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OMG IT'S TEH PLA! => All Things PLA => Topic started by: rbcp on March 23, 2006, 11:51:39 AM
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The McDonald's Sign Prank (http://www.phonelosers.org/mcdonalds/)
So here's a thread about the sign prank. I'm choosing this one first because that page seems to get a lot of comments. Eventually I'll write a script that will display the last few posts from this thread directly onto the McDonald's sign prank page. For now it's just a link. Guests can post here without registering. So let's see how this works....
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It sucks that you moved so far away from the original McDonald's sign. It also sucks that you keep having car trouble (well it's a Ford)... I'm surprised I even found your LiveJournal but when I typed in "phonelosers.com" instead of org I found the link.
I wish there was another "What's Your Bid?" prank. That was beyond hilarious.
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It takes a RBCP/TacoJon/DBK combo to create hilarity on the level of What's Your Bid?
Oh shit, I'm already off topic.
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I have many fond memories of that McDonalds. Like the time after the big poweroutage, we all went to that very McDonalds for breakfast.
Or the time we tried the Taco Bell's attempt at breakfast. The very same Taco Bell right next to it.
Yes, it is a historic fast-food area. Please understand this.
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My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself. That is hysterical!!!!!!!!!
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Awesome!!! Nice work. A good prank that didnt hurt anyone.....except maybe the fat people who go to McDonalds My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.
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WITH DICK CHENEY AND DONALD RUMSFELD, KARL ROVE, CONDO-LEASER RICEBAG AND THE IDIOT PRESIDENT, YOU ARE SPENDING YOUR TIME AND ENERGY ON THIS CRAP?
PUH-LEEEZE!
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Man, go to a political forum with that shit.
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Was searching to find a way to complain to McDonalds about a meal and came across this....Hilarious. Wish someone around here would pull a prank like this. My fav was the "Fatty" one. Hysterical.
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;D the best ive seen in a long time very well written. it was a good plan, the sign on a sign, too bad they noticed. you turned out to be very influential, as the whole sign is gone :'(
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I have not laughed so hard in a long, long time.....My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.
Very creative! and that is all I have to say about that!
Keep going on adventures and keep the world laughing.....I think most people take life way tooooo serious.
You are great!!!!My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself....My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself....My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself....My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself....My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself....My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.
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I have many fond memories of that McDonalds. Like the time after the big poweroutage, we all went to that very McDonalds for breakfast.
Or the time we tried the Taco Bell's attempt at breakfast. The very same Taco Bell right next to it.
Yes, it is a historic fast-food area. Please understand this.
My ass has fallen off due to laughter. sad thing is Taco bell about 13 or 14 years ago used to sell breakfast.
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rbcp, are you going to do the yellow poster board of the new retro-esque sign at McDonalds? That would be mad flavours if you did.
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Phone conersation link broken!!! :-[
Hilarity
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I have many fond memories of that McDonalds. Like the time after the big poweroutage, we all went to that very McDonalds for breakfast.
Or the time we tried the Taco Bell's attempt at breakfast. The very same Taco Bell right next to it.
Yes, it is a historic fast-food area. Please understand this.
My ass has fallen off due to laughter. sad thing is Taco bell about 13 or 14 years ago used to sell breakfast.
GEE YA THINK? My ass has fallen off due to laughter. DAT IZ SO FUNNI.
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I have many fond memories of that McDonalds. Like the time after the big poweroutage, we all went to that very McDonalds for breakfast.
Or the time we tried the Taco Bell's attempt at breakfast. The very same Taco Bell right next to it.
Yes, it is a historic fast-food area. Please understand this.
My ass has fallen off due to laughter. sad thing is Taco bell about 13 or 14 years ago used to sell breakfast.
GEE YA THINK? My ass has fallen off due to laughter. DAT IZ SO FUNNI.
OH I am literally rolling around on the floor all crazy-like as I laugh. NETSPEEK IS SOOOO FUNNY! IT TRULY IS THE NEWEST MOST FUNNIEST THING EVAR!!1!
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Damn I missed it....I would have written....
McDonalds Here Turn Right Now
As if the mind altering chemicals which you have been consuming since your first french fry and the constant barrage of subversive marketing campaigns, which have completely brainwashed you into believing this crap is actually food, will allow you not to.
Resistance Is Futile
Trust Ronald, Ronald Is Your Friend
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dude ur awsome ty for ur time and effort
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This was great. Put up the MP3 sometime, I think the link is broken.
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thats a pretty good idea, and i must give you props for actually planning this out very well. you have inspired me to start some more creative ideas after a break from changing the signs that have the plastic lettering. this seems to be a much more ballsy approch to sticking it to the McDonalds (and a church once). keep it going.
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It Sucks That You Have No Life And Nothing Better To Do So All You Do All Day Is Think Of Ways To Mess Up Signs And Then Mess Them Up. That Is Real Intelligent.
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Anyone who cares: I found the mp3 file of the call I made to the manager. It got lost during my move to a new server but it's back now if anyone wants to hear it.
http://www.phonelosers.org/mcdonalds/mcdonalds_sign.mp3 (http://www.phonelosers.org/mcdonalds/mcdonalds_sign.mp3)
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It Sucks That You Have No Life And Nothing Better To Do So All You Do All Day Is Think Of Ways To Mess Up Signs And Then Mess Them Up. That Is Real Intelligent.
It sucks that you have no life and nothing better to do so all you do all day is find things to bitch about on the internet. And capitalizing every word? That Is Real Intelligent.
Yes, I felt the need to flame a guy who will never see it. If I get out of practice I'll be rusty.
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How pupular is your website? Www.maddox.xmission.com gets 500,000 hits a day and all he does is complain. Thats why the internet was invented, stupid.
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(in responce to the guy 3 posts up (i think)
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That was freakin hilarious! Do it again to a Mc Donalds where you moved to.
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When I was in high school, I worked at a Taco Bell with a friend named Bill whom I'd known since grade school, but hadn't seen in a few years. We had pulled lots of stupid pranks together back in grade school, so of course the retardedness resumed once we started working together.
We pulled a few small-time stunts here and there, mostly aimed at the more easygoing of our fellow employees, but forgettable enough to stay below the radar of the managers.
Then, one night while taking trash out to the dumpster, I noticed that due to the shape of the building's roof and the height of the dumpster-enclosure fence thingy (which was positioned right next to the restaurant), it would be very easy to climb onto the roof of the building. I mentioned this to Bill, and it was then that we decided to go for the big-time prank: The Taco Bell itself.
One Friday night we got dressed all in black, brought along some tools and drove to our Taco Bell. I drove and made sure to park my car real close to the dumpster fence. We both climbed onto the roof of the car, then onto the fence, then from there onto the roof. We climbed up the roof to the bell tower thing and removed the fiberglass bell using a socket wrench. After stealing it, we hid the bell in my friend's basement storage room.
The following week, for some reason our store manager targeted us (imagine that!) in his investigation of the bell's disappearance. Of course we lied when questioned seperately and said we knew nothing about the whereabouts of the bell. It's a good thing he didn't question us together at the same time, or we'd probably both have lost it and started laughing our asses off. The manager told me during my questioning that if we didn't admit to stealing it, he'd be forced to call the police.
Well, he never did call the police, but my friend was immediately fired for some reason, and he wouldn't tell me exactly why. He only told me the manager had said, "We know you took the bell, Bill. We like the bell. We want the bell back, Bill." He said it had been too much to bear, and he just busted out laughing at that point.
I was allowed to keep my job, however and I kept in contact with my friend Bill. We were hanging out at Bill's house one day when he told me he had a great idea: we sneak back there at night and put the bell back on the Taco Bell roof. I was totally against this idea. It was far too risky, and what would we be gaining, anyway?
Bill said nothing, but left the room and returned with the bell. It had been spray-painted all black, with a pink swastika painted on it.
So we returned that weekend and replaced the bell, with the pink swastika facing the street in plain view from the front of the restaurant. The following week I showed up on a tuesday to begin my shift, and the bell had already been taken back down. The managers never mentioned a thing about the bell. I wanted to ask some of the employees if they'd heard about it, but I knew better. At the most, it had been up there for a few hours, before being removed. It was over a year before they ever got a new bell at that Taco Bell location.
Maybe not as cool or as funny as the McDonald's sign prank, but it was fun to do at the time. I wonder if Bill still has photos of the black, pink-swastika bell atop the restaurant...
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I know I am definitly a bit late to say this, but...
rbcp, great job on this prank! ;D I was laughing my ass off.
Colonel Panic, great prank as well. Why did they suspect it was you guys right away?
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I don't know. Maybe because we were always joking around at work...?
It was a lot of fun at the time, probably in part because we were doing something illegal and dangerous, but looking back I sort of wish it had more of a universal appeal.
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Wow... if it was a franchise the owner likely had to pay Taco Bell for another sign. I think so because if it was corporate he wouldn't have needed to wait so long. Congratulations!
At my particular major corporation, a similiar fiberglass sign costs $1200 from headquarters... they know nothing else is approved to go up there, so they really mark it up. By displacing costs in this way they discourage franchises... supposedly balancing the benefits of being your own LLC vs. their 'S' corporation.
But my sign is too shitty to steal.
"I won't say what company it is... but it's a MAJOR one."
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the Mcdonald sign prank was so funny !
My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.... you should do it again on the new sign !
that was an awsome idea with hilarious results... i loved the phone call, too.
so funny!!!!
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"I won't say what company it is... but it's a MAJOR one."
My own mediocre attempt at humor has been highly amusing to myself.
"Now, a question of etiquette - as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch?"