Revenge for the Foil Apartment?

GooseKirk asks: "Just over a year ago, my apartment was completely covered in foil. For some reason, this resulted in global media attention, and ever since, people have been asking me, "what are you doing for revenge?" A few great ideas fell through for various reasons (Ron Jeremy was booked, apparently), and sadly, I currently lack access to an orbital weapons platform, so let me pose this riddle to the great Slashdot collective: if you were going to cook enough popcorn to effectively, and let's say hypothetically, bury a small single-story building, how would you cook it and how would you deliver it, quickly and quietly, say, under cover of darkness? At the least, I think it's an interesting puzzle, and other wacky ideas are certainly welcome... just remember, people, mum's the word, OK?"

Comments

The only thing that's worse.

[falcon203e]

Do the only thing worse than covering something with aluminum foil... cover it in saran wrap.

phase conjugate mirror

[calyxa]

and a big laser... and a real genius....

Re:phase conjugate mirror

[dubious9]

I don't know, popcorn seems expensive and hard to implement. If you're *really* looking for simple, easy to deploy and quick think crickets.

Really, you could easily buy a few thousand, maybe 10K. A senior class at my high school did this to the library over christmas break and though not a large place it took days to clean and there was the errant cricket for *months*.

Think about it.
1. Crickets are not static, hence, that much more fun to catch.
2. They will get everywhere. Everywhere.
3. The noise they make will be priceless.
4. Everytime you think you've got them all, you'll wake up at four o'clock in the morning to one that you missed.

Best way to get revenge

[antifoidulus]

Is to sell it to one of the tin foil hat people. there is quite a market for it, just imagine, if your whole apartment is covered in foil, then you can finally take your cap off while at home.

Popcorn pranks are always the greatest!

[Arbac]

Anything involving popcorn is good. When my house full of crazy geek college students got involved in a prank war with another house full of geek college students, I'd have to say the popcorn prank was the best.

Our war started simply enough. They were the pirate house, they even flew pirate flag from their roof. So one night under cover of darkness we went over and stole it. The responsed by breaking into our house and waking us all up by turn our CD player on full blast and looping A pirates life for me.

Now that is annoying to wake up too.

The hacks on our various websites got pretty boring, as did the WEP cracking, so we decided to step it up a notch.

One of my housemates worked at a movie theater, so we had him bring home all the stale popcorn at the end of the night.

We snuck into their house, filled their whole bathroom with popcorn and went home happy.

We woke up to pictures in our e-mail boxes of the enemy playing NAKED in our wall of popcorn.

So my words of advice to you, popcorn is funny, but make sure you're prepared from strange naked popcorn prancing pictures.

Ewwww, the images are still burned into my mind.

Re:How about French traditions?

[Savage-Rabbit]

Here's a story I was told by a classmate and that supposedly happened to a relative of his. It seems that a new neighbor moved into the suburban community this relative lived in. This guy had a big nasty dog he would let loose in the neighborhood. The whole summer the entire neighborhood tried to get this guy to clean up the shit his dog was leaving all over the place but he just ignored them. Finally winter came around and the dog would poop in the snow which was not visible most of the time so people stopped being as annoyed about it. However, come spring, the snow melted and there was dogshit everywhere. So one day the all the neighbors got together with shovels and buckets, gathered up all the dogshit and dumped it on the dog owners doorstep along with a note that very politely promised more of the same. After that the dog was kept on a leish.

Baloons

[Bios_Hakr]

While the popcorn idea sounds like fun, logistically speaking, baloons give a bigger bang for your buck.

1. Get an air compressor or 3 from your local equipment rental store.

2. Get a cylinder of helium.

3. Get a funnel.

4. Get some glitter.

5. Get some confetti (I prefer cross-shreded paper).

6. Get some shaving cream.

7. Get shit-tons of cardboard.

The basic theory is to use the air compressors to fill the majority of the baloons. A survey of the house and some simple math will give you a volume. A few test baloons will let you know how many you'll eventually need. Use the cardboard to block off the doors to the various rooms so you can fill them to the top.

The helium makes annoying baloons that are hard to get at.

The glitter and confetti make a fucking mess.

The shaving cream is for real revenge.

The big trick is to only fill a few with the goodies. Make every "pop" a real surprise.

BTW, to make the process more effecient, come up with a better way to seal vice tying. Most party stores have plugs you can use, but it might get expensive.

Sic 'em

[sysadmn]

If you're actually a genius, you'd get someone else to do the work for you :-)

Dear Adam and Jaime,
I heard that it was impossible to completely fill an apartment with popcorn. I figured it anyone could do it, it would be the MythBusters. I even have an apartment you can use!

PS - Had a friend who had this problem. They had an annoying coworker who played stupid pranks on everyone. Finally, the friend took up a collection, and anonymously ordered a truckload of pea gravel for delivery on the friend's driveway. The friend said it was the best $90 he'd ever spent - the victim spent weeks trying to get rid of the gravel (where are you going to put a pile of gravel six feet across and five feet tall? Plus about the only way to move it is to push it aside, or lift it one shovelful at a time). The mark finally had to hire a landscaping crew to take it away so he could use his driveway again.