Legally Antisocial - Two Easy Pranks that Twist Peoples' Minds

For some weird reason these days, school staff and co-workers can get wound up tighter than a two-dollar wristwatch. From the horse's mouth - here are two ways you can twist peoples' minds and have a great laugh.

1. Chocolate "cigars" >> You can get them around Christmas-time.

Godiva really makes the best ones I have ever seen! They come in a four-pack (last I saw) and are individually wrapped with a realistic paper band on the outside. I was flipping one around in my hand when a school police officer saw me and asked me if I had a cigar. I truthfully replied that it was, while smiling (of COURSE it was a cigar!). He didn't check it out when I turned it into him. He asked me to turn around and place my hands behind my back for an arrest. I laughed and told him it was a chocolate cigar and pointed out the five-point print that said "Chocolate" on the paper band.

Due to the absurdity that schools have become, be sure to keep the rest at home if you do this - and be sure that your parents are either lawyers or that they don't care if you pull this prank... maniac staff may confiscate the whole pack and try to punish you for "promoting" cigarettes or some other weird term that really means "contempt of school staff."

2. Beer... Ginger Beer >> My local Publix has Jamaican Ginger Beer in the Ethnic aisle.

Best served chilled, I prefer the spicy version for its extra-heavy kick. It's really a soda pop, so school Nazis really shouldn't bark too loudly about it, unless the product is senselessly banned somewhere. Be sure to fact-check the rule book to ensure your safety. If a fellow student asks you in a preacher tone if it's alcoholic, then tell him or her that what your drinking is none of their business. Then laugh as the straight-laced sprint for the nearest police officer.

If you really want to pull some chains and get the helicopter parents screaming (they're so much fun!!), then head on over to the parent-pick-up station - as a group - and have candy cigarettes hanging out of your mouth. Look tough, look rough, and ignore the parents that aren't yours because they can't tell you what to do if they don't have custody.

I pulled one out at work and it turned heads everywhere. The key is to hold it like a real beer - relaxed smile, not a care in the world kind of attitude - and lean back against a wall just hanging out (on a lunch hour or 10-minute break). Swig from the bottle, and say nothing.

My source? My own shenanigans! Also - you need to know your legal rights & limitations before pulling pranks!