Filling an office with packing peanuts, how to fake it

Filed Under Funny, Geek, Pranks on 2008-04-01, 16:05

Office filled with packing peanuts

I’ve always wanted to do the packing peanuts prank at work, but it’s usually prohibitively expensive and time consuming. Then I came across this page. A quick trip to the UPS store to purchase 28 cu ft of biodegradable packing peanuts (cost: $65), office supply store for paper and tape ($12), and a few beers later we were quite successful. The difficult part was that the offices here have a glass corner, so we had to setup some boxes inside to hold the paper in place, but in the end I think it really adds to the effect. Our coworker explained his thoughts when he came in the next morning as: “Oh my… they didn’t? no, they couldn’t, it’d take to much.. no, no way…”. For added effect we locked his door so that he couldn’t immediately confirm that it was a fake front. All of the reaction, a fraction of the time and cost. I love a good April Fool’s prank. There are a whole series of pictures of the whole process here (my photos) and here (photos by Mike Morris). Credit must also be given to Cristian Mueller and Mike Morris for being a part of this. Seems like three people are perfect to pull this off.

An Instructables on the simple procedure
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Comments

  • owned XD
  • Autumn
    That looks fantastic. Props!
  • Autumn
    Also, after going through your photos, I wish I had an office like that! I'm all too familiar with the schizophrenic-intern-cubicle. And I see from your profile that you do fire poi-- that's pretty amazing. Cheers!
  • Ed
    Yes, the offices here are quite awesome, big spacious and full of glass. Our coworker is quite happy to have some privacy now. :)
  • Very cool. I always wanted to do that to my boss where I use to work. I would have had to do it on my last day, but what a way to go out. Was clean up a PIA?
  • how cool, i want to do this myself.
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