A lecturer at a medical college asked a colleague to help him with a shenanigan. He explained that he was shortly conducting a tour for prospective students, during which they would be coming down to the vaults to get their first look at a corpse. The idea was that his friend would play the corpse, and when his drawer was opened and the visitors were examining he would suddenly jump to his feet, thereby scaring the life out of them.

The friend agreed, and at the appointed hour the lecturer loaded him into the cold storage unit.

It was only when he was inside that he realized that the storage unit was not divided into individual cubicles. Instead, each slab was suspended on rails in a large open chamber, and he was surrounded by corpses on all sides.

After a few minutes he found the whole thing a bit too creepy, and he began hesitantly to call out things like, Errm, Dave… maybe this wasnt such a good idea after all… dyou think you could let me out, Ive changed my mind… Are you listening? … Is There Anyone Out There? … HEELLLOOO…, HELP???!!!

Whereupon the body on the slab next to him leaned over, tapped him on the shoulder and, in a deep voice, said, Would you keep the noise down, theres people in here trying to sleep!

Naturally he screamed, and started hammering to be let out. Finally the drawer was opened and his slab was pulled out. He leapt off into the outside room… where most of the faculty were waiting for him, having been listening outside the whole time.