Jokes/Pranks/and Everything Else

[DispNowCopL8r]

Ok we have a little prank war going on in our comm center right now, I am unfortunately in the middle of this...I need some tips, suggestions, or good experiences from all of you on pranks that have been played on you, or someone else in your center. This is very important I NEED TO WIN! PLEASE HELP!

[MrJim911]

Oh, where to begin.

If you guys use headsets take off their ear cushion(s).

Take off the mic piece on the headset.

Do you guys have lockers? Tape it shut or rig it so stuff falls out when they open it.

Switch keys around on the keyboard or just take them off completley. Heck, just unplug the darn thing.

Mess with the monitor controls.

At my agency we are able to sign off other users from other computers..GREAT thing to be able to do.... All of their functions stop working and they have no clue why. LOL

Speaker volume?

Flip the lights off in the PSAP and make them think the power went out.

Temporarily steal their lunch from the fridge or replace certain items.

I'm sure I'll come up with more......

[kels]

I dont mean to be a wet blanket, I can give as well as I take.
BUT
Screwing with consoles, radio equipment or anything else that might cause someone in the field to be left hanging worries me a bit.
Use a little common sense.
Now fixing the handle on the dispatch chair so that it goes from
high to low when you sit down in it might work.
Leaving a urgent message for the enemy to call dial a prayer in the next city also might work.
If you can find someone with a slim jim, move their car while they are at work.
Have someone do a car stop with their vehicle at the liquor store.
lovers lane etc ( this works better in a smaller dept. )
Last but not least- completely filling their car with shredded paper (from dispatch) while they are working.

[DispNowCopL8r]

MrJim911,
Those worked like a charm, but I'm running out of ideas... anymore, anyone else have some they can help me with please!!!!!

[MrJim911]

I guess there is always the fake mouse on the floor under the console... Fake little spider on the keyboard? Colored paper in the printer? Send them an anonymous email that says their breath stinks... I think there is really a website where you can do this.

Of course lets all use common sense and not do this where it will cause a possible danger to field units or hurt feelings in the PSAP. :) Play nice!!

[KYEMT325]

One of my favorites...if you have departmental pagers, page them with the numbers to such things as....spouse abuse center, suicide hotline...and if you're really daring (as I was one day)...the mayor's office!!! We had an officer who kept playing pranks on me, and I knew he had applied with the city for a job, so I put the Mayor's Office number in the pager, and he called her and asked what she wanted!!! LOL then when he called me back at the Com Center, I would've loved to had a copy of that tape when he called me everything he could think of...LOL

Just a hint

[Kahuna5150]

Speaking of paging as a joke. Our intercom system in our department required a three digit # to activate from any phone, so you dial like 333 to get it to turn on. Someone, (a genius in my book) figured out, (bored night?) if you dialed our department's prefix and the first number of all the numbers, (confused I'll explain).

Main PD number 555-7000

Detectives 555-7250

Traffic 555-7648

Etc, (first four numbers are usually the same)

So what this officer found out was that you simply dial 555-7333 (the 333 is the intercom from inside the building remember) you would get the same click and tone and could talk into the phone. So basically you can be *ANYWHERE* in the world and dial the PD to get on the intercom.

More than one graveyard shift you would hear the Intercom click on and then, "Hello? Is anyone there? Did someone page (Insert name here)".

Can be quite funny after the 7th or 8th time they call the number, I have heard such treats as, "Listen as***le, if you don't stop paging me I'm gonna trace the number and pay you a visit".

Always a treat!

Kahuna

[ladymoonlite]

This took some planning on my employees' part, so I'll share it with you. Do you have ceiling fans in your center? We have four, and while I was lured out of the room by one telecommunicator, another team of TCs was placing MONTHS of saved confetti (from the three-hole punch) on top of the fan blades. Some time after my return, I was asked to speak to someone at their console (nearest the fan in question), and when the conversation was over she asked if I wouldn't mind turning on the fan while I was going by. No problem, says I, and DOWN COMES THE CONFETTI in a lovely and artistic pattern... EGAD that took a lot of vaccuuming!

Hey, if they don't give you a hard time, they don't really like ya!
:p