Hey, in your latest issue, March 08, you asked for ideas on pranks on coworkers. I have 1971 Torino GT that I bought new and has been my daily driver ever since. I came out to go to lunch one day at work. As I took off and turned on my left turn signal the horn would honk as the signal light activated. So as I am turning the corner the horn is honking sequencially with the signal light. This only happened when the left signal was activated. Well I suffered thru this on my drive back to work and planned on tearing the steering column apart as soon as I got home. I was sure something had grounded out between the turn signal and the horn connection. As I got back to work the entire office was lined up outside laughing and giving me the thumbs up. It turns out that my good friend, the electrical engineer at the place, had taken a wire and attached it to the terminal on the bulb on the left side running light an then brought it up to the terminal on the horn. They all cheered as I was turning into the parking lot with the horn sequencially honking. I popped the hood and here was a big ball of wiring that I would have immediately noticed. They still talk about this today and it has been over two years.  

RB, thanks for posting. That is AWESOME! I HAVE to try that one soon. Thanks for the ideas! Keep 'em coming everyone (but lets be safe too!)...

Good fun!

Mark  

Along the same line is adding a wire from the horn to the AC compressor. Go-Jo under door handles is always good.  Leaving charged ignition capacitors laying around is extra fun.  Nobody can resist picking them up....  

Good pranks.  I work for a large county airport.  One day the local Sheriff's Deputy assigned to the airport walked into our maintenance shop looking for a paper hole punch as he held up a large plastic baggie full of the punched out holes.  It turns out that he and our runway tech had the jokes going back and forth.  Anyway, the deputy poured the paper holes down the defroster vents of the techs county pickup.  Morning startup made a cab full of confetti. It was great. Harmless, but what a cleanup.  I suggested that he retaliate with the tiewrap around the driveshaft trick.  That worked great.  The deputy drove off in his county expedition stopping every few feet, opening his door, reving his engine and upon hearing nothing while he was stopped of course, moving on.  We also put a second tiewrap around the front driveshaft and tucked it up out of sight. A new round of fun for a snowy day.  Another great prank is to fill a disposable latex shop glove full of baby powder and slide it over the exhaust pipe of your coworkers prize ride.  The ensuing pop and white "smoke" cloud is very unnerving. Thanks for the great magazine!!  

stop it! i'm laughing to much...  _/\_ V.H.Y  

In the way back, I worked in a warehouse.  One of the guys was getting married, so we set him up good.  While things were going on in the church, we jimmied the door of his Cutlass and filled it to the roof with Styrofoam peanuts.

In my old part time job at a parts store, we did two things quite regularly.  One was to charge up a capacitor (you younger people Google on point triggered ignition) on a plug wire then toss it at someone.  Try it sometime.

The other was to call new hires at the other stores in the chain (or when we knew about green horns at a competitor) and ask for things like muffler bearings, throwout bearing for an Eldorado, radiator cap or water pump for a VW Beetle, 6' screwdriver, rear U-joint for a Toranado, blinker fluid, etc, etc, etc.  

one i've seen with the horn is to hook it up to the brakelight switch....that was one of the funniest things i've seen  

I work in EMS, one day the jailer came by to visit. (former employee of our company) I jacked his crown vic up and put the rear on jack stands. The rear tires were 1/4 inch off the ground. I don't know how many times he revved the engine until he figured out I was messin with him. Then he almost took out his parking pawl in the trans because he didn't put on the brakes before throwing it in to park. That was the best part. Being the jailer, he can probably one-up me pretty good.