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This actually happined at my work a long time ago, back in more relaxed days when you could still buy fire crackers and OH&S were just a few letters

There used to be a bunch of blokes in the main work shop at CSIRO Applied Phisics who were not shy at playing the odd practial joke on each other.

Any way two of the usual suspects, lets call them Viv and Glen, (cause that's their names) made a up a mock fire cracker just out of a peice of dowl wrapped in red paper, they drilled a hole in one end and inserted a wick they'd pulled out of a real cracker.

So to get back at this other bloke, who had doubtless played a trick on them at some earlier stage. They walked up to where he was working, placed the fake cracker on his work bench bench, lit the fuse and ran away. He looks up in shock and then ducks down behind his chair only poping up again to the sound of numerious people laughing. It seems almost everyone was in on it, except the boss of the work shop, Robo.

Since it was all in good humer and this bloke was a bit of a joker too, he thaught in might be good fun to have a lend of Robo using the same gag. So he askes Glen if he can get a bit more fuse for the fake cracker. Glen grabs the fake cracker and promises to put a new peice of fuse in it. Later that day Glen hands him back a live cracker in place of the fake.

Robo's office is a small office with a door and a large window looking out into the workshop.
Well can you imagine the look on the bosses face, when this bloke, as bold as brass, strides into Robo's office, places a bunger on the edge of his desk, lights the fuse and just stands there smirking and enjoying the expression on the face of his unsuspecting victum. Robo looks up, sences it's a trick and yells out what the F__K are you doing!! Neither of them notice The rest of the work shop staff who know somethings going to happen and are peering intently through the window. Miliseconds later, There's this massive KaaAAAA BOooooom, papers get blown about and small bits of bunger and smoke waft about inside the office.

I wast there in those days but Glen tells me it was hard to know who was the most supprised.