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Friday
22Dec2006

Foiled!

That's right. My team and I tin foiled a fellow designer's cubicle. So here's the background: a fellow designer left for vacation this past week. He intends to return the Tuesday after Christmas. What he doesn't even know yet is that my boss, fellow designer and myself used over 500 square feet of tin foil and wrapped up EVERYTHING in his cube!

The pictures don't do it justice... We wrapped it all -- his phone, the mirror, his headphones, his hat, the action figures, the papers on his desk even the trash under it. We started around 3pm Wednesday afternoon and spent 3-4 hours wrapping. Then on Thursday we spent the entire day finishing it up.

$25 of tin foil and only 1.5 days of time ... not to shabby if I may say so myself. You can view all the pictures here:
http://flickr.com/photos/vinesugar/sets/72157594432152707/ 

Note - I'll be setting up a webcam and recording his reaction when he returns so SSSHHHH! don't tell him =)

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Reader Comments (129)

you're an idiot
December 22, 2006 | Unregistered Commenteranon
THE WHEELS THE WHEELS !!!!!! ON THE CHAIR
December 22, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterMk
this is really hillarious! ehehe..
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterninyakin
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December 23, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterMichael L.
omg, be sure to film every single moment of his reaction when he gets back! you've been so dugg.
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered Commentersandmanx
what about the wheels of the chair ?!?!
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterAERAFP
"Aluminium Foil in England is called Tin Foil..."
I call it tin foil, and I live in the US. Is there a difference? o.o

"Yay! Let's waste a whole bunch of foil for a stupid prank and then throw it out when we are done! What a waste!"

Yes, because... We don't have a thing called recycling. You can't just... recycle METAL that was flattened. [/sarcasm] o.o Uhm, you can recycle that, you boob. I guess some people are just to ignorant to use the internet, when just a search on google can really answer that:
http://www.recyclenow.com/what_more_can_i_do/can_it_be_recycled/tin_foil.html
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterFuzzMop
This really was ripped off, I've seen these exact photos before a few years ago.
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered Commenteranon
Anyone who says this is stupid IS stupid. This may be a waste of resourses, but its art! Great job! Can't wait to see his return:)
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterSticklord 99
No Anon, your an idiot.
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterHit boy
Just hope he doesn't read Digg on his vacation...
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterJohn
You all are gay cock suckers
December 23, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterya maw
Some of you guys need to lighten up, this is a classic prank, aluminium foil can be recycled, all you moaning b**tards need to get out of your mum's basement more!
December 24, 2006 | Unregistered Commentered
I agree ed! some people don't get the fun of pranking! life goes on you guys!
December 24, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterHit boy
Great stuff guys,the aluminium just shiny,the cube thingy just the right place,the guy's face when he gets back...absolutely priceless,there are moments like this that make me wanna cry :'D ....of laughter!

Thumbs up (Y)!
December 24, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterMarius
All the complainers need to fuck off and a stop being fags about this. It's perfectly fine and completely funny. Of course you stupid bitches only care about the what happens to the foil. Go laugh at at you sky your fucken hippies.
December 24, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterhehe
can we do sex
December 24, 2006 | Unregistered Commenterboner boy
These pics have been floating around on the net for years.
December 24, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterBob
yeah, this stuff hes been around a while. this is plagiarism
December 24, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterAndrew MacArthur

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