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Jan 12, 2009 05:18 PM

A new phone prank

by verper

Hi all,

A week ago I had the nightshift again, and it was very quiet. Yes, afterwards I dare to use "the word".
But when my nights are quiet I think off new ways to pull a prank on my colleagues. And this one included Tegaderm. Just to be clear, I work in a non-American (Belgian) hospital so it might have a different name for you guys. But it's the transparent foil you use to stick the bandages to a patient. Otherwis just Google it.

Anyway, the beauty with that stuff is that, if you use it correctly, you don't even see it. So what I did was stick a layer of the stuff on the phone horn. To be clear, on the part where you put your ear. Once I got out all the airbubbles and cleanly cut off the sides you didn't see the foil at all. To be sure I put on a second layer so that you still heared something, but not a lot. And the trap was set.

I came on that night and I asked my colleagues if they had any phone problems. The beauty was that noone noticed that the horn was taped off with the foil. The had fiddled with the volume buttons, thay had asked people on the other side of the line to speak up, but they never noticed the foil. They even almost brought the phone to the technical dept. to get it fixed. You can imagine that I was so happy with this result! Might do it again in a couple off months.


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Old Jan 12, 2009, 06:01 PM

Default Re: A new phone prank
I do have a sense of humor and I hate to be the downer, but, yikes! I might not think that was so funny if I were trying to talk to a doctor or family member about a patient who was not doing very well.
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from verper
Old Jan 12, 2009, 06:51 PM

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I'm really not that bad. I used the phone that we only use to make appointments and such. When people call us they get transferred to our carry-on phones and not to that one. So it really stayed in-house. No worries there.
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Old Jan 12, 2009, 06:58 PM

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I don't think it is funny I have a pretty good sense of humor, but if someone did this to me at work, I would be upset.
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from MtGypsy
Old Jan 12, 2009, 07:03 PM

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It's amazing what us nurses will do during the rare time when we aren't running. I'm willing to bet you have at least once in your life time saran wrapped a toilet. (My brother did practical jokes. That was one of his favorites, actually got my Dad once. He didn't find in humorous)
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Old Jan 13, 2009, 08:30 AM

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Before I went into nursing I was a mechanic for 20 years. We played phone pranks all the time we would put clear grease or a clear sticky sealer on the ear piece. It got to the point that no one would answer the phone without looking at the earpiece first. I think you had a great prank I may try it in the near furture.
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from c0ntagion
Old Jan 13, 2009, 09:47 AM

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LOL, people did something similar to this when I worked in the ER. They also did things like put lube on the receiver of the desk's phone. Then they would go around the corner and dial the number. If you're not paying attention, you pick up the phone and get an earful of lube...hehe
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Old Jan 17, 2009, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by c0ntagion View Post
LOL, people did something similar to this when I worked in the ER. They also did things like put lube on the receiver of the desk's phone. Then they would go around the corner and dial the number. If you're not paying attention, you pick up the phone and get an earful of lube...hehe
Used to do this with activated charcoal, funny! Only when it was quiet, though. Also used to have fights with Toomey syringes and surgilube!
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from CeCiRN
Old Jan 17, 2009, 03:13 PM

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Sounds like someone has a great deal of time on their hands.
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No. 9
from nrsang97
Old Jan 17, 2009, 03:25 PM
Updated Jan 17, 2009 at 03:26 PM by nrsang97

Default Re: A new phone prank
We used to have water fights on our way out with saline flushes and toomeys filled with water.

We had a nurse recently come in and go get a clean fracture pan. I wondered what the heck is he doing? (this nurse is a pratical joker) He placed it on the desk. I was just about to lean back and another nurse stopped me. I looked and it had something resembling poop with kleenex in the fracture pan on the counter. I told him to clean up after himself, he took it and dipped his finger in the "poop" and tasted it. It was some kind of thick thick soup. I knew it wasn't poop but couldn't tell what exactly it was until he told me.
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