ok, it's probably way too early for this thread but my dry ice thread has got me thinking....
can you remember any good Halloween pranks (MusicChick.. from any century... no matter )
the best one I can remember was one played on me and my mates....
The older brother of one of my friends created a scarecrow and sat him in the front yard about a week before Halloween night, so we had gotten used to seeing mr. scarecrow sitting there.
Halloween night this kid emptied the scarecrows stuffing and dressed up in the scarecrows clothes ( which after all were his ) and waited...
and waited
and waited
until we came along and then this safe scarecrow got up and started running after us.
When I was a kid, there was a dentist in our neighborhood. He gave away little "travel size" kits containing toothpaste and a toothbrush.
No actual pranks that I can remember though, living on a military base with MPs patrolling heavily that night sort of put that right out of the realm of the likely.
I was sooo chuffed that someone gave the grp of people i was with 1 pound that i ran accross the road without looking and got hit by a car. I was ok....after 3 days in hospital, but the people who were with me all went on medication to get the to sleep for 3 months as how they saw it they thought my legs had come off. We were only 12
As older childer, the most fun is to take a (light) door and door frame, and hold it up to the neighbor's door when you knock. Open up after they open up and proceed to comment on how cute their costumes are. Then distribute candy, close your portable door and move on.
Not really a halloween prank, but still a great one.
My mum had carved a face in a turnip, and put a teelight inside. Then she put the homemade lamp on the cemetary wall, and went to meet her younger sister. On the way back, she spotted the illuminated face on the wall, and screamed "The dead people are looking over the wall", and she ran home faster than ever before.
Funny you should say that, the best Halloween prank I've ever heard was one father told me about Depression era Alberta and his grandfather's response to pranksters.
Some of the local boys were overheard to plan to come by and move the outhouse back 10 feet, which is a pretty nasty prank if you think about it. Anyway the grandfather got an old muzzle loader and filled it with pepper and gunpowder and lay in ambush for the pranksters. Upon their arrival he stood up bellowed and opened fire with a 20 foot tongue of flame coming out of the gun. The story is probably at least 1/2 apocryphal but still my father reports that one of the pranksters soiled themselves in fear.