April fools day pranks

[meton_magis]

2 points to this post.

1) It is april 1st again, I'm just wondering what kind of pranks people have seen or done.

I was going to trick my brother by writing a windows script that would open several cmd.exe boxes and spew a bunch of garbled text across ending with "CONFICKER INSTALLED" change the .bat file's icon to a folder, and name it "movies" or something and give it to him on a flash drive telling him I downloaded a new movie for him to see.

unfortunately, window's scripting is nowhere near as graceful as bash or perl, and it would have taken me the whole day just to figure out how to use the stupid shell, and would have missed my opportunity


2) I am currently cracking a friends password (standard md5 hash from the shadow file) and expect to have it soon. I have his e-mail address, myspace account, and some other accounts, one of which i'm sure this one will match. Does anyone have any ideas for some pranks I could pull with that (nothing harmful, i'm looking for a prank, not a "haha I got your password, now the cops are looking for you" or something that will get ME thrown in jail.

[MikeTbob]

2 points to this post.

1) It is april 1st again, I'm just wondering what kind of pranks people have seen or done.

I was going to trick my brother by writing a windows script that would open several cmd.exe boxes and spew a bunch of garbled text across ending with "CONFICKER INSTALLED" change the .bat file's icon to a folder, and name it "movies" or something and give it to him on a flash drive telling him I downloaded a new movie for him to see.

unfortunately, window's scripting is nowhere near as graceful as bash or perl, and it would have taken me the whole day just to figure out how to use the stupid shell, and would have missed my opportunity


2) I am currently cracking a friends password (standard md5 hash from the shadow file) and expect to have it soon. I have his e-mail address, myspace account, and some other accounts, one of which i'm sure this one will match. Does anyone have any ideas for some pranks I could pull with that (nothing harmful, i'm looking for a prank, not a "haha I got your password, now the cops are looking for you" or something that will get ME thrown in jail.

Number two "I am currently cracking a friends password" is a variant of "haha I got your password, now the cops are looking for you or something that will get ME thrown in jail". and you confessed in writing on the internet

I think a good one is if you have a kitchen sink with the little handheld sprayer device, you can put a rubberband around the sprayer handle/trigger thereby soaking the victim when they turn on the water.

Stuff a potato in his exhaust pipes?
Get into his car and turn on everything full blast so that when he starts it, the radio is blaring, windshield wipers are a'hummin and the AC unit is blowing cold air at high speed.

[darkrose0510]

When I worked at McDonald's, opening on April first was always 'interesting' as the closers the night before would do things like swap the coke and fanta syrup lines, so when you went to pour a coke, fanta would come out, and vice versa.

[rokytnji]

Pulled a guys sparkplug on his bike once. Drew a line with a Pencil from electrode, down the insulator post, to the threads on sparkplug, When he started his bike it was running on 1 cylinder. Fixed it for him about after 3 or 4 beers.

[D-cat]

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[meton_magis]

Number two "I am currently cracking a friends password" is a variant of "haha I got your password, now the cops are looking for you or something that will get ME thrown in jail". and you confessed in writing on the internet

I think a good one is if you have a kitchen sink with the little handheld sprayer device, you can put a rubberband around the sprayer handle/trigger thereby soaking the victim when they turn on the water.

Stuff a potato in his exhaust pipes?
Get into his car and turn on everything full blast so that when he starts it, the radio is blaring, windshield wipers are a'hummin and the AC unit is blowing cold air at high speed.

Well I'm not worried about the act of cracking his password being illegal. First, it is my server, and there is a warning on every login that all information stored on the server is the property of the owner (me) so I have a legal defense of that, and plus it IS a friend, i'm not cracking some strangers password.

I saw a few years ago a variation of the kitchen sink thing, but instead you undo and aim the fill hose in a toilet tank to point to whoever just used it and is about to flush. The toilet goes to fill, and it sprays the person

[darkrose0510]

Our local paper had a full page article about how to get free internet.

It basically involved putting a wireless enabled laptop behind a radio which is pointed toward the transmission towers and tuned to an AM station.

They were nice enough to mention that the signal would be strongest on April 1st.

[meton_magis]

LOL. that's pretty good.

[elija]

A few years ago we sent an email round the office stating that we would be blowing the static out of the phone system and could people come and get the bags to catch it.

We had several turn up and they were duly given a plastic bag and elastic band each; along with instructions to fasten the bag around the phone handset.

When they came in in the morning the bags were filled with shredded paper, dust bunnies and in extreme cases empty soft drink cans


Many years ago I had the senior management of a medium sized company crawling round their offices looking for the token that had fallen out of the token ring network. Deciding that I liked my job I claimed I had found it myself


More subtly you can wrap a cable tie around the phone cord so when they pick it up.... they get the whole phone.

[rokytnji]

This happened to my Wife Last night. She works for P.D. as a jailer. There is a muderer who stabbed and killed a man and his wife who owned a bar in our small town locked up and on suicide watch in segregated cell. My wife walks by and sees his feet sticking out the shower. Sitting down. With the shower curtain pulled. She calls out the guys name a couple times and gets no answer. She calls for her backup, (co workers), and they enter the cell. Pull back the shower curtain. He is sitting there with a sock on his head, and dinner tray on his chest. On the dinner tray written in soap is Aprils Fools.