Practical Jokes :

My undergraduate advisor told me that when he was an undergrad at MIT, he and his floormates performed this trick on a particularly obnoxious guy who lived there. The guy would regularly go down to the power box and kill everyone's power, just for jollies. Well, they papered his room one day, and when he opened the door, he calmly lit a match, threw it in, and left. The building did not burn down but the student was ejected. He had been failing out anyway.

This reminds me of another newspaper prank, which I heard of from an old friend who attended the U. of Rochester in NY. A guy who lived on their floor had the Wall Street Journal delivered to his door every day, and the others on the floor decided to poke fun at this upscale practice by sealing off his door (from the outside) with sheets of the Journal. Every morning, the guy would open his door, see the doorway blocked by the sheets, and leap through. This became a morning ritual. One day, somebody got the bright idea to put a Coke machine on the other side of the papers, and the guy got a concussion when he tried to go through.

Something similar happened to me. The phone rings at 3:30am the night before my calculus exam, the following conversation takes place: Hello

Let me speak to Cindy

Who?

I said put Cindy on the phone

Sorry but you have the wrong number

Look asshole, put Cindy on the phone NOW

There is no Cindy here, what number are you trying to reach?

You fucking bustard, I know where you live, now let me talk to her.

Ok, Ok (long pause) can she call you back, she's in the shower with my roomate. CLICK.

This can be taken to the extreme. Once at Carleton U. an entire floor received a "leaner" as we call it. There are three elevators, and late at night another held all three elevators, placed trash cans filled with water and leaning outward in each. Then they pressed 4 and slipped out. The result: a big mess on the 4th floor. Unfortunately the water also went pouring down the elevators and caused some damage. Housing was not amused.

1) Take your Video camera (take someone elses if you don't have one) 2) Enter your toilet room 3) From the other side of the room to the toilet, stand on a chair and video a shot from near the ceiling of your toilet seat (about 5 mins should do) 4) Have a party !! 5) When someone leaves the room to visit the lav. put the cassette in your vid player. 6) Just before the person re-enters the room start playing the tape - with everyone in the room laughing at the TV screen. 7) WATCH THE FACE OF THE PERSON RE-ENTERING THE ROOM !! :-)