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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsF'n amateurs! Kids here caught on door cams ringing the bell and running. Back in the day we took it to the next
level. What ya did was get the guys garbage can, fill it as full of water as you could, leaned it up against his door, then you knocked and ran!
Kids these days really need to play outside more.
Irish_Dem
(55,605 posts)It's America, where kids get murdered for just sitting in their classrooms.
Shermann
(8,274 posts)arlyellowdog
(1,157 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,810 posts)But, back in my day, that was always a possibility. Some people were not okay with folks coming onto their property uninvited. I have had a few guns pointed at me both as a child and as a land surveyor because I wandered onto some person's property without being aware of it. (As well as a few times where I was certainly not on their property and we ended up having the cops called in and the dude was hauled away for his unhinged behavior to someone walking along the property line, which land surveyors have a right by law to do.)
enid602
(8,864 posts)I always liked the one where you fill up a large manilla envelope with shaving cream. You slide the open end of the envelope under the door, then jump on the envelope.
rsdsharp
(9,836 posts)You could peel that back, fill the interior with water, and throw in a shit ton of Jello packets.
Ive heard.
c-rational
(2,808 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,145 posts)brewens
(15,002 posts)he'll work on it himself. I'd hate to pull that one on a guy and have him take it to a shop to find out what that noise is.
Srkdqltr
(7,262 posts)JoseBalow
(4,418 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,556 posts)go to school, etc. (college age, both of us), I got up early one morning, and then proceeded to pour water slowly over my brother's car until the car was totally covered by at least 1/2 inch of ice (it was that cold). I can imagine the look on my brother's face still this day (he's gone unfortunately) when he went outside to warm up the car, saw that it was totally covered in a thick layer of ice. Ha ha heh.
Of course he was pissed, took him a bit to get the ice all chipped off. Ah, practical jokes. I do miss playing these on people but sometimes I still do. I mailed a fake rubber snake to my best friend in Illinois the year before. Didn't put a return address on it, so he didn't know who sent it to him. I finally called him up and asked him how he was doing, the conversation finally came around to did any of us get anything in the mail yada yada yada. He knew right then and there who sent it. It was a good thing I caught up w/ him, as he was thinking about notifying the postal guys about the fake snake.
LauraInLA
(988 posts)Marthe48
(18,383 posts)We lived near Cleveland when we were kids. Those cold winters. He liked to get aerosol shaving cream and sneak around the neighborhood to fill the neighbors' mailboxes full. He never got caught and who knows? Maybe he was kidding me that he did it
3catwoman3
(25,026 posts)I was way too chicken to be any sort of a prankster.