Dorm room pranks

[blackfox]

So, everyone else in my house is home for the weekend. My roommate is cool, but the two girls in the other room have been bitches lately, and I want to prank them.
I've been thinking something triggered by pulling the door, which opens outwards, or else tying all their clothes together with fishing wire... eventually there will be a loud 3 AM alarm clock hidden among all their random stuff (their room is messy.) I also might also re-arrange their room.
Any ideas of what one or two people could do to someone else's double?

[golentan]

Well...

What are their computers? Most people don't put a password on their accounts, so go in and do a few things. Change their desktop to a screenshot of the desktop, and change the log in sounds to porn clips or irritating music are some of my favorites.

Swap the dressers of the girls. It will really confuse them for a couple minutes.

If you have access to the bathroom and think you can hit them specifically, my old standby is to take a piece of cloth (usually a cheesecloth), a screwdriver, and some detergent. Unscrew the shower head, insert the cheesecloth into it, and pour in the detergent. Screw the showerhead back on. The cheesecloth keeps the detergent from leaking, and the next time the shower is turned on FWOOSH!!! Wall of Foam.

[xPANCAKEx]

changing the internet home page is always a fun game

just be aware that what ever you do you will get done back in spades

[Rutskarn]

I dunno...I kind of view the home page as being off limits. For one thing, it's too damn easy--they'll probably reciprocate in kind, and nobody wants that.

[blackfox]

Their computers are home with them, for one thing. Also, since I'm in a suite, the detergent thing would take planning, and probably me cleaning it. I'd rather put a jolly rancher... then they can't get un-sticky'd.

@v: Exactly. I'm gonna try and train them, though: Be nice, and I give you chocolate. Be mean, and I give you trouble. :smalltongue:

[golentan]

Which is why if you are like me you put a password protection on your Comp and vary your shower times wildly. Even in my own home. My family is still trying to get me back for the Pigeon Egg.

Oh, and ask that if they retaliate they do so in an original fashion.

[zeratul]

Which is why if you are like me you put a password protection on your Comp and vary your shower times wildly. Even in my own home. My family is still trying to get me back for the Pigeon Egg.

Oh, and ask that if they retaliate they do so in an original fashion.

Depending on how creative the roommates are originality may not be what you want in their retaliation. :smallamused:

[Jacklu]

Hmmmm... do they have a car? Cause baby powder in the heating vents is a classic. ^_^

[RS14]

{Scrubbed}

[memnarch]

If they have a windows system and you can get at their computer for about 3 minutes, you could upload a new hosts file so they can't visit any of the sites they normally go to with a flash drive or have them be redirected to a site of your choice.


A good physical prank if you've got some money and they have their own room is to buy a bunch of balloons, inflate them, and fill their room completely. Have to remove all the balloons and good for combining with re-arranging the furniture. :smallwink:

[blackfox]

I submit that if it was a one-time incident, I wouldn't have bothered to post this. I'm not looking for something really mean. I'm not gonna fill their room with shaving cream. I'm not even gonna put a jolly rancher in the showerhead. I'm looking for something to wierd them out or annoy them.
I hereby cede the moral high ground, not that morality has hills in the first place. :smallannoyed:

...Back to our regularly scheduled discussion? I'm thinking I might duct-tape googly eyes everywhere.

[RS14]

...Back to our regularly scheduled discussion? I'm thinking I might duct-tape googly eyes everywhere.

I will concede that this is a reasonable and harmless prank.

[CMOTDibbler]

Put caution tape and plastic sheeting over the door, and a notice that a harmful chemical of your choice has been detected. Cover all the the furniture with white sheets and put various items in 'evidence bags', on a table. Does this count as 'harmless'?

[valadil]

Well...

What are their computers? Most people don't put a password on their accounts, so go in and do a few things. Change their desktop to a screenshot of the desktop, and change the log in sounds to porn clips or irritating music are some of my favorites.


When I was a freshman I was browsing our network shares and found someone who left his whole disk wide open. I replaced his wallpaper with a picture of a genitalia drawn in MS paint, with a little note explaining why opening up access to his files is a bad thing.

Sophomore year I froze the milk and watched roommates try to poor cereal. Also filled the Brita with vodka.

Junior year I boarded up a suite mates room while he and his GF were in there.

Senior year I drew a picture of the Kool Aid man on a bottle of blue wiper fluid and left it in the fridge. Almost felt bad because a roommate poured a glass and very nearly drank it. Then I realized he trusted an image of the kool aid man HAND DRAWN IN SHARPIE more than the poison labels that were still on the bottle. Then I stopped feeling bad about it.

[Jacklu]

Harmless pranks... Hmmm.... switch their mouse to left handed. Ooh! Actually, if they have a laser mouse, tape a small bit of paper over the sensor. ^_^

[EndlessWrath]

my buddy came back to his dorm room to notice the door was locked with a sign which read report to the student lounge. The lounge had been set up as an exact replica of his room. And by exact i mean, furniture and everything. So to play it off cool he decided just to keep the stuff there. So he made the lounge his room for a few couple days till he ran into the gotta change in the open snag. Dean made him (and the roomates) put the stuff back.

on a more do-able but not really able to do scale:
My other buddy filled his neighbors room with enough balled up newspaper pages that the person couldn't actually get into the room. :smallamused: fun times...fun times.

Are you going for playfully harmless but watch out pranks? or more I'm gonna get back at you (in a very bad way) without inflicting pain or damage onto your property pranks?

-Wrath

[Khosan]

If they've got alarm clocks with CD players built in that plays the CD as one of the alarm settings, you've got a perfect window.

Buy a CD of some random, hardcore, death metal and stick it in their alarms. Set their alarms to go off earlier than normal, turn up the volume and hope to God your walls are soundproofed well enough.

[thubby]

change their keyboards to dvorak if you can.

get an air horn and rig it to go off when the door is opened, just takes some duct tape and string if the door opens out.

[Jacklu]

How many dishes do you have? Plates, bowls, ect... Cause another good and mostly harmless one is to put all the dishes on the floor. As in, start on the far wall and place all the dishes on the ground, touching, so that you can't actually walk into the room without stopping to pick up the plates and stuff.

[Elm11]

uhhh, wow, you people are mean :smalltongue:.


Just wondering, what is the effect of putting a rancher in the shower cap?

[thubby]

uhhh, wow, you people are mean :smalltongue:.


Just wondering, what is the effect of putting a rancher in the shower cap?

sugary water makes you sticky, not clean. detergent, bouillon cubes, the idea is basically the same.

[Kneenibble]

While they're sleeping, very quietly cover all the floorspace in their room with disposable drinking cups full of water. Maybe leave a small space by their bed so they don't knock any over before they realize it's there.

[Escef]

If they've got alarm clocks with CD players built in that plays the CD as one of the alarm settings, you've got a perfect window.

Buy a CD of some random, hardcore, death metal and stick it in their alarms. Set their alarms to go off earlier than normal, turn up the volume and hope to God your walls are soundproofed well enough.

I'd recommend Pink Floyd's "Time".

[skywalker]

When I was a freshman I was browsing our network shares and found someone who left his whole disk wide open. I replaced his wallpaper with a picture of a genitalia drawn in MS paint, with a little note explaining why opening up access to his files is a bad thing.

A college adviser I had in high school told me all about finding unprotected wireless networks with attached wireless printers and the havoc he wreaked.


Sophomore year I froze the milk and watched roommates try to poor cereal. Also filled the Brita with vodka.

Junior year I boarded up a suite mates room while he and his GF were in there.

Senior year I drew a picture of the Kool Aid man on a bottle of blue wiper fluid and left it in the fridge. Almost felt bad because a roommate poured a glass and very nearly drank it. Then I realized he trusted an image of the kool aid man HAND DRAWN IN SHARPIE more than the poison labels that were still on the bottle. Then I stopped feeling bad about it.

These are all classics. The last one is a bit scary, I mean, holy crap! You might get somebody drunk and then you would have killed someone. But the middle two, those are awesome!

[Katana_Geldar]

Two I have observed:

Catflap their door

Paint their walls with milk

[LonelyTower]

Grab a screenshot of a Mac or Linux system.
Go to their computer, change their wallpaper to said screenshot.
Hide all icons.
Hide the Windows start menu.

[Dvil]

I would suggest similar to the above, but make it a screenshot of their usual desktop. It's far more difficult to notice and fix that way.

[DrGonzo]

Babypowder in hairdryer.. It goes poof!

[Jack Squat]

You could rig the door to release a trap. My favorite is a half-filled bottle of water hung at upper-torso level. You can run fishing line as trip wires across their room, under their sheets, etc (8# is fairly invisible, and much cheaper than actual trip wire).

Gather all the empty pop cans you can and build a wall inside their doorjam. Be sure to tape it together, and to the wall if you can (this is easier when trapping someone in their room w/ a door that swings inwards)

Get a ton of balloons and partially fill their room (~2' deep if you have time). If you want to be mean, randomly fill some with water.

Wrap EVERYTHING in aluminum foil. For added flair, write "[item] of the FUTURE" on it in sharpie. You could also saran-wrap everything.

Completely reverse the room. Easier with a clean one.

I've got a book on electronic pranks...but you'd have to build them. One of the examples is a device that randomly distorts the picture on TV screens.

[Johel]

While they're sleeping, very quietly cover all the floorspace in their room with disposable drinking cups full of water. Maybe leave a small space by their bed so they don't knock any over before they realize it's there.

Combine with the heavy metal alarm clock for extra sweetness. And put said alarm clock on the other side of the room. Then change the hour displayed on the alarm clock so it looks like it's two hours later than real.
Half-asleep student waking up on trash metal, shambling through his room to switch the alarm clock off, with the floor full of filled plastic cups ? You MUST videotape it !! Also, if he doesn't wake up in a hurry because of the sound, the thought of being late might rush him. :smallamused:

Also, a popular one (you can find it on youtube) is, if they have a large enough bed, to set a small table across the bed, right above their head, while they are sleeping. If the bed isn't large enough to support the table, you can still pile up books to reach the desired height. Then set the alarm clock earlier and with something loud and scarry.

TADAAAAAM !!
*Bonk*
Ouch !!

[Gerrtt]

When I was in college I lived in an all guys dorm. One night the fire alarm was pulled and everyone scrambled out of their rooms. In the process, many of the people exiting their rooms kicked over plastic cups filled with urine which made a huge mess. In addition, anyone who ran too quickly down the staircases stepped in feces.

It was a riot. Let me tell you. Especially when everyone was punished because nobody owned up to it.

However, one good one that some people I know did was save up cola cans for a long, long time and then wall someone into their half of the room while sleeping. The same can be done with newspaper and duct tape.

[blackfox]

I don't think I'm gonna do anything as mean as the cups of water prank, or the hidden alarm clock prank... I might go for an Annoy-a-tron eventually, but probably not unless this escalates. :smallamused:
I would mess with their desktop and their keyboards if they had left their computers here; fortunately for them, they took them with them, and unfortunately for me, they both have MacBooks.
I like the idea of putting thrash metal in their alarm clocks. I shall have to investigate.
I was thinking about reversing their room, but it is really messy. So I think I'm gonna go with the hiding-things-amongst-the-mess route, perhaps? I don't want to do something really mean... Maybe something triggered by opening the door, so they think that's the only prank? And then, having slightly creepy stuff hidden all over the place.

@v: Having already tried the whole asking politely thing, and being responded to with more bitchiness, I'd like to achieve a little bit of levity.

[pendell]

Sorry to do this but I'll do it anyway.

[adult mode]
I wouldn't prank my stupid roommates. I'd be an adult and ask them politely to change their behavior. Then, depending on what their responses would be, I would either A) work with them or B) move out.

[/adult mode]

What outcome are you trying to achieve, exactly? If you want your room-mates to stop being idiots and make things livable, I suspect pulling pranks on people will do nothing to lower the bitchiness quotient. In fact, I suspect it'll add retaliation to an already miserable situation.

Respectfully,

Brian P.

[Roland St. Jude]

Sheriff of Moddingham: This whole thread seems to be an invitation to discuss harmful, potentially criminal behavior.