Pranks/Idiocy

[ChrisH]

Originally posted by Miss Tree

We had similar rules for pranks in the theater. I could give examples of those as well sometime.

I'd like to see the ones from ChrisH! [/b]

Since somebody was foolish enough to ask

During college I lived in the dorms. Our dorms were co-ed. The rooms were arrainged in "suites" of 4-5 rooms that shared bathrooms. In general, guys would be in one suite and gals in another and there were 5 or 6 suites per dorm.

One day a couple of the girls managed to get hold of the pass key that opened all of the rooms in the dorm. They used it to get into the rooms in my suite and stole all of the clean underwear from our drawers. They then soaked it and put it in the freezer compartment of the dorm refrigerator. It was rather stiff before we found it.

That was a pretty artful trick, but it required revenge. It took a couple of weeks to set it up, which probably made it all the more effective.

The apparent ringleader of this little plot had a job that required her to be at work at the ungodly hour of 6:30am on Sunday mornings. This was perfect for us as it greatly narrowed the possibility of colateral damage. It was also Halloween weekend at which time the dorm was putting on it's annual "haunted house" which was particularly gory that year. This ensured that most people would be asleep longer than usual.

Sometime during Saturday night one of the guys went up and quietly removed the shower head in the girl's bathroom. This was then stuffed with gelatin capsules, the capsules had been previously filled with red dye. The shower head was replaced and the trap was set.

The young lady got up in the wee hours and started the water for her shower, but it was not until the water was warm and she was actually in the shower, that the capsules melted and released the dye. It then looked like streams of blood were coming out of the shower.

She freaked, loudly.

We had been considerate enough to test the dye beforehand to make sure it wouldn't stain her hair or anything else. That was one of the things that took some time. Even better, by the time her scream-awakend suitemates got there all of the evidence it happened was down the drain. But there was no question in her mind who did it, or why.

Strangely, that was the end of pranks in the dorm that year and the young lady began using a shower further down the hall, or so she claimed.

Your turn,

ChrisH

BTW was that examples of rules, or pranks MissTree? as a former thespian I'd be interested in both.