You're a winner! No... really, YOU WON!

This was one of my favourite pranks.  We called the phone booth as a young kid was biking by the booth.  HE stopped and looked around for a bit, but then decided to answer.  In a typical stereotype AM radio voice, we convinced him that he'd won our "call a pay phone" contest.  He seemed very excited.  We convinced the boy that his prize was a $35 spending spree at the YON VARIETY store just behind the pay phone.  We instructed him to go in the store, and tell the counter clerk he was the winner.  He hung up and went running into the store.  Moments later he exited the store, looking rather depressed.  The joke was funny, but we decided to up the humour another notch.  We ring the phone again.

The kid bolts for the phone with newly renewed excitement.  He answers and complains that the staff had no idea what we were talking about.  At this moment, but total coincidence, our store manager was exiting the store with some ice cream or other junk food snacks.  We instruct the boy that we didn't mean the STORE staff knew about the prize.  It was the radio station staff.  That guy right there, wearing the pink shirt and tie was our radio guy.  He has your prize, but you have to convince him.  He  may resist.

What followed started up laughing so hard we couldn't re-call the booth.  It was far across the street, so we couldn't hear what was going on, but we could see the arms waiving.  He fell to the floor laughing.  When our manager returned, he wasn't impressed... at least not at first, but then he started giggling too.  He didn't punish us.