Change of Address: 10 Common Teenage Pranks Involving Houses

10 Common Teenage Pranks Involving Houses

So you have a friend that you want to pull a prank on, but you just aren’t sure how to pull off something that will be epic (okay, at least not too lame). Well, there have been a lot of pranks over the course of my life that I have either participated in as the prankster, victim, or witness. In order to keep it somewhat interesting the pranks in this article have to involve the outside of the home (yards, garages, sidewalks, trees, and more are all fair game). I have broken down 10 common teenage pranks (not that there is an age requirement for pranksters).

Operation TP

Okay, this one is easily the most common prank involving homes. In order for this to work best, your victim must have plenty of trees in their front yard. If the land is barren, no worries I’ll make that work here in a sentence or two. You unravel a portion of the toilet paper and hold onto it as you throw the TP up into the tree repeatedly (don’t use really weak TP or your strands will be pretty short). If they are tree-less then you are forced to rip a sheet at a time and cover their front yard with small squares of toilet paper. For bonus points you take a window, a car, or even the ground and write a message to the victim in toilet paper. If the operation confuses you, well you are in big trouble.

Operation Let Go My Eggo’s

This little operation is pretty simple but also pretty messy. This involves the help of syrup loaded and/or wet eggo waffles (they have to be sticky and wet). Basically you plaster the house by tossing wet or sticky eggos at it and/or their car which must be parked in the drive or in the street. It’s better than throwing raw eggs at the house but if you want a full breakfast… You may have to provide a breakfast combo of waffles and eggs for your friend.

Operation Tree Decorations

Now, this one has epic potential. In this operation you must locate large objects that your friend either loves or hates and of course they must have big, mature trees in their yard too. Using ropes you hang their bicycle, mower, or other large items from the tree (the prank is best the more you do or the bigger the items are).

Operation Pink Flamingo

This operation will require you to collect and or purchase multiple pink flamingos in order to decorate your friends yard with as many as possible. If you don’t have at least a couple of dozen of these then forget about it. Again, the more, the better ideally you completely cover the yard but that is going to take some time and a lot of flamingos. You never know you may end up making the Flamingo the official bird of your town, right Madison, WI? Here is the article.

Operation Confusion

This one is pretty easy. With operation confusion you simply move as many items as possible outside the home. Move their car to the other side of the driveway or further up/down the street (just a few feet). You may rearrange patio furniture or move a shed. Again, you are going for subtle changes that are just enough to be noticed. You may have to repeat this operation over the course of several days depending upon how sharp your victim is and you may have to move more items and further until they catch on (usually it’s pretty quick). This is some seriously dry humor but for the right person this can be hilarious.

Operation Duct Tape

Okay so this one requires your victim to be away and for it to be after dark. You simply tear strips of duct tape and lay them side by side all across the victim’s driveway with the sticky side facing up. When your victim rolls over the tape with the car (because they can’t see the strips) you get a sticky mess that is difficult to remove from the tires. Simple, but trust me, extremely annoying to the victim.

Operation Team Rivalry

Okay so you and your friend don’t see eye-to-eye on a college sports team or maybe even the local high school teams. Well after a big win you may want to remind the victim of your team’s superiority by creating a message on their yard in snow or mowed into the yard if you can pull that one off. You can use signs for your team and anything else that will clearly show their allegiance to your team and not their team. Use ample amounts of images of your team’s mascot maybe even stuffed animals, clothes, it’s all fair game.

Operation Political Activist

You simply collect every possible political sign in the neighborhood and make sure they all end up in your friends front yard. You are going to need A LOT of signs we are talking about 50 to 100 to make it really work. You can also slow play the signs adding 1 or 2 every night. These work especially well if the people are the opposite of who your friend likes or wants to vote for (if they are a republican, then all democrat signs, etc.).

Operation Gnomes

The garden gnome is legendary in most parts of the U.S. In this prank you either insert additional garden gnomes in your friend’s yard or move all of their existing gnomes (that is actually ideal). WARNING: THIS HAS LAME POTENTIAL SO MAKE IT GOOD! When in doubt, use more gnomes.

Operation Saran Wrap

This one is my personal favorites. In this one you saran wrap all doors to the house so that when they enter or exit they go through the saran wrap. As an added bonus you saran wrap their car which takes time but is equally interesting. This is also a good party trick where you saran wrap the door and then force your victim somehow to run out the “open” door.

There are plenty of other great pranks that I have experienced but these are some of the best and cleanest that come to my mind. Always remember safety first, humor second as the code of pranking. Also, by no means am I endorsing these pranks or recommending that you pull them on anyone, not even your best friend. As always some people have to go and ruin our fun making some pranks illegal. For instance TP’ing a house in California or Virginia is an act of mischief or vandalism (usually resulting in a nice fine). So be aware of the laws in your area before even thinking about pulling a prank involving someone’s house or property in any way.