SWIM PRANK

Not a swim prank,but a college prank.A friend of mine had the last room in the hall.At the beginning of Christmas break some "friends" bricked up the hall right before his door.They deliberately did a slipshod job so it wouldn't be too hard to tear down.The maintenance crew saw it and thought the wall had been vandalized so they sheet rocked over it.When the guy got back his room had disappeared.He had to go outside and show maintenance that there were more windows on the outside than doors on the inside to get them to tear down the wall.

A couple of teammate put a classified add for an 8 year-old Taurus and described it as "Grand-Ma's car, LOW MILES". Calls came in every 5 minutes the day the ad was printed. It was one of those pranks that actually worked too well. I told a couple of people that I peed in my shampoo bottle because a teammate kept borrowing it without asking. I knew the rumor would get back to him eventually. When the offender heard the rumor he went bananas and called a meeting with the coach as the mediator. At the meeting it was obvious that the coach was very much on the side of the theif. HA! I then explained that I never peed in the bottle but, "I bet you will think twice about borrowing without asking in the future." My coach thought that was hysterical.

Placing a Baby Ruth bar on the bottom of the pool in hopes of getting out of practice for a day. Only worked once per season. Extra points of someone went down to retrieve it.

Placing a Baby Ruth bar on the bottom of the pool in hopes of getting out of practice for a day. Only worked once per season. Extra points of someone went down to retrieve it. Are you swimming at Bushwood?

Okay, one body fluid swim prank. We had a common shower area in our college locker room. My buddy would be shampooing his hair while talking to you, just being casual as can be, etc.....all the while having his "little buddy" sticking out the edge of his suit and peeing on you. :argue: It was funny, only if it wasn't you. Been there. The pee-er is usually laughing hysterically. The one being peed on is usually not...at least not at first. Extremely funnyas a bystander! As the saying goes,"I'd rather be pissed off...than pissed on."

Back in college we upperclassmen (Soph. & above) always did a good one to the freshman, and it wasn't too dirty or mean either. The first week of swim practice, we'd get a signup sheet started with everyone's name, phone #, and dorm address (basically just so we'd know where to find the freshman at) :D but everyone put their names on the list so it wouldn't look fishy. Saturday morning practices would start on the 2nd Saturday of the season, scheduled from 8-10am or so. We (Soph & above) would all meet in front of the athletic complex around 3:30-4:00am or so on that first Saturday morning practice day. Then we'd play "roundup" and get all the freshman out of bed extra early for practice. Somehow we'd get into the locked up dorms and get them out of bed. IT WAS REQUIRED that they get out of bed, or the $#!+ would hit the fan later. Once everyone was gathered up, we'd take a nice stroll through town about 2 miles to the Shari's restaraunt downtown, arriving somewhere around 6:00am or so...no big deal here. Everyone would have a nice casual breakfast and whatever, just talking and stuff...this lasted well past 7:00, 7:15am, ...freshman are starting to get antsy 'cause they know from the coach not to be late for Saturday morning practice which is at 8:00 of course. A few of them start asking if we should go and stuff, we all say it'll be fine, we'll be okay. ;) About 7:30am or so, we get up, pay the bills, and get out of there...TO THE CARS that us upperclassmen left in the parking lot the night before. :banana: ...and drove back to the pool, screaming out "Don't be late!!" to the freshman. Who knows how they made it, but a 2 mile run on a full stomach in street clothes, sweatshirts, and stuff isn't fun when you're racing the clock. The coach knows what's happening each year too, so she was waiting to give the guys a hard time as well when they arrived!

The picture attached below pretty much says it all. This was from back in high school... My coach was awesome but our team was full of pranks. He'd take his shoes off at the beginning of practice and leave them right beside the pool against the wall. One day I took his shoes at the end of practice, put them on a kick board, pushed it to the center of the pool, and ran to get changed. He asked where his shoes went and then he looked out into the pool and found them. He was furious. The next meet he made me sit the entire first half of the meet. Then I had to do the 100 fly, 100 free, 500 free, the 1st leg of the 200 free relay, and the 100 backstroke - all back to back events. It was a good payback but wasn't funny when it was happening. We also convinced this kid on my team that there was a (fictitious) girl named Vera on our team- she was always missing for practice, but she was always around last week. We had him convinced for almost a month.

Anyone have any funny stories?

This isn't specifically swimming related, but it was pulled off by my college swim team, so maybe it counts. My freshman year, the team had to come back to campus on New Year's Eve so we could leave on the bus for winter training early on New Year's Day. A bunch of the sophomore guys lived in an 8 person suite on campus, and they hosted a party. The TV was on and as the night went on we watched the various midnight celebrations in the different time zones (we were in central). As the night went on, let's just say people got merrier. One guy in particular was quite out of it. Someone got the idea to tell him (he was an architecture major) that for the midnight celebration in Seattle they would be blowing up the Space Needle to make room for a new runway at the airport. (The previous year, the team was already at winter training for New Year's and had gone to see a midnight building demolition, which primed things nicely.) Everyone played along and at midnight Pacific time the fireworks went off and one of the other guys said something along the lines of, "I can't watch this!" and turned off the TV quickly enough that it did look sort of like they'd blown it up. For the rest of winter training, every once in a while someone would say, "It's a shame about the Space Needle," and we'd once again be treated to a rant about how uncool it was that it'd been blown up for a runway.

In my opinion pranks should never invovle the following substances. Razor Blades LSD Sperm Dynamite Ebola virus Plutonium.