Traffic cones - a practical joke gone slightly wrong!

dreamdaisy
dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
edited 8. Aug 2010, 02:49 in Community Chit-chat archive
We live in a terrace of a dozen houses, each with a small front garden and a path leading to the pavement. Then there's the road, which is one of the main routes in and out of town. I looked out of the first floor front window this morning at 2.30 and all was peaceful. The usual complement of cars - all the neighbours were home - and one or two people wandering about, minding their own business. I looked out again at 6.30 and a difference had occurred. Each car was topped with a pristine traffic cone. One or two is the norm, but this time there were fourteen. Then I spied something else. A cone inside our gate. My curiosity was piqued, so I went downstairs and opened the front door.

A line of pristine cones marched down the path, starting from our doormat. Our small front garden (just gravel, we've had too many plants stolen) was similarly covered in cones, equally pristine. I tried to lift the one on the doormat - they are surprisingly heavy, (which of course they have to be so they don't blow over - a thought that had never previously occurred). I shut the door and went back to bed.

I suspect this prank is aimed at the lad next door, who works on the roads, but his gormless mates (and they are, believe me) chose the wrong house. He has lived next door for four years now, surely they know which house is his - it probably wasn't even dark when they did this! The Husband has cleared a total of 29 cones, and left them stacked on the pavement. We left the ones on the cars tho. DD
Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben

Comments

  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    That a bit of overkill DD!, I must confess though me and a mate once nicked a scarecrow while on the way back from the pub and put it inside an unlocked car, we felt guilty so went back and removed it then put it on the seat at the local bus stop, I went to work the next day at 05,45 and it was gone!, never did find out where he went too?
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    He got on the bus mell, and went back to his field. Simples! DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • mellman01
    mellman01 Member Posts: 5,306
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh yeah right!, I never thought of that DD :mrgreen: :shock:
  • carola
    carola Member Posts: 786
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    DD ..... are you SURE there were actually cones outside or were you seeing things 'cos of upping your meds?? :lol:
  • marion1952
    marion1952 Member Posts: 963
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi DD

    I thinks that's really funny - shame they got the wrong house though...

    There must be some roadworks near your house that are seriously compromised now that they are missing 29 cones!!!

    Marion
  • skezier
    skezier Member Posts: 11,333
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi DD,

    You have to give the culprit(s) 10 out of 10 phor imagination :lol::lol: Bit rough on your oh to have to move them but can I quietly say it made me laugh? Not cus he was lifting them but cus oph the way they had done it..... I wonder where they came phrom? Cris xx
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    It had to be Ben's mates, they pick him up in the lorry (he lost his license ages ago) and the back is always laden with road signs and cones and other stuff. They were a b***er to move, they are heavy! The neighbours have cleared their cars, so they are all gathered outside ours. I shall collar Ben later and get him to put them somewhere - vandalsim is a problem round here and I can see them being used for all sort of scrapes - oooooh, that's a thought - I could go and cone off the road! That would cause havoc on a Saturday! Gosh, it's tempting . . . . . .
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    It was the bananamen DD.

    Actually we have To Let and For Sale signs dumped in the trees/bushes next to the house on a regular basis and Im just glad they dont dump them in our garden. And a cone is often placed on one of the neighbours car roof too !

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hi DD

    Just thank your lucky stars that Ben doesn't work for a ready-mixed concrete firm. Otherwise, you might not have been able to open your front door at all :!:
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  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I am staggered. We heard a knock on the front door a little earlier. I got there first, and there stood Ben, and three skinny lads. (Ben ain't skinny, far from it!) He coughed and said 'Ello'. I said hello back, as you do. He then launched (that really is the only way to put it - talk about practised!) speech about how he was really sorry that his mates had done this and that he didn't know they were gong to do this and if he had etc etc etc. There was a cough from someone and then he introduced me (and TH who had joined us) to all his mates in turn, who shook our hands and mumbled sorry, then moved aside. At the back of this little gathering was Ben's mum, our neighbour, all 4'11" of her. She was not a happy bunny and she had made all the boys go up and down the terrace, apologising to all. All the lads are 6' plus. We said thank you, had a word with Tracy, shut the door, then fell about laughing. Sometimes people surprise you, and in a lovely way. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • speedalong
    speedalong Member Posts: 3,315
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Well there you go!!

    Made me laugh.

    The apologising part reminded me of a story in our family. Evidently, during the war my Mum and her friend dressed up as gypsies and sold my Granny's clothes pegs to the neighbours. My Granny found out and made them go and apologise to the neighbours and give the money back.

    Speedy

    PS still looking for the phlippin' Carola thread ....
    I have had OA since mid twenties. It affects my hips and knees. I had a THR on the left aged 30 and now have a resurface-replacement on the right - done May 2010.
  • annie_mial
    annie_mial Member Posts: 5,614
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    It's a funny old world all right, but cowed 6ft plus boys will always melt my stony old heart..........Ben's mother has evidently got it right!

    Annie
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 30,027
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    What a great story!!!

    Lads eh?

    Mind you the kids' Dad spent the night in the cells for doing something similar with a for sale board...

    They were lucky (maybe )they only had Tracy to tell 'em off :lol:

    Love

    Toni xx