Rookie pranks!!!

[realluke]

The most important qualities in the Job are a sense of humour and a thick skin!

Very well put and you got to have a thick skin

[realluke]

Send rookies to "barking dog" complaints at the animal shelter. What rookie knows the street address to the dog pound?

Send rookies to calls at streets that no longer exist, or are renamed, but still appear in the street directory. If you can talk a cool sergeant into playing along, have him call the rookie on the radio, who is desperately trying to find the bogus address, and start yelling "I'm waiting for you at your call, where are you??".

LMAO what a great idea

[VIPER]

About 15 years ago I was sitting waiting for roll call to start when one of the officers from the off going shift walks in and places some sort of electronic gadget on the table. The Sergeant walks in the room and asks the officer if that's one of those electronic listening devices. The officer replies yeah and the Sergeant asks if he can try it. My curiousity is really piqued as the Sergeant places an ear piece in his ear and places the device against the wall. The officer walks into another room and the Sergeant says "Yeah I hear you". The The whole time I'm watching this and I'm really interested in this thing. I ask if I can try it and the Sergeant volunteers to walk into the other room. I place the ear piece into my ear and place the device against the wall. I didn't hear anything so the Sergeant yells to me that I have to push the button. So I push the button on the side and got one hell of an electric shock. The whole room fell out laughing. If they said hey check this out I would have never fallen for it but they played me like a violin knowing that I was a gadget guy and wouldn't be able to resist.

[Quopper]

Not necessarily a prank, but I was laughing my *** off when the officer I showed up to cover at a suspicious vehicle behind a church, DIDN'T inform me FIRST that the 350lb guy in the driver seat was pleasuring himself!

Thanks, I'd rather be broke down and out of gas on a busy highway than see that again!

[Mid_Ohio_Po]

Not necessarily a prank, but I was laughing my *** off when the officer I showed up to cover at a suspicious vehicle behind a church, DIDN'T inform me FIRST that the 350lb guy in the driver seat was pleasuring himself!

Thanks, I'd rather be broke down and out of gas on a busy highway than see that again!

Ahh, no different than talking to us on the internet, I'm sure you were just fine!

[Crex4242]

Too mean??? Toughen up girl, it only gets worse

You should hear what my training officer and some other officers did to me. I was working special detail, off duty work, from 6pm to 6am at a market. well, I took some pain pills and they made my very sleepy and i am the only person out there at night watching some trailers full of seafood, i dosed off about 3am and to my knowledge, i didnt know that my fto was also a repo guy with his own truck. Just say when i finally woke up i was on I75 about 5 miles from where i went to sleep. Dispatch called my to check to see if i was 10-4, and she was also in with it, and I just told her i was. Then the LT calls me on the phone and asked me where I was because he just stopped by to check on me at the market and i was not there. lol I just said i was on my way back from the store because i was getting some water

[explorerscout83]

I have a prank in the works. My chief is a very very big cowboys fan. He has cowboys stuff hanging in his office. He even has a sign saying you are entering Cowboys country no Broncos fans allowed.

So I am going to get a couple of Broncos license plate holders and place them on his POV and his patrol car. I know he will get angry and blame the animal control officer, because he is a big Broncos fan. So I will get away free and clear.

[SMPPD87]

one of my best pranks was sneaking up behind a detectives patrol car while he was parked on an off-duty detail and tying a helium balloon to the rear tow hook and tucking the balloon under the bumper. when he finally pulled away to go pick up his dinner and got up to speed on a main road the balloon popped out, he looked in his rear view mirror and thought someone was running behind his car so he slammed on his brakes and jumped out of the car he wouldn't admit it to me but he told one of the other detectives that it scared the crap out of him

he wrapped my personal car in crime scene tape the next day

[slopegrrrl]

My 1st week my FTO went to back up a bordering jurisdiction on a call. when the call was finished, my fto introduced me to the other officers. One of the guys asked if I would do him a favor and get his clipboard out of his bag in the back of his patrol car. I (eager to please) open the back door and spot his bag of gear on the far side of the back seat. I lean way into the car to reach into the bag. As I grab the clipboard, my feet are lifted off the ground, I'm pushed into the back of the car, and the door is promptly shut effectively locking me into the cage portion of their car. The 3 stooges then take off in my FTO's car for lunch. Stupid FNG....

[VACOP1]

I have a prank in the works. My chief is a very very big cowboys fan. He has cowboys stuff hanging in his office. He even has a sign saying you are entering Cowboys country no Broncos fans allowed.

So I am going to get a couple of Broncos license plate holders and place them on his POV and his patrol car. I know he will get angry and blame the animal control officer, because he is a big Broncos fan. So I will get away free and clear.

HEY now lets not go there. Even thought the Broncos just beat Dallas on Turkey day

[Shaver]

At Shift change, we put a homeless person in the back of the police car, telling him that the next shift would take him somewhere. When the next shift used the car, he sat up and asked a question....scared the S*** out of them.
Also, found a dead squirrel on the road(not squished), put it in the empty shotgun rack when the officer went to use the car, he got in, started it, saw the squirrel and jumped out screaming.
On the lighter side, DOA call at the local funeral home(address given). Ink on the phone receiver or on the locks for the locker...lots more where those came from....

[ZQ8Noma]

Change the location of the District Radio mic and PA mic... They are different but in the middle of the night it is hard to tell the difference...

I've had that one done to me. It just so happened that it was in front of about 30 people who immediately turned, looked at me and gave me the

[sergeantbell]

This one really happend.

Was working at a local PD as a first year rookie. We had an old timer there that everyone liked to mess with. My FTO told me that every night, he left our jurisdiction to go to a Denny's because he liked the waitress.

Well one night, we (five officers on duty) all followed him to the Denny's in our POV's.
We waited until he went in and got comfortable. The other guys....not me, of course, all went to his cruiser. As we had keys to the car it was no problem getting in. We turned all of the electronics up full blast....radio, heater etc. Then the other guys, not me, of course, jacked his car up and took off all the wheels, placing the car neatly on cinder blocks that we had brought for this reason. We rolled the wheels around the side of the Denny's and waited. The dispatcher who was in on the gag, called him and dispatched him to an alarm drop. He was in such a hurry getting to the car that he didn't realize he had no wheels. I almost wet myself as he turned the car on, put it into gear and reved the engine while the windshield wipers, radio and heater all came on. As far as I know, he has no idea who got him to this day. He never left the town again in the middle of the night.

[sergeantbell]

You can guess what my last name is. For the first three years of my career I was called Officer Taco. They even dressed up my mail box with taco bell logos and one time I got a stuffed chihoua that said "here lizard, lizard". My FTO embarassed the heck out of me one time when I arrest a Mexican. While processing the perp, my fto yelled in to see how I was doing. Of course he called me Taco. On the LEARN radio, I heard.....Taco got a Burrito. I never did hear the end of it.

[hpd3710]

I'm on patrol one night, warm outside, lot of activity, people everywhere. After running hot to a few calls and finally getting a break, I decided to stop at a local store to get a soda. People pumping gas were WAY too quick to point out that I had about 15 feet of crime scene tape hanging from my rear bumper. Come to find out, I'd had it on there for about three hours. God only knows how many people saw it.