Archive for November, 2008

Dirty Tricks - Homes

Monday, November 24th, 2008

    All sorts of things have homes -- snails, snakes, groundhogs, weasels, Japanese beetles, even marks.  One vengeful way of getting even with a mark is to destroy the moat to the castle of his/her home.  The idea is to hit close to home, for both physical and the psychological destruction involved.      One ...

Dirty Tricks - Hotels

Monday, November 24th, 2008

    Suppose you are staying at a hotel and get into a bad beef over the poor quality of the meal you get in their restaurant.  After trying to be reasonable, here is how Ralph Charell, a champion-class advocate for the little guy, handled it.  Seeing absolutely no satisfaction and no end of ...

Dirty Tricks - Hookers

Monday, November 24th, 2008

    In many cities independent business people have set up a personal service whose employees make house calls.  These paid friends come in all sexes and meet all tastes.  It might be fun to invite one of these hedonistic harlots to "your" house.  Use the mark's name and a neighbour’s address.  Try to ...

Dirty Tricks - Highways

Monday, November 24th, 2008

    An activist can have fun on the roadway, too.  Can you imagine the damage possible if one were to substitute a road sign that read, GROSS WEIGHT 15 TONS, for the original sign on a bridge that read GROSS LOAD 5 TONS?  One protesting employee did this at his employer's Ohio plant ...

Dirty Tricks - Graffiti

Monday, November 24th, 2008

    Contrary to popular belief, some people -- usually the creepy ones you want for this stunt -- do call names and numbers found in bar restrooms. Harvey Rankin and Festerwald Ray proved this premise in their study SCRAWL ON THE WALL.  What you learn from them is that you should write you ...

Dirty Tricks - Gases

Monday, November 24th, 2008

    A serious dirty trickster should have a supply of ammonium sulphide.  This liquid is loads cheaper to buy than milk, booze, or gasoline.  It smells so awful that no one, not even the most terminal of coke sniffers, can stand to be around it once it has been brought into play.  It ...

Dirty Tricks - Garage Sales

Monday, November 24th, 2008

     Ever have a garage sale?  Ever been to one?  They're incredible, and they seem to bring out the most in worst people.  Even I, a thick-skinned, terminal misanthrope, was awed at the gall of some people who demand to see your entire house or who pound on your door at 6:00 A.M. ...

Dirty Tricks - Forgery

Monday, November 24th, 2008

     Forgery is a fine art form, very useful to the trickster.  During World War II, for example, the British Security Coordination often forged letterheads, documents, and official cables to thwart Hitler's efforts in the early dark days of 1939 through 1941.  Some of their efforts were spectacular, especially in South America, working covertly ...

Dirty Tricks - Fillers

Monday, November 24th, 2008

     Trickster Aynesworth Belin is thrilled with the recent introduction of the super-foam products.  These are urethane-and-resin compounds, usually in a spray can, which billow out and expand into a mass at least thirty times the original volume.  They harden quickly, often within five minutes.  Another version is a two-part liquid that when mixed ...

Dirty Tricks - Explosives

Monday, November 24th, 2008

    Now that the feds have outlawed fireworks, you'd better save all the M80s you can find.  Extremely versatile devices, M80s are excellent propellants for other substances.  For example, this stunt started out as a dorm prank at Clapper Packer University but soon escalated into more deadly sport, which went like this.  Put some ...