Beyond the realms of pranks
This isn't a prank - it's more pure evil laced with gross stupidity. But there is a humorous element. First, the backstory:

Last week, while on the way to a mate's to meet up to travel to a gig, I was overtaken by a little twat on a wheezing motorbike with L plates, who only just made it past my car before being wiped out by oncoming traffic, almost cut off my front bumper and then had the temerity (and stupidity) to brake hard in front of me. So I had to slam on the brakes to avoid knocking him off his bike.

I wasn't too impressed with this maneouvre and was going to follow him to where he was going and give him a bollocking. As it happens I lost him (just as well, given what follows), but I mentioned it to my mate, who identified said ned as one of an infamous family in the town. He then went on to tell me about something the father of this family had done as an act of vengeance. So to my brief tale.

Apparently the father had fallen out with the owner of the local chip shop over something or other, and the feud had escalated. So one night, he went out and stuffed paraffin-soaked newspaper through the chippy-owner's letterbox, and followed it with a match.

Satisfied by having seen the results of his labours begin to take hold, he retired to his own house.

Which was immediately upstairs...
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 13:34, Reply)