Almost best car prank...

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Woodward

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THE best prank really only needs to played on an “Uber Anal don’t touch my car guy” that everyone knows. What was better, he’s one of those "Upon hearing a sound that May have come from his engine"…..he pulls over! OH……. And really must have a sense of humor, and not a CCW.



To start he’s an M5 guy…… so you already know the type. He parks in a corner, just taking up enough of a second spot (from a very small lot) so know one else can use it, along with other things made him a prime target.



The prank:
We jacked up the car, and placed it on blocks (doesn’t matter what) small enough not seen in the dark, (black paint is better)and JUST behind the wheels but large enough to hold the load. Some trial and error over the years gave me the right package. The trick is to have the tires “Just” off the ground so the driver won’t notice (hence doing it at night, when someone wants to go home) and the tires won’t smoke when put in gear. It was hilarious!!!!!!! He gunned in reverse (as he usually does) and nothing!!! He went in forward and reverse again nothing. He even looked under the car to see if the DS was chucked. He figured something was up, when the whole office stuck around looking out the windows. Needless to say it’s funny to watch…


*As much as a Disclaimer as I can think of.

No Beemer’s or Humans were harmed during this event, and was executed by trained professional engineers, and should not be repeated do to the potential harm of life and limb…….. (If they found out who did it) :D
 
Twenty-something years ago, as a high school auto shop student, one of the kids in my shop class admitted he only took tech to get out of regular school, was a rich snob kid, and drove the 3 year old BMW that his daddy gave him. He had it in the shop one day to clean and detail it, and "somebody" slipped 2 pie pans, one inverted on top of the other with the edges taped and containing a decent size ball bearing, under the passenger seat. Every time he accelerated, "DOINK". Every time he braked, "DOINK". Every time he cornered hard, "DOINK".

In the following two weeks, that car was in shop class 4 times, was taken to 3 garages, and one BMW dealer. He was pretty pissed when some one found the cause! Oh, and because of his verbal description of the noise, everybody in shop class called him DOINK the rest of the year.
 
I got ya all beat. I worked for a dick of a boss when I was 17. I put a long zip tie around his driveline on his brand new mustang. Took him a few days to figure out the ticking.
 
I got one that is really good

My buddy used to have an old nova with a small block in it with a distributor and the one day he made the mistake of leaving his car unlocked in the front of the high school with this windows down, so me his gf at the time ( she is now his wife , idk why she stayed after this one ) and a few of our friends took a piece of electrical tape and wrapped a little bit around the spinning part on the distributor and we also put the liquid scented stuff down his ax vents the instructions called for 1 drop for a distinct smell, we poured all 5 ounces down the vents. His car smelled like a French whire house for a month and I purposely spelled the word wrong . Nobody but him and his gf would even come close to this thing because of the smell and the electrical tape? He made it 2 miles before he stopped off the side of the road to check it out and found nothing then he drove another 3 miles and stopped again and again he found nothing after oh probably 20-25iles from school we called him and told him about the tape. He didn't talk to us for the rest of that school year and this was in September

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Color me sour, but I've never been "big" on screwin with guy's cars, nor do/ did I ever like it if mine was screwed with. I can assure you this did not happen more than a couple of times.

But there WAS one notable exception. When I was at N.A.S. Miramar, there was "Charlie," the spittin' image of Frank Burns (MASH). This guy was so lifer, he was born with a coffee mug on one finger.

In the early 70's he bought a Toyota, and was braggin' one day how great it was, and how "nobody could steal it" because it had a "cable release" on the hood.

He was still out working on some gear, my partner and I were at the shop --we had to sleep over at the RADAR site. While he was gone, the then much more slender and trim 67Dart273 and his acomplice (Dave Hesford) went out and I stuck my hand and needle nose up in front of the radiator and released the latch.

Then we put the coil wire inside the air filter and wrote on the lid with grease pencil "Look in here stupid."

Well I thought the damn fool was gonna ruin the starter and run the battery down. We finally had to go out and get under the hood and "find" the coil wire. We sure didn't wanna be stuck there with Charlie all night!!!!
 
A former coworker thought he was funny and would mess with my car. The first time having my wipers on and radio blaring when I start the car... Ok, ha ha, you got me, don't mess with my car again. After the 3rd or 4th time... he had some payback coming.

I got in his car and disabled the power windows, disconnected the inside door handles and the horn. He could get in, but he couldn't get out. Now, this was in the days before cell phones, so he drove around for hours trying to get someone to open one of his doors. Never touched my car again.
 
Buddy of mine years ago had a vw bug, wherever we saw it parked we would pull in and pick the car up, turning it sideways in the stall or putting it on the sidewalk or grass. It took him a few times to figure out it was us, then several more times before we stopped doing it because he actually got a parking ticket one day for being on the sidewalk but man, what fun!
 
we used to do that, just lift up a car with a few guys and turn it sideways, or walk it down a few lanes
until one day one of the guys bought a ford escort (the older model, still with the chrome bumpers)
we tried lifting that sucker up and the front bumper snapped in half and the rear on snapped off
 
Did that once to a teacher at high school with a couple of my buddies. The teacher drove an Isetta 300 back then. We picked it up, carried it up about five steps and left it on a raised lawn. He had to drive it down the steps and off the curb to get it back on the street.

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Remember these? Only one door (the entire front with the dash and steering wheel) swung to the side to let you either in or out. 298cc, single-cylinder engine put out 13hp at 5200rpm and 13.6 lbs-ft of torque at 4600 rpm. Max. speed of 53mph.
 
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