Funniest prank/thing you've done to someone

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I'll ask you to only post things that they found funny to (to avoid arguments like "OMG that was terrible" or anything)

me:
I used to admin a forum, and I got someone to sign up. They told me that they were afraid that they'd break something, and that's why they never really did much online. It just so happened that when they were registering, only the two of us were online. Once they were turn I took the forum offline for about 30 seconds, and put their username into the little "FORUM OFFLINE" with some techy sounding stuff, and the words: DATABASE DELETED.

They sent me an IM almost right away and were like "...Uh... Teddy... something's wrong" and I was like "I know, for some reason the entire forum shrank by 100MB"

Eventually I let them in on the joke



edit - an example of the warning message:
Forum Offline
Reason: INVALID STRING USERNAME%THENEWTEDDY INVALID DATABASE ENTRY -- DATABASE RETRIEVAL FAIL -- POSSIBLE BREECH: PLAN%SECURITY%BREECH%ACTIVATE -- DELETING DATABASE

I despise pranks, for the most part. I like a good prank phone call and that's pretty much it. Most pranks pulled on other people I don't find funny, and I would just get pissed when they're pulled on me.

Oh! Girls camp.

To be fair, most of the kids thought it was funny (until they got rid of it recently....grrr, ruined tradition).

Anyways,
The camp is set up so there are years:
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, YCL1, YCL2
The 4th's were in a different camp, the YCL2's did their own thing too.
However, YCL1's were in charge of being semi-leaders to groups of 1st-3rd years.
At this time, all the adults were usually in meetings or such, and the YCl1's played games with the youngers.
BUT, on one night, they wouldn't play games.
We would go "snipe" hunting.
Normally the 2nd and 3rd years played along to trick the 1st years.
It would be the dead of the night in the forest, we'd put peanut butter or toothpaste on their nose to attract the animal.
Someone (normally YCL1 or 3rd year) would bring a laser light (the eyes!) and hide in the bush while someone else's pillow case was used to "catch" the animal.
One of the YCL's would make rustling noises and pretend to "capture" it (a pinecone or maybe a stuffed animal, up to creativity to decide).
Then they'd let 2nd and 3rd years "pet" the snipe, and bring it back to the cabin to release it.
We'd all wait in anticipation, and 3, 2, 1........0 and then RELEASE! At least half the 1st years would scream while the other adamantly declared that they knew it was fake.

Hilarious anyways.
Too bad my mom was a camp director my sisters were 1st years and put a stop to the practice.
It was a rite of passage, but now it's just good memories to the older girls.

Last April fools day. I wrote a computer program that, upon my dad starting his computer, would freeze said computer, while playing a woody wood pecker laugh track over and over and over at max volume. It annoyed my mom who was two rooms away

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xan2dkMouM[/youtube]

Me too, but this was a tradition for Girls camp...not like stupid pranks. A good memory.

I've done a number of pranks/practical jokes to people (mostly random unsuspecting strangers) because I either thought it was funny or somehow represented an Art-form.

I look back on those things now with a sense of mild disturbed horror. Some of the things I did were truly disgusting or potentially emotionally/psychologically damaging. Because I rarely ever saw how these "pranks" played out, I guess I'll never know.

I don't think pranks are funny. I think they are acts of misplaced aggression/frustration and only cause problems.

I actually don't remember ever pulling a prank on anyone.

The only prank I have pulled is too evil to mention. It was pretty much not a prank, just me being evil. I felt really guilty afterwards. And I got away with it.

I'm looking for more of "And they all laughed" stories.

Bad Example: My boss wanted to keep a cookie tin, so he left a note taped to the top of it "NO THROW OUT". As a joke, I hid the bottom, and told him that "I saved the top of that win for you" and made him think that I'd tossed the bottom out.

When I revealed the joke he was quite upset at me.

I'd rather we share stories where everyone laughed, cause, that's the good times! And I don't want to remember the bad times; I want to remember the good times!

I get what you mean, but unfortunately I don't have any of those stories. That kind of experience is foreign to me.
All of my jokes/pranks/etc. were deranged, solitary activities where if anyone laughed, it was me.
It seems to me that people on the Spectrum are not the types who would orchestrate funny jokes or pranks. Things like that take a high degree of social cognizance, which many of us do not have.

Here's a perfect example:
When I was about 12, I was forced by my Catholic parents to do "altar serving" which is just basically being a little helper/go-fer for the priest during the church service. Well, one time I thought it would be hilarious to hide the big decorative processional Crucifix that they carry up to the altar at the beginning of the service. I tossed it in a closet where no one would look. They had to delay the service about 30 minutes until someone found it. It totally screwed up everything that Sunday morning. I thought it was splendid, and of course no one else was laughing.

Now that I think about it, I've never even made an April fools joke.

That sounds fun and funny.

Most of my pranks also did not go over well - like hiding by boss's (the same one from above) business cards all over the place, including in the freezer, in his work shoe, under a large jug of water, etc...

I have no idea how i am going to top that one

Wrote this on my friends facebook wall.
"Girls I'm free"

And he is pretty much a guy the girls like.

And also one of his friends who is a girl came to visit our one week LAN party.
We told her we had watched a movie and asked if she wanted to watch it with us
she just didn't know it was porn we had watched with surround sound on a big screen
so we surprised her really much. (luckily she don't get all disgusted ovver porn)
we were litterally rolling on the floor laughing all 4 of us.
Don't know why it is funny xD

Me neither, I might have tried a cheesy joke or two, but I generally not good at pranks. The only reason I did the one was because it was a camp tradition.