Damn rich kids. Gorilla suits aren't cheap!

I love this idea, but whew, where I grew up this would have gotten someone shot.

These are both awful things to do but I was a really shitty person in highschool.

We would stretch clear plastic wrap between two lamp posts or signposts across a road in our neighborhood at night and hide in the bushes. When a car drove up, it would vaguely look like another car was on the other side because their lights would reflect off the plastic wrap so they would stop and then get out and rip the plastic wrap down of just drive through it.

The other thing we would do was to take a strip of duct tape and string it sticky side up on the road so when a car would drive by, it would stick to their tires and make it sound like a flat tire.

Kids are dumb.

Two car related pranks:

We lived near a mall with a giant parking lot and cars were always driving really slow while not looking where they were going. We were dumb kids who learned how to take a spill without hurting ourselves from thousands of hours practicing skate tricks. If we were walking through the parking lot and noticed that a driver hadn't looked in our direction at all, we would roll across the hood of their car and either off the same or opposite side (never the front). People freaked the fuck out and often offered us money. We thought we were doing a public service by teaching them to pay attention by scaring the shit out of them.

We would get the biggest soda cup from 7-11 and instead of filling it with soda, we would put some rare earth magnets inside it and slap in on the roof of our car. That bitch wasn't going anywhere. People would wave at us and try to get our attention, we'd just smile and wave back. They'd shout and point up and we'd shrug and point at our ears like we couldn't hear them. This mostly happened at stoplights. While driving, people were usually trying to work out the physics of it not moving. We took it on the highway a few times and thought the cup would tear itself apart, but it didn't even crack. At that speed, folks caught on real quick and we saw a few bust up laughing.

We would stuff the glow sticks in our friend and then send the gorilla out wearing a fish bowl. Were we doing it wrong?

High school really was just people inventing side quests for no reason 💀

We used to stand on either side of the street and pretend to pull a rope across the road. When cars stopped we'd run away.

In college we once found a filthy, road-blackened parking cone, and stuck it in the middle of the main road right as the bars were closing. Eventually this enormous pick-up truck full of loud drunk people comes flying down the road and plows into the cone at full speed. We hear someone scream "OH MY GOD!" and maybe something about "was that a person?" And then they floored it, dragging the cone with them. We never found it again.

But in our quest to find the cone we acquired about seven normal looking ones and then randomly made a lane change in the road for no reason. That was pretty funny.

No we just doused shit in acetone and set it on fire.

Brooo classic orbing

Was this in the US? Sounds like a good way to be shot, scaring people and looking like you’re not human.

In other countries, fair play.

Never stop for an orb.

Loooook honey! Gime ur gun. I always wanted me a stuffed gorilla.

How creative & fun but unless the driver of the car has a heart condition and/or the prank interferes with the flow of traffic & creates a kerfuffle of some sort.

We used to shove each other into the street... Until Lance got shoved into an oncoming car.

I don't think glow sticks had been invented when I was in high school...actually, I take that back: my friend had some that she got from her father who was an engineer in some factory. They were not for general consumption back then.

This is amazing.

I genuinely snorted at this

Ah, The Orb, absolute classic. Sometimes people would get out of their cars to check out our contraption. Their abandoned cars would be found weeks later in the old creek. Good old times.

We only did Chinese fire drills

Just placed them in a bowl? Or broke them open and poured all the liquid into the bowl?

This was my favourite chapter of Orb: On the Movements of the Eartlh. 10% goes to Potocki

let me ponder this 🤔