The work prank thread

tape the lever under the chair to the chair so it collapses when someone sits, also tape a bull horn under the chair.

Will scare the shite out of someone

my uncle taped a giant duct tape cock and balls onto a lead apron at the hospital. doc comes in and the nurses put the apron on him and everyone in the room loses it.

It's going to be hard to top the annoy-a-tron thread

ETA: Crawdaddy beat me to it. that thread was a classic

There's an old man I work with who I help with whenever he has a simple problem (attaching a file to email, etc.)

I put a wireless USB mouse in the back of his computer which is a couple desks away from mine. Every so often throughout the day when he is working I'll barely slide the wireless mouse from my desk to move his cursor.

It drove him nuts and he started slamming his mouse and cursing. I finally told him a couple days later. I couldn't keep doing it to him.

I didn't do this but a coworker used a spoof email application to convince a guy (big tennis fan) that Andy Roddick was doing a tour where he would play a round of tennis with random fans and he was selected. Had this elaborate story in the email.

Guy went around for a couple of days bragging about it, then got completely shut down. He was soooo butthurt

Anyone got a link to the annoy a tron thread?

We had a guy who wasn't very bright and an arse. We would blow up a balloon and write on it "I'm the locker bandit. I know your locker combination." Then deflate it, slip it in through the vent of his locker and inflate it again. Dumb arse changed out 4 locks before someone told him what was going on.

The only two I can remember now involved fans on either side of the Iron Bowl Rivalry. I was working for a small CPA firm that merged with an office in Auburn while I was there. I had to travel from Birmingham to Auburn a few times a month. One of the partners in Birmingham was a huge Bammer. So we went to the campus bookstore, and bought a wireless doorbell that played Auburn's fight song in its entirety when pressed. We hid it in the ceiling tiles above his desk one night after he left. Waited until he was on a phone call, and pressed the button. The tile sort of muffled the sound so it wasn't insanely loud, but it was loud enough to disrupt his call, and you could clearly make out it was the fight song. I wasn't in town when he finally lost it and found the thing, but they say he turned all shades of red. I don't think anyone ever fessed up to it.

The other one was at the Auburn office. It was actually a guy I knew from high school that ended up working there after he graduated from Auburn. After he left one night, we logged into his computer (he somehow told someone his password) and downloaded a bunch of mp3 files. Every time an email would hit his inbox, it would say Roll Tide instead of the usual chime/ding. Whenever he closed a window, the fight song would play. And a few other hidden things. Someone did a screenshot of his desktop then hid all the icons. Taped his phone's button down so it kept ringing when he tried to answer.

This happened to my dad. He was in Chicago for work with a few coworkers. One of his coworkers, very close family friend to this day Mr Doug, asked my dad to drop he and the other coworkers off at the front of the restaurant so they could secure a table while my dad went to park the car. My dad dropped them off and proceeded to go park the car and come in. Well Mr Doug told the receptionist that my dad was deaf and could only hear when spoken to very loudly in his right ear. They gave the girl a description of my dad and went on to the table. So my dad walks in and the receptions immediately comes up to my dad "MR ____?! WELCOME TO (insert restaurant name), YOUR PARTY IS RIGHT THIS WAY!" My dad said he jumped when she first started talking to him because she was soo damn loud. He was really confused and didnt say anything but was thinking "What the hell is wrong with this poor girl?" She proceeds to walk my dad to the table, and nobody at the table had a clue what was going on except Mr Doug. Hes an Ex Army Ranger, so hes sly with this stuff and keeps a great poker face all the time. Still pulls crap like this often haha She proceeds to give common pleasantries like "ENJOY YOUR DINNER! AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUR SERVER IS (insert name)!" She peels off to go back to the front of the restaurant, and a few tables next to them are wondering whats going on because she was soo loud. Mr Doug busts out laughing and proceeds to inform the rest of the table what he did. Not a harmful prank, but a fun story still to this day.

We recently got one of the field engineers on the project i'm working on with an annoyatron. We informed one of his colleagues and he would send us updates every couple days. He had theories than ranged from a cell phone ringtone, someone's computer, and a cricket infestation. After about two weeks of it, he was trying to timing the frequency of the chirps to try and locate it. We finally broke down and told him before he lost his mind.