Things To Do When You're Really Bored

Disclaimer: If you do anything illegal that corresponds with an item in this article, the author takes absolutely no responsibility. You fool.

Was the previous listing too small for your excitement drought period? Did you unluckily volunteer to work at a box factory again? Well, here's another hundred ideas to get the energy into you (and most likely put the you into the prison)...
  1. Go for a swim at the local water treatment plant.
  2. If you have a license (or even if you don't), do as much chaos up and down your street in your or your neighbour's car. Do doughnuts, burn-outs, fishies or anything else that seems cool. Set up a ramp and see how many of the neighbourhood's cars/kids/houses you can jump over. Do the Central Park scene from Die Hard 3 in someone's backyard.
  3. Walk along any public place. Pick a person at random and stalk them for the rest of the day. When they notice you following them everywhere (and I mean everywhere), duck into a store, or do something that's supposed to look normal, but is very transparent. Sniff their neck if you get close enough. Catch their bus. Sit next to them. Then, for no reason, scream out loud and jump off the bus.
  4. Go to the movies. See a movie if you're a nerd who can't have real fun. Otherwise, try to bargain with the ticket-seller. Try to pass yourself off as a pensioner. Find the projectionist's room, knock him/her out and have fun with your new job. If someone comes up and spots you, have a good excuse ready ("Thank god you got here, he tried to kill me, but I knocked him out, but I was too devoted to my job to leave my post to tell you." or "Where's my free popcorn?!") Put subliminal messages into the film (or pornography a la Fight Club).
  5. Go into any office and pretend you work there. Call an all-staff conference. Steal as much stationery as you can. Set yourself an office. Chat up the secretaries. When you've had enough fun, go to the roof and run along the roofs on this street (a la The Crow). If you fall, too bad.
  6. Spread vicious rumours. Be creative. Set up a computer program to make them up and post them every so often to the appropriate newsgroups.
  7. Read The Lord of The Rings out aloud in public. Backwards.
  8. Gate-crash as many parties as you can in one night. Get that record and try to beat it.
  9. Try to break the human land-speed record (who says rockets aren't allowed, just touch the ground every few hundred metres).
  10. Borrow about a hundred dollars from a friend. Ignore them from now on. Then go to the library and convert the money to coins. Photocopy the most raunchiest page in a book you can find. Photocopy as many copies you can get with the coins. Let it print as you go home to have a well-earned rest.
  11. Ask your local Internet Service Provider if you can buy one minute. Bug them until they let you. Then complain about the price. Take your business elsewhere.
  12. Go on a trip around every shopping centre you know, and sample everything you can. Eat things from the shelves and then put them back. "Accidentally" knock over a shelf. Set up a little fort of potatoes and launch fruit and vegetables at shoppers. Try to incite a food fight. Take about 50 items to the "8 items or less" lane. Then wander off to get something "you forgot" and go home.
  13. Go to your local university and pretend you are a great scientist (or even better, philosopher). Get really angry when they say they didn't know you were coming. Persuade them to allow you to put on a lecture. Teach them a "new" idea in physics that works, no matter what everything else says ("Now, there's only 3 types of atoms. This one's called Twinky. This one is Wiggles. And this one is called Elvis. Forget your periodic table people, unless you want to be left behind.") Be very adamant that you are right and the lecturers are dumb wannabes. Make sure every constant you give has a letter in it ("... which is calculated by sin x times your Twinky constant, 3.456Q78. What do you mean what's that letter doing in there?")
  14. Stir up newsgroups on the Net. Try to incite as many flame-wars as you can.
  15. Ask the bus-driver if he can go fifty and keep it above there. Hold pieces of wire in your hands while you do it. Laugh maniacally when he does it.
  16. Pretend that you, and only you, is caught in a weird alternating gravity. Jump into people. Explain your condition and that its not your fault.
  17. Generate selective hearing at your next court case that you'll have to go to (if you complete any of the more daring bored ideas).
  18. Become a professional spammer.
  19. Go to any big sporting event. Find the nearest security guard. Ask him/her how much the fine is if someone runs on the field. Ask him/her if he/she will run after you if you do it. Tell them you are a masochistic and lurve being man-handled. Make it look like your clothes are really tight and ask them if they can hold onto them for a sec while you go do something.
  20. Write your manifesto.
  21. Go to a store that you don't really like. Do weird walk-bys of its door. If you've seen Bean (you know Rowan Atkinson) and seen the bit where he's in the room with the one-way mirror, you'll get my drift.
  22. Crunch up into a ball and roll everywhere. Try to find a skateboard bowl and do it there.
  23. Hail a taxi and ask them to take you to Paris. When you get kicked out, try on the next one. Try this tactic on a bus, or even a normal person's car. When the police arrive after a while for obstructing the peace, ask them if they can take you to Paris.
  24. Get the most evil person you know (other than yourself after you perform this method) and smash them with a brick. While they are knocked out, drag them out to your pre-arranged stage. Do your Amazing Magician's act. Display your Amazing Person of Rubber. Then set them up to do an Amazing Feat of Escapology. Lock them in a crate (handcuffed, tied, gagged, set in stone) with a small hole (you'll see later), chain and tie it up. Dangle the whole thing off a bridge. Drop a few meat-ants into the hole. Give the person about a minute, otherwise you'll drop them off the bridge. After the minute is up, (this has to be perfectly orchestrated) drop them just as  a boat "accidentally" travels underneath. After all this, have fun in jail for the next fifty years.
  25. As with above, perform an Amazing Magic Show. Do a few lame tricks. Then bet everyone you can remove such-and-such's shirt without touching their buttons. Rip it off. Apologise and give the person your home number. Do a William Tell take-off. Flee when it all goes horribly wrong.
  26. See if you can break the dam wall.
  27. Dress up as Batman and drive around in your modified car. Bash up anyone that looks funny. Have a friend set up the Bat-signal for you. Coax Alicia Silverstone to join your dark crusade (or if you're a girl or gay, get Chris O'Donnell).
  28. Get your hands on a bus, tank or plane (preferably jet plane). Have fun driving (or flying) them around maniacally. Do your favourite movie scene (even if it doesn't use that vehicle (i.e. try to do Speed on a Stealth Bomber: "I gotta keep this thing above... that big number. Oh darn, there goes another missile.")). Make sure you park it in an underground carpark and then go shopping.
  29. Hitch-hike on an airport tarmac. (At least it looks more fun than sitting around doing nothing)
  30. Prove to your friends that Bruce Lee wasn't so tough. Do your one-inch thick baseball bat swing. Or try (I said try) to do a flip-kick. Put in as many "Hiya!" or "Wata!" sounds as you can. Even say threats to them out of synch.
  31. Make up a second personality and visit a psychiatrist. See what he or she makes of it.
  32. Here's the whole idea behind this one: "I bet you can't get a bus on top of a building".
  33. Climb the Himalayas. Naked.
  34. Find your nearest stockpiler of CDs or vinyls of a band you detest the most and go berzerk with a baseball bat.
  35. On a big festival day, pretend to be a pyrotechnician working on the fireworks. When the time comes to let them off, fire them into the crowd. Laugh maniacally if it helps.
  36. Ring up your ex and tell them that you have already or are finally willing to change whatever was wrong. When they finally give in, say "Is this 555-6786? It isn't? Oh sorry."
  37. See how far you can kick that irritating toddler cousin.
  38. Join a neo-nazi extremist group or something for a while. Then quit because it's "not strong enough for you".
  39. Get a magnifying glass and fry ants all afternoon. Laugh maniacally after each fatality. Warn that you're after the next one soon, maybe even the queen.
  40. (This is only really applicable for people in Australia with the cane toad problem) Write a document on the myriads of ways you have killed toads. Be creative and bizarre. Play games with the toad's lives ("Look out Indy! It's a huge block of stone!" SMUNCH!)
  41. Leave a "Secret Admirer" note on your most evil co-worker's desk, with directions to the roof for a "secret romantic rendezvous". When they get there, put a fake note on the side, with lots of weird writings on it. As they read it, push them off the edge (or better still, threaten to (Tell them to keep away from him/her. Drive the co-worker nuts. >: ) )).
  42. Get three other stressed out friends to stand on top of buildings and do that ad where they throw a frisbee to each other. Throw a hot apple pie once. Or for the militaristically enhanced amongst you, a landmine.
  43. Get your office's or home furniture and drag it all up to the roof. Then throw each individual piece of furniture off the edge. Make games of it (i.e. see if you can hit the other building and which floor, try to get a taxi with your sofa or a police car that will eventually show up). Use the furniture to barricade the door so the long arm of the law don't interfere with your "simple stress relief".
  44. Get your neighbour's dog and perform the world's first unaided amateur dog bunjee jump or sky-dive.
  45. Find a glasshouse and throw stones.
  46. Or even better, buy some golf clubs and go around the street and see how many balls it takes to get the owner outside screaming at you. Devise a points system. Five points for a window. Ten points for an occupant. Twenty for their car. Twenty for their computer screen or TV. Double points for ricocheting it off the owners head and into a breakable item. Mark down each house's score and see which course is best. Remember this for next time.
  47. Steal a car and see how long it takes for you to get the whole police force in the area after you. Make a head for the next state and wreak havoc there. If you live in the USA, go on a round tour of the 48 states (well you could include Alaska and have a practice in Canada) and record your best times and best numbers. Try to notch up higher damage costs. Switch cars if you have to or can (take expensive sports cars at whatever cost).
  48. Take to your office computer with whatever lovely weapon you can. I can recommend: hammers, baseball bats, cattle prods, chairs, C4 explosives, brass knuckles and tanks.
  49. Do this to a car. Anybody's car. But not your own (you gotta make a getaway when the owner comes out to persuade you not to damage his car).
  50. Do drivebys at Universities. Or if you go to Uni and need some of those people to cheat off, find the local Microsoft software distributer (or Macintosh if you feel so compelled).
  51. Go to the library. Smile nicely at the librarians. Chat up the young helpers. Then ask to be excused and then begin flinging the entire science-fiction section at other people. Try to make domino effects with the shelves. Run around until the staff are forced to call the police and begin photocopying your butt about a thousand times. Then set fire to the place and laugh maniacally several times.
  52. Walk up to a guard at a mental institution and tell him you just escaped and forgot to bring your pillow. Now that you're admitted into the institution, try to persuade the psychiatrists there (violently or not) that this was a big mistake. Do bits out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Try to lead a revolt. Do the same when they throw you in prison.
  53. Find a jackhammer and have fun writing your name into everything made of stone. Or just sit there and see how deep you can drill. Or better still, abandon the jackhammer and get some heavy machinery and go release some stress.
  54. Travel off to a Southern town (to dem yokels) and persuade them to join in the festivities at the local cheese-rolling competition. For those who don't know its all about throwing a big hunk of cheese down a steep, slippery slope and people have to run down and chase it. But hold yours at the Grand Canyon or Ayres Rock. Or even Mt Everest if you can. Pretend to throw a cheese down. Or roll it into the nearest abyss and laugh maniacally.
  55. Get a monkey and allow him to do whatever he wants at the local museum.
  56. Go to Israel and join in the festivities for a few years. Become a suicide bomber who just happens to throw the bomb at the targets instead of detonating it on his body.
  57. Go to the next Celine Dion, Pavarotti or boyband concert and have evil fun. For example: disconnect the microphones, bug the security, run on stage (several times), boo, run on stage again and kiss the performer/s or throw waterbombs or smoke grenades (or stun grenades if you can).
  58. (It's an old joke, but a goodie) Go to an old folks home and steal all their walking frames and walking sticks. Run outside and yell "Fire!"
  59. Go to a hospital and wander about for a while. If nurses ask you what you're doing, just say, "Oh, don't worry". After an hour, tell them you have ebola.
  60. Wear a vampire costume and raid the local blood bank. Grow a taste for blood. Run after blood donors hungrily.
  61. Go to a religious procession and scream loudly at the most inappropriate times. Pretend that nothings wrong and look around for the offender. Bring a bag of red dye or pig's blood. Make your chest "explode" in a spectacular performance on center stage. Stagger about screaming, "The End is Here! My Jihad is complete! The virus! The virus!"
  62. Have fun with Paintball weapons on city streets.
  63. Spend the next, oh say, five months in bed, and have demands ready for the people who want to get you out. Spend the time relaxing. Ring up and have "entertainment" come, whether there are people in the room or not. Even better, do all this in someone else's bed.
  64. Have as much fun as you possibly can with a rubber snake. Or a real one.
  65. Incite a Jihad (Holy War) in your town.
  66. Try to make breakdancing an Olympic Sport.
  67. Get your voice on the radio by any means possible. Or even better, do what they did in Airheads and take over the radio station.
  68. Make it your goal to ruin someone's ambition in life.
  69. Break up your friend's relationships (i.e. really annoy their boyfriend/girlfriend and say its from them).
  70. Join a gay mardi gras. Have fun on the other side (not recommended, although I have no personal experience. If anyone has tried this, email me).
  71. Become a voluntary doctor for a day. Have your best intentions at heart (laugh at stupid pun).
  72. Kinda like above, talk to everyone in puns. Pretend that it's hysterical.
  73. Try to coax the guys at NASA to stow you away on the next trip to the moon.
  74. Try to hack the CIA's, FBI's, NSA's and White House's computers. Move to Spain.
  75. Attempt to disprove the theory that your tongue can't touch your ear.
  76. Ring up the FBI and ask for Agents Mulder and Scully. When they hang up, ring again. Tell them that "you know..."
  77. Slash wheels at carparks.
  78. Be a deaf or blind person for a day. Do your best Mr Magoo.
  79. Knock on people's doors. Ask stupid questions ("Um, is your water, like, red? It isn't? Uh oh."). Or do the childish, knock and run away. Repeat several times. Construct devices so you can knock from your car, for a quick getaway.
  80. Attend some random person's birth. Kiss the mother and give them a present.
  81. Give someone you don't really know a big bunch of flowers with the message, "Here's payment in advance." Ring up and ask them when they'll do it. Never explain what "it" is. If they ask, tell them to be serious.
  82. Write a computer-virus. Put a little piece of text: Engineered by WiLLy GaTeS.
  83. Set up blind dates with people on the street.
  84. Go to a fast-food joint and sit next to someone. Eat their fries and drink their drink. Eyeball them whenever they eat any of "your" food.
  85. Put LSD in the food at all-you-can-eats, especially if its at a senior citizen hang-out.
  86. Become a homie for a day.
  87. Do Monty Python sketches with people. Do the Silly Walk whenever you can. Buy a parrot.
  88. Make grunting noises to communicate. Combine with number 13.
  89. Borrow a wheelchair and enjoy the benefits of being disabled, whilst not being disabled (get a doctor friend to forge a document saying that you have selective paraplegia).
  90. Anagram names to make weird phrases that have something to do with them (Alec Guinness=Genuine Class, Tom Cruise=So I'm Cuter, Jesus Christ=Such Jest Sir)
  91. Try to get personal correspondance with: Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, the Queen, the Pope and the cast of friends. Try to coax nude photos of them to release to the press for millions of dollars (shudder... The Pope shudder... Bill Gates... shudder... The Queen, in fact, shudder for most of them)
  92. Participate in new drug testing (like where Bart tries that new soft drink).
  93. Buy your way into the Olympics.
  94. Try to be the next Pope.
  95. Get involved in a sexual harrassment trial with Bill Clinton (Not another!)
  96. Work your way up the Mafia hierarchy.
  97. Develop a new file format.
  98. Get your friends to drive you around in a car for several hours and then drop you off, and you have to find your way back home. Get suspicious if you feel like you're in an aircraft or ship cargo hold.
  99. Knock out a taxi-driver and take his job. Have fun breaking the rules. If the cops come, pull the taxi driver you have stuffed under the seat and put him in the driver's seat. Keep the money you earned.
  100. Write the Bible for the younger generation (like what Bazz Luhrman did to Romeo & Juliet

Written By: Brett "Random acts of criminal activity" Witty
Researched By: Don't ask.

Copyright © Brett Witty, 2002.