Tricks or pranks or fake tools...

[eaglesrule1024]

I know this is one everyone has input for whether or not its been done to you or youve done it to others or heard about it..share them...

One of my first ones was the left handed spanner...but luckily i was told during training its universal so that didnt work..another one i cannot even type it but its some sort of valve and i stood there like hunh what valve did i miss something ?


Rob

[ftfdverbenec770]

Cant forget about the classics

The water hammer
The Q winder
The FNG

[KEEPBACK200FEET]

The "left handed smoke shifter".

[boomwak]

The henway.













Whats a henway?
5-6 pounds!

[psouther]

I have done this while doing truck check as the new guy to check the brake fluid. It is great to watch look at the engine for a while confused but he knows it is in there.
Another thing I heard was one shift left their cabnet unlocked in the kitchen and someone tied a string from one cabinet door to the other and put the string behind all the cans and food so when they opened the doors it sucked all the food out.
We had one guy that was ruthless and just plain mean so one day in the winter on his winter coat (not bunker gear) we zip-tied both zippers together and wrapped them with tape. He obviously figured it out but at the end of shift it took him some time to undo it. It might not have been the most creative but it got him to bring it down a notch.

[st42stephenAFT]

One of the guys in my department apparently was told to find a left handed screwdriver. And he brought a screwdriver and was told it wasn't left handed, so he went back to looking.....

[BLSboy]

Probie, go gemme a bucket of prop wash!
:confused:
:cool: :p :D

[doughesson]

Years ago,another bosun's mate in my destroyer sent a new kid fresh from Basic over to the tender USS Sierra(a WW2 vintage ship,even!) to ask the First Lieutenant(the deck officer)for 60 fathoms of Fallopian tube.
On the advice of my legal counsel,I have forgotten whether or not the Petty officer who ordered the supply run knew that the 1st LT was a woman.

Or another oldie but goodie from the Navy:the mail buoy watch.
This is where a new guy is designated to watch for the mail buoy and to snag it with a boathook while wearing a phone talker's helmet painted purple(it looks like the head of a certain external male organ),sound powered phone hooked into a circuit no one even uses at sea,big rubber firefighting boots and draped with a cargo net(wouldn't want the lad falling overboard while performing his duties now,would we?).
One time,the First Division Chief kicked it to a new level by getting a fake Plan of the Day printed up and posted with this guy's name on it as Mail Buoy Watch 1600-2000.
The thing is,this guy was supposed to have had reported aboard just hours before we were getting underway for a homeport change and in reality,literally just threw his seabag across the quarterdeck as we were singling up the mooring lines.
As we performed the jobs of getting underway,the word got passed(with the connivance of the Captain who also enjoyed a good prank,for the Mail Buoy Watch to lay to the foc'sle.Since no one abviously showed up,the word got changed to "Seaman Apprentice Jones,lay to the foc'sle on the double."
SA Jones arrived wondering why he'd been announced over the 1MC his first day and had to endure a E-7 and E-6 laying into him worse than he'd received during Basic Training.
As he protested his innocence,Chief Brown and BM1 Smith chewed on him as only a Chief and 1st class Bosun can for not reading the POD and knowing his watch even if it was his first day aboard.
We got him dressed out as described above just in time for the ship to pass the marker buoy for the harbor.The Chief went simulated ballistic on this poor kid because the ship immediately turned North on course for Norfolk and the kid thought he'd royally screwed up because we were passing a buoy,he was"The Mail Buoy watch",and there's 40 bosun's mates who wanted letters from home between him and the watertight doors leaving the foc'sle.
He thought he was about to really catch H for messing up retrieving the ship's mail and have to fight his way off the foc'sle to get back to his division berthing compartment.
He didn't think it was funny how he'd been had but later in a shipyard period,he helped get another guy during a simulated exercise where we performed the jobs of going to sea without actually getting underway.He helped get a guy to do mail buoy watch while inport!

[ffmedcbk1]

I had gotten a load of popcorn styrophone peanuts and brought them back to the station. I was bout 1/3 yards worth. Well,the guys fiiled up someones locker in the locker room....



Unfortunately, he thought I did it and then filled up my trunk with the rest of them. I didn't open the trunk till the night prior to leaving out for a Caribean cruise and at home it was quite windy.
Unfortunately it was early November... I picked up peanuts till early March after the snow melted.

[ftfdverbenec770]

Have any of you guys tryed making the new guy "pop the clutch" with a K-12/Quickie saw/etc?

Saw it on youtube the other day and was rolling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_nJIK1VLLs

[len1582]

Get me a metric screwdriver kid.

[mcaldwell]

Have any of you guys tryed making the new guy "pop the clutch" with a K-12/Quickie saw/etc?

Saw it on youtube the other day and was rolling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_nJIK1VLLs


That is classic! Going into the vault. ;) :D

[npfd801]

I can't take credit for it, but send them to neighboring stations or departments for a can of friction loss. Best one yet in my opinion, though the K12 alternative starting technique is pretty awesome.

[wischief]

Eaglesrule, would that be a Knuter Valve? (Spelling)

How about putting winter air in the apparatus tires?

[ccfdblehman]

50 feet of shore line

instant canned water... just add water

radiator belt

keys for the engine

can of beep for horns


for the really dense... halogen for the headlights and blinker fluid

some of the ones i have heard of.

[hwoods]

My all time favorite, The Metric Crescent Wrench.......:D :D :D

[rpferry]

Two that I remember:

The cigarette identifier.

The turn signal fluid

[KnightnPBIArmor]

[QUOTE=npfd801;889089]I can't take credit for it, but send them to neighboring stations or departments for a can of friction loss. QUOTE]

Yep, I got sent to the Mechanic's Shop to fetch a can of Friction Loss when I was a probie...:rolleyes: Another poor sap was convinced that the air in all the engine's tires had to be changed the first Sunday of the month...:D

[len1582]

My all time favorite, The Metric Crescent Wrench.......:D :D :D

I'll have to put that with my screwdriver. . ;)

[hwoods]

I'll have to put that with my screwdriver. . ;)

Don't forget the other Metric Tools, You can have a whole set: Visegrips, Channel locks, Hammer, Crowbar, Pipe Wrench, Etc............


If you are concerned with identifying your tools on a job where items get scattered and mixed. send the Probie out for a can of Striped Spray Paint. If the Hardware Store is out of Stripe Spray, get a regular "Brush on" Stripe Paint, and a Right Hand Brush.......... The Brush should be 2 inches, or, if a 2inch brush is not available, 1/6 of a foot will work...........:D :D :D

[kd7fds]

When I was in the Navy, the mail buoy watch was popular. I had a friend on the USS Constellation (aircraft carrier). The Captain went along with the prank too. They didn't have flight ops going on, so when the kid shouted into the phones that he saw it (In the middle of the ocean over 1000 miles from Hawaii), the Captain stopped the ship. Then chewed him out.

I worked in the engineroom on a tender. We sent guys out for a steam blanket for the boilers. Bucket of steam, 100'ft of gig line.

1 poor sucker got sent from stem to stern looking for 10 ft of fallopian tubing. The female doctor was not happy when he ended up in her office.

1 guy was told to draw a lube oil sample for testing from an electric motor. We couldn't figure out where he got the oil from, but he found some and took it to the oil lab. They told him they couldn't accept it because it didn't have the Chief Engineers signature. 2:00am, the Engineer called us over the intercom to express her displeasure at our joke.

When sending someone out for one of these items, it is important for them to have the right paperwork. Frequently they would be told that the left-handed screw driver is available, do you have your Form ID-TEN-T (ID10T) so you can check it out?

[doughesson]

I never fell for this one on my old vollie department but we got one hot shot Explorer on going under the rig to check the pressure in the spare tire.He kept hollering that he couldn't find it until the Captain coached him into sliding up underneath the pump drain.
When he was in mid wail that he STILL couldn't find it,the engineer opened the drain valve.

Here's another one from the Navy:the seabat.
This is a critter that infests Navy ships and can only be found when a bunch of new guys is on board.
When the Chiefs find one,it is captured using ASPCA approved techniques(this IS the New US Navy,of course) and carried back to the fantail for showing off in a box.
According to the SPCA,the box can no longer be kicked to stir up the seabat but must be left on the deck and viewers must bend over or lay down on the deck to see this unusual denizen of the deep.
When the viewer is bent over to look into the box,the bristle end of a broom is applied vigorously to the hapless sailors "sternsheets".
And ,of course,the Chiefs properly release the seabat into its natural habitat after all new sailors have properly been shown a seabat.
Don't you just love happy endings?

[doughesson]

The female doctor was not happy when he ended up in her office.

the Engineer called us over the intercom to express her displeasure at our joke.

When sending someone out for one of these items, it is important for them to have the right paperwork. Frequently they would be told that the left-handed screw driver is available, do you have your Form ID-TEN-T (ID10T) so you can check it out?

Man,is it a good thing we didn't have women officers in my destroyer in the 80s.Some of us would still be in the brig at Norfolk.
Cycling the engineer's sound powered phone circuit through all stations while cranking on the alert ringer at 0200 was fun.We got to hear all the stations piping up:"Main Control,Number Two Fireroom,Petty officer Jones speaking,and lastly(in a sleepy voice)Chief Engineer"and the real funny parts:"Why'd you call us?I didn't call you,y'all called me!"and no one seemed to figure out the one station that wasn't signing onto the circuit while this was going on.
If paperwork is needed,we'd always be sure to demand a Bravo Alpha 1100 November form(BA1100N) or a Bravo 1 Romeo Delta(B1RD) form to confirm issue and return of all First Division equipment.

[CALFFBOU]

Unless I missed it, no one has mentioned getting new spark plugs for the engine yet?

[WaterbryVTfire]

We had a newbie convinced that you needed to fill the wild land Indian tanks with hot water because cold water evaporates quicker.

[wcfpd2601]

Where in the heck is that "hose stretcher?"

[opie5461]

Had a HAZMAT Tech come to me on a HAZMAT call and ask me for a Pap Smear so he could test the product. He also just finished Paramedic school.

[ffbam24]

From the Navy days:
Go down to Machinery Division and get a machinist's punch.
We need a portable air sample. Take this garbage bag and collect a sample about shoulder height.

[DFurtman]

Sent new kids up to the crash and salvage shack for the C&S Punch

My favorite one is to tell some kid to hurry up and go find me some Dihydrogen Monoxide.. and to be very careful and wear their PPE..

-Damien

[jbrescue]

We have been known to send the probie to the Chief's office in full turnout and SCBA for proper PPE inspection. It's even better when the Chief has no idea it is coming.

How about telling to change out the spark plugs on the diesel engines?

[RDL210]

We had a proby convinced to put water from a waterfall in the tanker since it does'nt freeze in winter time...

[hwoods]

Doug reminded me of this one:

Many, Many moons ago (more like 35 years ago) I was a Career Firefighter assigned to a station that had Telephones with a row of buttons across the bottom (Line 1, Line2, Intercom, Hold, etc.) There was an interlock that prevented pushing multiple buttons down at the same time. One day someone ;) found that one phone's interlock was broken. A little experimenting, and we had a system where 2 people would make outgoing calls simultaneously on the phone in question and another in the next room. When both called numbers rang for the first time, the buttons for the two calls were jammed down together causing the Two people being called to both think that the person on the other end was calling them. of course, we were listening in, in the middle, and in hysterics usually. Our usual target was two other Firehouses............ We called two Pizza shops one day, and listened to "Can I take your order?' "No, I take your order" "What?" "who are you, some smarta$$?" and so on, for about ten minutes. Another day, we stretched our luck and called the Police Chief and Fire Chief of a nearby City...... Yesterday's technology had some good things..........:D :D :D

[BLSboy]

Damn Chief, you had me rolling with that one!

Funny sh!t!:D

[doughesson]

My legal counsel has advised me that I should never ask this one but since she doesn't have me on a leash right now(no bad mental images,please.it ain't like that),have you ever call forwarded or call blocked your chain of command?
Also,Chief,can I ask just HOW that button got broken or would you have to kill me if you told me?

Doug reminded me of this one:

Many, Many moons ago (more like 35 years ago) I was a Career Firefighter assigned to a station that had Telephones with a row of buttons across the bottom (Line 1, Line2, Intercom, Hold, etc.) There was an interlock that prevented pushing multiple buttons down at the same time. One day someone ;) found that one phone's interlock was broken. Yesterday's technology had some good things..........:D :D :D

[jbrescue]

We have been known to "accidentally" use the release button to put them on hold.

[davjohnson]

While stationed in Alaska, we would "honor" a firefighter's last shift before PSC-ing by rolling his uniform into a large coffee can filled with water and setting it in the arctic air overnight. We would send the new guys out to check for the dreaded "snow snake".
We have also had newbies check the air in the spare tire which is always near the tank drain.
New dispatchers would get a call from telephone maintenance stating they had tracked a problem to dust in the line and they needed to place a plastic bag over the handset while they blew it out.
Some newbies have been convinced that protein foam is a good substitute for laundry detergent.

[rhvfd1214]

Depending on your working nature with the 911 Dispatchers, have the newbie paged out by 911 to call his mother on his cell phone..

[hwoods]

My legal counsel has advised me that I should never ask this one but since she doesn't have me on a leash right now(no bad mental images,please.it ain't like that),have you ever call forwarded or call blocked your chain of command?
Also,Chief,can I ask just HOW that button got broken or would you have to kill me if you told me?



I dunno Doug, One day someone noticed that they pushed two buttons down and it worked OK, didn't kick one button back up. Patching two calls together was eventually worked out by those two Guys in Research and Development, Trial and Error.

[doughesson]

I dunno Doug, One day someone noticed that they pushed two buttons down and it worked OK, didn't kick one button back up. Patching two calls together was eventually worked out by those two Guys in Research and Development, Trial and Error.

Firefighters is resourceful,ain't they?

[RyanEMVFD]

I always liked sending newbies to check the starter fluid in the truck.

[Lifeguard911]

"Hey , Probie. Go to the equpment room and get me some batteries for my chemlight!"

[eng19ine]

You guys missed the best one. Have a probie rolling hose with Storz couplings. Just as he's about to place the hose into the truck, tell him that he has the male end on the wrong side, and that the female end should be there. Watch him unroll the hose, and look bewildered at the couplings to later find out that the couplings are interchangeable, and laugh your butt off.



When I was working EMS, one of the fire stations had a wash room with only a one way handle. When you were in, you knew to not let the door shut behind you. Well, one guy let the door shut behind him, and could not get out. The other guys in the house were all upstairs and could not hear his panicked screams. So, in this guy's wisdom, he calls EOC on his cell phone instructing the dispatcher who worked at the house to call the station, not set tones, and tell them to let him out...Next thing you know, routine tones set for station nine for a rescue of a subject trapped downstairs in the washroom.

[doughesson]

Next thing you know, routine tones set for station nine for a rescue of a subject trapped downstairs in the washroom.

Lemme guess.This guy is now a battalion Chief?

[gunnyv]

A Marine Corps buddy of mine used to send the newbies to the Comm shop for frequency grease for the radios. One time the kid came back with an OD green tube with yellow stenciled lettering "Grease, Frequency, Qty 1" and an NSN on the side. Guess the Comm guys got sick of them coming around.

Old timer story-guy buys a new car and starts bragging about the great gas mileage. Every night at work the guys would go out and add a couple gallons of gas to his tank. When he got up to 45mpg he called the car company and they laughed at him, but he still didn't get it. Then the guys started siphoning the gas out every day, and he couldn't figure out how we went from 45 mpg down to 10. Cursed the dealer up and down and took it in three times before he figured it out.

[hwoods]

Lemme guess.This guy is now a battalion Chief?


Us Chiefs resemble that Remark!!!............... Don't you have a Barge to Tow or something??........:D :D :D :D :D

[MasterMerlin]

Old timer story-guy buys a new car and starts bragging about the great gas mileage. Every night at work the guys would go out and add a couple gallons of gas to his tank. When he got up to 45mpg he called the car company and they laughed at him, but he still didn't get it. Then the guys started siphoning the gas out every day, and he couldn't figure out how we went from 45 mpg down to 10. Cursed the dealer up and down and took it in three times before he figured it out.

ROTFLMFAO!!!! That is great!!! I have to use this the next time someone gets a new ride. :D :D :D

[KRNCHRMAN]

Some of my favorites:

1. Green and White striped hose coupling paint (a 5 gal bucket full of fishing and wheel weights and sand)

2. Air Brake fluid

3. Sky Hook

[Tornadofire2119]

When I was a junior we were doing some in house hose training and the senior guys told me to get on the nozzle and the next thing I know I was completely soaked I didnt know what a brezzner nozzle was but I learned quick.

Also the one day I was at work and we asked our new emt to find us a folding litter/ collapsible device she looked for almost 20 mins then said very sincerley "I cant find one I dont think we have one". We then had to explain to her that it was the stretcher, this is also the person who tried for 15 mins to back the ambulance into the station and gave up and there were even bright yellow lines for guidance.

[rhvfd1214]

It's time for cold weather, we need the rookies to check the antifreeze in the lawnmower. Also, don't forget to check it in the ventilation fans as well.

[doughesson]

Us Chiefs resemble that Remark!!!............... Don't you have a Barge to Tow or something??........:D :D :D :D :D

No disrespect.I was thinking of that scene in "The Untouchables" where Sean Connery had taken Kevin Costner to the academy to pick out someone they could be reasonably sure wasn't on the take yet and the first guy stammered out his reason for joining the force.Connery said"And there goes our next Chief".
For some reason,when asked why I wanted to join my old department 4 years ago,I stammered out,in front of four officers who politely held their laughter until I left the room,"I-uh,I-uh,well.I could help.Yeah,I could help."and immediately held my head down in embarassment.

[hwoods]

No disrespect.I was thinking of that scene in "The Untouchables" where Sean Connery had taken Kevin Costner to the academy to pick out someone they could be reasonably sure wasn't on the take yet and the first guy stammered out his reason for joining the force.Connery said"And there goes our next Chief".
For some reason,when asked why I wanted to join my old department 4 years ago,I stammered out,in front of four officers who politely held their laughter until I left the room,"I-uh,I-uh,well.I could help.Yeah,I could help."and immediately held my head down in embarassment.


Yeah, my post was "tongue in cheek", or at least that's what I intended.:D :D :D

[DFW333]

I can't take credit for it, but send them to neighboring stations or departments for a can of friction loss.

One of my friends did that to a rookie at his station, kid came back and said he couldnt find any friction loss so he brought WD-40 cause he figured it would work just as well.

:D

[COFire]

I can't believe nobody has sent their new guy to the Police Station for a bucket of K9P (K-9 Pee)

If your bunk rooms have ceiling fans, put a cup of flour or sugar on a couple of the blades, they turn the fan on & get dusted....

At my station it's not uncommon to get a bucket of ice water dumped on you while taking a poop! Our policy is that he who dumps the water had to clean up the mess... I've made it clear that if I get the water treatment I will poop on the floor for him to clean up... They've left me alone!

The new guy does the dishes, we have a recycling program... view the video here... http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.indi vidual&VideoID=3481496

Give the new guy a telephone message for him to call Mr. Lyon at (insert phone number to nearest zoo)

I have more which will come later.....

[DrewOnFire]

COFire, that video was awesome.

I had a good one pulled on me the other night. The prankster remade my bed, with oxygen tubing under my "egg crate" mattress pad, right under my butt. That was hooked up to an IV bag under my bed. Once I fell asleep someone came over and squeezed the bag till I squirmed. Makes you think you pissed the bed.

Revenge is planned, activated charcoal drip on the forehead... should look good in the morning.

[hwoods]

Us Chiefs resemble that Remark!!!............... Don't you have a Barge to Tow or something??........:D :D :D :D :D

Hey Doug!.......


It's Saturday, 13:00 hrs....... Don't go tow anything........ I just looked at the Weather Radar, It ain't fit for man nor beast out there in your area......

[Weruj1]

CO Fire ..............that was so bad ! :D :D :D ....ROFLMAO ! nice work soldier !

[doughesson]

Hey Doug!.......


It's Saturday, 13:00 hrs....... Don't go tow anything........ I just looked at the Weather Radar, It ain't fit for man nor beast out there in your area......

Too late.I'd already been out in it 5 hours getting 16 barges tied off in the fleet and had 5 more hours to go on watch.I HATE COLD WET DAYS!

[hwoods]

BTW, Congrats on breaking the 3,000 Mark...........:)

[TurdFergusson]

Happened totally by accident, but couldn't have worked out better and got a bunch of laughs..
Just finished dinner at the station, spaghetti, sauce and garlic bread. I was cleaning the pot/pans, when Eng, Ladder and Tanker44 came to get fuel from the city tanks behind our station. You think the 8 of them didn't drop by the kitchen? NOOOOO. NOOOTT FIREMEN.. Asked what was for dinner, to which I replied "spaghetti and garlic bread. Y'all want some?" "Sure" was the Officer on the Eng reply. At that point I reached into the trash can, rooted through the pasta and sauce and found a piece of bread. "Here's some bread. You in?" Shaking it and picking pretend crap off of it.
The look on his face.
Wasn't half as good as the look when I started eating it after he declined my offer. "Nothing wrong with this piece.." I said.
Turns out, I pulled the foil off of the bread pan and set it in the garbage first. It happened to land flat covering "actual" garbage. Then the bread, pasta and to follow was the chunky sauce.
Hope this helps. Or... ..whatever.

[rhvfd1214]

What sized water hammer do you use to drive in your piercing nozzle?

Should a rookie run the 16/20 ounce water supply line unassisted?

When in Florida, does animal control respond when you call for gator-aid?

If you force entry, do you call for Power-aid?

Just a few questions every chief should ask during an interview..

[TurdFergusson]

Hey rookie, go to Chief's office and ask for the spare keys to the Engine.. (ours are ordered w/o keyed ignitions)

Airfield FF's- Run to base ops (or the tower etc) and get fourteen and a half feet of flightline..

[Steamin441]

From my oilfield days-


A new man is called a gudgeon. He is a worms helper. On a drill rig is a 'V' door. Used to direct pipe off the drilling floor. Send the gudgeon for the key to the v-door.

Bet the new guy he cannot lift a bag of drilling mud over his head. When he does someone else is behind him and cuts open the bag. Works better if he is pouring sweat.

Bet the new guy he can't bend a bundle of welding rods behind his neck. The coating crumbles off as they are bent and goes down the collar.

[hwoods]

Conversation the other evening brought up this one (I had forgotten it) A department in our county lies under the approach pattern for the main runway at a major airport, at a point only about a mile from touchdown. Naturally, the planes are pretty low coming over the station. Over the years, a number of Rookies have been directed to don a traffic vest and take two flares and stand on the roof of the hose tower to direct planes into the airport. (The ruse to get them up there is a "Power Failure" at the airport.):D :D :D

[firecat1]

Conversation the other evening brought up this one (I had forgotten it) A department in our county lies under the approach pattern for the main runway at a major airport, at a point only about a mile from touchdown. Naturally, the planes are pretty low coming over the station. Over the years, a number of Rookies have been directed to don a traffic vest and take two flares and stand on the roof of the hose tower to direct planes into the airport. (The ruse to get them up there is a "Power Failure" at the airport.):D :D :D

Let me guess, Harve...y'all do that especially in cold weather?:D

[GIJOE1775]

Hey anybody seen my headlight fluid? or my lefthand flashlight.....:confused:

hey! look a cookie
*sniff*

Shoot my bunkergear is on fire again!:eek:

[GFD748]

I remember taking an old pair of bunker boots and nailing them to the floor and putting there gear back together and having dispatch tone us out for a dumpster fire. Talk about some laughs. I've grown up since then but still love a good prank.

[Hexxus]

When new rookies come into the prison, we usually tell them to go get the "fallopian tubes" from the Control Center, and if they don't have them, then they are supposed to call the Lt.'s Office, then the Captain's Office, then the Major's Office. One time, we had a kid call all the way up to the Warden to find him some "fallopian tubes".

[dmleblanc]

In the plant where I used to work, we used chlorothene as a cleaning solvent. Sometimes they'd hand the new guy a styrofoam coffee cup and tell him to go get a little chlorothene for a job. He'd fill the coffee cup and wouldn't get more than 10 feet from the drum before the chlorothene ate out the bottom of it :D . Pretty nasty prank, now that I think about it.....

[JHR1985]

I used to find out what guys were allergic to and plant it in their food. The look on their face when they cant find their epi-pen because you hid it is awesome.

[Futureemt73193]

I used to find out what guys were allergic to and plant it in their food. The look on their face when they cant find their epi-pen because you hid it is awesome.

Is that such a good idea?

[RFRDxplorer]

When I was 5 or 6 I went to the station one day when my dad was the night shift Lt. They for some reason had like3 probies on their shift and then there were more just hanging out at the station so when I got there my Dad and some of the other older guys grabbed me and took me upstairs into the bunk room where no one was.

They put all this fake blood and cuts, etc on me and squeezed the juice from onions under my eyes so I would cry. They then made sure that a rookie was working the dispatch console (which is right next to the front door) and I went around front and was screaming and crying about how i got mugged in the park.

The probie at the front desk freaked and not only called for the medic crew, but the ambulance crew, and the squad crew, and two police units.

My dad didnt expect this and he called (on landline) the PD dispatch and told them it was a drill and to have their units play along.

All the older guys knew what was going on and let the probies do pt care (all were either EMT's or Medics). They went so far as loading me in the medic and calling for a med channel to Children's Hospital before my Dad stopped the fun. In all their panic, they didnt notice that the blood and everything was fake.

[JHR1985]

were you wearing the girly pink overalls that you had on in the pictures?

Cuz it would explain why no one noticed the fake blood. They were freaking out because someone was dressing their 5 year old boy up as a female.


And, my epi-pen prank was sarcasm.... well, part of it was

[RFRDxplorer]

were you wearing the girly pink overalls that you had on in the pictures?

Cuz it would explain why no one noticed the fake blood. They were freaking out because someone was dressing their 5 year old boy up as a female.


And, my epi-pen prank was sarcasm.... well, part of it was

No i wasnt in the overalls.

I'll try to find a pic of that prank though. It's lying around somewhere.

[eaglesrule1024]

I used to find out what guys were allergic to and plant it in their food. The look on their face when they cant find their epi-pen because you hid it is awesome.


That right there is just Fukked up. Why would you play with someone's life ? just a SMH :mad:

Rob

[MaryJane69]

Oh you guys are bad!
I would hate to have one or two of the pranks mentioned played on me.
But SC's recycling video was well funny!

[rhvfd1214]

I used to find out what guys were allergic to and plant it in their food. The look on their face when they cant find their epi-pen because you hid it is awesome.

What about taking the pads from an AED and placing them under the seat cover in the engine, then hitting the rookie with the juice while doing an outing in the engine, just to make 'em pee their pants!






Sarcasm of course...

For safety's sake, just use your taser so the AED will still be available if the rookie has a MI... ;)

[TexasBaptist]

I didn't read all the posts...so if this has been said...don't get too mad :D

I've heard of a prank that works off a bag of normal saline and a IV tubing set. Simply to explain: set it up so when the FF or EMT is sleeping, you turn on the saline and either make it drip or just give 'em a "shower" :rolleyes: :D

[egon911]

In a bit of a role reversal, when I was the new guy on my current dept, I sent one of the senior (not terribly mechanically inclined)guys to get me a 9/13ths socket.

[doughesson]

This prank is from another Pranks forum here and I am not saying that I ever did it at my old department before a training meeting/department supper but......:
There's a guy on another watch on the harbor boat that I work on that will forage through the galley for leftover food from the other guys.Now,we don't have a problem with this as MOST of us will leave bring stuff in to snack on and call"Fair game" on it as they pass down the boat's condition and what's next on the work list.
This guy just eats his way through our stuff and never brings in any for us to enjoy in return.
What was done was somebody got some Jello(tm) and mixed up enough to fill a pitcher and a couple glasses to leave in the fridge overnight before the moocher's weekend shift.
The weekend night guy was still holding his sides Monday morning as he told us how the swing guy had been complaining about the Kool aid being so thick that it congealed on him.

[doughesson]

Guy I knew in the Navy sent a new SN(seaman E3 with no designation for a rating yet,for you Army types)over to a destroyer tender First Lieutenant we were laying alongside for six fathoms of "Fallopian Tube".
It is unknown if the prankster knew that the tender's First LT was a woman and not given to having a sense of humor when she figured someone was sexually harassing her.
We did find out that she was a striking woman in such situations.

When new rookies come into the prison, we usually tell them to go get the "fallopian tubes" from the Control Center, and if they don't have them, then they are supposed to call the Lt.'s Office, then the Captain's Office, then the Major's Office. One time, we had a kid call all the way up to the Warden to find him some "fallopian tubes".

[egon911]

Any Navy types send 'em down to "tighten the nuts on the EOOW"? good times there.......

[hwoods]

In a bit of a role reversal, when I was the new guy on my current dept, I sent one of the senior (not terribly mechanically inclined)guys to get me a 9/13ths socket.


I've done that, except it was a 17/16ths.............:D :D :D

[KBRfiredog]

when i was working in the Air Force we'd ask the new guys to grab 100' of flight line and throw it on the truck.... (flight line is another name for the runways and taxiways)

we had an old control tower attached to our station so when we'd have a good thunderstorm roll in we'd tell the new guy to put his bunkers on, grab a portable radio, go up in the tower and call in any lighting that strikes the flightline. the tower had no lights and was covered with spider webs and dead bugs. the longest we ever had a guy stay up there was 1 hr 15 mins!!

[dmleblanc]

=rhvfd1214;930818]What about taking the pads from an AED and placing them under the seat cover in the engine, then hitting the rookie with the juice while doing an outing in the engine, just to make 'em pee their pants!


Yeah, that one could be really funny.....

New EMT Convicted in Fatal Prank
Though warned, he shocked a co-worker with a defibrillator

Joshua Philip Martin was in his fourth day on the job as a rescue-squad worker in Russell County when, in a playful mood, he decided to reach into the front seat of the ambulance and zap one of his co-workers with the defibrillator paddles.

The rookie's mistake was fatal.

Yesterday, in Russell Circuit Court, a judge convicted Martin, 25, of involuntary manslaughter, warning the burly but pink-faced young man that when he returns to court in March, he likely will be sent to prison.

He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years.

The target of Martin's prank was Courtney Hilton Rhoton, a 23-year-old mother of two small children who had worked her way through school to become an emergency medical technician [EMT].

She went into cardiac arrest seconds after Martin placed the paddles on her chest and shoulder.

Three days later, on June 4, she died.

After watching bailiffs lead Martin off to jail yesterday, the mothers of Rhoton and Martin stood at opposite ends of a narrow courthouse hallway and wept, one for the loss of her daughter, the other for the fate of her son.

All agreed Martin had meant no harm, though none derived comfort from the thought.

"If they just knew Josh!" his mother, Diana White, exclaimed between sobs.

"He just made a mistake. Everybody plays on the job, even cops. But with this one, it caught up. He's going to pay for it for the rest of his life."

"He was just playing around," Martin's aunt, Karen Martin, said.

"Anybody who knows him knows this was not intentional."

Rhoton's mother, Sandra Davenport, could not summon words to express her grief, except to say: "Everybody loved her."

In the courtroom minutes earlier, Martin had stood with his hands deep in his pants pockets and pleaded no contest to the charge against him, allowing Russell prosecutor Mike Bush to summarize the evidence without calling witnesses.

According to Bush, if the case had gone to trial, a witness would have testified that Martin, an EMT, was in the back of a Highlands Ambulance Service ambulance on June 1 when he first picked up the paddles of the manual defibrillator.

Defibrillators are used to restore heartbeats, but they can also stop a heart.

Martin, though an EMT, was not yet qualified to use the defibrillator and had been told it is not something to play with, Bush said.

Rhoton was in the front passenger seat of the ambulance, and driver Michael Coleman was heading south on U.S. 19 in Lebanon when Coleman heard Rhoton tell Martin not to touch her "with that," Bush said.

Coleman looked back to see Martin putting the paddles away.

But shortly afterward, Bush said, Coleman heard the "sound of a shock" and heard Rhoton yell: "Oh my God, Mike, he shocked me!"

Seconds later she stiffened and then went limp.

Coleman frantically tried to hold her slumping body up while driving and calling the private ambulance company's office.

Rhoton, who had been an EMT for one year, never regained consciousness.

She left behind two children, Christopher and Tamra, now 6 and 4.

Yesterday, the families of the two EMTs passed each other in the hallway as they left the courtroom.

Rhoton's sister, Chanda Lawson, 30, expressed bitterness as she watched the Martin family cry: "They're crying because he's going to jail, but my sister's not coming back."




Yep, that was a good one....:confused:

[BLSboy]

Uh, yea, it's next to impossible to shock Norma Sinus Rhythm with an AED. An AED will only shock V-Tach, or V-Fib. So, I think it's pretty safe to say its a joke.

[rhvfd1214]

Uh, yea, it's next to impossible to shock Norma Sinus Rhythm with an AED. An AED will only shock V-Tach, or V-Fib. So, I think it's pretty safe to say its a joke.

Absolutely a joke..

I'm not an advocate of pranks. I can understand the humor of some, but wouldn't condone any myself. I like the jello idea, though.. Sending rookies looking for non-existant tools is ok to, because it will create a familarity with the tools and locations on the trucks.

[IronsMan53]

Obviously some in here didn't read all of rhvfd1214's post or they have a complete lack of wit or sense of sarcasm. :rolleyes:

One of the ones we did around here is to give the probie a spray bottle of "siren lube" (water) which is "highly toxic if it comes into contact with the skin". The instructions read to "spray liberally over the entire Q2 siren". We had him wear gloves and goggles and instructed him to spray the siren. Just when he got the siren really wet we had somebody "accidentally" spool up the siren (not to the level of deafness for you Safety Sallys) which in turn coated the probie in "toxic siren lube".

I don't think he enjoyed the gross decon on the front pad. :D

[rhvfd1214]

One of the volunteers on our Rural Dept is in the process of training for a career dept. He has been going to a large city dept. doing training and ride-alongs sort of like an intern. He told us of one of the pranks that got played on him.

One day, while doing errands for the department, he left his turnout gear (from our dept.) on a chair unattended. While he was working, they switched his helmet with a child's toy helmet that they had written his unit number on. Harmless, but the lesson was to always keep up with your gear.

[J2Night]

The only prank i ever did was hang my captains sleeping bag on the flag pole and then duct taping his clothes from his gym bag into a basketball size ball. it was his going away prank for leaving the dept.

[LFDLT10]

One time at our station one of the guys left his locker open, thus leaving himself open for a prank. He came in to work the next shift, opened his locker and got buried in an avalanche of toilet paper rolls.

He got his revenge about a week later when the person who TP'd his locker left their's open. He left them a note saying that two items in his locker had been butt tagged, and that he could try to figure out which two.

I had a rookie claim he could out prank me, so I put a pair of hot pink thongs on the outside of his bunker pants, then rolled the pants back down over his boots.

You learn quick at our station not to leave a drink of any kind unattended because you'll come back to a salt cocktail.

We sent a rookie out looking for higbee indicator calibration tool. He finally gave up after two hours and seven stations.

[arreferee32]

Send them to the hardware store for checkered paint

[RFRDxplorer]

Yeah, that one could be really funny.....



Yep, that was a good one....:confused:

Ya, that story was the first thing I thought of when I read that post.

[BlueMtnsFirey]

We have one poor recruit in my class who isn't that mechanically inclined. He was asked to refuel a PPV and asked where the fuel was....off he goes into the rescue store and comes out again after about 15 mins, walks straight up to an instructor and asks
"Sir I know our mortorized equipment is not 2 stroke so where do we keep the 4 stroke fuel?"
Needless to say instructor had to get another recruit (Moi) to explain this little diddy while he walked around the corner to have a good laugh.......and yes we got a newbie (Junior class) looking for the 4 stroke fuel a coupla weeks later!

We also get large duffel style bags made up for when we graduate, about every second class has someone small enough to fit into these buggers, they have been carted all around the college, left in various spots including the instructors office areas, when the bag is finally inspected and opened, you definately want to be a witness.
One guy spent 45 mins inside the bag to get on instructor...damm near got thrown off a table 2 before said instructor thought to open the bag to look at a "tucked in" name tag
he he he

[doughesson]

Uh, yea, it's next to impossible to shock Norma Sinus Rhythm with an AED. An AED will only shock V-Tach, or V-Fib. So, I think it's pretty safe to say its a joke.

Maybe with the fancy automatic defibrillators but don't count on someone being able to figure a way to deliver a shock no matter how well made the equipment.
Never underestimate stupid people.
As the article said,the idiot had been told that it was not to be played with and the woman is definitely dead.
Doubt it's a joke.

[doughesson]

Take a small box,about cigar box size and cut the lid off.Save lid.
Fill box with marbles and put lid back over the box to contain them.
Place box of marbles behind mirror in medicine cabinet in bathroom.
Pull lid out from behind mirror and close mirror/door firmly.
Wait for your mark to enter the bathroom and open the medicine cabinet.

[BLSboy]

Maybe with the fancy automatic defibrillators but don't count on someone being able to figure a way to deliver a shock no matter how well made the equipment.
Never underestimate stupid people.
As the article said,the idiot had been told that it was not to be played with and the woman is definitely dead.
Doubt it's a joke.

Doug;
I read the article, and I know the story. If you had read closely, you would have read that the EMT placed the paddles on the victim. That is an unmistakeable sign that the Defib in question is a manual Defib, more then likely an old Lifepack 10 (although all defibs DO have the capabilities of using paddles)
In order to make a AED shock NSR, you would have to redo the programming to allow that. And that is next to, if not impossible.
Article, joke. Messing with ANY Defib, joke.
Talking about it in a facetious manner; joke.

[JHR1985]

or have an AED with an override button... dont know if they make them anymore

[fire78n88]

After fires, we tell the rookies the tank on the engine needs to be calibrated. We'll give them a giant wooden stick, send them up top, and have them drop the stick down to make sure the water level is within range...Always funny to watch a rookie on top of an engine banging a stick around. Another one is when restocking the ambulance, send them for a left handed ET tube.

Back when I was in the Army, we would make noobs walk around tanks, knocking on the armor listening for weak spots. If they found any, we would have to send one for the armor repair kit.

[doughesson]

Any Navy types send 'em down to "tighten the nuts on the EOOW"? good times there.......


Not when the MMCS(SW) could squat 600 pounds and bench pressed five without a spotter.

I'm still having trouble with a food moocher at work.Breaking out the big guns,the other shifts have been lacing extra chow with maximum daily doses fiber additive powder and warning the other crew"Don't eat the leftovers".
He complains of "Shi**ing my brains out"which we are taking to mean he ain't on the stool very long.Still hasn't learned his lesson but he sure is a regular guy.

A dispatcher at another outfit has a round medallion on his desk marked "tuit".(think about it) When this company brings a barge to us,we make sure to tell the new deckhands to "Go tell Lee that you want a round tuit so you'll have one when you need it."

[RJAbbott]

Couple of my favorites....,

Just a thin layer of red or purple kool-aid powder in either boots or gloves. Either way when you put them on and sweat a little it sure makes a mess when you take them off.

I had a guy put eye drops in some ice tea. It didn't really make me sick. So next shift I got some Knox gellatin and when he came back in he had a half gallon of Ice Tea jello he couldn't get out of the jug.

This one works in a volley department. Use a training smoke machine to smoke up an engine bay near the entrance door. Then have dispatch page a structure fire for the address of your fire station and watch the rooks come running in trying to figure out what to do to get the trucks out.

[doughesson]

Those who have rigs with a side ladder lift can do this.Pretend the machinery to lift the ladder rack is inoperative and send a rookie to find the lift crank and raise it.
Have the engineer make up an excuse that he's lost the wrench and send him to another rig in your battalion or vollie department to borrow theirs.You could also make up a heavy axe wrench for him to tote around and hunt the manual lift crank while everyone else is finished with taking up and is waiting for the ladders to raise so we can all go home back to supper or sleep.
We'd do similar in the Navy by handing a newbie a davit crank handle that weighs 40 pounds and send him to the 0-5 level(above the bridge deck)and crank down the mast before we could pass under a bridge.
Tip:Do NOT allow the Sea and Anchor Detail lookout to expand on the joke by waiting until the ship is about to pass under the bridge and holler"We ain't gonna make it!JUMP!"
The Captain doesn't like to hear shouting at one of his lookout positions and step out on the bridgewing to investigate,only to see a sailor falling past him to the water below.No,he doesn't.