Fun topic: New guy hazing

[toledo_mudhen]

Scout Troop back in the day used to do a "winter camp" every year. Would routinely send guys out in the middle of the night for "buckets of steam", left handed monkey wrenchs" and "tapered Johnson bars"

[53Browns]

When I was a lowly pledge in my fraternity back in the day they blindfolded us and led us by the hand into the gym barefoot as our feet were walking on crunchy objects they then yelled it was broken glass and if we dont keep walking we cant pledge in. Turned out to be corn flakes. Amazing what the mind can make you believe in moments like that. Felt like broken glass to me boy-o!

[Pilot172000]

What I vaguely remember about my pledge night in college involved being blindfolded in the woods for a very long time.

[steve B]

It's really old fashioned now, and probably not allowed in larger companies. But every industry has it's things.

The print shop did a little but more of a "We've decided you're Ok so we'll include you in pranks" sort of hazing. The really traditional one was to tell you that the printing ink heated up as you mixed the color and you could tell it was ready by holding your hand over the ink to feel how warm it was. Of course then the guy would slap your hand into the ink.

Being picked up and put in one of the waste paper bins. Not bad, they were just big cloth boxes on wheels. They'd put the ink which was really sticky on something you handled but where you couldn't see it. The backs of the handles on the press were prime places. You'd get the ink on your hand, then every itch or anything you had got inked. That usually lasted till someone just couldn't keep a straight face. It was banned after someone did it to all the drawer pulls on the bosses desk.


In Hydraulics you weren't a "real" mechanic until you'd been soaked by oil spraying out of something. (Trapped air which is common in some broken stuff can make a really impressive spray of oil if it's not released properly)
They tried maybe three times, but didn't catch me. Then there was a baler with trapped air and the boss removed the valve. I happened to be standing in the one spot shielded from spray by one of the bolts holding it down. (Picture a basically round spray of oil but with one pizza slice shaped bit where nothing went. )
Finally I had to go to the airport to pick up a hose. Pretty cool right? I got to drive out to the truck which was between two taxiways. And that truck was parked over a small pond of leaked oil. The hose was underneath the truck. So I had a bit of a swim. Totally soaked. After a bit of cleanup and finishing the last bit of the day we all went out for beer.

Steve B

[DHogan]

I went to an agricultural high school and lived in the dorm. As freshman initiation, the seniors had us walk thru the manure pit with about 2' of fresh manure in it.

[iwantitiwinit]

Pledge night they blindfolded us ripped our shirts off, wrote sigma p.. ep..... on our chests in Greeks letters using a liquid absorbine Jr and set it on fire. 40 pledges with burnt chest hair is not a pretty sight or smell.

[GasHouseGang]

When I saw the topic, I honestly thought you meant new guys to the board. I was waiting to see how you were going to haze the latest members of Net54.

[Enfuego]

Every time I would deploy overseas, my partner and I would come up with ingenious ways to send everyone home with a bang. Example, 1 week before our group was scheduled to fly home, we went to our dining facility and I asked a friend to bake me a cake as a go away gift for our mechanics. So whole he was working the cake, I ninja'ed my way to our Aid Station and asked a battle buddy for a bottle of laxative and a 12 gauge needle. So after about 2 hours, we checked on the cake and once it was done, we injected about a half bottle of laxative and gave the cake to our mechanics...to find out that the following day the maintenance section was shut down because there was no one who could spend a solid 30 min on a vehicle without rushing to he bathroom was priceless.

Eventually we ended up confessing and got beat up about it, it was our way of sending our brothers and sisters in arms home with a bang!

[Koufax32fan]

Maybe the best hazing ever was that one time that someone convinced someone else to post on a public forum a thread questioning the hall of fame credentials of one of the greatest and most beloved baseball players of all time.

[KCRfan1]

That's funny Zach!

Really enjoying the stories, and it's been a great way to begin my day! Always good to laugh!!!

You are spot on Mike Koufax32fan!