Practical Jokes in FIRST

[Billfred]

Night before ship, 2007. 1618 had most of the robot done, but had yet to weigh it. Another mentor and I crammed the robot (then called What Robot?--the Uppercut name didn't come about until Palmetto) into the back of my Honda and drove a couple of miles up the road to 1293's shop. They work out of a shipping warehouse, which means they've got a scale good for weighing robots. We put the robot on the scale and find it to be ridiculously underweight--98 pounds--and I snapped a picture as proof. We then decide to pull one on the rest of the team, so I put my foot on the scale and press down a bit to push it up to about 126--enough to cause mild panic the night before ship, but not enough to sound implausible--and snapped a second picture. They bought it hook, line, and sinker until I showed them the first photo.

[Steve W]

My best practical joke involved Team 48, GTR and April 1.

See Travis for his side.

[NorviewsVeteran]

A good way to freak someone out is to get 2 or 3 people to walk up to someone, and with a straight face start saying, "seriously? really? You couldn't just take care of it? For real? I can't... Man, seriously?" and just keep saying those things. It was really fun when we did it to people in the morning before we left for a trip.