'[He built] a shed on the head teacher's parking space': 15+ Pranksters who outdid themselves with their best pranks ever

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 4, 2023 11:00 AM EST

These pranksters are next-level. 

The best kinds of pranks are the ones that leave every participant laughing and smiling at the end. There are way too many social media pranksters these days who want to bother pedestrians or make mockeries of their friends. A lot of it feels mean-spirited, but it doesn't have to be that way. 

Why not prank someone the way a bunch of these guys did? They only ordered one milkshake at a restaurant, even though there were a bunch of people at their table. But then, they decided to "prank" their waitress. The total for their table was just $5 for the milkshake, but the dudes pooled their money and left her a $170 dollar tip! The waitress was quite moved by their gesture. They pulled off the perfect prank, in my opinion. 

Other people shared their funniest prank experiences in response to u/LifeofaLorax's question. The OP's friend's story is an absolute must-read, as it involves a rare prank in Antarctica. Since no one lives there, and it's only inhabitants are scientists visiting the area, the OP's friend probably experienced a first-ever moment for the continent. 

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  • You can check out the best pranks ever below. After that, take a stroll down memory lane as people born before 2000 share the things they could never explain to today's kids. 

  • 01
    ITI 'He would always tell people "Don't forget to buckle your seat belts!" right before hitting the button [to start the roller coaster]... There were no seat belts on that ride."
    via Matt Bowden on Unsplash
  • 02
    What's the best prank you've ever heard of/seen/experienced? I'll start... I had a friend that spent his summers on research trips in Antarctica every year for 10 or so years. One year, on a hike with colleagues, he was deep in a rocky valley having lunch when someone gasped and pointed, speechless, high above them. As they all turned and squinted up towards the peak on one side of the valley, the silhouette of a tall, but lanky looking tree became clear.
    via u/LifeofaLorax
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    The group (8 men) went absolutely silent as they all stared. The tree was evidently alive and well, the hue around the tree indicated that it was still green. All of the men digested the sight before leaping up, dropping lunch, coffee - everything - to the ground. Of course this is the biggest breakthrough EVER. There are NO trees on Antarctica, in fact, chances are the last tree to grow on Antarctica was 240-300 million years ago. Every last one of the men (including my friend) agreed to abando
    via u/LifeofaLorax
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    It took 4 hours to climb about 1/3 of the way up. At this point the crumbly face of the peak made it difficult and only four men proceeded with what picks and ropes they had for safe ascent. Luckily, Antarctica in the summer means constant daylight. It took near 13 hours to reach the tree. My friend was one of the four to make the final climb - he described it as one of the hardest of his life (he was a hiker but not much of a climber). He said that on the way up, two others argued (when breath
    via u/LifeofaLorax
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    Once they reached the tree, they realised that they had in fact made history. My friend laughed so hard he swore he wet himself a little, as he plonked down at the top of this peak, he wondered, what kind of brings an 8 foot plastic tree to Antarctica and what kind of climbs 13 hours with an 8 foot plastic tree just to plant it, a good day or twos hike from the nearest hint of civilisation. Whoever it was, he swears it was the funniest prank he'd ever fallen for and to this day calls respect on
    via u/LifeofaLorax
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    td;dr Friend in Antarctica is part of group who discovers first tree in Antarctica in several hundred million years. Climbs 13 hours to investigate, discovers tree is plastic and they've just fallen for the most epic but successful prank ever.
    via u/LifeofaLorax
  • 07
    matthewmcinerney During my junior year in high school, the seniors decided to flip every seat in the auditorium. All the chairs were bolted into the ground by the way. The night before a morning school meeting, the class snuck in, unscrewed every chair, turned them backwards, and screwed them back in. When the meeting began on Tuesday morning, the entire school had to face backwards for the whole meeting. I enjoyed that one.
    via u/matthewmcinerney
  • 08
    crispysock I replaced a friend's protein powder with Nesquik. He didn't even realize it until I told him 3 months later.
    via u/crispysock
  • 09
    andiekom Once my roommate and I spent an afternoon sewing all the sleeves closed on our other roommate's long- sleeved shirts. The sewing was done right at the end of the sleeve, so he would stick his arm through but then not be able to get his hand out. When he first discovered them, he thought that the dryer had "melted all of his sleeves together". It was awesome.
    via u/andiek0m
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    blink_and_youre_dead Seven or eight years ago my aunt and uncle took over ownership of her parents' home. In going through the stuff they found a box of misc keys. Not just a handful of keys, but easily a few hundred keys. Rather than throw them away they grouped them into standard size key chains and added a tag with a random funny name and my parents' phone number. They then drove all over town; dropping them in the street, in the mall, at businesses, at the local university. Dozens of key
    via u/blink_and_youre_dead
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    chains were released into the wild that April Fools morning. Like the craigslist pranks that have been mentioned you get someone else to do the pranking for you, but unlike craigslist this prank can not be recalled. My parents got dozens of calls that first day. At first my mom thought that the keys were real and arranged to meet to pick them up. Then the next person called with a different set of keys, but my mom thought she was talking to the first person again and confusion ensued. A later
    via u/blink_and_youre_dead
  • 12
    caller didn't speak English which only added to the confusion. After picking up a set and having two more dropped off at the house she realized what was going on. But there was no way to stop the flood of calls. People continued to call for weeks. Some of the names they came up with were hilarious, I can only image what it was like to receive a phone call asking for Terd Freguson saying they had found his keys.
    via u/blink_and_youre_dead
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    In spite of being released in the same city somehow one set of keys traveled nearly 300 miles before someone found it. tldr: Take dozens of key chains with the targets phone number on it and leave them around town.
    via u/blink_and_youre_dead
  • 14
    adiscgolfer Simple, but many hours of muffled laughter followed by the entire office erupting in laughter: hooked up a wireless mouse to a co-worker's computer. He went 2 days cussing under his breath and changing out wired mice, holding them up in the air wondering what the was up. We passed the thing around, each person coming up with their own creative way to frustrate him.
    via u/adiscgolfer
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    1836to1846 One of my friends worked at Six Flags when we were about 16/17. He operated one of the scarier rides that shoots you out of the loading bay at like 70 mph. He would always tell people "Don't forget to buckle your seat belts!" right before hitting the button and shooting them out. There were no seat belts on that ride. Edit: For clarification, everyone, it was the Mr. Freeze ride at Six Flags Over Texas.
    via u/1836to1846
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    ClockworkKangaroo When I was about 10 years old, I had a habit of jumping out and scaring my 9 year old brother, who at the time was very susceptible to such tactics. My parents would get pretty upset with me, but for some reason I couldn't or wouldn't stop being a little One night, I climbed into his bed while he was brushing his teeth, wearing my plastic skull mask with a black cloth hood. When he got to the doorway of his room I sat up and howled at him. He ran
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    screaming, of course, and I almost choked to death on my gleeful laughter. A day or two later, my dad had the bright idea of teaching me a cautionary lesson. He pulled the same exact tactic - same mask, hid in my bed. Unbeknownst to him, my brother had learned to be wary when coming to bed, and he peaked into my room before continuing past and into his own, to make sure I was laying in my bed. When my dad sensed the presence, he bolted out of bed and lunged screaming at the doorway. I, downstair
    via u/ClockworkKangaroo
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    only his shrieking, followed by his sobbing as my dad, mortified, attempted to apologize. Fortunately all is (mostly) forgiven these days, though my brother still attributes the worst scare of his life not to me, but to our father. tl;dr - my dad tried to teach me a lesson for always scaring my little brother, accidentally scared the bejeezus out of my brother instead.
    via u/ClockworkKangaroo
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    [deleted] I was once at a small, sit down ice cream shop in Ohio with about 15 guys. We were laughing, making a ton of noise, and generally being annoying to the waitress. To make things worse, only one person out of all 15 of us actually bought something - a single milkshake. We naturally decided it was time to prank our slightly exasperated waitress. Someone suggested we give her the biggest tip of her life.
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    After a bunch of laughing, everyone put in a couple bucks. Then one guy put in a $20, and it was game on. All the dudes started trying to one-up one another by putting in more money for this lady's laughably large tip. We ended up giving her about $170 for a $5 milkshake. When she saw it she started crying and shaking and couldn't understand what was happening. We thanked her for her excellent service and went on our way.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 21
    KaralynZ When my dad was in his early 20's he had a friend who had a really nice brand new convertible and was obsessed with it, talked about how awesome it was, how fast it went, how much better it was than the pieces of they drove, basically was a total about his awesome car. So my dad and his friends started carrying gas cans around town in their own cars, and every time they would hang out with this guy or see his car around town, they'd
    via u/KaralynZ
  • 22
    put a gallon of gas in his tank. Kept it up for a month or two and then everyone stopped all at once. Apparently the -friend spent hours making himself look like an idiot, yelling at the dealership that he was not getting the gas mileage he used to and something was wrong with the car. Of course the people at the car dealership were staring at him like he was completely off his gourd. The late 1960's? Of course his car wasn't getting 40 miles to the gallon!
    via u/KaralynZ
  • 23
    [deleted] A friend left his facebook account open, so instead of posting a stupid status we decided to change his privacy settings. Only he could see his updates, no one could comment on his pictures or shared links and we disabled his wall. After two months he told us he was very sad because no one would comment on the stuff he shared on facebook
    via u/[deleted]
  • 24
    Thisisaprofile After a night of drinking, one of my friends left us to play a youth soccer game (ages 15- 18). turned out the field was across the street. So at 9 am, as the only people other than a couple parents, we came across with signs, a megaphone, and his name spelled out in body paint. For 2 hours, he hid on the other side of the field as we chanted non stop. When he scored a goal, we stormed the field and carried him off. Needless to
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    say, he refuses to hang out with us now and we are banned from a youth league field whenever there's a soccer tournament on it.
    via u/Thisisaprofile
  • 26
    dingobaby27 My friends and I were trying to come up with the best insults against each other. This had been going on for months, and I was doing very well. Then one friend called me a name and said it was Turkish for "sucker." I didn't bother to look it up or confirm, but I liked the way it sounded, and started using it myself.
    via u/dingobaby27
  • 27
    At a bbq for my best friend's law school graduation party, my friend had taught everyone, including my best friend, his fiance, all the parents, etc to call me this Turkish name. I thought nothing of it since I have a thick skin and laughed it off. Days go by, and as I'm messaging my friend on gchat, he calls me the Turkish word, and then out of pure fun, I decide to spell it backwards. It was almost as if God was telling me to. Low and behold, as soon as i spell it backwards, i pause, put my
    via u/dingobaby27
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    head down in shame, and realize it was my first and last name spelled backwards. This had been going on for a week and everyone knew but me. How wretched this world is.
    via u/dingobaby27
  • 29
    nonnonsequitur · The Best Summer Camp Prank I've Ever Heard Off This happened at a summer camp in Wisconsin. One of the camp counselors managed to get his hands on a gorilla suit. The counselors began casually mentioning a story about a gorilla that broke out of the zoo to the campers - not as a scary story, but as a "if you see a gorilla, be careful" type of thing.
    via u/nonnonsequitur
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    Over the course of a week, they slowly escalated it. After some campers took extra bananas from the dining hall to leave out for the gorilla, some staff ate them (messily) in the middle of the night and left the scraps at a different location. While a group of campers went canoeing, a counselor dressed up as the gorilla and cautiously went to the edge of the lake to get a couple sips of water before scurrying off into the woods.
    via u/nonnonsequitur
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    The campers were going nuts. After a couple more close calls and sightings, some of the older ones began to broadcast a theory that the counselors were dressing up as a gorilla on their breaks. One of the nights near the end of camp, the entire camp was gathered for an all camp game in a field. During the game, the gorilla sauntered along the edge of the field before being scared by the excited cries of the campers who began to notice. He ran off. Meanwhile, the campers counted the staff and tri
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  • 32
    figure out who was missing. All of the counselors and directors were present. And that's why maintenance men can be your greatest ally for summer camp pranks.
    via u/nonnonsequitur
  • 33
    basshero When my dad was about 18 years old, he went to a summer camp where he and his friends would do all sorts of ... One year, his friend would always get up at 3 AM, on the dot, put on a ski mask, grab a pillow, and run over to a girls cabin. He would sneak in and smack one girl with a pillow, and then run out before anybody else noticed he was there. The girl would sit up and scream something
    via u/basshero
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    like, "SOMEBODY WITH A PILLOW!" HIT ME which would wake up the girls around her, who would see nobody there and just assume that she was crazy or having a dream or something. Over the course of the 10 night camp, he did the same thing every night to the same girl. She never found out who was hitting her.
    via u/basshero
  • 35
    Captain_Jake_K My friend's older brother came up with a prank to build a shed on the head teacher's parking space (with the help of several friends) on the last day of school. When the head came in, he discovered it, and found it hilarious, so those who did it went to move it, but found they couldn't. It turns out that my friend's brother
    via u/Captain_Jake_K
  • 36
    sneaked back later that night with several bales of hay, and filled it, so it was too heavy to lift. On moving the hay, they discovered a stolen goat sitting in the middle, looking fairly bemused at the situation. He still won't tell anyone where he found that goat.
    via u/Captain_Jake_K

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