Geez, thanks a LOT Tracy!!!!

Your timing stinks....

I didn't say it- Boosty did

Yeah, I know.

That'* all right, there are plenty of practical jokes in reserve....just in case anyone gets any bright ideas while at SEBF. If I recall correctly, and I DO, somebody isn't too fond of critters...especially Florida critters...

Just a warning to anyone thinking of doing this!!
Someone did this to my coworkers daughter (19yo) last night, she was so startled she yanked the steering wheel to swerve outta the way... hello telephone pole at 45mph.
Both of them are banged up but ok, but he had one pissed off cop to deal with when he told him there really wasn't a truck going down the expressway the wrong way.
Her Sunfire is totalled.

why would she swerve if there was nothing there!!!??

Perhaps I was not clear, she was asleep in the passenger seat, her BF was driving her car and pulled behind a big truck being towed backwards and screamed "OMG!"

She woke up, saw the truck, panicked, and reached over and yanked the steering wheel hard right to try and miss the truck....

OMG, I'll bet he wasn't laughing after that That is just plain mean and he is lucky they weren't hurt!!

Didn't turn out to be a very practical joke after all then, did it?

Yea really! Who'* dumb idea was that anyways?

I work for a Sears warehouse. We mostly deal with large appliances, fridges and freezers, laundry, stuff like that. We also get some big-screen TVs, anything larger than 42inches goes through us.
Some of the large refrigerators are EXPENSIVE, as in more than 10,000 dollars. When you purchase something major from Sears, you can elect to have it inspected before it leaves our warehouse (BTW it does cost more,) Open inspect for the reefer'* is to remove the entire box, throw it away, and ship the reefer with a ton of padding, and it doesn't get clamped, hand loaded only.
So we got one of the boxes for these ultra-expensive units, and we opened it REALLYcarefully so that it still looked like a full box. Then we filled it with some junk metal bits and a bunch of styrofoam to fill it out. I hopped up on my clamp lift, clamped the box, and drove around for a bit until I found the shift manager. I stopped beside him and started talking about something, and while I did it, I rested my hand on the lift lever, slowly raising the box into the air, until it was about 5 feet up, when my boss suddenly spots it and says something. That'* when I "accidentally" grab the clamp lever and "drop" the box.
The expression on his face was priceless, he just about peed himself when it hit, and the metal bits made exactly the crunch sound that a real reefer makes on impact. Some of the styro even popped out of the seams of the box. He was so mad when he went to move the box out of the aisle, and found out it was empty.
We used the same box to get all 4 of our managers and supervisers that night. I dropped it twice, ran into it once, and finally posed it inside a trailer as a box that had been "scalped" going into the trailer.
Of course, when I dropped a pair of washers the next day for real, he made me fill out all the paperwork myself as payback.