This means War

One of my personal favorites...

Wait until he's taking apart something really complicated for the very first time with no instructions. When he walks away for a minute, toss an "extra part" on the pile.

:)

The one time I left a job, I scattered some parts around the shop floor. Knowing he'd wonder for ages what locks were now malfunctioning from h aving lost parts.

The other one is to reset the radio presets.

I'd have to think on this for several days. You could have several relatives call him at the shop for this or that, and give him a hard time.

ESPECIALLY if it looks close to something already there --Shiva--

When I was an apprentice and working in the shop, The tradesmen would come back and be rough with my tools or break them. I used to keep them in my toolbox locked away from them. They cut the lock off, and replaced it with another one once. After that , I used to use the boss's Brand new Abloy padlocks off the shelf, so they werent game to cut them etc, as they would have to replace them after that. They then threatened to cut the eyes on the tool box instead of the padlocks

I also was lucky enough to have my car horn wired discreetly to the ignition. WHen i turned the key to on to start it the horn would sound.

I thought it was somthing wrong and drove the car all the way to the auto electrcian ( as advised by the nice older guys ) horn sounding the whole way. Lol

After that, I broke into one of the guys cars to be smart and took his cassete tape out of his cassette player and put it on the dash.

The thing warped in the heat and wouldnt play that day when he got in his car. Lucky it was only cassete single I had to buy him , not a whole album .

These are my own experiences , just imagine if you tried to think of new ones what u would come up with

Well since he is the shop guy, why not rig some locks that will be real difficult to deal with? Things like having a mortise cylinder with pin # 3 shorter than a zero depth and perhaps having some of the drivers slotted so they eat shim stock.

Have an accomplice drop off the cylinder to have keys fit, and when he has been futzing with it for hours, you walk in and substitute an identical one that is not rigged and give him a little help in the project.

One time I had an American padlock with an ace cylinder and I noticed that if you turned the key just a bit the shackle would pop up slightly, and you could then tug it open. I left the lock sitting on the shelf in the half cocked position and when my friend stopped by I asked him if he had seen the rapping method of opening American padlocks. I picked up my small leather mallet and casually picked up the lock off the shelf, and demonstrated that with the right degree of tap you could pop the lock right open.

His jaw dropped and said "Let me try that". I handed him the lock, and excused myself to wait on a customer. I could hear him beating the lock silly and having no luck.

A little while later I returned and while he was in the can I took the key and cocked the lock again, and replaced it on the bench. After my friend returned I casually picked up the lock and the mallet and with a single light tap I popped it open again.

I finally fessed up after he again started beating the lock and ended up smacking himself in the thumb.

I kind of like the idea of tossing a Kwikset C-clip on the bench right after your friend has rekeyed a slug of them. Little things like this will drive him crazy.

Be sure to report back on your progress.

Horseplay in the workshop can get get out of control and someone could get hurt. For that reason, I suggest it only be done by a seasoned professional-LOL

Just envisioning that American Lock shocking trick brought me to tears from laughing.

This demands good skills in acting and also resisting the humanistic urge to laugh your ass off-at least for a while.

Rules are rules-but sometimes thats just what a smartass needs-Well done Roger!!

Later, goma.

{Blush}

I can attest to that !!!. When I was 19 years old and working in a shop 'full' of jokers, one guy chased me around the shop with a bucket of soapy water he had just mopped the floors with. I slipped on the wet tiles and snapped all the tendons in my left shoulder. Several agonizing operations, over several years, has left me with a screwed up and wired up shoulder joint that I can barely raise my left arm high enough to scratch my baldy head with. That being said, one of my favorite little harmless pranks is, go to the local butcher and get a pigs eye. When your sitting down for lunch or smoko and your workmate looks away, plonk the eye into his cup of coffee. It will sink straight to the bottom, and he will get a nice little surprise when he gets to the last swallow. Don't forget to tell him you are keeping an eye on him. :-)

i was told this by a guys BROTHER..

the guy worked in a testing lab at a cheese plant, and one day the 'resident joker' came in with a 2 foot piece of rubber hose..

keep in mind this lab was 12 feet wide and 20 or so deep, with ONE door in and out..

he threw the hose onto the other guy-hollering.. SNAKE..

not KNOWING the guy was TERRIFIED of snakes.. the guy threw what was in his hands back..

a 2 gallon beaker of hydrochloric acid..

the 'snake tosser was doused quick enough that all he lost was his clothes-no burns..

--Shiva--

Fuck Steve.

Thats the meanest thing i have ever heard of.

thats worst than driving home in peak hour traffic with your car horn constantly sounding.

---snip---

do you really have to use that word to make your point?

The shop TROLL got me...... He wiper the bathroom seat with fiberglass he pulled from the wall. This long weekend I had one bright red and ichey ass. My wife is dieing of lafter. Jim

Take a fine ceramic drill bit, and drill a small hole in the lip of the mark's cup, just below where his lips will be. You can imagine what will happen! :)

But not necessarily too close...a favorite back in the 5.25" disk days was to slip a stack of old 8" floppies in place of the tech's stack o' floppies while he was doing a long after-hours install.

It was funny to watch how much time some guys would spend trying to fit them in the drive before they figured it out.

I have one hanging on the wall over my PC, in a frame labelled "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, LOAD DISK." I figure that by the time I track down an 8" drive and figure out how to kluge up an interface card, I'll have calmed down...