I used to work out on the oil rigs in Alaska in the 80s. The oil rigs are a pretty prime place for practical jokes, pranks, etc. Somebody was always pulling some kind of shit and trying to get one up on each other out there. Since the hours are long and the work is hard we would liven it up by trying to see who can come up with the best one during the 2-week hitch.

So anyhow, one of the guys decided to be a real wise ass and make a batch of jello with fruit cocktail in it and put it in another guy's work boot and let it set up overnight between shifts.

Well, much to this old boy's suprise, when he was finishing his morning coffee getting ready to slip his boots on to go to work for his shift, he found the jello with his foot about half way in.

Well at that point he decided the joke had gone a little too damn far this time, and it was time to get even and put and end to this horseshit. So he very quickly found out who the mastermind behind the jello in the boot trick was, got his boot cleaned out, and started planning how to get even.

so on the next break he found the other guy's insulated hard hat hung up just outside the break room with all the other guys' hats, and decided to take off with it to the bathroom and handle his business.

He went into the shitter with the guy's hardhat, he had pulled the insulated liner out of the hat and launched about an 8-inch turd into the hat and then put the liner back in nice and neat and then smashed things down nice and flat so it would conceal it and still fit his head.

He came back a few minutes later and when he (jello boy) wasn't looking, he slipped the guys hard hat back on the rack with the rest and went and grabbed some coffee. A while later they all went back to work out on the platform.

Like usual everyone got word of what had happened and it spread pretty quickly out on the rig and eventually everyone knew this guy was running around "unwittingly" wearing this hardhat with the 8-inch turd smashed in it, just above his eyebrows. Well so pretty soon he's noticing a lot of the guys grinning and giving him some pretty funny looks, but he's just thinking they're all lauhing with him about the jello prank he pulled earlier, not knowing they are really laughing at him.

So after a short while he starts smelling somethin pretty foul once in awhile after they get back to working and sweating. So he starts thinking somebody's cracking off some pretty wicked farts on the rig floor and starts asking everyone that comes a few feet near him if it's them letting the nasty ass farts. But everyone just keeps denying it and working. By now everyone is in stitches and trying to keep a straight face because this guy's wearing this huge turd right on top of his head and doesn't even have a clue, thinking someone's cutting the cheesee. This went on 'till the next shift and a few of the guys finally broke it down to him at chow time what the other guy had done.

The guy just turned beet red and rushed outside to check his hardhat, it was hysterical ,the whole place was laughing.

As you might imagine, after that the old boy took some pretty good ribbing for the rest of the hitch and he didn't play anymore jokes on the rig for quite awhile. We never saw him wear that same hardhat on the rig again either, and he also seemed to have got in a good habit of keeping a close eye on his new one.

-- Quervobilly [1]