bad one because it never went off.

At a Land Rover national rally, one of the big burly Defenders got decorated with Autozone debris at night. On the very difficult Lower Helldorado, we discovered that curb feelers don't like rocks but that the chrome plastic hubcaps were amazingly resilient.

The one I've never had the chance to do is to wire the horn to the brake lights.

KeithTanner

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

"it wouldn't have been such a big deal for my cousin, except the officer found those little baggies of white stuff I stashed all through his T-Bird Turbo Coupe the night before."

That one's gotta be the best.

Generally, yeah, don't screw with peoples' cars. Bumper stickers, bologna, anything to smell rancid - uncool.

Boter

diskreet

We used to the same with my friends Ford Tempo but we had to lift the front end. It was only really funny the first time because he thought it was stolen.

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Crash Chloride

Nicko

OneWithNature

TrikeKid

I keep quite a bit of trash in my car, and once when some jerk nearly tore my bumper off on the highway and flipped me off I followed him to an offramp, slowed down a bit as I passed him as he was stopped about to turn left, and neatly tossed a week-old milkshake up in the air that hit his truck squarely in the back window. It was strawberry but had turned to a gonnorhea green by then, and I caught a glimpse of his shocked expression before I dropped down two gears and raced back onto the highway before he could come after me.

My former neighbor used to call the cops on our cars all the time whether or not they were sitting for more than 72 hours (there was PLENTY of space anyway), because she was on all sorts of medication and was just a mean old hag with nothing better to do. I was tired of getting tickets because I parked my car in the same spot and my odometer was frozen so it looked like I never moved it, so I kept putting my neighbor's car on craigslist for real cheap just so people would call her up and bother her.

e30

College years: There was this kid I went to college with, a real asshole, his daddy owned some car dealerships in central NC and he was just a cocky little shit. he drove this lifted F350 4x4 crew cab, long bed -the damn thing took up four parking spaces at a school where parking was at a premium and commuter students, like myself, had to pay upwards of $200 a year for on campus parking. He and I had a class together, so one day, I skipped. With the help of some friends of mine, we relocated several of the bicycle cages around his truck and fastened them to the asphalt with concrete anchors. The best part was, in the time that passed until he found the truck, seven or eight people chained bikes to the racks surrounding his truck. Another time, I went out of town with a friend of mine from the firehouse I volunteered at for a class. He was taking Haz-Mat and within view of the classroom, I was taking auto extrication. We pulled his car around to where we were going to be cutting a beater up with the jaws of destruction. When we fired the pump up, he looked out the widow and saw a dozen firefighters crowded around his car with the Jaws. He nearly shat himself running out of the classroom to correct the "misunderstanding." There was a photo on the bulletin board up until he left of his face when he came outside.

Wedding years: Filled my buddy's saturn (I've tried to educate him some) with packing peanuts via the sunroof and wrapped the car with pallet wrap. ***I did not do the following, my friend and the groom's brother did it.*** We'll call my friend "Grayson" and the groom's brother, we'll call him "Balan," took the groom's Z28 for a drunken joyride. The first thing that the groom said upon entering the condom and Pabst label covered car was "Is that clutch I smell?"

BigJames80

danio3834

cq

Trixterofall

M0L0TOV

ccc40821

TheGuinnessTooth

My sister was also lax with washing her car. One day after washing my dad's car, I washed a single spot on my sister's car and then I waxed that single spot to keep it clean and shiny.

Did that so I could bug her about 'the clean spot on her car'.

petersterncan

dculberson

gticlutchburn

smokeydog001

charles_barrett

TheTooth

TheTooth

No one messed with MY car in high school (SoCal, 1960), I had a tomato soup red Nash Metropolitan convertible so the joke was already on me!

Smitty

During a break, I swiped the keys, and moved the car to a different parkinglot completely; and then I put the keys back. Nobody saw or suspected anything.

I got called into a meeting that ran long - when it was over, two secretaries were in tears aplogizing as the older secretary was filling out paperwork with a policeman in the main lobby. I decided to keep my job and keep my mouth shut.

goatrope

TheTooth

Al Navarro

ESTP

Al Navarro

poxpopulus

PЯide MZЯ DISI

the look on her face in the morning was priceless

ifonlyihadthemoney

I have a vinyl plotter. The kind used to cut vinyl car graphics for those not familiar. One of these days I am going to cut a Gold Trans Am Screaming Chicken and stick it on my Friend's Black BMW Z4's hood at night. His car is in the garage at night though and he is a really light sleeper so I'll have to get my ninja on and somehow break in undetected. I would give anything to see his face when first notices that big eagle on the hood. I bet he would walk to work.

Picarso

We fessed up before he killed someone, but I don't think he ever completely forgave us.

FЯeeMan

If I remember correctly, the most creative one said that his wiper motor was likely to catch fire, and the way to diagnose it was to start up the wipers (while car was parked) and carefully time each sweep with an accuracy to within a few fractions of a second. We saw him head out to the car with stopwatch in hand and spend 20 minutes timing various wiper strokes. The windshield was practically worn through by the time he finished.

When he turned and saw a bunch of us dying of laughter at the window he knew he had been had!

What we didn't know was that he was supposed to trade in his car for a new one that day, and the deal got postponed due to our prank.

citromike

To avoid such problems of revenge leaving my wedding reception we rented a 1929 Rolls Royce Phantom II Towncar. They did get my old truck later that night though.

P161911

FЯeeMan

VINCENT: Tell me about it. I had the goddamn thing in storage three years. It's out five fuc*in' days -- five days, and some dickless piece of sh*t fuc*s with it.

LANCE: They should be fuc*in' killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

VINCENT: I just wish I caught 'em doin' it, ya know? Oh man, I'd give anything to catch 'em doin' it. It'a been worth his doin' it, if I coulda just caught 'em, you know what I mean?

LANCE: It's chicken sh*t. You don't fu*k with another man's vehicle.

Robbie Analog

POLAЯ is taking his work underground. He can't let it fall into the wrong hands again!

SajalaEinnorb

The best stunt I've ever heard of was secretly reprogramming a guy's aftermarket ECU with some really whacked-out spark and fuel profiles. (Although I understand that one didn't go over real well with the prank-ee.)

Tanshanomi

jawjaw

Since it did this even with the ignition off, I was kind of surprised it didn't kill his battery before he had to leave later that night.

(Man, some of you people don't seem to grasp the difference between "prank" and "vandalism"...)

mcguirev10

Ray Wert

[jalopnik.com]

POLAЯ is taking his work underground. He can't let it fall into the wrong hands again!

maybe it's Karma, maybe it's something else, but messing up someone's car is VERY last straw.

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gadgetfanatic

Jalopnik -- we're a bunch of ass holes!

b.borrman

SuperRad427

The best thing I ever did (besides steal gas and slash tires)was one Halloween I was with a guy who had a truck, me and another guy were laying down in the bed and we followed another friend (he didn't know the guy in the truck) around in his Vega hitting him with eggs...With the Vega being a turd we easily followed him around town pelting his car, he couldn't see us in the bed...When he got out to confront the guy in the truck, the guy in the truck was 10x bigger than he was, got out of his truck, my buddy would run back to his car and take off...we followed him for an hour before we ran out of eggs...He never did find out who the guy in the truck or that it was us in the bed...

vr6john

So we tried all the cars on the way up the road, and the 6th (or so) one was indeed unlocked.

Entered car, moved vast collection of stuffed toys and small child distractors from back seat to drivers seat and dash.

Moved briefcase and loose files from front passenger seat to rear seat.

Set doors to lock, closed up car.

Walked home, speculating on the owners reaction the following morning.

Stoatmaster

...I went to work...

I arranged to stage a routine police stop of my cousin's car the next morning with a friend of mine on the force. So as planned he got pulled over by my associate for running a stop sign, and it wouldn't have been such a big deal for my cousin, except the officer found those little baggies of white stuff I stashed all through his T-Bird Turbo Coupe the night before. I let him piss himself for a good ten minutes or so, before pulling up behind them and revelling in the absolute look of fright and horror on my cousin's face.

He never pulled a prank on me again

POLAЯ is taking his work underground. He can't let it fall into the wrong hands again!

FLAT4-PΩWER ™

To get her back, he and his friends pooped in bags and stashed one under the drivers seat and then wiped the rest under the door handles. She found the poop under the door handles in the most unfortunate way, but 2 weeks later was wondering why the car still smelled like shit. They tore the car apart and found the present.

As far as me, when my brother and I were in elementary school we would hose down the driveway on cold nights so that it had a good 1-2 inch layer of ice in the morning when my mom would try to leave. Fun to see her peel out.
We also would pick up our friend's '84 Rabbit and move it.

Naters4

My favorite though was one day in high school, some kids tied a HUGE pink stuffed animal to the back of someone's car, then shoved it underneath so the person wouldn't know it was there until they got on the road. Everyone in the parking lot stopped what they were doing to laugh at the poor bastard. The next day it ended up on someone else's car. It got passed around like that for a couple months until it disintegrated.

mwoeber

My friends and I used to put discounted old fish filets all over the windshield of a certain person's car. I thought about doing it the one week where we kept having freezing rain but I thought it was too cruel...

Another time, my friends put dog crap under the door handles of someone's car then sat and watched from a distance as the person went to get in their car. The man just looked at his hand for a long time, then wiped it off in the grass and drove to work.

My stance is anything goes as long as it doesn't do any permanent damage...

jdalex178

gadgetfanatic

grinreaper31

Andrewpetty

SwatLax

The car was his new Sis-in-law's Pinto, (it was quite a long time ago), and they drove from central Ohio to Sandusky to go to Cedar Point. Well the cheese on the engine burned off during the drive, leaving just a bit of lingering smell. But the jar under the seat vented off quite nicely while parked and locked up on the amusement park parking lot during the next days hot, summer sun.

Brother said later that they could almost see the fumes flickering inside the car when they came back and could smell the cheese from yards away. And the smell soaked into the headliner fabric and never did come out!

The owner of the car NEVER forgave me for that stunt!

NatefromOgden

Of course, there is no damage to the car . . . .

findude

Andrewpetty

And I thought cable ties around the drive shaft was pushing the limits.

But then I don't want to damage other people's property.

Barbarisater

poxpopulus

Andrewpetty

At my wedding, the pastor pulled the line to the starter relay. We do the whole "run past all your friends" thing, get in the car, and...nothing.

It was my dad's 68 Mustang, which he'd spent a ton of time and money getting ready b/c we were taking it on our honeymoon (thanks Dad!), and he turned pale white. It's one of my favorite pictures from our wedding.

The pastor (an awesome car guy) pulled the hood, reconnected the wire, and we were off.

Mad_Science

PhoneticLorin

The second was much better. In high school a "friend" upset me. I took my grandfather's 12 gage powered Hilti Gun and a length of boat anchor chain. I wrapped the chain around the axel of the truck and then used the Hilti Gun to bolt the chain into the concrete. Needless to say the fire department needed to come out to cut the chain and release the truck…

gonzo29

He didn't drive anywhere for a week.

bluecoupe

1) In high school, my friends and I took a geo metro and stood it on end, against a concrete wall. It stood straight up!

2) Brought a bunch of tools with me one day, and during lunch a couple of friends disconnected the rear drive train from a buddies mid 80s suburban. left him a note, saying "you left your drive train at home."

he had to drive home in 4wheel using just the front axle.

it was hilarious.

cyanics

SpaceWeasel

sliderule

eltonito

mr.chophoppers

Great for wigging people out.

RocketScientist

The next morning her rental car (a white Mustang) is covered with slogans such as "Cowboys suck", etc. She gets to a meeting and commends him on a fine prank and he admits he had trouble finding her exact car.

It turns out he had decorated every white Mustang in the hotel parking lot to make sure he got hers.

eltonito

dvchops

cganilo

Back in college I was the only one with a car --a '79 MGB. The starter went out again (I think for the 3rd time since I bought the car -- thanks Lucas) and my two friends with me had to give me a push start if they wanted a ride to the mall. They were pushing and straining for all they were worth in the Florida summer sun but they could not get the car going fast enough to start it. Just before they passed out from heat stroke, I looked down and realized the parking brake was on -- oops. I took it off and said give 'er one more try and they got it going no problem. I though it was pretty funny seeing their straining faces in the mirror. They weren't laughing too much...

Village_Idiot

DWMILLER

We covered one guys Trans Am in beer labels one night (peeling them off the bottles while we were drinking them).

My roommate had the old air cooled VW Beetle and one of our neighbors stuck an entire bag of Xmas bows all over it. That was actually pretty cool looking. They stuck for quite a while too.

mytdawg

Two of these chunks of frozen shaving cream will fill and slightly pressurize a 1960s VW bug.

(This of course hearsay. I wouldn't know anyone who would do this. I don't hang around that sort of people. p.s. Barbasol workd better than any of the 'gel' type brands)

Cruncher

htrodblder

Had one of my employees run a wire from my headlights (dim side) to my horn and then flip on the brights. On my way home I dim the lights and the horn stays on getting me the ole stink eye while I'm in traffic.
They laughed about that for days.

htrodblder

SundaySunday

Would have been funnier, but before she got out of the store, one of the cars beside her had left, so she was able to drive out without any trouble.

smalleyxb122

JoSCh

We also moved what we thought was a girl we knew's mid-80s Accord so that it was parallel parked very tightly between her friend's house and the pole for the basketball hoop. Then we used chocolate sauce to draw a big phallus on the hood. Turns out it was her friend's dad's car. And it didn't run. Never did find out how long it sat there...

A guy I know was at a wedding, and the groomsmen pranked the car the couple was going to drive away in. One of the things they did was put glitter in the AC vents and turn the fan to high. When the car was started, the whole thing filled with glitter, covering the bride and groom. Apparently they were still finding glitter in that car and on their faces years after the wedding. I always thought that one was just way too mean.

InternationalSuperspy

I drove a Dodge Stake Truck (with a 4 speed) and one day, one of the other employees ticked me off. I don't even remember what it was. Anyways, I saw his car in the parking area and butted my truck up to his car's rear bumper. He couldn't move forward (building) or backwards (my truck). I put the truck in gear and locked it up.

I went in a quickly as I could, grabbed the spare keys as well, signed out and went home. About 30 minutes after I left, my phone rang. It was the owner asking where the keys were to my truck. "In my pocket, I must have forgotten to turn them in, sorry!". "Ok, where are the spare keys?" I paused and said, "Gee, I'm sorry, I have them too. Don't know why. Must have grabbed them by mistake too"

"Ok", the owner answered, "can you come back to the office as quick as possible and move your truck, it's blocking a car". I replied "Sure I'm on my way".

It was normally a 15 minute drive to work via the expressway. Well, it was SUCH A NICE DAY... I took side roads, arriving about 45 minutes later. I fiddled with the keys, got in side, "Fought" with the clutch, and finally moved my truck slowly out of the way. He took off is a blase of gravel and dirt and I parked my truck in his spot.

I turned to see the owner wiggling his finger, telling me to come into his office. I entered and he told me to close the door. "You know, I have no idea what he did to you, but what ever it was, it had better have been something bad". I told him what it was, and we both just laughed. "You know, I am going to have to split you up now, don't you?"

That was my plan all along !!!

PolishDon

Indiana Bento and the lost Temple of Citroens

Matt Hardigree

sos10

snep

PatFromGundo

Also, I used to put those exhaust pipe whistles in neighbors cars as a kid.

The most common one that I still do to this day is whenever I get in a friends car before he/she gets in I change as many things as I can like I move the mirrors, turn on heater, wipers, headlights, radio settings and I always remember to pop the cigarette lighter so that it pops out about 15 seconds after they get in. It's so simple, yet so funny to me.

MarkB

Mike the Dog

One night while waiting on a buddy to close up the restaurant, I hopped into his 3-speed '68 Ford pickup (this was 1996) and the rest of the crew pushed the truck through the drive-thru after closing time. I banged on the window and demanded to order. He, of course, was very pissed off when he figured it all out.

We also tried to push-start it in the same parking lot, but the cops showed up before we could get the needed momentum.

Ash78

FLAT4-PΩWER ™

loosse

hassimir

JSmith53

Although, a couple years ago, BMW ran a commendable series of adds (the one I remember most was their promise to create a Canadian Autobahn).

Maymar - now with 37% less anonymity

orangeroller

max-hiding-in-the-forrest32

Buckster

Buckster

FInally we crashed the car into the fence to a Harley Davidson Club...not the nice kind.

I was a mean kid!

SVENSSON

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