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Old 04-03-2006, 09:25 AM
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Pranks you've played

It's probably not politicaly correct to mention anything that hurt someone, but I just had to share this...

I do diamond Machining and was visiting another company that does the same- I make lenses for military stuff and they make similar stuff like contact lenses and, more importantly, glass eyes (well, they're actualy plastic). they're painted by skilled craftsmen and look incredibly incredibly real. So I asked for one and they said yep no problem hehe.

Well, in the pub that night, I palmed it in my right hand and covering my (real) eye with my hand said to Julie the barmaid "Ouch! I think i got something in my eye.. have a quick look will you?" "Sure", she said and started to move to have a look. At that point I handed her the glass eye lol.

she jumped about two feet, launched the glass eye about 15 feet across the room and shrieked loud enough to silence the ENTIRE pub hahaha!

Can anyone beat that
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IMANCARROT That A Great Story, One Time At A Company That I Worked For They Had To Replace The Chip Conveyor On A Mill. The One The Bought Was A Magnet Type And Worked Great On Steel. But When We Ran Alum. For The First Time We Had A Mess. I Was On The 3rd Shift Left A Note For The Foreman (who Was A Great Guy X Ballplayer No Knowlge Of Metal) The Note Asked If He Would Order The Specail Alum Magnet So He Put In A Request To Purchacing And They Started Calling Around After A Few Day The Foreman Walk Up To Me And Said To Nerver Leave A Note For Him Again

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Old 04-03-2006, 11:37 AM
 
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This was many years ago, while I was working in a wire mill.

We had a large wire welding fabric machine called a Schlatter that would weld cross wires on top of other wires. We were making concrete reinforcement panels for the Columbia Tower here in Seattle. The panels were welded and came though a shear to be cut in half.

I was bored to tears by the process of shearing, stacking hot panels and feeding the machine as the operators helper. We were always playing little jokes on each other during the graveyard shift.

Reject panels were always painted with red paint. So, I grabbed the can and sprayed an old leather work glove with the red paint. The operator was on the other side of the shear, so he couldn't see what was going on at the back. The next cut of the shear I stuck the glove between the knives as he cut the panel. Of course leaving the red painted glove fingers on his side. I put the rest of the painted glove on my hand and let out a little scream. The guy dang near passed out, while the Foreman seen the ending part of the ordeal! Oops, big big troubles!

I almost got fired for that little stunt.......but dang, the look on his face was hilarious at the time. Realizing afterward it was over the top.

After all it was April fools and no one got hurt!

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I don't hold with pranks in the shop although Lakeside's might squeeze under the radar, but I worked with a guy who pulled an accidental prank. The guy was missing a foot due to a mishap with a wire rope on a tugboat so he became a machinist. One day he was pushing a large shaft out of a sprocket on a big vertical press with a big guy helping him. The shaft came out, hit the floor, fell over and crushed his prosthetic foot. He just said oh **** pulled his leg free and hopped over to his locker to put on his spare. When he got back to the press his helper was still out cold draped over the shaft on top of the foot; he did not know it was prosthetic!
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Kind of why I posted it as not a cool thing to prank when it comes to accidents.

Here is another that I get more of a chuckle out of....

One of my current co-workers seems to like pranks and can get laughing tearfully when telling his side of the story. Most of which seem a bit mean spirited. A rather Eddy Haskel type of chraracter if you recall the Leave it to Beaver show from days gone by. Trouble waiting to happen?

I have been the recipient of a few of his jokes. So, what comes around goes around.

Our dogs had this electronic pull toy Duck with a battery box inside that would go quack, quack, quack. I happen to find it doing some yard clean up of what was left of the toy.

Being the engineering type I am. I found a way to install it under this jokers chair in his office here recently. It never went off until he leaned back far enough during a meeting of the minds(Supervisors, Plant managers and leads). It went off about three more times before he could find it. All present couldn't stop laughing, so it was no big deal.

Strange.......he didn't think it was so funny any more.

These things do make you think twice! But some people got it coming! Heheh!

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pranks you've played

I have been on the receiving end of many pranks in the shop. One time I was getting ready to set an extrusion container into a large King vertical boring mill.
I had the rail all the way up and had to turn the chuck so that the jaws were in such a way that the container could slide between the jaws and under the rail.

I signaled the guy in the crane to lower the chain thru the hole in the container
( I should explain that this container was about 4 to 5 feet in diameter and about 4 to 5 feet high with a 10 or 12 inch hole thru it). After putting a 2" diameter bar thru the chain I signaled the crane guy to raise the container up.

When it was at the right height I signaled him to mov slowly towards the machine. Now when you pick something like this up with a chain thru the hole it tilts. So I had to be almost under the darn thing to guide it between the chuck jaws and at the same time use a bar to raise the back side so it would settle on the jaws. As I was doing all this I heard a very loud noise an not knowing what happened I was probably 30 or 40 feet away before I stopped to look back. The whole crew was standing there laughing.

It seems that the shop joker came up behind me with a large plank and while I was under that big container he slapped the plank on the floor. That was a long time ago and I don't remember if I had to change my shorts or not.

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jeez Ernie, you are being way to kind calling him a joker, far less kind monikers come to mind - that's the kind of crap the can cause the wrong reaction and get someone hurt
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My personal favorite is having the rookies file a magnet flat, Actually told a young guy that and I went to a long lunch came back and he was still trying. Don't think he ever got the joke.
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When I worked in a chemical plant we had a shift supervisor that was deathly afraid of snakes. Out section of the plant backed up to the woods and was always good for a snake or two. I talked up snake sightings for 3 days with help from others. He also had the anal property of you could set your watch by him when he was on rounds.

On the 4th night (Graveyard shift) I climbed into the pipe rack. I took a piece of camoflauge rag and dipped it into cold condensate and waited. Sure enough here he came on his little supervisor bicycle. I dropped the rag and it hit the back of his neck and the two end wrapped around the front. Both hands off the bike and clawing at his neck. He careened off the bldg and into the muddy road ditch.

My only miscalculation was I couldn't get out of the pipe rack quick enough so I got caught and spent the next 2 days rodding out intercoolers with pressurized steam hose in July.

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Sending noob helpers for polarity grease and sky hooks was always good for a hoot.

Not even gonna mention the acetylene bombs except that no one ever got hurt.
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had a guy on the other shift he was a weasely lil rat of a man , and i m being nice ,
one day i was getting ready to pull a sub table off of the machine which we normally pulled with the forklift , well it was close to shift change so i put an eye bolt into the tool holder , put the tool in the spindle brought the spindle down , and connected all the straps to the eye bolt , when he came up to the machine i had the handle control in my hands pretending i'm cranking this table up ,he comes up and says what are you doing, and i said , ah pulling the table , and he's LIKE THAT ? well ya i always do it this way , the whole time his eyes are darting toward the forman , he says well i guess what they don t know wont hurt them ,i'm like YA AND ME NEITHER ,
well sinse your hear i'll let you finish , his face was red , grinding his teeth ,SURE no problem i'll carry on , it was 2minutes and the forman came into the change room busting his gut and say WHAT are you doing to that guy ? didn take em long to rat me out again , we all knew what that guy was made of , that was one of many for that boy , i love to torment those types
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This is a second hand story but its funny if its true.
This guys who was a med student had a lecture where they disected a dead man. Apparently, he stole the penis and testicals as one package.
Later that day he went to the urinal when there was lots of others in there at the same time. He stood there as though he was trying to have a wee. After a few moments he threw the package into the urinal and said loudly, " Bloody thing doesnt work"

Funny if its true, but I just dont know.

And another story similar theme. My next door neighbour had a freind who was a med student too. After they had finished disecting some dead man, this girl was poking around the dead mans crutch area a bit. The lecturer asked her what she was looking for. She said in all seriousnes, she was looking for the bone.
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