'Stolen' Car Saga

[Magpie]

Wow, I'm impressed. 100 engineering first years and they DIDN'T do something to the car? What being possessed them, because they sure weren't in their right minds.

It was the middle of the services tour. So we were supposed to be listening to the nice lady explain what Campus Rec offered. We'd have had to be rude in front of the leaders (who had us all scared of the guys with chains and sledgehammers) to get enough people involved to do something.

[lordlundar]

I still regret not getting my frosh group (when I was a frosh, not stupid enough to do this as a leader) to move the car that someone parked in the handicapped spot, in front of 100 engineering first years.

Wow, I'm impressed. 100 engineering first years and they DIDN'T do something to the car? What being possessed them, because they sure weren't in their right minds.

[Magpie]

I still regret not getting my frosh group (when I was a frosh, not stupid enough to do this as a leader) to move the car that someone parked in the handicapped spot, in front of 100 engineering first years. Let's see - 100 17- through 19-year-olds (still young enough to care), in engineering (tradition of moving cars), getting the official campus tour (still innocent enough to care), and, of course, mostly guys. A lot of big guys actually. Five or six of us were looking at it, and figuring if we could lift it up the steps.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Re: pranking by moving someone's car.

I went to the Mercersburg Academy for a year of post-graduate (high school) study, and someone did this with one of the faculty's old VW's. Replaced one of the tables in the dining hall with the car. Even put place settings on it, places, glasses, silverware, and all.

It was funny as hell watching people do a double-take, walking into the dining hall that morning and see that car there.

[Cookie]

Hehe! This reminds me of my early teens and the riding around with mom in the minivan with my kid brother days. I have a friend whose mom at the time had a minivan nearly identical to ours. You can see where this is going. We get our groceries bagged and the store employee comes out with us to load the bags into the minivan. Mom goes right to where she thought she parked the van and put the key in the door. Wouldn't turn. After a split second of panic she took a closer look at the van. My bro and I were both too old for that car seat in the back, then she busted out laughing as she recognized it as our friend's van. The poor store employee, though, followed us up and down that parking lot for quite some time because we couldn't find the van! He was a really good sport about the whole thing, although I wouldn't have blamed him for posting the story on a board like this one had such a thing existed back then. The whole story gave our friends a good laugh, though, when they found out we were at the store as well.

[Andara Bledin]

Oh, okay. The way I read it I thought I was missing something.

That's more than a good enough reason for me.

Yeah. Just standard high-level prankishness, there.

Another time, some friends of one of my mother's siblings decided to steal some sawhorses with flashing lights from somewhere (which I don't really approve of) and block off the street my mother's family lived on.

Grandpa was irrationally mad at the kid that was being pranked rather than the kids who did the actual pranking.

^-.-^

[MrsEclipse]

...Because it's fsking Awesome?

Oh, okay. The way I read it I thought I was missing something.

That's more than a good enough reason for me.

[Salesmonkey]

Thank God for the panic button. There has been more than one time in a parking lot when I've made the decision... "If people here hear the alarm go off they will think I am a thief... or I can be here 2 more hours and find the rental car...." Therefore I learned that I have no shame, and the embarrasment is lessened by being able to zoom out of there.

[VComps]

I'm joking, of course, although back in my college days, about six of us did do something like that to a VW Beetle that someone parked in the school parking lot overnight. We didn't actually move it, we just turned it around so it was facing the other direction, just to screw with the owner's head. That is, if he even noticed.

While we're sharing - when I was in high school, one of the people I went to school with drove an Austin Mini (the original Mini, TYVM) - a bunch of us picked it up and moved it between two trees. (ie, one tree was at the front bumper, one at the back.) Poor guy... had to do a two hundred and thirty-twelve point turn to get out

[Geek King]

I'm sorry, why did they do that?

Because they could. My dad's senior prank in high school was taking the (hated) shop teacher's VW bug apart and parking it, intact, on top of the school cafeteria.

[EricKei]

I'm sorry, why did they do that?

...Because it's fsking Awesome?

[MrsEclipse]

The crew my uncle hung out with dismantled and rebuilt a teacher's car inside a bell tower.

I'm sorry, why did they do that?

[Andara Bledin]

I'm joking, of course, although back in my college days, about six of us did do something like that to a VW Beetle that someone parked in the school parking lot overnight. We didn't actually move it, we just turned it around so it was facing the other direction, just to screw with the owner's head. That is, if he even noticed.

The crew my uncle hung out with dismantled and rebuilt a teacher's car inside a bell tower.

^-.-^

[EricKei]

Maybe someone should introduce that dear Lady to the notion of snapping a picture of one's parking area with a cellphone's (or another digital) camera...>_>

[csquared]

Years ago, I was back in my home town area for a business trip. I went to the local mall and parked the car in the area where I always parked when I use to live there. When I came out, I could not find my car. Spent about 15 minutes looking for it. Then it dawns on me, I am looking for the wrong car. Pulled the rental car keys out to note the make/model/color, and spent the next ten minutes looking for it.

A friend of mine had his car stolen from a hotel parking lot. He went out to where the car should have been and found broken window glass. He went back inside, reported it to the front desk and asked them to call the police. He got the "Let check the parking lot". He showed them the broken glass and they toured the parking lot. Then a manager got involved, and they toured the parking lot again. It took 90 minutes to convince the hotel to call the police. It wasn't a very big parking lot.