Dorm Pranks: Papering a Doorway
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This has to be one of my favorite low-cost dorm pranks of all time. The result of the prank is that when the subject opens his door, a huge pile of styrofoam packing material (little pieces) falls into his room. I’m not a fan of dorm pranks that injure people or their property, but I love good clean (or sometimes dirty) fun. This completely fits, and is easy to do.
Like many door-related dorm pranks, This will only work for doors that open inwards. Find yourself a victim and wait until he is in his room and intends to stay there for a while. You don’t want to get caught during the setup. All you need is some tape, some newspaper, and a whole pile of that styroafoam “popcorn”, used for packaging. You can probably get a bunch of this from the IT department because they likely get all sorts of new electronic stuff shipped to them all the time.
Start out by taping a bunch of newspaper together so that you create one large sheet, large enough to cover the entire doorway from the floor to about 12-inches below the top of the door. You need to leave the 12-inch gap so you can later fill the void with styrofoam popcorn. If you pre-measure the doorframe, you’ll have less work to do on-site, and less chance of getting caught. Now, take your supplies to the victim’s room and tape the paper wall in place. Then, start filling the void between the door and the paper with the styrofoam. Calculate how much you need ahead of time! Volume = height x width x depth. Do some math so you have enough foam popcorn!
Now, once you have the prank setup, simply knock on the door (at the top, where you’ve left your gap) and hide. You gotta love cheap and easy dorm pranks like this.
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May 19th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
TA DA! You’ve done it! This is my all time favorite prank. Can’t wait to try it!!!