Hammock practical jokes?

[lizzie]

When your buddy is off fishing, get dressed up in a bigfoot costume and have someone use your friend's disposable camera to take a picture of "bigfoot" relaxing in his hammock. When he develops the pictures he'll be like "WTH?!"

[Just Jeff]

...When he develops the pictures...

Somebody still develops pictures? That IS a good joke...

[Niloc]

Here is the duct tape photo that I was talking about. I was able to dig it up in our gallery.

http://www.hammockforums.net/gallery...searchid=48023

[Jsaults]

I am having reservations about posting this thread! It seemed so innocuous when I was typing it.

I imagine that any practical jokes played by hangers against other hangers would be rather benign out of "professional courtesy", but some of the canoers I know might be a little more ......shall we say......dastardly in the level of their joking. I recall a dead copperhead placed in the passenger-side floorboard of a friend's truck (and no, I didn't do it).

Please, keep those jokes on the cerebral side!

Jim

[GingivitisKahn]

I recall a dead copperhead placed in the passenger-side floorboard of a friend's truck (and no, I didn't do it).

Yikes. Hope the 'joker' was smart enough to remove the snake's head first. Dead snake fangs are just as sharp as live snake fangs and the venom is still venom.

[Bald Cypress]

The problem with practical jokes is this.

One is great, two can be tolerated but, after two they tend to become less of a joke and more sinister [just my way of putting it].

It always seams to go overboard in a short time.

[Hawk-eye]

As close to a hammock related practical joke ... we camped in hammocks ... I pulled was with my brother-in-law on one of our Thanksgiving Gorge trips. He's from Seattle and all his camping involved areas out west with Grizzles not our eastern Black bears ... so he was a bit apprehensive his first couple trips to the gorge. So I took the time to place a couple Cat Eyes (reflective thumbtacks used for locating your hunting stand or trail at night with a flashlight) low in the side of a tree just behind a thin Laural bush.

Sitting around the fire later that night enjoying a couple cigars ... I froze ... said "What was that noise?" and got out my mini mag flashlight. Scanning the area with the beam those tacks lit up like a critter's eyes and that got the greatest reaction out of him ... gasped so hard I though he was going to pass out. He grabbed his flashlight and put it right on that bush. As good fortunate would have it ... the wind was slightly moving that bush ... and added to the effect ... but it didn't take him long to figure it out.

I'm pretty sure he wanted to kill me for a moment ... but we have a great laugh out of it to this day. He's not asked about bears since then.

[KerMegan]

now that is the sort of thing I could live with...no pain, no discomfort or damage- just a good startle and then a laugh!

[iggy]

Sitting around the fire later that night enjoying a couple cigars ... I froze ... said "What was that noise?" and got out my mini mag flashlight. Scanning the area with the beam those tacks lit up like a critter's eyes and that got the greatest reaction out of him ... gasped so hard I though he was going to pass out. He grabbed his flashlight and put it right on that bush. As good fortunate would have it ... the wind was slightly moving that bush ... and added to the effect ... but it didn't take him long to figure it out.

Now , I got a chuckle out of this!

That seems harmless enough....mmm where do you get those reflective thumbtacks ??

----Iggy--

[Hawk-eye]

Now , I got a chuckle out of this!

That seems harmless enough....mmm where do you get those reflective thumbtacks ??

----Iggy--

Most any hunting supply place has them ... but you can make them ... just get some reflective tape and put on the head of a good thumbtack.

Good fun stuff especially if you prep it with bear stories and what if's ... that sort of thing ... without being obvious about it.