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**Reenie** · Reporter Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3577 Location: Glasgow

Work is boring, let's face it. You have to liven it up by nailing the office arsehole from time to time...

Alan314159 in another thread wrote:

Reminds me of a story from my sister's workplace. One year they decided it would be a good idea to put one of the staff through the christmas tree netting machine Very Happy

Wish I'd seen that.

I used to work in the IT department of a printing firm. My boss was the main man's son so he used to do as he pleased.

One day he was in our factory that was near the town centre. I suppose he'd had a few lunchtime ales and popped in to wind the staff up.

So they grabbed him and stuffed him on a pallet of computer stationery that was to be delivered to head office and shrink-wrapped the whole lot.

Then they put the pallet on a lorry to bring him back to us.

We even got a delivery note with him on it! Very Happy

Scaeme · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:29 am Post subject:

I was part of an armoured brigade and we used to play all sorts of practical jokes on the Armoured Corps.
The one that really sticks in my mind was when we booby trapped one of the Challenger 2's with a coloured flare.
The crew got in and then suddenly there was a load of shouting and swearing and a fair few yells of "gas gas gas!". The smoke pouring out of that thing in all directions, the hatches fly open and these tankers are running out of there with thier resperators on in panic out of the smoke. As it all began to lift and we saw this RSM come racing over looking extreamly pissed off and within minutes we were ranked up trying desperatly to keep a straight face as our eyes kept glancing over to the lads not so far away who were now in neon pink uniforms with rings around thier faces from where the resperators had been.
Extreamly irresponsible, dangerous, but fun Razz

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**Reenie** · Reporter Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3577 Location: Glasgow

Scaeme wrote:

Extreamly irresponsible, dangerous, but fun Razz

One does not need to join the military to indulge in dangerous behaviour as many a chemistry teacher will testify.

Whilst this would count as "Mischief in the schoolroom" for me, for the teacher it is certainly the workplace. Without further ado:

A chemistry teacher at Millfield (I forget which) decided to lecture his new class on the hazards to be found within the lab. During this discourse, he came to the concentrated acids lurking in the fume cupboard. Nitric, Hydrochloric and Sulphuric.

He advised that, in the event of an accidental spillage on one's person, one should immediately wash the affected area with cold water. To demonstrate, he unbunged the sulphuric acid and poured a quantity on the back of his hand. Straight away, he put his hand under the cold water tap and turned it on.

Unfortunately, our hero had forgotten that the plumbers had been in during the school holidays and the new piping had not been commisioned.

There ensued a silence, a pregnant pause, as everyone realised the enormity of the situation. Sulphuric acid takes a short while to penetrate through the skin. Then it hits the nerve endings.

The nearest available water was at the other end of the building, along a corridor the length of a football pitch. The screams were heard from much further afield: from the maths department to The Elms public house across the road.

That's bad enough, but the chemistry teaching staff of Clifton College decided it would be good fun to engage an explosives expert from ICI's explosives division to deliver a practical lecture to a lecture hall filled with fifteen-year-old boys. I was part of that happy audience and more of that another time...

**Alan314159** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 389

I don't know if this counts as mischief, probably not, but it is work-related and made me smile. Smile

As I was stacking firelighters on a shelf, I noticed that the boxes said "Not for children" on them.
Pretty obvious, I thought. Everyone knows that firelighters are rubbish for setting light to children. Matches work much better! Twisted Evil

[N.B. I hope everyone realises that I don't actually go around incinerating the neighbourhood kids - I just thought the linguistic aspect was amusing!]