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  • Halloween prankster.

    If I wasn't the one who had to deal with the fallout I would be buying this guy a drink. Personally I find it hilarious I just hate having to deal with the customers who get pranked as they seem to have left their sense of humour at home.

    So this SC keeps coming in and setting up pranks in the store.

    So far:

    You know those hands that when set on the floor and turned on they crawl across the floor? Yeah, found this one in the pumpkin boxes. Imagine picking up the perfect chosen pumpkin to see a severed hand wiggling underneath.

    Little box that when triggered via motion detector, screams.... Loudly. Setup behind the grapes. Grapes which are in large unsecured bags and have a tendency to go everywhere when surprised customers freak out. [and as I'm typing this I got a message from a coworker who heard it from the oranges this time... Numerous times]

    Eyeballs that follow you, (or rather the motion of movement), hidden in dairy. Behind the first row of milk jugs... Every single milk jug.

    Singing hat (looks sorta like the sorting hat from Harry Potter) scared the crap out of me doing returns in produce. (Set up on a display fake pumpkin). Sadly not wearable.

    We know it's the same person because the security cameras(the few that actually work) keep catching the back of his head. And it's not staff. If our company weren't a bunch of cheap asses in head office and got our cameras fixed then we would have caught the guy already. But that would involve putting money into the company and we all know they won't do that.

    Like I said I would applaud him if only I wasn't the one who had to put up with the customer complaints. Though we kept the hat, it's upstairs in the staff room now.
    Last edited by AkaiKitsune; 10-24-2017, 12:41 AM.
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  • #2
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    I got over pranks when I was 12. I decided I was well over practical jokes when I moved into a share house with a well known prankster (when he was drunk). I told him I would not start anything, but I would finish it.

    So when I was moving in he started. Hid an ashtray of fish emulsion fertiliser in my room. I found it and put it in his room. He found it and put it in my car. I found it and put it in his car. He found it and complained that I was too quick for him. I reminded him that I would finish it if he kept on.

    So then it was all quiet. He stopped and we lived in harmony until new year's eve. He went out for the night (and got drunk), I stayed home and went to bed rather early. He came home at 2:00 AM and got the cold water from the refrigerator and tipped it all over me while yelling "Happy New Year!".

    I got out of bed, got my .22 rifle. Checked it to make sure it was unloaded. Walked out on the front porch. He was standing in the front yard, just in his underpants. Worked the bolt where he could see, hiding my hand on the trigger so the empty rifle did not cock. Brought the rifle up to my shoulder and started to bring it towards him, slowly.

    He ran for the fence, yelling at his girlfriend, "He's got a gun!", He hurdled the front fence in one leap, and jumped head first through the open window of his girlfriend's car. She drove off in a cloud of dust.

    I went back inside, Put the gun away. Got a large frozen fish from the freezer. Put it on a plate. Hid it at the back of the cupboard in my friend's room. Took the sheets from his bed and used them on my bed. Went back to sleep. This was in Northern Australia (in the tropics) in the middle of summer.

    He came home in the afternoon, I was sitting watching TV and he stuck his head in the front door (testing the atmosphere). I greeted him like nothing was wrong, which puzzled him. He was leaving for holidays in about 4 days after that.

    It took him 3 days to find the fish. He told me he was never trying anything like that again and I told him I wasn't going to shoot him (and had not even pointed the rifle at him). We are still friends today.

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    • #3
      How long

      How long till the smell went away? My mom forgot a bag of fish she had in her car, it got baked by the Florida sun.

      It took months before we could open the doors of the car and not smell spoiled fish.

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      • #4
        Quoth earl colby pottinger View Post
        It took months before we could open the doors of the car and not smell spoiled fish.
        He went away the day after he found the fish and his room had over a month to clear. As well I put it on a plate, so none of the smelly juice got on the shelf or any of the clothes. He didn't complain about any smell after he came back, so I assume it was cleared out.

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        • #5
          Quoth AkaiKitsune View Post
          If I wasn't the one who had to deal with the fallout I would be buying this guy a drink. Personally I find it hilarious I just hate having to deal with the customers who get pranked as they seem to have left their sense of humour at home.

          So this SC keeps coming in and setting up pranks in the store.

          So far:

          You know those hands that when set on the floor and turned on they crawl across the floor? Yeah, found this one in the pumpkin boxes. Imagine picking up the perfect chosen pumpkin to see a severed hand wiggling underneath.

          Little box that when triggered via motion detector, screams.... Loudly. Setup behind the grapes. Grapes which are in large unsecured bags and have a tendency to go everywhere when surprised customers freak out. [and as I'm typing this I got a message from a coworker who heard it from the oranges this time... Numerous times]

          Eyeballs that follow you, (or rather the motion of movement), hidden in dairy. Behind the first row of milk jugs... Every single milk jug.

          Singing hat (looks sorta like the sorting hat from Harry Potter) scared the crap out of me doing returns in produce. (Set up on a display fake pumpkin). Sadly not wearable.

          We know it's the same person because the security cameras(the few that actually work) keep catching the back of his head. And it's not staff. If our company weren't a bunch of cheap asses in head office and got our cameras fixed then we would have caught the guy already. But that would involve putting money into the company and we all know they won't do that.

          Like I said I would applaud him if only I wasn't the one who had to put up with the customer complaints. Though we kept the hat, it's upstairs in the staff room now.

          So this isn't stuff from somewhere else in the store? He brings it in?
          AkaiKitsune
          Sarcasm dear, sarcasm. I’m well aware that dealing with civilians in any capacity will skin your faith in humanity alive, then pickle anything that remains so as to watch it shrivel up into an immortal husk thus reminding you of how dead inside you now are.

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          • #6
            For the gag, I will give a D plus. As for the workmanship on the hand...
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            • #7
              Quoth Rosco the Iroc View Post

              So this isn't stuff from somewhere else in the store? He brings it in?
              Yep. He brings it all in himself.
              Don’t worry about what I’m up to. Worry about why you are worried about what I’m up to.

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              • #8
                All those fish pranks remind of the movie Grumpy Old Men.
                "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                • #9
                  Quoth AkaiKitsune View Post
                  Yep. He brings it all in himself.
                  I'm sure it's a pain, but to spend the time and money to do that...my inner me is-
                  AkaiKitsune
                  Sarcasm dear, sarcasm. I’m well aware that dealing with civilians in any capacity will skin your faith in humanity alive, then pickle anything that remains so as to watch it shrivel up into an immortal husk thus reminding you of how dead inside you now are.

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                  • #10
                    My vote is for an ex-employee who left on good terms. Said ex-employee might have even presented as a very normal person who would never prank anyone.

                    I would start by gossiping about anyone who used to work in produce. You might find your Merry Prankster then. Which you don't really want to do, because this is so much fun, except for the fallout.

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                    • #11
                      If your Corporate SIBs* focus on not losing customers, even when those sucktomers reduce their profits, tell them that the prankster is driving away business, with several complaining about the pranks. Then maybe they'll spend a little money on the security cameras.

                      I'm not a fan of practical jokes. (Too many of the ugly kind were played on me back in school.) These are mostly funny, but the hand one would scare me and drive me away. I'd assume that they were done by the employees, and had the blessing of management! The rest would make me jump, then laugh. And I'd ask management, "Can I have that hat, when Halloween is over?"

                      Shit, I sound so disapproving! I'd have that stuff all over my house if I was throwing a Halloween party!

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