What's the best prank you were ever a part of?

Lets see, where do we being??? Duct tape someone to their cot, it was while we were deployed and staying in bunk houses. In the middle of the night sliding on our backs along the floor reaching the cot, we taped away. The guy never woke up while taping, the next morning, well, he missed chow..... Being ppart of MLRS the SPLLs were fun, pull up next to a wall tent and pull full throttle all the sides of the tent were flapping, oh there was folks in the tent, hehehe, wake up!!!! The coolest, one person drank a bit much, so while he was sleeping someone took black shoe polish and made eyes on his eye lids. Everyone was laughing and he couldn't figure out why, it was the funniest thing when he closed his eyes.

My platoon had a prank contract in Afg.

One of the clauses stated: If a prank was deemed unsanitary or voted through a platoon "quorum" that was too far. Punishment would be inflicted upon the pranker to be chosen by the leadership.

So, a brilliant young trooper got into my office overnight and did wonders. Everything from altering my keyboard to pasting tampons covered in ketchup to my walls. Awesome job. Took me half an hour to fix it.

HOWEVER, one of his pranks was shaving his pubes with my shaving razor, which i found before I used. So. I took a picture of the office, wrote a note to the platoon Sergeant regarding the plan for revenge, placed it and the picture in an envelope, labeled the envelope "Do not open until I let you know -LT", and sealed it.

So I cleaned the entire office, set everything straight, except the razor, and left completely not knowing who got my office. I make sure I come back until AFTER the platoon came into work. Acting like I just woke up, a single trooper is dumbfounded with the clean shape of my office and starts asking me about it. I deny everything. He walks in, inspects everything, to include the razor, which he starts bragging about, letting me know it was him.

I call the "quorum" over the razor, which is deemed unsanitary, several options for punishment are put on the table and punishment is chosen by our platoon sergeant since I was pranked and couldn't choose.

Shave Everything except eyebrows. An option I didn't even put on the table.

As he's shaving everything in his billet. I tell my Platoon Sergeant to open the envelope. He sees the picture, laughter ensues, and reads the note.

"Someone is shaving their entire body today". Hilarity ensues.

Got him to admit he pranked my office, and earned a reputation for predicting the future.

2 come to mind. Knocking on the Maintenance Door, screaming for "Speed" our Maintenance Tech to come out (He was asleep on the Maint Bench) we had an emergency. Foggy Out of it he comes stumbling out and we Shot him with a CO2 Extinguisher that we had filled the Horn with Teletype Chaff (Frozen Pink Paper Dots all over his body). The other I dropped trou climbed face forward on the copier, had "Speed" hit the copy button. Made a copy of my Unmentionables, Stamped the Copy with a Routing Stamp and marked it as if I had forwarded it to the ICWO Intelligence Center Watch Officer (Female) and put it in the Supervisors Traffic to be checked. Yeah he about freaked and went running down to the ICWO one story down (Of course I didn't send a copy to the ICWO).

We wrapped our Command Master Chiefs car completely with cellophane.  It took him 30 minutes to get in. 

As a brand new 2LT Air Traffic Control trainee, I was assigned to a tower crew for initial OJT. The crew chief, an E6 thought he'd have a little fun with the new LT and directed me to leave the tower cab and not come back till I brought back 1000 feet of Flight Line. Now I was a noob but I'm not stupid, so I left and took the rest of the day off. Next shift, in answer to "Where the *&^% were you? I innocently answered I was out looking for flight line. The best one I ever pulled was as a Captain, one of my NCOs was PCSing and we put him in for a Commendation Medal which was approved and presented by the Commander. Back in those pre-word processor days, you had to type the certificate out on a typewriter and it had to be perfect or you had to start again, so we had several errored versions of the certificate on hand. Our victim had placed his prized presentation certificate centered on his desk and was enjoying a small reception being held in the office. Meanwhile, I snuck in and replaced his perfect certificate with one of our unusable ones - then later when he was back in his office, I walked in with a sloppy wet mug of coffee and casually happened to set it down right on this bogus certificate leaving a beautiful coffee ring. Apoplexia ensued!

Out in Reforger, the CO was pcsing so 1Sgt and myself shrink wrapped him to his cot with playboy mags, empty bottles of beer and other alcohol, rubbers. Took pictures of it all and gave it to Hume as a going away gift. Also shrink wrapped his pov when he had me pick it up from his quarters and drop it off at the HQ coming back after a two day tdy.

I had a SPC use a paint brush to brush off the microphones before a performance. Told him the mics were with us in Iraq and the dust and sand needed to be removed before every gig, otherwise they'd sound bad.

Before departing for Latin America in 85, I impersonated my Playboy E-7 at the NCO club and arranged for the pregnant gal I was dancing with to come to his hotel room later that night, the rest of the team was in on it, we all had a great laugh.

When it was the birthday of the general I worked for I blockaded his office door with cans of Diet Dr.Pepper. His Aide helped.

A Civilian turned 50 and I filled her office with black balloons.

My Soldier had a birthday and I plastic wrapped his cubical.

The General's Aide had a Birthday and I foiled her desk and everything on it.

One of my Attorney's had a Birthday and I 100 mile an hour taped all things on his desk to the wall like it was on his desk...

So um...I don't know. But I have pictures of several of these.

In admittance of having done or been the boths topic I'd chosen choice (and would like to think even if it were not for Press affiliation) to remain in the Audience if it had been a multiple choice survey (survey?),and from that angle at the ripe old age of 69 like a good many of we such Boomers as a Survivor of more wars than only my DD 214's Vietnam one,glad it wasn't because happy is,happy does...something as that anyway.