Pilot Pranks

The "Best Pranks Played by Pilots on Their Passengers" from the source.

My favorite:

"What do you do when you’re flying a 747 and have to take a leak? Well, if you lack imagination, you just put the plane on autopilot. Otherwise, you can do what one pilot on a prop plane in Scotland reportedly did: Back slowly out of the cockpit unraveling a ball of string with each hand and ask the nearest passengers to hold the strings—tightly, please—while you use the lavatory. Then come back, take the strings off their hands, and terrify everyone by shrugging and dropping them. Do put the plane on autopilot first, though."

Terrorists have probably ruined pilot pranks, too. If we can't scare the shit out of passengers, what kind of freedom do we *really* have, as Americans?