Your best pranks

[DeWayneTN]

I know Billy's, but the rest of you would probably love to hear it. Let's hear some!

[Shellie]

Well, my daughter Shiloh, got me with butter on the doorknob this morning.

[Paully_44]

a few years back, April 1st fell on a Sunday. After worship, as the pastor (my father in law) was walking toward the podium to preach, the entire congregation got up and walked out the door...

[DeWayneTN]

I have a friend who loves pranks. He even had me prank his wife over the cell phone standing beside his father's casket at the funeral home. I acted like the funeral director and told her we were Jehovah's witness and she couldn't sing any song that mentioned Jesus.

One of his pranks - we were in a movie theater and he had bought a bag of popcorn and asked me if I wanted some. I began eating and then noticed he was eating out of another bag. I asked where he got it and he said he bought it. When I asked where my bag came from, he said he found it in the seat.

[EagerBeaver]

This fell juuuuuuuuuuuuuust a week or so shy of April 1 but we decided to do this anyway back in '01.

Back in March 2001 we had an earthquake in the Northwest. It happened about a week or so prior to a regional youth retreat we had for the COGOP back in WA State.

At the camp, the earthquake was a big discussion topic. Where were you when it hit? Did you feel it very strongly? Was there any destruction? yada yada yada.

My friend Greg piped up and said the earthquake had scared him so bad that he immediately called his mom. He said he was so freaked out he thought the world was going to end.

Saturday at the retreat rolls around and with it, the proverbial Free Time from 2-4 p.m. Greg decides to use the time to go sleep because he was exhausted.

Now the way that campground is configured, the boys and girls dorms are a long series of three halls with beds on either side. They're really long and narrow, and much bigger than a conventional cabin. I mention that because Greg slept right in the middle of the dorm...which gave us an idea.

A bunch of us friends got together and decided to prank Greg in the worst way ever by simulating the earthquake and pretending a major aftershock was hitting.

I stationed myself under Greg's bed, a few others positioned themselves on their beds, others stood in the doorway, and we all got ready to literally rock.

On my friend Michael's count of 3, we all started shaking and rumbling everything in sight, tossing our suitcases and belongings everywhere. One person threw a stack of CDs and others started flipping mattresses. It actually looked like an earthquake hit.

What about Greg? He jumped up, couldn't find his glasses so he started screaming for Jesus and his mom. It was absolutely wild seeing this guy in his tidy whities running around going nuts.

Best part about the whole thing was that the local Hispanic church had sent some youth to the camp, and they happened to be in the dorm at the same time. Couldn't speak a lick of English but when they saw the prank, they knew what was going on and eventually joined in and made it so much better by screaming in frantic Spanish.

We all abruptly stopped and Greg kept running around trying to get a hold of the dean. I don't know what happened from there but what I do remember is the two-hour cleanup process...priceless.

[Paully_44]

my son got up this morning and put food coloring in the milk..... tried to convince us that the milk had spoiled. he was pretty proud.

[Linda]

A few years back...On a Sunday morning during the closing prayer, I was twisting my husband's hand/thumb. As we were leaving church he told me he thought I had broken his finger and he needed to go to the ER. He had me believing so strongly that I had broken his thumb, that I didn't know he was fooling me until we sat in the ER parking lot at the hospital.

[darylscook]

Our best one, was when we were teenagers. My brother and I talked my mom into stopping and pulling over about a mile from the house. We didn't tell her how far we would go with the April Fools joke. There were no cell phones then. NEway, we jogged home, and of course we ran hard the last little bit. We were breathing hard and told my Dad we had an accident and the Mom was hurt (mom didn't know that we would add that detail) I don't think Dad was too happy about it. But, he was so relieved that I don't think he whipped us. He should have

Pastor Daryl

[dolfan]

A guy I was in law school with had it bad. Once in a grocery store, he put some hamburger meat down his pants, got in line with his wife, and took it out of his pants and laid it up at the register and said, "Oh, yeah, I forgot this" just as his wife was getting ready to pay.

He was so bad that he wound up on the Phil Donahue show in our first year of law school.

[JohnDB]

When I was younger I was working the graveyard shift at a all night diner.

The cook and I were sneaking about putting tobasco in each others sodas.
Till the morning came when we both sat out front at the stool seats to rest for a moment before we both went home.

He made a quick run to the gas station next door to buy a pack of cigarettes and came right back for his cup of coffee. (he wasn't gone long enough for it to even get cold)

I replaced it with half a cup of cold coffee and half a cup of worcestershire sauce.


He agreed after that to a full truce on tainting each other's drinks from that day forward.

[MacUser]

Several years back.. while working for an advertising agency.. I put this small application that would mimic a computer melt down for the mac with the blinking icon of death. Simulated a DEAD HD.

Needless to say my boss was really *actually* happy that his data wasn't all gone when I sprung the joke. Deep down after the sobbing stopped.. he really thought it was a good joke.

[JohnDB]

I forgot to tell another one...

There were two of my neighbors that got into a fuss.

One of them had a fence built along the property line...but was a couple of feet off from it.

There was a little cedar tree that went along the fence line. The guys that intstalled the fence cut it down and put it on the outside of the fence...when it promptly rolled downhill into the neighbors yard.

The two neighbors had a shoving match over this cedar tree. Neither one was mechanically inclined or had any tools to cut up that little tree so they kept shoving this tree back and forth onto each other's property.

Watching this go on for a couple of weeks I waited till both were gone at the same time. (I think Jerry was off playing with the Beach Boys in Ireland at the time)

I went over with my electric chainsaw and cut the tree up.

Then I took one of the sections of the trunk and made some boards from it using my mitre box.

I then glued and nailed them together to make a pencil box out of it...and gave it to Jerry.

I asked him how he liked his cedar tree now.
He loved it...and kept the ugly thing on his desk.

[Susie Hamilton]

When I was a kid, my older brother got interested in the supernatural. He heard that animals bow down on old Christmas. Our uncle had a barn with animals. My brother decided to ride his horse to our uncle's barn to witness this event. My Dad called his brother, my uncle, and informed him. My uncle hid in the barn and made a lot of noise which scared my brother.