False Classified Ad Prank

This practical joke is a way to get a large number of strangers to call your victim endlessly for several days asking about a car that is not really for sale. This trick has very severe results and your victim will be very annoyed and angry.

Here is how it works:

1) You will need your victim's phone number.

2) Call your local newspaper and place a classified ad offering a car for sale. Choose a car model that will be in high demand and price it low so it will get a lot of interest. You want to make the car sound as attractive as possible without sounding too good to be true. Saying that you are moving out of the country and need to sell the car fast is a good thing to mention.

3) Put your victim's name and phone number on the ad so interested buyers will call the victim.

Once the ad publishes, your victim will get phone calls inquiring about the car nearly non-stop for the next week. Their voicemail box will completely fill up and he will probably have to turn off his phone to avoid all of the calls.

Classic Pranks: The Snipe Hunt

The snipe hunt is a terrific way to make a complete fool of your friends. It is a classic trick that has been played through the ages designed to make the victim go on a search for something that does not exist. The extreme version of the trick leaves the victim ditched and stranded alone in the woods looking for the fictional snipe. This trick was famously featured in an episode of "Cheers" called "The Heart is a Lonely Snipe Hunter". In this episode, Norm Peterson (George Wendt), Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger), and the other guys at the bar take an unsuspecting Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammar) snipe hunting and ditch him in the woods. You can do the same to your victim.

Here is how it works:

1) Begin to paint the picture by describing a snipe and how much fun it is to go snipe hunting. Have a few of your friends in on the gag and together pretend to reminisce about snipe hunts you have been on in the past.

2) Invite your victim to go on a snipe hunt and find a place out in the woods that will be good to go on the snipe hunt. Ideally, this place should be in the middle of nowhere but also close enough to a road or someplace where your victim will be able to get back to civilization. The idea is not to leave you victim out to die; the idea is to ditch them. Please keep that in mind.

3) Get a net.

4) On the way to the woods, explain to your victim how a snipe hunt works. Tell the victim that snipes like to hide in the bushes so some of you will need to go and scare them out and somebody will wait with a net to try and catch the snipes when they run out of the bushes. Suggest that your victim wait with the net as it is exhilarating to catch your first snipe.

5) When you get to the woods, give your victim the net and then the rest of the group should disappear into the trees in order to pretend to scare the snipes up. Once you have all disappeared, you should get back in the car and drive away, leaving the victim to figure things out for himself.

Advanced Practical Jokes: Fake Broken Leg

The fake broken leg trick is an advanced practical joke and is one of the most difficult to execute. The timing and the planning must be perfect. The trick is designed to make your victim wake up from being passed out to find a cast on his leg. The victim will think that his leg broke and had to be set while he was passed out and he will wear the cast for several weeks.

Here is how it works:

1) In preparation, you will need to be in cahoots with a doctor who has the facilities to put a cast on somebodies leg. '

2) Your victim will need to have passed out for this prank to work - generally after a night of heavy drinking.

3) Once your victim is unconscious, take them to the doctor that you are working with and have a cast put on their leg (or arm). Before putting the cast on, write a note on a piece of paper that says, "Gotcha! Your leg was never broken! Hahaha!" and place it inside the cast where it will be found once the cast is cut off.

4) Get an x-ray of somebody else's leg so when your victim wakes up, you can show them the x-ray of a broken leg and make them think it is his leg.

Please be aware that this is a very extreme trick and should only be performed on somebody who has a very good sense of humor or on somebody who you do not want to have a future relationship with.

Pranks to play on a house: Campaign Signs in the Yard

This prank involves collecting a huge number of political campaign signs and planting them in your victim's grass. The goal is to make the victim's yard look ridiculous and to leave him with a large amount of junk in his yard. This practical joke can only be done during campaign season of election years when there are a large number of campaign signs that can be collected.

Here is how it works:

1) Drive around your town and look for campaign yard signs that you can take and put in your trunk. When you have collected a large number of campaign yard signs, you are ready to go.

2) Scope out the victim's house in advance to make sure there are no barking dogs or other impediments to your success. Also plan any escape routes that may be necessary if you have to run.

3) In the middle of the night, go to your target's house and begin to place all of the yard signs in their front yard. Ideally, there should be little to no grass visible when you are done planting all of the signs.

Please be aware that there may be laws against taking campaign signs in some regions so please be careful when executing this practical joke.

This is a perfect practical joke to do in conjunction with Toilet papering and/or planting plastic forks in the grass