Ever wanted to prank a friend? Revenge someone who has done something bad? Installing toilet paper is a fun, harmless joke and can be remembered forever as a thrilling experience. The night becomes even more epic when you are drenched in toilet paper all the way through. Be careful to keep the risks in mind, and learn to stay safe and play smart to make sure your jokes stay harmless and you get punished. See step 1 for more information.
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Part 1 of 5: Planning Your Joke
Step 1. Choose your target
Maybe your friend has been too arrogant lately. Maybe your neighbor's bird has woken you up too many mornings for the past month. Maybe your basketball coach deserves it. Find someone who deserves it and will appreciate a good toilet paper joke, and then it will generate crazy laughter for the joker.
- Choose someone who is comfortable, but not too comfortable. It might be easy to make a toilet paper joke after he stole your basketball, but would it be obvious if you were the suspect? If that pays off in the future, wait a few weeks for the suspicion to dissipate a bit.
- Installing toilet paper in someone's house and yard can be a great harmless joke, but only as long as the person can be joked around with it. If it's done on people you don't know, it can be fun. Make sure you pick someone who thinks it's just a fun joke. Pranking someone you don't know with toilet paper can put you in a lot of trouble. Spread destructive pleasure, not cruelty.
Step 2. Gather your crew
Toilet paper prank team, get together! You want enough kids to have fun and cause chaos, but not so much that you don't look too flashy. A good group of more than 2 people, but maybe less than five or six to be on the safe side.
- Making jokes with toilet paper is a great way to build teamwork and share fun experiences. Friends from school or teammates from a sport can make a really great team of toilet paper jokes. Staying up all night and engaging in good fun is a great way to build friendships.
- Plan a toilet paper prank mission by staying over at a friend's house to bring your team to the same place and time, or another plan join a group that lives close to each other (neighbors) and find targets who live in the same neighborhood as well.
- Do not involve complainants. Don't invite anyone who will make the night darker with bad waves and bad guesses. If you have a good friend you'd like to invite, but he's not the type to conspire with, let him stay at home.
Step 3. Collect high quality toilet paper
This isn't the time to buy cheap ones if you want to wrap your house in toilet paper, or buy mushy recyclables. Buy a good one! Get solid 2-sheet paper or something you like at home. You'll need at least a few rolls for each person. The more the better.
- The best type of toilet paper to do this is a double roll. These last longer, so you can usually get 4 or 5 throws on each medium-sized tree, and heavier weights make throwing easier and more accurate. In addition a cheap single toilet paper will only get 2 or 3 throws at a tree.
- Buy your supplies before dusk, and try to buy from a few shops to avoid looking suspicious by buying toilet paper at 10pm at night with 10 other kids dressed in hoodies. For the safest option, have each person buy their own toilet paper separately to avoid being flashy.
Step 4. Set a time and place to meet and complete the trap
It's too late to avoid suspicion, but not too late to stand out. Maybe don't pick up at 7:30 p.m., when the neighbors are still awake and walking the dog. Be sure to get information until what time the neighbors usually work and start bedtime. This can be very useful, and sometimes not knowing how much of a night you can start can be very embarrassing when you show up somewhere with a lot of bags. 11:30 p.m. or 1 a.m. is a good time to start a toilet paper joke.
- Many cities impose curfews for minors. Find out if your city has one, and try to stay away from the allotted time limit, or risk being in trouble if you get caught. This is usually an excuse for the Police to engage in simple jokes like this.
- If you do it in the summer, choose a weekday, when most adults go to bed early. During the year, it's a good idea to choose one night when you're off school the next day. The day before spring break, or the day during President's weekend are great days for action.
Step 5. Do some reconstruction work
During the day, take a walk in the neighborhood on the day you will be in action. Make sure there are no 24-hour security cameras in sight, or barking dogs to worry about. If this seems difficult, it's better to know when is the right time for you to show up in the middle of the night with a bag full of toilet paper and shaving cream. Give yourself enough time to find other targets.
Step 6. Plan for a mess, but not a permanent one
Toilet paper is a cute trap, but vandalism is a crime. While it is true that there is a fine line, it is important to know that you are standing on the right line, or you will run the risk of getting into serious trouble. That means you need to leave eggs and spray paint at home.
Don't mark someone's house, especially with abusive or mocking language. A good toilet paper joke is usually funny and embarrassing to the victim, but it shouldn't be in a cruel direction
Step 7. Understand the risks and potential problems that can occur
While there is no general law against toilet paper jokes anywhere, in any book, littering, trespassing, and vandalism are illegal and making toilet paper jokes in the wrong home can get you into trouble, with the homeowner and with Police.
Sneaking into someone's yard in the middle of the night to prank them with toilet paper can disrupt sleep and anger the gun picker, giving the impression they are about to be robbed. This violation is accompanied by a greater risk
Part 2 of 5: Sneaking Like an Expert
Step 1. Make an agreement to stay calm
Before you all get out into action, plan out who will guard the yard area, who will carry the different items and how long you will be in action until it is done. Plan your actions as specifically as possible, so you don't have to say much during the scene. Once you're there, stay still and work as fast as you can to avoid getting into trouble.
- If you must speak, work with "code names." House voters have caught the toilet paper pranksters because they heard the perpetrators calling their friends by "name" in the yard. Usually, the perpetrators are known to the victim. You can choose a little radical like Snake Jam or Sheamus.
- Set your phone on vibrate mode, and never take it out while you're working. You don't want the alarm to go off at an unusual time, or to light up the page with iPhone light. If possible, don't bring your cell phone at all!
- If someone sneezes, or you accidentally step on a branch, don't worry too much. No one would wake up in the middle of the night just because of the very slight noise. They could, eventually, wake up and look out the window if the noise continued. So stop the sound as fast as you can, but don't run away until there's a good reason.
Step 2. Layer the dark clothes with the light colored clothes underneath
A dark hoodie can be the perfect top for a spooky look, but think beyond the camouflage. If you have to run away, you can just hide in a corner and take off your dark top and keep it, as long as you're wearing something underneath. Then you'll be seen wearing a new light color, tricking anyone who might be chasing you.
Instead of black, wear navy blue clothes and shoes. You can also use dark green, brown and gray to stick to the dark color theme. Everyone wearing black looks very suspicious, so don't wear a funny costume like you want to rob a bank in the movies. Don't wear a ski mask
Step 3. Put on running shoes
They call them sneakers for a reason. If you need to run on dirt roads, you'll need good, comfortable athletic shoes. Leave your wedges and flip-flops at home. Everyone who decides to suddenly leave the house probably isn't wearing shoes, so if they're going to chase you, you're more likely to be able to run onto the concrete road than those chasing you.
Step 4. Creep
Stay still, walk slowly and move fast. It's better to walk closer to the house, but if you have to walk a long distance and end up driving a car, park around the corner and approach the house from the opposite direction. A gang of black-clad teenagers carrying toilet paper looks very suspicious if someone peeks through the window.
Part 3 of 5: Throwing Techniques
Step 1. Pull the toilet paper an arm's length away from the roller
You don't mean just to drop a wad of toilet paper on the grass, do you? To ensure that you get as much toilet paper for one tree as quickly as possible, pull it 2 or 3 feet long and hold the end firmly in your non-throwing hand. In the other hand, hold the scroll.
- You can also pull a few feet long and let the ends rest near your feet, securing them in place with your feet on the ground.
- You don't have to touch the end of the toilet paper at all, if you choose not to. But it's a great way to make sure that you don't just throw an entire roll of tissue up into a tree without unraveling it.
Step 2. Spin the reels, don't throw them away
You can waste a lot of valuable time if you don't throw it properly, so the tissue will come off the roll when it starts to fly. It should look like a football and not look like a duck's head. Hold the roll with the paper trailing from the end of your hand, so that when you throw it at your desired target, the end remains on your foot, in your other hand, and the roll falls off the tree as you wish.
Step 3. Hover over the paper direction you want
Start from a tree with a good branch candidate. Toss the roll over the twig where you want the tissue to be, so it will imprint beautifully, and crash to the ground on the other side.
- Aim high and low. If the branch is too high, or too thick, this can cause the roll of tissue to get stuck. Try not to worry too much, but aim for a higher possible target with your next roll.
- If you can only reach for the lower branches, they will be easily retrieved. You want the fruits of your labor to last for at least a few days, right? Be creative.
Step 4. Pick up and throw back to back
Do your work until you run out of tissue rolls. The best toilet paper joke jobs are as intricate as cobwebs, going back through the branches, between several trees, wrapping around the car and back through the first tree. Use as many tissue rolls as you can. Do not let the roll of tissue lie on the ground. Mummy the tree!
Step 5. Work together
You don't have to completely hunt down all your tissue rolls. If one of your friends lands on your feet, throw it back on the floor to keep the process smooth and fast. The result of the toilet paper action will be more chaotic and random that way, in ideal results.
Part 4 of 5: Spread the Treasury
Step 1. Vary your target
Trees are the ultimate, best and most visible target. But, work with toilet paper takes no prisoners. With less than one roll, you can get creative and try to find as many places as possible, or use as many rolls of tissue as possible to cover a specific target.
Step 2. Make the car shell
Waking up to find a few rolls of toilet paper on a tree was no big deal. It will only take a few minutes to clean it. Imagine waking up to find your car completely covered in toilet paper. It was more like a nightmare.
If you can, bring a spray bottle or water bottle, wet the surface of the car with it before wrapping the car, roll the paper underneath and back up and down. Getting the undercoat wet will create a sticky, damp mess, but won't cause any permanent damage
Step 3. Wrap the fence, ornamental grass and bushes
Secure the ends of the tissue rolls to one end of the fence and thread the remaining rolls through them, wrapping around the private post box and in between. Do the same for the other decorative shrubs that divide the yard.
Step 4. Tear the toilet paper into small pieces and spread them all over the page
Too many little scrolls can get really annoying.
Step 5. Spell the word using toilet paper
5 letters or less. A winning slogan is preferable, such as "You lose," or something stupid, such as "DUDE."
Nothing is evil or cruel. This is a joke, not vandalism. Abandoning cruel or mocking slogans is an easy way to get into trouble with the Police, if this can be seen as a threat
Step 6. Seize your success at the last minute
The whole point of toilet paper work is to make rolls along the way of the house. This is entirely the last part of the job, however, as the splash of the toilet paper work on the tile can cause a ruckus that could get you caught. You have to be very careful and get your best pitcher to do the job, or all do at the same time to see who can throw the furthest. Then run.
Part 5 of 5: Getting Dirty
Step 1. Introduce shaving cream at the same time
Also bring a few cans of cheap shaving cream to spray all over the yard, or to stick toilet paper to a tree. This can be risky, as cans can make quite a noise, but if you do it quickly and get dirty, you can get through it. Shape shaving cream with smiling face in the bushes.
- Make odd clumps using toilet paper mixed with shaving cream in the middle of the page, like a mountain. No one wants to touch it with their hands to clean it.
- Never use shaving cream on a car, house, window or street, as this can leave stains that can cause permanent damage. It can turn your jokes into petty crimes. Don't do it.
Step 2. Also take various kinds of trash
Instead of picking up trash before you do the toilet paper prank, collect it beforehand. Discard in the middle of the page. Banana peel, center of apple, candy wrapper. It will be someone else's job to clean it up.
Make sure there's no incriminating evidence, such as a phone bill with your name on it, before you hand it over to the enemy
Step 3. Rearrange the garden furniture
Stack chairs in the yard, or line them up facing the street. Put the garden scarecrow and swan statue on to the patio after wrapping them in toilet paper and giving them shaving cream mustaches.
Step 4. Leave the fork
A common welcome weekly joke is to leave a bunch of forks stuck in someone's yard, as if the utensils grew in the moonlight. A plastic fork will work as well, or you can raise a dime to buy a cheap fork a few weeks before your big joke.
If you want to stick your fork in as well, get someone on your crew to do it, as it can take a long time to get it right. Try and line them up as straight and uniform lines as possible for maximum effect
Step 5. Press the bell and it disappears
Are you brave enough to ring the doorbell at the end of the night? If so, get other people in your group to go to the corner around the house and get your brave toilet paper trooper to step forward to the door. Get it right, this can be the best and most satisfying part.
Tips
- If you want to stick a fork in someone's yard, check to see if it will freeze in the morning, if so, the fork will break when the landlord tries to pull it out.
- NEVER forget your supplies. If someone runs out of the house to scare you, always carry your supplies with you when you get a second chance. Choose someone for this quick task.
- If it's snowing, walk backwards to clear the trail and make them think you're going the other way.
- Be careful in homes with windows with bends, especially if you can easily see through from the inside.
- Travel in groups of two or more so you don't end up alone.
- Wrap the fence, tuck it in, cover it up!
- Also be careful with the house. Are there lights on? Is the window open? Thinking that you can stick with your toilet paper prank without getting caught, you should be extra careful.
- Buy a normal tissue that you normally use to cover your nose, and spread it all over the page. Also, a small box if you want to write or enter a letter in it.
- Take a photo at the end of your stunt to admire when you get home, then leave because the flash can wake the homeowner. If something is in question, do it at the last minute. Just a warning, DO NOT post photos on the internet, someone could change them and you could get caught.
- Do not hit the house with eggs or apply peanut butter to the victim's garage door, this can leave stains and peel the paint off the car.
- Never throw eggs in the house or in the car, this can damage the paint. It can be considered as vandalism. You can be fined, and make a criminal record.
- Hurry up, but don't run without admiring your handiwork. Make sure not to get caught up in careless guard while you're at it.
- Don't brag about your stunts by making toilet paper jokes in public. You can be caught if there are children or friends of the victim there.
- Do not be too long. Try to do this as quickly as possible because if someone you're not working with sees you, they can call the neighbors and tell them they're being pranked with a toilet paper prank.
