I am not the Original Poster.

Original Poster of the first post is u/ClassyApple. Post gets hijacked (in the best way possible) by u/Betsy514 who then makes the follow up post. Both posts made in 2016 in r/legaladvice**.**

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What would be the legal repercussions for me if I were to fill a public pool with rubber ducks? (18 Mar 2016)

Arkansas, US.

Top answer is by u/Betsy514 (this entire chain takes place under the linked comment, so I am only linking to it once)

Not legal advice but this would be quite expensive. I bought 1500 several years ago and those only allowed for lines of ducks six inches apart Ina 200 sf office. Cost me 200 and those were discount ducks. If you wanted to fill a large pool with rubber ducks I don't think you'll do it for less than 10k. I can think of better things to do with 10k. If you cannot you can probably also afford the clean up and fines.

u/Betsy514 further comments:

The downside to discount ducks is that they float on their sides. I didn't need them to float at all so it was a good deal. Here's a photo I found of the set up http://i.imgur.com/28vssGQ.jpg

(editor's note: an image of a small office space. There is an office table with two chairs pushed into it at the left side of the photo. There is a small chair against the wall of the office, and an office desk. There is a man sitting under the office desk. The floor is covered by a tidy grid of yellow ducks. The office table is covered with a randomly placed assortment of ducks. The office desk has a neat row of ducks running along the front and one side edge. Two of the chairs have ducks neatly lining the top of the back rest and one chair has ducks along the arms)

deleted user:

You know, I never got pranks like this. I'm not calling you out or anything, but isn't it just making someone clean up a bunch of shit? It may as well be garbage or ball bearings or something. Which would be funnier if you ask me.

u/Betsy514

That's one of the commandments of a good prank - at least for me when I play them on my CEO. Shouldn't interrupt work for more than a few minutes and I do the clean up. When I did the ducks I offered to clean up as soon as the initial reveal was done but he wanted it left that way for the day and worked right in the middle of it all. When I did clean them up he even helped even though I told him not to. I had a few helpers and we had his office back to normal in less than fifteen minutes.

deleted user:

p.s. I was looking at your post history to see if you had more pranks there and I think we live like a couple of miles away from each other.

edit: this might not be of interest to anyone but me, but this exchange led to that user helping me out with my student loan debt. This is the best sub.

u/Betsy514

The one I had the most fun with though was the year I didn't do anything. I was in a meeting with him half way through the day and just asked him how his day was going with a smile on my face. The date dawned on him at that moment and by the end of the day he was a mess and wouldn't even go in his office without demanding I go in first.

Another commenter asks

What did you do with the ducks afterwards?

u/Betsy514

The CEO invited everyone up to see it throughout the day and gave them all ducks. The rest were put into bags and given to various daycare centers. This was six or seven years ago now and there are still a few floating around the office (on their sides) including one in a special place in his office. I'm going to incorporate a few into my "pond" this year to bring it all full circle.

(Editor's note: bolded emphasis mine, this takes us to our update post)

[UPDATE] To duck post from a few weeks ago - not OP - not about ducks. MA (1 Apr 2016)

While not a legal update or question, I know this sub loves updates - so I hope this will be allowed. This is an update to the discussion within this post

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/4aynyy/what_would_be_the_legal_repercussions_for_me_if_i/

/u/ERIFNOMI was kind enough to math for me to ensure I had enough sheets of tissue paper for this years April Fool prank on my CEO. This was the result http://imgur.com/a/wTsBN

(editor's note: the first photo shows a corner office with a desk and several chairs to the right. directly in front of the entrance to the office, there is a large inflatable kayak with paddle. The floor and perhaps another table to the left are completely covered with lightly crumpled sheets of blue tissue paper to create the illusion of water instead of an office floor and a waterfall instead of a table. There are cattails sticking up out of the tissue paper water. the second photo is of the same scene, but with the CEO sitting in the kayak, holding the paddle. He appears to be wearing a fishing hat and a life vest)

What you are looking at is 1200 sheets of tissue paper. I incorrectly assumed we'd be crumbling the sheets tighter than we actually did so I didn't need the other 800 sheets after all. To be very clear - this was my error - not ERIFNOMI's (anyone need any blue tissue paper?). The prank was a success - my CEO loved it - that's him in the boat. He loves to fish so the banner you can only see a bit of says "If we make it feel like you're fishing do you still have to leave?" (he's retiring soon). I credited ERIFNOMI for the math in the bottom right corner of the banner as promised.

If the mods insist on a legal question - I'll just tack on the following

If my new CEO fires me for doing this to him next year, can I sue for wrongful termination based on the last ten years of CEO pranks that received nothing but giggles, a few WTF's and head shaking?

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u/Betsy514

I guess I should add - I had sound effects - a track of lapping water and loons calling - he actually left that on while he worked. Also that wicked big pile on the left? We told him that was the deep end so be sure to wear the life jacket if he waded in.

Edited to include this update from Betsy:

Holy cow! That's a blast from the past! Here's another update you all might enjoy. Since that last "water" prank my CEO retired. A year later I left the company to start a non profit that helps people with their student loans for free. Guess who's on my board of directors? Yep..my old CEO.

After he retired I played one more prank on him. He moved to his happy place..a home deep in the woods. He has set up trail cams to watch the local wildlife and used to send me pictures. The year after he retired his son "stole" one for me and I and his son set it up and pranced in front of it wearing giant squirrel masks and a Godzilla costume. The son then put it back. A few weeks later ex CEO did his monthly check of the cams and I got a phone calling me officially "nuts".

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Reminder: I am not the Original Poster.

Original Poster of the first post is u/ClassyApple. Post gets hijacked (in the best way possible) by u/Betsy514 who then makes the follow up post. Both posts made in 2016 in r/legaladvice**.**