Hi Amy/colorado5591 !
OOOO you have friends who are cops? How cool. Hell yeah, if they would turn a blind eye to these pranks, go for it.
"Add the fact that I have a load of leftover Xmas decorations from various beer and liquor companies (Bud, Miller, Coors, Jaegermiester, Jack Daniels.....)"
Oh man. You could make your local Hall look mighty FINE with a bunch of beer bottles and trash. Especially if you use the old decorations on the front of the hall itself facing the street, and fill the beer bottles with urine. Leave them around the Hall grounds for the 'ministerial servants' to deal with. Or just toss them on top of the hall if it has a flat roof. Do it every year as a sort of anniversary celebration of your disfellowshipping. Bring lots of fiends in on it too, and before long the top of the Hall will look like Party Central. Heck, why wait for an anniversary? Make the top of the Kingdom Hall the place you regularly dispose of all your beer bottles, etc. Just make sure nothing up there gives away your identity or location.
All right, since you liked these pranks so much I'll tell you about one I didnt post because it actually is too extreme, and I knew it would get bad press, so I left it out. Things were much simpler to get away with 26 years ago. *Sigh* Anyway, I went to the Ann Arbor post office, presented myself as Russell Rutherford, complete with fake drivers license (I will mention in another post why I was making fake ID at the time. I was never well-behaved, not even during this period when I was a born-again Christian studying for the ministry), and I filled out a change of address form for the Kingdom Hall. I had their mail rerouted to an address in Alaska I picked at random from an Alaska phonebook. The Ann Arbor library had phone books from dozens of cities in all 50 states.
Mark Smith did the same with the Kingdom Halls power. He had it shut off. Yes, we were really pushing it, and we knew it. Today, we'd go to jail for sure.
"OH! To be young and deliciously evil!"
LMAO! Agreed! Make lots of grand memories for yourself Amy. If you do, then your youuth will not have been wasted on the young.
"Nate, you seem to have mastered the art of "sticking it to THE MAN" in your younger days. I would love to be your understudy."
Thank you Amy. Here are some things I have learned along the way:
Stop buying stamps for your snail-mail! Simply put the recipients name and address in the upper lefthand corner, and your own name and address in the "to" space. Drop your letters off at a public mailbox. The system will automatically "return" your snail-mail to the recipient. I haven't bought a postage stamp in three decades.
Strapped for cash? Only do this one a few times, otherwise your local Home Depot will catch on quickly. Load up a cart at Home Depot with all the stuff you've been wanting for your home or apartment. Go through checkout, buy it with cash, take it home. Return to the store, load the same items on another cart, then proceed to the refund desk. Present them with your receipt and the merchandise. Receive refund, go home. This one is best performed on a very busy day. The confusion makes it easier to pull off.
I think I'd better stop while I'm ahead. Feel free to email me anytime Amy at [email protected]
"Amy (of the I have great ideas but no "gravitas" class)"
You look very classy to me Amy. It's whats in your head that counts. You're obviously not one of the sheep. That's very classy.
Your new online bud,
Nate
