Swimming Prank Stories

One evening in college the girls team practiced before the boys team and we felt like being mean so after our practice while they were in the pool we broke into the boys locker room, took all of their clothes and put them in a storage room on the upper level. Coach's daughter was on our team so of course knew right where to put all the clothes. We promptly left for the dining hall :) I'm sure that they did something to us prior to this incident to cause us to want to get them back but I can't remember what it was. Good times :)

I have two prank stories, unfortunately with me being the butt of the joke. The first one was 9 years ago. Right before practice my bud says we are taking team pictures that day and snaps a quick pix of me in my Speedo. I thought nothing of it (it was 5:30 am). About a month later I walk into my home and my wife has thrown a surprise 30th birthday party for me. Every guest has a t-shirt on with this picture on the entire back of the shirt. The second story involves me losing a sports bet to another pal. I lost and had to mow my entire yard in nothing but a speedo brief and combat boots. To make it worse the bet involved the loser having to notify a set list of other neighbors 24 hours in advance so that arrangements could be made for maximum attendance.

The first one was 9 years ago. Right before practice my bud says we are taking team pictures that day and snaps a quick pix of me in my Speedo. I thought nothing of it (it was 5:30 am). About a month later I walk into my home and my wife has thrown a surprise 30th birthday party for me. Every guest has a t-shirt on with this picture on the entire back of the shirt. I knew you had a fabulous wife.

One of my co-workers dropped a Baby Ruth in the deep end of the pool. Our boss almost threw up when she was fishing it out with the net and it started breaking apart into little chunks (it'd been there all night so it was good and water logged). That is AWESOME!!! I have wanted to do that for sooooooooooooo long! My best friend had a substance in his pool that looked like #2. He had to fish it out in the middle of the day, so of course a bunch of kids gathered around to watch. Jon identified the substance as steel wool, put it in his mouth and came up to the surface where the kids screamed and ran in horror. The parents watching thought it was the funniest thing they'd ever seen.

I didn't pull the "prank", but some of the guys on my USS team put Icy Hot in a fellow teammates suit (right where the family jewels lie) - and needless to say - he ran out of that locker room in warp speed and jumped in the pool. It was funny, but you know inside how much that probably stung.

You beat me to it. Same thing happened circa 1976 in high school. Poor kid was screaming amongst the laughter. The swim team used change in the locker room of the college football team. And some evil fiends discovered a huge tub of Atomic Balm. They lined this kids suit with it...and talk about great balls of fire. :eek:

Not really swimming but lifeguarding........ One of my co-workers dropped a Baby Ruth in the deep end of the pool. Our boss almost threw up when she was fishing it out with the net and it started breaking apart into little chunks (it'd been there all night so it was good and water logged). On a pretty regular basis we'd take peoples clothes and hide them in the bottom of our nasty Lost and Found bin. Perhaps a little cliche, but their classic. :wiggle:

A mild-mannered swimmer friend of mine in HS snuck back into the pool area after hours and dumped in a commercial-sized container of red food dye as a senior prank. The pool turned blood red, I'm sure the filtration system was trashed, and the principal nearly had a stroke. As for Mike, he was caught...you guessed it...red handed.

here's an unintended reverse prank here's a story I heard from someone can't remember who told me. two swimmers roomed together in college, let's call one K and the other S. K's girl friend made him brownies, S came home found the brownies on the kitchen table, grabbed them, ran to his room, K tried to stop him, S locked the door and ate them all. About 30 minutes later S. walked out of his room saying that he didn't feel very good. K was trying to tell S they were "special brownies" S then had to get through an entire work out in his altered state.

At travel meets, the champeroning parents used to put masking tape on the doors of the hotel rooms so they would know if someone snuck out after curfew. So, in response, we used to pack a pencil and a role of masking tape, sneak out anyway and put new tape back in place before they discovered our absence. I do remember some sneaking out of practice to go to the "bathroom," panty raiding everyone's backpacks in the locker room and forcing everyone to go home commando. There was always a fair bit of suit switching, water bottle altering and shaving cream in the shampoo episodes at practices and meets. I recall people attending a practice having dined on those ever-so-"special" brownies. There was also the after hours nighttime-jumping-the-fence-skinny-dipping that used to take place in the jaegmeister's pool in Roch. And the swim cap prank Ivor referred to seems to be a common amusement of our summer swim league kids. I haven't participated in masters pranks yet. But the Geek's wife has given me inspiration. I did attend one meet with the wrong fastskin. My daughter had put hers in my bag instead of mine. She said it was "by accident."