Beverly Hills Cop

Hi all, I am planning to play a practical joke on a old friend in return for the evenings entertainment which he planned for my stag night that left me in an rather embarassing situation. I hope to plug up the rear exhaust of his beloved car with playdoh or similar and see him drive out of the office car park and stutter, similar to that of Beverly Hills Cop. I don't want to wreck the engine, there's no chance of that is there with this sort of prank?

Cheers The Joker

Beverly Hills Cop was fantasy, meanwhile, in the real world...

What if he sets off at a pace and it stalls right in front of the truck he knew he had time to get out in front of...

Better to find someone to clamp him or get two people to park touching his front/rear bumpers.

This can blow the exhaust pipe, it used to be done with a potato. No idea if a modern ems-controlled engine gets a worse result, but the catalytic converter(s) might feasibly end up damaged in some way, anyone tried this and done something nasty?

If you can borrow his keys, get in his car and open all his vents and set the blower on full. Then empty thousands of hole-punch turds into his intake. :-)

Pollen filter on anything vaguely modern will do for that...

That one I like.

Although if you've got half an hour of uninterrupted time, and a 100 metre roll of cling film, you can parcel up the car. Use sticky silver bows for added effect.

Cheers,

We boxed a colleagues car in with pallets of paper and then sent the forky driver home

He had to man handle 2000 boxes of paper and then the manger made him put it back.

It was the last time he but laxitives in the bosses tea.

how about zip tying a condom over the exhaust pipe, shouldn't do any damage, but might make a loud bang!

PM wrote in rec.autos.misc

When my cousin got married, many years ago, I poured a bunch of the styrofoam packing things into the front seat and dash of their car. They complained that the things went down the defroster vents. Months later they would still puff up from when the defroster was on.

There's one guy at work that keeps catching people with this one but uses talc or french chalk. He tips it in the vents then wipes of the overspill. Another good one that's harmless is to use those packing bags of air (giant bubble wrap) or even plastic ziplock bags blown up. Try taping them to the wheel tread. You get a couple of loud bangs as they drive off.

Slatts

naaa too weak, a good strong latex glove gets huge before it goes bang :O)

Although that can be interesting if he opens the vents whilst on the motorway over taking a lorry at high speed (as happened to us on our honeymoon).

-- Malc

"John"

Not very exciting this one, but a colleague made up some fake plates (laser printer, laminator) for a mate's "pride and joy" Rover 220Gti - the plates read 6AY L0RD, and stuck them on his car one Friday night.

He got stopped in a random roadside check the next day, by a copper with sense-of-humour bypass - the funny thing was that when asked to point out anything wrong with his car, he walked around twice and still didn't spot them!

Backfired though: he snitched on the culprit, who then got a ticking-off phone call from said officer.

I'm all for a laugh, but can you imagine the carnage if you got a face full of talc, in the eyes and breathed in, at the next hazardous junction? I suppose you could put it in the passenger vents only, but I still wouldn't want anyone to breath in a faceful of that stuff. Stays in the lungs y'see. Cough cough choke ;-)

I would give the person who did that to me a good hiding.

You miss the point - Do you look at the heater and fan settings before you turn the key? It comes out before the engine even starts.

If talc is poisonous better tell Boots the chemist!

Slatts

For gods sake a teaspoon full of talc isn't going to harm anyone.

Well I guess we must have a sense of humour! It's been done to about twenty people, including me and the boss, we all saw the funny side.

Slatts

Paper turds is funny. Talk isn't!