The Greatest Prank of All Time, part III
December 6th, 2008 by PeaveyPart III
[read part 1] [read part 2 (1st act)] [read part 2 (2nd act)]

A shot of the letter I sent Larry!
Larry never had the chance to call or email me about the letter Mitchell Richards had sent him. Two days later at 5:45 in the morning, his wife began calling me over and over. She called 3 (maybe 4) times in a row. For someone who had no idea that I was behind the letters, I was shocked at her lack of courteousness. My wife was eight months pregnant at the time and we both had full days of work to attend that day.
I never answered the phone that morning and as soon as I arrived at work, my office phone began ringing off the hook. Once I did take a call she threatened to sue me and said she had called the police for giving out Larry’s name and address; she called me a few bad names, said I was guilty of libel and was outrageously rude to the girl answering the phone for our office. It was a fabulous spectacle.
It was now time for me to implement part 3 of the prank.
Originally I had no idea how this prank would end. I almost planned on Larry receiving the letter, calling me in disbelief then we both having a nice “GOTCHA!” laugh. But his wife had elevated it to a new level.
Suddenly thoughts of my last visit to Larry’s home came to mind. I remembered his wife telling me I’d be a worthless parent simply because I couldn’t get her baby to stop crying. I remembered her cussing poor Larry out in the bed room while she left her two young children with me in the adjacent living room. It was no wonder her poor baby screamed in anguish. It was easily one of the most unsettling situations I had ever been in during my lifetime. But if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that you have to suck up the wrath of a bitchy wife for your friends. My wife has shown her ass a few times before too. The bro code requires a bro hold no hard feelings against his buddy’s sometimes not so better half.
This time was different. The bro code had been superseded. She had attacked and threatened me personally. This was war; and it was now as much a war I fought for Larry as me. I was going to prank her good.
That night on the eve of Halloween I gathered a few poster boards and some magic markers. I created 5 posters that I’d post up on Larry’s property. The plan was that they’d come home and find them, thinking that the GARP animal activist nuts were mounting an offensive against them for the horrible things Larry had allegedly done to the poor groundhog and deer.
The posters were amazing. I stuck them all along his front door and porch. Hidden below the two on his front door I posted a huge poster of a Jack-o-lantern, reading Trick or Treat, smell my feet! I figured they’d peel them off in disgust, revealing the Halloween poster then suddenly they would realize the whole thing was a big joke.
Larry called me later that afternoon from work. He told me his wife had discovered the posters. She told him that protesters had spilled deer blood on the porch and that the posters were graphic and gory. The prank had finally climaxed.
I revealed to Larry that I was behind it all. There was no deer blood, no vandalism, just funny posters. And I’ll let you judge whether they were gory or not.
Larry sat on the other end of the phone call nearly speechless. I had totally stumped him. Later he revealed that they suspected it may have been me but never actually thought me to be the true culprit because the letters were so well written and free of grammatical errors. I’m not sure whether that was a compliment or insult.
Regardless, it was best prank I have ever seen anywhere. I’ve not failed to amaze anyone who has heard or read the story yet.
In retrospect I’d like to say sorry if I’ve made your life hell, Larry. But admit it, if this had happened to anyone else, you’d be praising me for pulling off one of the best pranks ever. You guys swallowed this story, hook, line and sinker. This practical joke transcended just being funny, it was a masterpiece, a true work of art.
Check out the posters! Click to bring up a larger shot in a lightbox, hover over the right side of the image to move to the next image in the collection:









To elevate the situation, I told Larry that I edited the correspondence he sent me above and sent it to Mr. Richards, mocking him.
About a year had passed since the introduction of the stories, everyone seemed to still believe them and occasionally I’d be asked to re-tell them when Larry was brought up by anyone at work. They were a huge hit, and no one ever hinted at the fact that Larry or I may just be full of crap, or at least playing a joke on them.
Roughly a year ago, my good friend Larry was in a car accident. On his way to work he was side swiped by a deer, leaving a huge, gaping dent in his car door. Upon hearing the news I had an ingenious idea for a prank. I quickly fabricated what would become one of the most ridiculous stories of all time. The story of The Deer Killer!



