JUST FOR FUN: Pranks you've played (computer or other)

by SnakesInTheTower 25 Replies latest jw friends

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  AlmostAtheist

  I worked for a tech support company. We had a bank of modems and a ton of phone lines. It was a unix-based, terminal-driven environment; we used the modems to dial into customers' computers to diagnose and fix problems. We also had an intercom system. Pick up the phone, hit #74 (or something like that) and you were on the intercom.

  So I would occasionally set up a script to pick up a modem, dial #74, then play Mary-had-a-little-lamb in key tones over the intercom. To my knowledge, no one ever traced it back to me. :)

  Dave
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  cognizant dissident

  When I was 13 and my brother was 15 we were waiting outside the bookstudy group house for my dad (elder) to stop talking and drive us home. We only lived one long block away but we drove for some silly reason. So, after the 3rd time going inside to hurry my dad up, he told us just to walk home. Why didn't we think of that? Better yet, we decided to take the car with us! Neither of us could drive and we didn't have the keys, so we put it in neutral and my brother pushed while I steered the car down the street and into the driveway. (It was a very flat block) We thought this was hilarious!

  Not content with that, we walked back up the street to the bookstudy house and went back inside to wait inside with my dad to finish talking. That way when he went out and saw the car gone he wouldn't suspect us. So, he finally finished up, goes outside and sees his car is gone. My brother and I helpfully suggest maybe somebody stole it while we were all inside visiting. My dad marches down the street angrily cussing and reviewing what he is going to tell the police when he gets home to call them. He was walking so fast, we couldn't keep up to him, which was just as well, because we could barely keep a straight face behind him. He was in such a foul rage he didn't even notice the car in our driveway until he was actually up to the house! Then my brother and I burst out laughing. He was actually so impressed with our practical joke and so relieved his car wasn't stolen, that we didn't even get beat for that one!

  Cog
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  cognizant dissident

  My first job, at 18, was in the accounting dept of a life insurance co. One day at lunch, my supervisor shows me all these games in a "dead file' that only managers have the password to. So, I watched over her shoulder as she punched in the password. Got it.

  Then on my lunchbreak, another day, I was bored and decided to play some games. I see my supervisor walking down the corridor making for my cubicle. So I pressed escape to quickly get out of the incriminating dead file. Nothing happened. Poker game still up on screen. She is getting closer and closer and I'm starting to sweat so I start randomly pushing buttons all over my keyboard. Finally, the screen goes black. Whew! Close call! No need to explain how I got the secret password.

  The only problem was, every computer terminal on the entire floor was linked and all had gone blank. I had somehow inadvertently crashed the entire system on that floor. It took the programmers all afternoon to get the system up and running. Towards the end of the day, the programmers are coming up to my cubicle and asking me what I had been doing when the system crashed, why was I in the dead file? I was so afraid I was going to be fired. How the hell they could tell I didn't know, but I just played totally stupid and told them I didn't know what they were talking about. Sometimes, being new and cute and 18 works in your favor!

  Cog
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  KW13

  Some idiot at College copied my instructions for sending LAN Messages using scripts. Well the clown sent a rude one didn't he and he had no idea not only was our campus connected to several OTHER COLLEGES and the rest of our campus but also to the IT Dept which could trace him. He got kicked out of college

  I used to eject peoples CD Drives and make them go back in again before they could do anything over the network, some seriously panicked - one girl was like "sir my computer is going mad, i dont like it"

  Once i put a screensaver on my uncles PC which is a self-contained unit (everything including screen in one box) which made it look like your screen is melting. Well i told him his screen fan had broken and that the LCD screen was damaged (explaining his icons and everything slowly dripping off the screen lmao).

  I've had friends take over my Uncles machine and control it from their house - he's a freecell and spider solitaire nut so it really pissed him off that his game got completed and a message appeared telling him he sucked at it...couldn't blame any of us because we were all sat away from the pc lol.
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  ilovegravy

  Cling-film over the toilet bowl is a great wheeze

  Uncle Gravy
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  RichieRich

  I used to work at Target ( a big retail store) and all the employees were given walkietalkies for communication throughout the store.

  The Walkies had multiple channels on them, so when all the bosses went into a meeting, they would all switch their walkies to a dead channel, so that way they could be reached in case of an emergency. Of course they would announce what channel they were going to.

  Well, its a huge store, and everyone has a walkie, so we would really have some fun... switch to their channel and start moaning, making real sexual noises, or find some kids keychain that played catchphrases from nacho libre or Spongebob, and play them over the walkie.

  AA, I know the keytones number for Jingle Bells, and when I would make the closing announcement for the store overhead, I would always play the song first during the holidays...
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  lisavegas420

  I know this is kinda stupid. But several times over the years, I've droped a potato, (especially love the ones that are growing the weird eyes and are kinda wrinkled).... into my daughter hugh purse. She usually doesn't find it for a few days.

  One time she asked why I did this. I said...well, I know eventually you'll find it. And when you do, you will think of me.

  lisa
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  RichieRich

  This also reminds me of two more.........

  In high school, me and a buddy used to grab peoples bookbags during class, and take everything out of the bag, then turn it inside out, and shove all the books back in it, and zip it. Pretty much this left people with a big pillow thing with no straps to hold on to. For maximum effect, we would do it right at the end of class, so when the bell rang, and they looked down, it would be way too late. We did it SOOOO much in fact, that no one sitting near us trusted us anymore, so they would attempt to sit with their legs through the straps and things so we couldn't get them away. We always found a way though...

  Sometimes too, we would ziptie the bookbags to the desks, so kids would end up picking up the desk, with their bookbag.

  number 2 is a teacher who never taught us anything. her idea of teaching was to sit at her computer and surf the web during the whole class. This naturally irritated us, so we started going in the class before her, and disconnecting the LAN connection.

  We did it everyday for two weeks... and she blamed it on kids in the class before us!!
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  Black Soul

  Well my old GF was a hacker, and tried installing BO2k on my computer... well unbeknown to her I saw it and installed one on hers and put proper firewall on mine. Which kinda fried our relationship but only because of firewall she never knew I had BO2k on her until I told her 6 months later, she is lacky though I never abused it. But by telling her about it I myself got lucky but no I didn't want to get back, she was real defcon style hacker ...
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  AllAlongTheWatchtower

  When I was in the Marines, there were several pranks we used to pull that usually involved sending some new guy in the unit down to supply to ask for various inane, nonexistent things, like;

  A box of grid squares.

  100 feet of flight line.

  Form ID-10-T.

  A PRICK E-7.

  If you get all of the above, you're probably ex-military. If you don't and actually care, here's what they mean:

  Grid squares...you know, like on a map. Only the poor schmuck sent to get them thinks they come in a box and must be made of plastic or something.

  Flight line...as in, on an airstrip. The butt of the joke thinks he's asking for some kinda special rope.

  Form ID-10-T, heck anybody can figure that one out, it's not just a military joke anymore.

  PRICK E-7: The backpack radio/telephone that you see used in a lot of war movies is called a PRC-77, commonly called a PRICK-77. An E-7 is high ranking enlisted man. Luckily for newbies sent on this wild goose chase, MOST E-7s are well aware of the joke, and fairly tolerant.