Dormology Chapter 4: Dorm Pranks

Posted by Luke on Monday, January 25, 2010 · View Comments

[Series Table of Contents: The Fool's Guide to Dormology]

Chapter 4: Dorm Pranks

Geek dorm prank (cc) Flickr user Mllerustad

By: David, Intern to the Stars

Everyone knows that one of the best aspects of living in a building with 200 of your closest friends is the prank potential. The closeness leaves everyone vulnerable–except, of course, the master prankster. To become the master of the pranks requires not only cunning and agility but also a massively creative brain. Here are a few true life pranks to get your creative juices flowing.

[Note: BookFool.com does not advocate that readers attempt any of these pranks. All reader attempts at prankage are done at the reader's own risk and neither BookFool.com nor I, your humble author, claim responsibility. In addition to the potential hazards involved in pranking, it is often quite mean to prank people. And BookFool.com does not support meanness. Unless, of course, it's really really funny.]

Prank #1: Trapped in the Dorm Room

(Not to be confused with R. Kelly’s hip-hopera Trapped in the Closet)

I have a friend–let’s call him Randy–who pulled this prank on a whole floor of guys. Randy and a few buddies had a friend who worked in their school’s cafeteria. They managed to get their caf-working buddy to donate about a thousand Styrofoam cups to their prankly cause. Then they waited until 3 or 4 in the morning. At this unreasonably late hour, Randy and his bros snuck into another hall on campus with their cups. Using the sinks in the hall bathroom, Randy and Co. filled up the cups one by one with water and covered every inch of the hall floor in little cups full of water. The next morning, the residents of the victimized hall had to empty the cups one by one in order to leave their hall. They all missed class. BLAMMO.

Prank #2: Wake Up Sticky

This one’s pretty creative. My friend–let’s call him Howard–decided to prank this other guy, who we’ll call Dean. Basically, Howard made a sugar-water concoction and put it in a spray bottle. At night, Dean’s roomate would let Howard into the room after Dean had fallen asleep. Howard would lightly mist Dean with sugar water and leave. Every morning, Dean would wake up sticky and could not figure out why this was happening every morning. Eventually, Dean went to health services to find out why his sweat was sticky. POW.

Office Prank (cc) Flickr user disterics

Prank #3: Way Too Many Phone Numbers

Who says students have too much time on their hands? These folks filled a kid’s entire room in torn up phone books. Check out the video of this championship prank (Warning: Language).

Prank #4: The Great Flood

This prank is brutal. My photography teacher from high school–let’s call him Mr. Noah–is the perpetrator. When Mr. Noah was in college, prank wars raged unbelievably hard. After climbing into his bed only only to find a huge collection of toenail clippings mixed with Gold Bond Powder spread between his sheets (yeah, weird), Mr. Noah was ready to take his revenge.

Mr. Noah had a hunch about who had contaminated his pristine sheets. The next night, Mr. Noah took the huge 55 gallon garbage can from the end of the hall and filled it with water. With the help of some buddies, he dragged the can down the hall and leaned it against his victim’s door. The next morning, when yawning Mr. Gold Bond Toenails opened his door, he was greeted by 55 gallons of water flooding into his room. Mr. Gold Bond: 1; Mr. Noah: INFINITY.

Pulled Any Good Pranks Lately?

How about you? How have you pranked your fellow dorm residents? Tell us about it in the comments.

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Jill

One of my roommates (Christy) had a creep for a boyfriend that gave her a stuffed cat (Toontses) for Valentine's Day. Toontses became the target of repeated prank attacks on Christy. He wound up in the refrigerator on a plate surrounded by vegetables (couldn't get an apple to stay in his mouth), dangling outside from the 11th story apartment window, in another roommate's (Olivia's) drawer of unmentionables, in a basket with a "free to good home" note across the hall and several other places that managed to completely irk Christy. Once she realized the boyfriend was a jerk and broke up with him, the pranks didn't bother her anymore, and Toontses was safe as I turned my attention to bothering Olivia - and Christy helped. Probably should have turned my attention to studying. Nahhh!
Luke

Not a dorm prank per se but an email prank like this could be pulled from anywhere: http://27bslash6.twi.bz/a
Jill

I'd really like to meet this David guy sometime. Too funny.
Nicole Rae

Hahahahaha - oh man, Luke, that is a great email prank I love it! I wish our customers would do that to me.... haha :-)
Kris

Oh so Classic and original.
Luke

Man, that really takes me back! Thanks for sharing, Nathan. I had never heard of short-sheeting. I may try that on the bed tonight and see how the wife reacts.
Nathan

I wasn't involved in many pranks-- generally not my thing-- but I did get to witness a few good ones, especially my first year of college. My roommate that year, who I'll call Greg, had the misfortune of being very trusting, overly naive, and with a large ego. This made him an easy and frequent target. I once short-sheeted his bed out of exasperation of living with him. He didn't get it. Really. He didn't understand what had been done to his bed. He didn't even seem to understand that I had done it, even when looking straight at me when I told him. That's a lame prank, but it shows why the pranks often worked as well as they did.

One of our friends from down the hall made it his mission to steal Greg's sofa at every available opportunity. Matt would come in with an accomplice, usually when Greg had gone down the hall for a shower, grab the couch, and carry it to some new hiding place. I have no idea how many evenings Greg lost to searching the dorm for that couch, or why he never learned to lock the door when he left.

Matt later transitioned into shower pranks, and Greg remained his favorite target. Matt would usually sneak into the communal bathroom with a large cup of cold water and dump it on his victim. He topped himself the night he stole Greg's towel, then dumped a pitcher of ice-water on Greg. The punchline came when Greg came sprinting down the hall after Matt, soaking wet and wrapped in the only shower curtain in the entire building, which happened to be in the shower he was using. For some reason he just took his towel back without beating Matt into a coma. It was much funnier than it sounds.