The Jungle

The title comes from here.

Supplies: Raw meat, preferably nast already so you’re not wasting fresh stuff. Ideally, you’d be able to hit a supermarket deli around 7 p.m. and talk about whether they throw out their meat or not. I would be giving this same tip if this blog was ‘I love feeding hungry people’. Masking tape or duct tape if you feel comfortable about it not taking the wall with it.

Execution: After you’ve fed some people who need it with the tons of unnecessarily discarded food [grr America], save a pound of meat for your victim. Tape half a pound of meat in semi-obvious places, using strips about the length of your hand. Two lengths of tape crosswise should hold them. Then go for difficult spots – the ceiling in the closet, under a laundry basket, to the underside of dresser drawers, lampshades. Hopefully, they won’t be completely thorough in their search and forced to find some by smell, as I believe Double Cee was.

The above painting is titled 'Rotting Meat', and it's by Cindy Wright.

Difficulty: Rather low. It’s about stretching resources. Ten minutes for the semi-obvy meat chunks, twenty for the hard-to-check places. Not much damage to your calendar or wallet, and it can be pretty annoying for the prankee.

NOTE: Make sure your victim and your meat match; you don’t want to be mushing pulled pork against an Orthodox Jew’s wall.