Top 3 Best Computer Scare Pranks A comedy article
by Mighty Kind | 09/25/2009 12:51 PM | 6929 views
Anyone who's worked in IT knows how fun it is to scare people with their computers. Telling someone you accidentally deleted all their stuff will always get a moment of terror, but unfortunately it fails to make them run away screaming in fear for their very lives. For that, you need cunning, skill and preparation. Or the ability to pull one of those "computer scare pranks" from the Internet.
With that in mind, I present to you the Top 3 Best Computer Scare Pranks of All Time.
1) "Explosive Startup." Sometimes the simplest pranks yield the greatest rewards. This guy just changed his victim's startup sound, cranked up the speaker volume, and hid to film the resulting heart attack.
2) "Maze O' Terror" Another popular scare prank is the "Maze Game" [click to play], where you navigate a dot through three increasingly difficult mazes. When your attention is fully focused on the screen, your mind focused into a deep beta brainwave pattern, a picture of Linda Blair pops up (in Exorcist makeup -- not naked, despite their scare equality), accompanied by loud shrieks of terror.
It's especially terrifying if you're wearing headphones.
HONORABLE MENTION. It's one thing to be pranked in the privacy of your own home or office, but when you're humiliated by co-workers, that takes things to another level entirely.
What's funnier: the prank itself, or the woman snorting like a pot-bellied pig in the background?
3) "Apparitional Advertisement." The easiest version of the Computer Scare prank is a simple video, which was originally created as a commercial for a German energy drink called K-Fee [click to play]. It works best if you send it to someone with a story that gets them to intently focus on the video:
This is a car advertisement from Germany. When they finished filming the ad, the film editor noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist. They found out that a person had been killed a year earlier in that exact same spot. The ad was never put on TV because of the unexplained ghostly phenomenon. Watch the front end of the car closely as it clears the trees in the middle of the screen and you'll see the white mist crossing in front of the car then following it along the road....Spooky! Is it a ghost, or is it simply mist? You decide. If you listen to the ad, you'll even hear the cameraman whispering in the background about it near the end of the commercial.
Of course, the "ghostly white mist" turns out to be a flesh-eating zombie. Here's the all-time best reaction to this prank:
Apparently, white boys can jump.
Got your own scary computer prank to share? Post it below, preferably disguised as a link that will trick everyone into clicking it!
I wish I could give you more than 5 orbs for that. Those made me laugh so hard that I almost peed my pants. Well, okay, I did pee my pants, but only a little.
I love to get people with that car commercial. The reactions are priceless.
Back when I was the IT guy for a large VNA organization, there was a psychiatric nurse named Dave sho had an extreme aversion to computers and technology, to the point where every minor error had him decclaring that the damned PC was out to get him.
He was also a younger guy, and had never seen the movie 2001.
I set his PC to play sound bites from that movie at random intervals, so that he'd be doing paperwork, and suddenly the PC would say, "Hello...Dave" in that great HAL voice. I used assorted other phrases, like "Why don't you take a stress pill and think things over." "All my systems are functioning normaly, it can only be attributable to human error." "What are you doing...Dave?" and "I can't let you do that....Dave"
There's also the old classic of takig a sceenshot of the users whole desktop, then setting that picture as the background and removing all icons from the screen, so that all they had was a picture of the icons in the correct positions. An old one, but still funny.
"There's also the old classic of takig a sceenshot of the users whole desktop, then setting that picture as the background and removing all icons from the screen, so that all they had was a picture of the icons in the correct positions. An old one, but still funny."
I did a similar trick a while ago...
I took a screenshot of the desktop, set that image as the desktop wallpaper (Tile mode) and then go to task manager and end explorer.exe then, watched as he tryed to figure out why the computer had froze! :D
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