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Author Topic: Restroom Prank Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 05-14-2007 10:44 AM                        We also had the roll towels until about 4 years ago. I liked them a lot and would still have them if the linen service would have stopped sending us moldy/greasy "clean" towels. I think the only places that really use them anymore are auto shops from the looks of the towels we have gotten in recent years.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 05-14-2007 05:05 PM                     I have seen an electric version of the roll towel machines. On the press of a button it issued a length of clean towel, then after a few seconds pull up the slack. There are also disposable versions which issue a paper towel, but still on a loop so people don't litter.  |  IP: Logged Edwin Sheldon Film Handler Posts: 95 From: Mobile, AL, USA Registered: Sep 2006 posted 05-15-2007 08:31 AM                     quote: Dustin Mitchell We had someone urinate on the ceiling once. Yes, the ceiling. I'm not quite sure how they pulled that off. Ever taken a leak with morning wood?  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-15-2007 02:43 PM                     Ummmm...cherry bombs and M-80's down the school toilets....that was the typical thing for kids to do at some schools...raising hell with the school plumbing... But, stink bombs evacuated the entire school at times...  |  IP: Logged Kara Tillotson Film Handler Posts: 87 From: Manistee Mi Registered: Jul 2006 posted 05-15-2007 04:41 PM                        OMG!! Yeah...bathroom pranks and oddities. People like to steal randomn stuff from our bathrooms, like the little air freshner things. We found one of them down the street. Also, just recently, someone stole the stick to our plunger.Left the rubber suction thing, but took the stick. I wonder what the point value of coolness is on those types of things... "Hey man...check THIS out...I got the stick, to the plunger, from the vogue theatre!!!!!!" "Wow, your the coolest ever...." And yeah, last week I swear to God, I had to unclog a toilet in the mens restroom. It wasnt clogged with toilet paper. When I finally realized what was going on, and had found another plunger, with the handle...I literally had to pull my shirt up over my face in order to plunge without hurling all over the place. In regards to people who find it neccessary to share their bodily waste with everyone...I just dont get it. The extent some people go to.... Anyway, I remember those roller things...always confused me because it looked like the ucky old towling was coming right back out. Still dont understand the concept of them. LOL  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 05-17-2007 12:42 PM                     I'm with you, Bill Enos! Last weekend I cleaned up a mess like that allover my smaller mens restroom. Sure wish I had seen this guy.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-17-2007 01:53 PM                        quote: Kara Tillotson I remember those roller things...always confused me because it looked like the ucky old towling was coming right back out. Still dont understand the concept of them. Uhhhh, the roll is like a couple of hundred feet long. Are you saying you still don't get that? Our theatre was built before there were concession stands, and thus they didn't see the need for restrooms. A ladies room was installed "as a convenience." When the law required two restrooms, the only solution was to convert a broom closet into a mens room, and there's only enough room for a urinal in there. (We use the other room as a unisex room in case a guy has to do a sit-down.) Well you can imagine what happens occasionally in that urinal. Not fun.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 05-17-2007 03:32 PM                     Speaking of W/C sizes: I know of a 900 seat theatre that has very small restrooms - mens with a urinal and a stool, womens having only two stools...but it did have a very small snakbar, so it kinda follows how Mike's ROXY was laid out - W/C size not in a necessity as they are now.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-17-2007 03:35 PM                     quote: Ky Boyd Some obnoxious little s**t had put two ketchup packets under one of the toilet seats. There was ketchup splattered everywhere. Here's one my friends and I tried in high school with varying levels of success: Saran wrap the toilet bowl. Then put down the lid. This trick works best when applied to toilets in the girls bathroom. I don't think enough females look before they sit. The lids in those bathrooms often don't have the piss drip gap either. So that makes it easier to hide your work. Depending on the bowl, you may need to use some clear tape if the cling wrap won't stick. The more neatly you do the job the harder it is to see the cling wrap. A light dusting of spray adhesive (from art class) can take away enough of the gloss to fool the eye even better.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-17-2007 06:27 PM                        A guy at my day job did that trick once. We had a secretary named Jane who used the bathroom like clockwork, every single day at 11:30 AM. You could set your watch by her. So, at 11:20 my friend Dave went into the restroom with the saran wrap. It was completely invisible. Backfire: At 11:28, our boss went into the restroom. BUSTED! But we all had a good laugh after work. Jane said it wouldn't have worked on her...she'd have known something was up when she found the toilet with the seat down!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-17-2007 07:55 PM                     That's one reason why the trick does work in a womens bathroom. There's no reason for the lid to be in the "up" position.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-17-2007 09:10 PM                        We only have one restroom at the store (Yes, another old building). In an auto parts store with one restroom, it's probably in the "up" position 99% of the time.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-18-2007 09:59 AM                     Just goes to reinforce the old saying: "Look before you leap!"  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 05-18-2007 05:45 PM                     About 3 months ago we had someone set fire to toilet roll inside a dispenser. They must have lit the flame on a cigarette lighter and then pushed it up into the roll. I got summoned to check the toilets because the staff on our ticket check station could "smell burning". There was me using a paper cup to chuck cups full of water all over it until a manager with more sense came a long and unloaded a fire extinguisher on it. Good job it was a metal toiler roll holder, don't know what would of happened if the vandals had hit one of the plastic ones will still had about the place.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-19-2007 01:29 PM                     We have been able to determine who left the shit grenade like mess, a photo was take of her one night when she tried to buy a ticket, everybody here knows her face now, she'll never get in again, already been turned away a couple times and she knows why.  |  IP: Logged

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