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A car is a precious piece of a person's life. Never, ever should you be doing anything that will damage another person's car or depreciate its value. With that said, there's no reason not to fuck with it in completely harmless ways at the expense of other people's emotions. Remember, your best friend's confusion, frustration and fear is the perfect fuel for you golden laughter. Leaving out things like egging and lunch meat on the paint, we have for you some solid examples of how to leech these emotions out of your pals. Here are 10 Harmless, But Awesome, Car Pranks.
10. Filling a Car with Shredded Paper, Ping Pong Balls or Packing Peanuts
This one is possible in two situations: Either the kid left his windows down or you have access to a key to his car. depending on your level of access, do you best to fill every single inch of the vehicle with either shredded paper, ping pong balls, or packing peanuts. We're talking about inside the glove box, in the ash tray, even in the CD case (oh wait, those don't exist anymore).
If you're feeling extra sneaky, pop the trunk lift up the spare tire compartment and fill that, too. Imagine their faces when they go to fix a flat months later and find a bunch of crumpled up news covering the tire. Each one presents its own issue: Tiny, painful cuts from the shredded paper, the danger of creating a mini ping pong avalanche when you open your door, or the hassel of those tiny styrofoam scraps from the peanuts. Any way you choose, it's going to be a hassel to clean up.
9. Saran Wrap
As far as pranks that require purchasing props, this might be the cheapest, most efficient, and most effective way to get somebody. If you're wondering how buying a bunch of tiny rolls of Saran Wrap is cheap, then you're thinking way too smal. That's a waste of time. If you're lucky, you have a friend that works somewhere with access to a large, industrial roll (like Menards, where I worked, or Home Depot or Lowes). If not, they can be purchased for a small fee at places like these.
The best way to attack is actually getting two teams of rolling. One holds, while the other rolls around. If you're a sissy, gloves might help, too, to protect your hands from the rough, quick-moving cardboard center. Now, make sure you don't just go around in one circle. That'll be way to easy for the victime to peel down in one swift motion. You need to go in big circles, in little circles, up and down, into crevices, around the mirrors and windshield wipers, and underneath the car. If you're gettin' real fancy with it, weave in and out of the underworkings of the car. Finally, make sure to hide the end of the wrap, so the guy doesn't even know where to begin.
8. Colored Wiper Fluid
Brown for dirt, red for blood, orange for Tang, or blue for Powerade. Take your pick. All you have to do is drip a couple drops of food coloring into the wiper fluid and you're all set. Do us a favor and hide a GoPro somewhere in the car, so we can watch as his or her eyes bug out in terror and confusion about what's being sprayed all over their car.
7. Move the Car
This one is nice and simple, but requires you have access to your friend's keys. Take the car away from its current parking area (whether it's during school or work or at home, and just move it around a street corner or behind a gargantuan car-hiding tree. Then, enjoy the panic attack.
6. Broken Window
Take head that you need to be extremely careful when attempting this prank. Broken glass is no joke (it is a great song, though). Essentially, you smash some glass, roll your friend's car window down and put some of the fake broken glass around the driver's side door and in the seat. If somebody is smart, he or she will recognize that it's fake immediately due to the lack of glass around the edges of the windows. However, the average driver will immediately go into freak-out mode about who the fuck would smashed the window!
5. Fake Accident Note
Occasionally, confusion is the most hilarious thing possible. Mix that confusion with fear in a styrofoam cup and you'll be enjoying yourself as you serve your friend a nice tasty prank. Put a little note under the windshield wiper with a super apologetic, but incredibly vague, statement about hitting the person's car but having to dip on account of your dog getting Crayola Crayon poisoning. With nothing actually wrong with the car, the person will be running himself crazy as he circles back and forth looking for what happened. Chances are, he or she will even find some sort of scratch that was there before and blame it on the phantom law-breaker.
4. Putting the Car on Cinder Blocks
There are a few ways you could do this. You could A. take all of the tires off, B. take only one tire off, or C. if you're really good, leave all the tires on, and find cinder blocks that will barely lift the tires off the ground. If you go with C, the person might not even notice that the car is propped up. This could be potentially dangerous to the vehicle if it falls off, though, so we don't really recommend it.
3. Switch the Keys
Coming out to see your car compeltely filled or completely covered with something might evokes a slight feeling of anger directed at somebody. Failing to complete a task you do every single day brings out enormous frustration and humiliation. There are few worse emotions than feeling like you're an incompetent idiot, which is exactly what happens when you swap a car key with an identical double. Locked out, son!
2. The Unexpected For Sale Sign
The "For Sale" prank will work best if the victim doesn't have easy or quick access to his car for a period of time, hopefully at least a few days. Maybe wait until he goes on vacation, if you really want to freak the person out. Pick somebody with a car that's visibly parked outside a house or in a driveway, put a For Sale sign with a cheap price on the vehicle, and put that person's cell number. People will be calling him for the steal that they just saw, and he'll have absolutely no clue what's happening.
1. Sticky Notes
The same philosophy about stickies that applies to your household items applies to cars: The lightweight adhesive won't do any damage. That's why completely covering a vehicle in stickies is hilariously amazing. Make sure you don't skimp and cover every inch of the car. Also, if you feel like gettin' fancy, switch it up with different colors, patterns, or write a message with the notes.