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Like you Lobo, I enjoy a good prank. I've done many small ones back in my hospitaltiy days. But I do have one big one (though different)...
Mine scored me a cool $2000 and the best part was that not a single person complained. And considering that an entire restaraunt was involved (100 people), that's pretty awesome.
It's way different than yours Lobo but also kind of dark in a similar fashion. For several years in the mid 00's I worked at a very popular joint down here in Fkorida on the beach called Bahama Breeze. Hospitality work so we were all crazy and always had cash to burn. I thought it was wastful for everybody to be burning their cash when I could do it for them so I created a "game". We called it "Breeze Survivor" and it was, not surprisingly similar to the tv show "Survivor".
Buy in was $20 per person and the prize was belive it or not, just the TITLE of Breeze Survivor. Over the course of 2 or 3 shifts I would collect the votes of all 100 players and then boot somebody "off the island". I did this until there were only 2 people left. I also put work in in that I would post about the person that got booted in a short story about how they were killed on the island (on the bullitin board, since those things used to exist). You can imagine how that went- The suprer strong barback would end up being found dead in the North end wearing nothing but a ball-gag, the vegitarian waitress was found half eaten by canibals (irony?) and so on.
In the end, I got to keep all that cash but the real prank was kind of brilliant (and totally expected). By giving all the people in this massive business a chance to vote against each other I created a type of chaos that I have never, before or after, seen. You had kitchen guys teaming together to vote as a block to take out bartenders that they didn't like, you had females teaming up to take out dishwashers that freaked them out, you had waiters and waitresses teaming up to take out other waitstaff just because they had a better section. I swear to God, the entire place amost went down in flames every night for close to 4 months.
At which point, the company reps came in and, upon reading the many "death stories" and hearing about the chaos, shut that skrizzet down when there were still 10 people left.
All 10 people considered themselves winners and not a single person ever asked about a prize.
And I went skiing.
let's lighten the mood, shall we? Jun 12, 12:09
HA that's funny.. Must be a busy area to have so many cars passing so early in the morning. {nm} Jun 12, 12:47
when pulling a prank like this, one car driving by is nerve-racking! {nm} Jun 12, 13:15
LMFAO... yeah, it was a "mean" prank for sure. I've done worse. {nm} Jun 12, 13:15
LOL!!! now that would be too good. {nm} Jun 12, 13:16
Good one. Nice Touch. *Watches all your Neighbours instantly Install Security Cameras.* {nm} Jun 12, 13:12
I've been debating it for some time now, but mostly because of my neighbor. {nm} Jun 12, 13:16
Sorry, that's not a prank - that's being a jerk. {nm} Jun 12, 13:54
Excellent Prank - Nobody got Hurt - No Damage. It's not like you took the Biebster & 24 Dozen Eggs. {nm} Jun 12, 14:03
My uncle might have inspired the Travelocity Gnome commericals... Jun 12, 14:47
ha! {nm} Jun 12, 15:08
this is such a great story and terrific prank. had my wife read it and she loved it. Thank you for sharing Razor. {nm} Jun 12, 19:06
That's a great story but I thought the ads were inspired by amelie Jun 12, 19:39
excellent film btw {nm} Jun 12, 20:02
I always liked the extreme gas mileage prank... Jun 12, 18:26
hilarious! that would be a tad on the expensive side today. {nm} Jun 12, 19:34
Like you Lobo, I enjoy a good prank. I've done many small ones back in my hospitaltiy days. But I do have one big one (though different)... Jun 13, 03:11
LMFAO!!!! How in the WORLD did you get away with keeping $2k??? And we used to have a Bahama Breeze here, Jun 13, 10:50
