- Short sheet their bed
- If they leave their computer unattended/unlocked:
- Screenshot it, make that their wallpaper, then hide icons & taskbar
- (unsure if this still works) Alt + Ctrl + Arrow keys to rotate Windows desktop
- Get a musical birthday card, then hide it (opened) somewhere in their room/office (best under a piece of furniture/couch cushion, etc) so all they can hear is the muffled music
- Remove spring from tip of clicker ballpoint pen (ink cartridge won’t stay out/in)
I closed the tool palette in the illustration app of a coworker and replaced it with a same-size image of same.
I go for a variation of this if a coworker leaves their computer unlocked when they leave for lunch or the day.
Screenshot their whole desktop, hide all icons and the toolbar. Set the background to the screenshot. Boom a computer that looks exactly the same as before but doesn’t work.
Quick, non permanent, takes a few minutes to work out, lesson learned to not leave your machine unlocked.
Putting a piece of tape over their mouse eye is good also.
That’s a classic. We did it for a while. We moved on to all out warfare.
We had a script that backed up the current desktop exactly the way it was then changed everything about it. It would change all system sounds to the original My Little Pony theme, change the background to a Friendship is Magic wallpaper, change the mouse pointer to a tiny pony with trailing sparkles, and remove edit rights to those files from the account using it. To get things back to normal you had to take ownership of the affected files.
One guy couldn’t figure it out and disconnected his internal speaker because someone had set up some policy deep in the system where he lost sound settings. I don’t know how that worked. Apparently neither did he.
Another guy worked remotely the next day so his computer just kept playing the song while he was gone.
The guy who created it didn’t get a normal birthday cake. The boss got him a My Little Pony birthday cake that year.
What a lot of folks didn’t realize and never asked about was that there was a reversal script in the user folder.
Piss in pizza box, freeze it, then leave it in front of someone’s door if they’re throwing loud parties.
Liquid @ss is astonishingly effective, can get it cheap on Amazon
Buy something that makes noise periodically, hide it. They’ll go nuts trying to find it.
Record satanic rituals on a voice recorder. Tie string around it, open window quietly, lower voice recorder to hover above downstairs neighbor window. Set it to play. Can freak religious people out.
None of those really seem harmless.
They have tiny cricket noise gens.
This one is a little convoluted, but I just watched this prank video where they fed someone their own cooking in a restaurant. It may be the most wholesome prank I’ve ever seen.
So heart warming!
This British grandma is adorable lol
That’s the best thing I’ve ever seen!
Hide small plastic babies around their house
… are you my brother?
Print out a little dickbutt sticker, then put it over their mouse sensor.
Shouldn’t it be one of those “OK” symbols. You know, the “Made you look” game where you create an OK symbol with your hand below your waist.
That one?
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Jesus Christ… Dickbutt
Follow it up by placing a tiny bit of clear soft plastic in with the laser. It doesn’t stop the mouse from working, but if you were you draw a straight line the cursor wobbles slightly.
Put
#define true (rand()%1000 != 0)in some obscure C or C++ header file on their system/project. This makestrueevaluate to false one in a thousand times, and will make them spend hours trying to figure out why things like infinite loops, aren’t quite infinite.Other languages should also allow you to do things like this, if not messing with constants, messing with standard library functions.
They asked for harmless pranks - this would cause murders.
This is why airplanes crash
This is not harmless. This is evil. You are chaotic evil.
Although, most static analyzers like those in visual studio or clion would give you away once you hover mouse over true. Also, real C programmers don’t use booleans so I think those dudes are safe.
If your going that evil
#define { {}{depending on the language feel like that one would cause syntax errors for some keywords so their IDE might give you away there
It should always cause a syntax error if the code contains
} else.yes, same for a try catch block
I’ve heard it said that the key to a benign prank is to creates a mixture of momentary alarm and confusion, followed by relief.
A few years ago, I put a sign on my boss’ office door that said that his office was off limits for the week, as the building facilities team was going to be proactively placing humane termite traps in his office for two weeks as a preventative measures to lure any termites in and then release them at a nearby forest. He found it amusing.
True story. This thing happened last week.
Person A: I want to eat something.
Person B: Do you want some of these (B opens a box of boring cookies and shows the contents to A)
A: No!
B: How about these (opens another box of bland cookies)
A: No!
B: (grabs a third box, realizes it’s empty, but opens it carefully not to show anyone what’s inside) Ooh, I’m not showing this to you. (Puts the box away.)
A: I wanna see! (Tries to grab the box)
B: No, it’s mine! (Pushes A further away)
After some futile struggle B let A have the box. A opens it up and realizes it’s empty. We all had a good laugh.
I once hid in a box for, like, an hour so I could leap out of it at my brother.
If they leave their phone unattended take funny selfies and then quickly return their phone to exactly where they left it.
oh, I’m going to do this one to my partner
I have another in mind but haven’t tried it. If they leave their phone unattended, take a picture of their phone sitting there. Then later on text them the photo and say “You left your phone (wherever)” You will get them to view the photo of their phone on their phone and if you’re lucky they will go looking for it when they already have it.
I HAVE to try this on my employees XD
If they use android, you can open the camera without unlocking the phone. Just double tap the power button, and it pops up. It’s intended for rapid camera use, but great for pranking purposes. Apple has the equivalent, though I can’t remember the button combo, off the top of my head.
Wow. Been using Android since like version 2 but never knew you could double press the power button to turn the camera on. If screen is off have to press once to turn screen on first.
IIRC on iOS there is a camera icon on the lock screen.
Throw a sack of flour in their face
I don’t think that’s harmless…
Our kids swapped the position of our bowls and plates in the cabinets, and our knives, forks, and spoons in the drawers. They definitely won.
This is the correct answer.
Your kiddos are brilliant lol
Burn down their 10yo Minecraft base.
Empty a can of corned beef hash into the toilet and squirt ketchup over it and then don’t flush.
