You need someones car or van for about 20 minutes. And 6ft of ignition wire. Pull a plug wire loose at the distributor and connect the ignition wire to it. Run the wire through the firewall, under the mat and bring it up under the drivers seat. Strip 1/4" off the jacket and push it up through the upholstery and fan the strands out (works best on cloth upholstery). When the car is started, watch tha action as the person tries to get out of the car! Except every time they go to grab metal they get a better ground!

Have one that is kinda like audiomasters'... Got the keys to the truck of the owner and wired the horn to the brake/blinker light so each time he stepped on the brake or wanted to signal a left hand turn... THERE SHE BLOWS!! He has a Dodge 3500 truck so it already looks intimidating and with the horn honking he got plenty of attention.

Does making the new guy think he's just help launch a nuclear counter strike count?

The new tech was always looking over my shoulder when I used my laptop, so . . .

On Monday morning I told the new tech AL, who just moved into the area the previous Wednesday, that I'd gotten hold of some bootleg programs over the weekend, and one of was supposed to allow you to peek into certain high level government computers. Al was not too computer savvy, and was always trying to get tips on how to build the best computer.

Anyway It's Monday in Baltimore, about noon when I finally "give in" fire up the modem and load in this "browser" program.
Al is watching as I ignore various warnings and threats of incarceration and stiff fines and "hack" my way into the national defense system. All the time I'm telling Al that there's no way the goverment is going to let anyone get to any critical areas and that the worse thing that can happen is I'll get kicked off the system.
Suddenly, A VERY NASTY WARNING comes up and asks me to enter the passcode to ARM MISSLES!
Al is sweating bullets and is begging me to shutdown the laptop.
I say "this has to be a joke!" "No WAY" and then I type in "LANGLEY"
Suddenly the speaker lets out with a whine and a message on the screen says "MISSLES LAUNCHED! IMPACT IN 30 MINUTES" and a list of Russian cities (TARGETS) begins to scroll down the screen. I pull out the modem line and turn off the computer. "It HAS to be a JOKE!" I say and suggest we go out to lunch. All the way to the resturant we are joking and laughing about the bogus program.

When we get to the resturant, I suggest we set outside.
Just as Al is starting on his lunch, the AIR RAID SIRENS ALL OVER TOWN GO OFF!
Al Turns pale and starts to sweat & shake, his bugeyed stare breaks me up and I almost fell out of my chair, doubled over and laughing.

Did I forget to mention that at that time Baltimore city tested ALL its AIR RAID (CIVIL DEFENSE) SIRENS at ONE O'CLOCK MONDAY.

I don't think Al ever trusted me again.

Outstanding!!!

Larry

OMFG, that's HILARIOUS!

Several years ago one of my employees got a new car and was really anal about it. When he arrived at work each morning he would take out his special no-scratch duster and brush off his car, I think he would have died if it ever got so much as a scratch in it.
About 2 weeks after he bought it, I went to the car dealer and got a can of touch-up paint, the hardware store for a 5/8" machine bolt 3" long and painted the head of the bolt to match the color of the car. I left it next to the drivers door where he would see it when he went to lunch.
Jim spent the next 2 hours at the dealer with a mechanic going over his car trying to figure out where this important looking bolt came from.

Installers can pull mean pranks on customers too...

One of my car guys had a customer with a cherished Fiat convertible that was very apprehnsive about the 5 1/4 mid going in the door. While the customer was gone the install went perfectly but the installer cut about 1/2 an inch down from the business end of eight drywall screws and placed them as close where the driver would be on the outsides of the doors, adhered with a small unnoticeable dab of gookypuck. The installer proudly went to show off the car to the client explaining that he got it done in record time because the new guy helped with the speakers. The client of course noticed the screws, flung open his door to look at the drivers and turned white. The installer, who did have a good relationship with the client (wasn't a first timer) plucked one of the screws and told the guy to look at the video camera!

you put speakers in a Fiat's door?

We usually just replace the map pockets with speaker pods... it's about the only way to make Fiat sound good (other than going with no radio, and motor revving at 7k... LOL)


Al
Katy, TX
Texas Fiat Lancia Unlimited

FIAT
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Feeble
Italian
Attempt @
Transportation

or

Fix
It
Again
Tony!

=Tom (former owner of 1970 124 spyder)

or

Failure
In
Automotive
Technology


(had a 1973 124 spyder)

Hey, I didn't say it was MY beloved Fiat Covertible. Maybe said customer got pranked for the very anagrams that you all have posted. It was an older model and had no map pockets.

I once had the keys to a house and couldn't resist leaving "The Temple of Poon" in a customers DVD player for my installers to stumble on. The house was festooned with religious paraphrenalia and I thought this was a good counterpoint. I of course got the call from my guys who just couldn't believe it! I played it for a while and told him that the lady of the house had mentioned how stunning she thought he was... didn't let him off the hook for at least a few hours.

I then left the same DVD in a client/friends player after showing him his system with some innocuous little chick flick loaded for a second date who was on her way. He called up laughing and thanking me the next day because he of course blamed it on me but said it gave him the impetus to get lucky.

rhm9 the matchmaker!