What are some harmless yet hilarious office pranks?

[lisab]

My suggestion is to read the Wisdom of Psychopaths book by Dr Kevin Dutton.

Here's a review in Scientific American:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wisdom-from-psychopaths/

That's an interesting article!

based on this you could:
- place workhorses in the contentious parking place with danger tape
- place it in the space next to your car
- add a sign to make it an employee of the month spot or better yet
- make a workplace suggestion to reserve that spot for employee of the month
- put a fake boot on the car wheels
- call in a "parking lights are" on for his car so he has to go and check
- call in a "will the owner of car xxx please come to the parking lot"
- add a Uber/Lift mustache to his car
- add a promotional bumper sticker advertizing PF on his car and get a freebie from Greg

A cautionary word:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/419/petty-tyrant

:D ooooh yeah, some of those are good...

 

[HallsofIvy]

Do NOT slash his tires.

Aww, you're no fun!

 

[Danger]

Aww, you're no fun!

No, he's right. It's better to fill them with a hydrogen/oxygen mixture and wait for the static charges to build up while he's driving.

 

[lisab]

No, he's right. It's better to fill them with a hydrogen/oxygen mixture and wait for the static charges to build up while he's driving.

Nice to see you, Danger :w!

 

[jedishrfu]

How about just getting a sticker that says the tire has been inflated with the instant tire inflated stuff?

http://www.zoro.com/i/G5038871/?utm_source=google_shopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Google_Shopping_Feed&gclid=CK2D4sS2xMECFc87MgodY20AwA

I think fix a flat has a sticker that says the stuff is flammable so take care when repairing the tire.

 

[Danger]

Nice to see you, Danger :w!

Likewise.

 

[Pythagorean]

Welcome back, Danger.

 

[Danger]

Welcome back, Danger.

Thanks, Python.
Lisa, what does that keystroke combo that you mentioned do? I can't try it out because I'm strictly a Mac user.

edit: Hey, now... I just thought of a modification to my hydrogen joke that might actually be practical, if perhaps a bit expensive. If done repeatedly over the course of a few days or weeks, it should drive him nuts. While he's busy at work and you have some time to spare, let the air out of his tires and then reinflate them with helium. It should bleed through the rubber after a few hours (preferably over night) the same as it would from a balloon that isn't helium-rated. No matter how much surveillance he sets up around that car at home, he'll find them flat in the morning with nobody having gone near it, and no tire shop will be able to find a single flaw in the tires, rims, or valves. It would require some experimentation to get the timing tweaked.
Then again, there's always the good old exhaust whistle. Cram it up the tailpipe far enough that he'll have to undo the plumbing to get it out.

 

[jedishrfu]

The simple solution is to ride with someone else and get them to park there then if he tries that the car owner can jump on his case. It would be best if it was a lawyer or his boss or bosses boss...

Another thought would be concoct or find a story that matches what is going on and how the perpetrator was accused of work harassment and leave it anonymously in his mailbox or get someone else to send it to him...

We had one story at work where everyone was preparing papers for an upcoming conference. The papers had to be reviewed by legal by a certain date. So some of the engineers messed around with the printers and other devices to slow each other down.

But one engineer thought it would be funny to send a fake letter on corporate letterhead saying the papers were being held up because of corporate confidentiality.
The engineer got a call to go see the second line manager whom he was told knew about the joke and wanted to reprimand him. He goes to the meeting apologizing left and right and the manager says what are you talking about. It was then he realized he had been had and that he confessed for nothing. The end result was everyone got reprimanded for the horseplay and that one engineer got an extra large dose for forging the lawyers signature on the fake letter something you should never do.

 

[jedishrfu]

Get a car part like an old starter and place it under the car so he can see it and then call him and tell him you saw some drop from under his car. Muffler might work too or pour some transmission fluid on the spot where you'll expect him to park. Transmission fluid has distinctive color that he should recognize...

I did a similar joke at work when I returned a plotter to a manager who was gracious to let me borrow his. I walked in thanked him and banged the part against the bottom of the plotter and then dropped it to the floor. His expression was priceless, his mouth dropped at least ten inches. He couldn't believe that the motor just fell out...

Another time, I used paperclips and rubber bands to attach a phone handset to the base. When the phone rang and you picked it up it would snap back in place hanging up the call. You couldn't see the rubber bands until you lofted the handset.

Also I did a phone tag game. My coworker would answer other workers phones and take messages. So I called phones near her desk. She'd get up to answer and then I'd hang up. It took about six times before she caught on when she saw me laugh.