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Hidden ping pong gun is best office prank ever

Some enterprising pranksters at Willow Garage hid a ckBot robot in the ceiling of their office, then used it to shoot ping pong balls at an unsuspecting co-worker. Awesome! [via gizmodo]

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Posted by: Shadyman on December 23, 2009 at 7:09 PM

Best robot prank ever, maybe. Best office prank ever goes to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XdthbOkMU

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Posted by: zof on December 23, 2009 at 9:23 PM

Great idea but I think it would have been better if they set it to randomly launch 1 ping pong ball every couple of hours, the look would be priceless especially after the close the door and a couple hours again they get nailed....

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Posted by: Boring on December 24, 2009 at 6:58 AM

Where is the funny part?

I'm still waiting for the "funny" part. You're wasting your natural gifts.

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Posted by: anon on December 24, 2009 at 8:53 PM

I wish I had that much time to goof around at my office

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