From: bwilliam@iat.holonet.net (Bill Williams)
Subject: Re: Dorm Practical Jokes
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Distribution: alt.evil
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 12:21:04 GMT

>>to get even to anotheer person
living in a dorm.

I personally did many of the following :

1> Pennied doors shut. Requires 2 people and stealth. one lies on the ground
outside the victims dorm and presses the door inwards with their feet as
hard as they can. You then put a small stack of four or more one cent pieces
in the resulting gap of the door jamb and the door as high up to the
handle as possible. Heh Heh They ususally telephoned friends or campus
security to get them out!!! If the saviors do not know that kicking the door
once from the OUTSIDE can release them its a messy sight. Also called
Nickle-ing a door at the University of Michigan

2> Red wire their phone. Open their phone when they are not around and unscrew
the red wire to the bell. They will NEVER HERE ANY PNONE CALLS and become
a social pariah. Plus their parents will GO INSANE and eventually call
police or dorm security to see if their sun committed suicide weeks ago.

3> Green wire their phone. Removing the green wire leading from the 
switch hook will not allow anwswering the phone. Do it late at night, turn
up the bell volume and call at three in the morning and do not hang up until
you think they eventually destroyed their noisy pnone in sheer rage

4> tape newspaper up around their door and fill with pillow feathers or
punch card holes (This was 1981). Sadly the punch card hole refuse stuck
to the eye of one victim and the little sqaure cut their cornea once (not
one of my victims though)

5> always deface their doors memo pad. Permanent ink sharpies look
non-chalant when buddies may be watching you. (only a stong solvent will
get the sharpie off the pad/door

6> always ruin the tip of their memo pad marker on a daily/weekly basis

7> get the voice terminal of the campus computer system to call them and
say threatening messages in a evil manner every night on a regular basis....
Lyle Lieberman Must Die! Must Die!

8> shoot a set of one cent coins with incredible and astonishing velocity
into their personal objects!! Method: Get STRONG large handled hair comb
and place a row of pennies ar the top of their door. use the comb to fire
the coins into the room at various angles with a two-hand technique.
Windows will not usually ever crack but the HILARIOUS sounds of small
items falling off shelves or breaking (stereo stuff etc) will really make
you split a gut. Water syringes with india ink are funny too if you want a
REAL WAR!

9> Squirt a huge blob of clear gell shampoo outside their door at night.
in the morning they will be dishusted when their bare feet hit the slime
(assuming a communal shower room in the hall)

10> spread tons of rumors about them (favorite pastime) Sway as many
people against them as possible. You'd be suprised what peer pressure does
with young people and their wolf pack tendencies.

My dad told me he put jello outside doors. Ran hoses from sinks to windows
and made GIGANTIC ice waterfalls with colored dyes in the winter and
other stuff.

I forget alot but my hobies included:

breaking open all the locks on steam tunnel entrances and spelunking them.

hacking the PIN scheme of ATT for their caling card using a team of engineers

making a Fire-Marshalls pass tool to open elevator shafts and control them
using the roof remote against the wishes of helpless victims who enterred
it. We did this often and called it "Elevator Man" Would have loved Oingo
Boingo to write their elevator song back then.

Making a brazed brass master key for a parking lot full of parking meters
(actually I just watched)

measured tumblers for the dorm lock and created a MASTER PASS KEY for my hall.
Watched others make master pass keys for other halls. Once had to steal
the RA's key in the early days temporarily to see what made the key
special (it is the LAST (outside edge) TUMBLER) With the keys in hand we
did insidiously evil things at times. So eveil that I never told ANYONE
what was done other than accomplices. With the keys any room could be
openned at any time. Best time THANKSGIVING WEEKEND.

lots and lots of pranks, tricks, annoying habits, fights, riots (once , 42
people in report)), vandalism, etc etc etc.

Oh yes..... I did eventually get my computer degree.

BWilliams.