Playing tricks on people

[ditzy 24//7]

Thre are a fair few jokes that can be played in giants like that one as most think nope not the way on ...
and theres also the one were you turn a corner and people stick there hands through small gaps in the rock and make you jump.


ditzy

 

[Glenn]

Simpson's Pot, Kingsdale: It always surprises me how quickly people forget things...

If you are rigging, then you'll be the first person to nip through the duck at the bottom of Storm Pot, which is a doddle if you go through feet first (as the water is much deeper on the other side). I always "forget" to warn people about this, and they always seem to forget anyway, but it is funny to watch people come through the duck head first as they disappear spluttering into the deeper water....

Glenn (not sadistic in anyway....)

 

[Mrs Trellis]

The DCC rocket in Gaping Ghyll

Never surpassed and - Tpot - I got an industrial injury from laughing  8)

 

[sherpa]

Some archaeologists have a sense of humour.  Years ago I worked on a dig at the lowest end of the scale - toothbrush cleaning 'interesting' bits.  One of the professionals picked up a piece of wood (carbon dating confirmed this was a Roman harbour).  He got his penknife out and started carving.  The finished product, a finely whittled submarine, was thrown back into the pit with the comment 'that'll give the bastards something to think about in 3000.' 

 

[Peter Burgess]

Wasn't Balch a perpetrator of practical jokes, by feeding 'foreign' oddities to his helpers, sorting through the finds at his various excavations? Or am I thinking of someone else?

 

[Peter Burgess]

Actually, I think I remember it wrong. Was it not his helpers who fed oddities to Balch to see if he would be fazed by them?

 

[Mrs Trellis]

Of course you could always leave a digging bucket in the "undiscovered" part of someone else's dig ..... 8)

 

[Dep]

Several times in our dig we came across cellophane - these are old quarry workings from 1700-1860
Eventually we traced it some plastic bukets we had used.

 

[paul]

Not confessing to this one eh eh
person Down Giants Hole at the start of the Crab Walk hears a party of others coming down the cave
person had a canvass groundsheet in his possesion that was well underground dirty
person drops it into Crab Walk for a jape other party see passage is blocked never look up to see if there is away on over the top and retreat muttering that they must have been in the wrong cave
Person was silently pissing themself laughing

PS me sides hurt for ages

Excellent! 

 

[whitelackington]

One I heard of, did not quite get to see it though,
was somebody rushed ahead at a body of water,
waited till the next person was almost on him, then ducked down,
to re-imerge moments later to scare the shit out of his friends.
Quite a difficult trick to pull off.

 

[SamT]

reminds me of marks post from a while back

http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php/topic,3948.msg54902.html#msg54902

Inspected a culvert under the railway at Batley once, we did a recce on surface before we went in and found that the culvert passed close to a footpath to a railway footbridge with a graveyard at the side, we went into the culvert and crawled about 300yds where we could see daylight in the roof, looking through a crack between gritstone slabs I could see the footbridge and realised we were at the side of the graveyard, then looking the other way I could see two council workers walking down the path, they stopped at the side of the slabs and lifted a drain cover at the side, one of them put his down the drain to clear it out and it appeared in a pipe at the side of my head, so I grabbed his hand and held on, the poor guy nearly shat him self, screaming somethings got me, his mate ran off and when I let him go he legged it also, cant imagine what was going through his mind, and I wonder if people believe him when he tells his version

 

[Mrs Trellis]

In the "good old days" two favourite tricks were to put carbide into the pools in Pillar Crawl and light the acetylene with a satisfying "whoomp"  which terrified novices. T'other was to dam the water at the head of P8 pitch 1 and when victim was about half way down the ladder the poor sod got the lot!