pranks

[clermontfd623]

okay everyone in the fire service knows that pranks go on in a fire house so i just wanted to know what some peoples opion on it mine is as long as it stays away from the public and it does not mess with any equipment i'm cool with it

[ElectricHoser]

These should hold you over for a bit.

http://forums.firehouse.com/showthread.php?t=17293

http://forums.firehouse.com/showthread.php?t=68825

http://forums.firehouse.com/showthread.php?t=68483

http://forums.firehouse.com/showthread.php?t=57696

http://forums.firehouse.com/showthread.php?t=42559

[doughesson]

Well,not saying who done it,but a couple weeks ago,I visited my old volunteer department and they left while I was there for a wreck.When they got back,someone noticed Rescue Randy was in a different position and found out that he was wearing a bra.I heard them saying to leave it for the next explorer meeting so they could do CPR on him.

[CgFireFighter09]

shocking pens and are always fun... and have the new cadet/expoler find the "Left-handed" spanner wrench <<--- it works and we had one that looked for a few hours before someone told him

[t0asty]

left handed spanner? are they not just stamped steel an ambidextrious?

[nstewart33]

left handed spanner

left handed spanner? are they not just stamped steel an ambidextrious?

thats the point lol....like sending a probie for prop wash or a water hammer...the point is to keep them looking for hours.

[doughesson]

Send the probie to the ambulance for some fallopian tube.Works great when the Paramedic is a woman.

[res1cueffd]

the only thing that we never mess with is someones ppe. When calls come in they expect to be able to put it on in a certain manner and that messing with that process may be detrimental to the public if we get delayed by 2-3 minutes or w/e.
However water cans make for great late night wakeup calls.

[nstewart33]

yeah....about that.....

Send the probie to the ambulance for some fallopian tube.Works great when the Paramedic is a woman.

you gotta watch it tho. some females r really stingy. they might pull a sex-harassment suit.....im a woman, yes, and and i would have laughed, maybe kicked you 'where it hurts'. but some women u cant joke with like that. dont worry, i hate women like that, too.

[BackStepNBackWards]

volunteers, if you miss the truck, grab some seran wrap and go wrap someones car up....the look on their face is pricesless and it takes a good while for them to unwrap it

[dusty55]

This one is fun..."Ay grab me a water hammer" LOL gets the new explorers all the time

[nmfire]

Messing with eachother's cars is big thing around here for some reason.

One of my friends who was relatively new to the fire dept and a little too eager to make the truck left his car running in the parking lot. Needless to say, it wasn't there when he got back and it took him a good 1/2 hour to find it.

I've pioneered the hidden prank. I'll make a few 20ft long strips of yellow fire line tape and tie them to something under the back bumper of the car. Then I roll it up and place it on piece of the frame. It will stay there hidden until the victim drives away and they self-deploy when the car exceeds about 20mph and flap in the wind until they get home.

For pickup trucks, get a big huge zip tie and put it around the drive shaft with the tail sticking off still. As the shaft turns, the tail whacks the frame and makes a loud annoying noise. The victim will think their transmission is about to blow up. Then just before they have someone look at it, the ziptie will self-destruct and all evidence will be gone.

[WaterbryVTfire]

I always like sending them for a smoke shifter. "Hey Probie, Command wants you to get the smoke shifter to keep them out of the smoke..."

As for the car....On my old dept., we were called to a car crash. We arrived on scene and another one of our members who just happen to be driving by the incident left his car running (a black one with tinted windows.) in the median while he attended to a patient. I saw my opp so to speak, and turned off his AC (did I mention it was about 90 degrees?). And turned on the heat. The look on his face when he opened the door was great. I swear you could have baked a cake in the back seat!

[BPFire1618]

"Hey probie, go ask the Engineer for the blinker fluid. When you're done with that, go to the store room for a tank of winter air for the truck tires." Always a classic.

[doughesson]

Again something I will not discuss with legal representation but tying a length of cord to a car bumper and tying that off to a box marked"Free kittens" is sure to get people to wave frantically at someone driving down the road.
Have the probie "Check the spare tire"and have them slide under the rig until they're right under the pump drain.Get the picture?
Fixing pitchers full of Jello and putting them on the table after they've set can cause a few double takes.
Video taping a toilet,then slipping the tape into the VCR and laughing just as the probie comes back from the facilities is a good ice breaker.
Who can forget the short sheet?