Practical jokes?

[Jonathan Long]

What was the most memorable practical joke you've ever pulled?

Or had pulled on you?

Jon

[Joel Merrill]

I graduated high school in Maquoketa Iowa. A few miles from town is Maquoketa Caves State Park. These aren't the kind of cave that you take a paid guided tour through. The 2 main caves are a natural tunnel through a hill. The park it's self is probably 40 or 50 acres with beautiful hiking trails and several smaller caves. One of these smaller caves is on the main path not far from the main caves. It is a round room about 40 feet across and has an opening about the size of a doorway. Toward the back of the room is a small cave that is just big enough to crawl through. It has a bend in it and goes back about 15 feet. On nice Sunday afternoons there are lots of people at the park.

The year I graduated high school (1973) a friend of mine got out of the Navy. We hung around together that summer and did crazy things. One Sunday afternoon we were at that small cave and we got this wild idea :fav05 I crawled back in the back of that small cave and started to growl like a rabid animal. My friend, Dave, went out to the path and started saying, "Hey, there's a wild animal cornered in here." Pretty soon that room was full of people. Some were throwing rocks in that small cave I was hiding in but I was around the corner so they couldn't hit me, but I growled real angry like. Once is a while someone would start to crawl in but chicken out. I could here people talking and trying to guess if I was a rabid raccoon or a wounded bobcat. They were telling stories about their great uncle who was mulled by a badger. After a little while my friend, Dave, just shut up and sat down and listened to them all. This went on for about 45 minutes. My throat was getting really dry from growling and my back was getting very stiff but this sure was fun. There was standing room only in the cave and a crowd of people outside the cave. There was talk of getting the ranger or the sheriff. Dave was just sitting there trying not to laugh too loud. :rolleyes:

Finally a couple college students got brave enough to crawl all the way up the little cave I was in. I growled as hard as I could but they kept coming. As soon as they came around the bend where they could see me, I just waved and said, "HI". I couldn't think of anything more witty at the moment, but that was okay. The cave just roared with laughter. It was a good trick. :fav18

Joel :basic05