[waltham41]

If you are going to scare someone, do it from a distance.

My dad was a real joker, when we lived in Waco Tx, he killed a couple of pretty good sized snakes, and coiled them up on the top of the trash in the can and then put the lid on, and about gave one of the poor trash guys a heart attack when he walked up to that can and lifted the lid.

Dad was on the porch out of reach laughing his rear off.

He got me a few times over the years, so I was not a big fan of his jokes.

 

[waltham41]

I remember he did it because the guys would dump the trash in the truck and then just throw the cans and lids on the ground and my old man thought they should have sit the cans back upright with the lids on them like they were when they arrived, and he had already talked to them a couple of times about it.

So he decided to get their attention in another way.