The best April fool's joke you ever pulled?

[Apathy]

Keeping with the mood of the day, what's the best prank you ever pulled / had pulled on you?

A group of us conspired in high school with a friend's girlfriend to convince him that she was pregnant. He got over it (in about a week) but the look on his face when he first "got the news" was priceless. :saint:

[CrystalTears]

I tin foiled my coworker's desk and cubicle. I wish I had pictures of it. People here still talk about it. :D

Changed the all the icons of my boss' desktop to the company logo and deleted the name underneath while he was on vacation. I also put all the folders on that desktop into one folder, and then imbedded it into 10 other folders. My desk was boobytrapped different each day for a week after that. Heh.

[Wezas]

I haven't really played any big ones, I just do little jokes to lots of people.

I made a program that will open and close your CD-ROM repeatedly for an hour. I put it in a few people's startup folder and hid the program from the taskbar.

Re-direct some of our internal webpages to NAMBLA (not so much since we're no longer a small intimate company).

Play hide and seek with our Lan-ops guy by creating huge files, buying them in hidden directories. He checks every night before he runs the backup for space and this had him looking for a good 20 minutes.

[Killer Kitten]

Once worked with a new tech who was really a nice kid, but the person in charge of the department he was in was a humorless horrorshow. She once screamed at him for half an hour because he forgot to label a bottle of table cleaner that he'd made up for the treatment area.

So... We stayed after hours one night with the label maker, and made labels for everything. The doorknob was helpfully labeled 'doorknob'. There was an old piece of string hanging from the ceiling fan in the x ray room. We labeled it 'string hanging from fan', making the string twice as long. Each square of tile on the floor of the treatment room was labeled 'floor tile'. He even put a 'dust bunny' label on a clump of dust that we found under the broom closet.

She nearly had a seizure when she came in the next day. It was priceless.

[Chadj]

Well, one of my favourites that I've pulled, while probably not my best, was releasing mice in the schools. Me and 10 friends pitched money together, bought about 25 mice, and let em loose. 2 in each of the girls bathrooms, and then we let 5 go on each floor. Good times.

[Edaarin]

It's a tie.

Either the time we told that orphan that we found his dad, or the time we told that Make a Wish kid that they found a cure for MS.

[4a6c1]

April Fools last year: I gave the mailboy the day off and hired a "little person" actor to ride around the office on one of those hug long haired goats passing out the mail. Nobody worked while he did it but it was funny as hell.

This year I have scheduled an actor for the 4th to follow my best friend around downtown dressed up as a homeless street evangelist yelling things like "JESUS LOVES YOU" and reciting scripture from the King James. Its extra funny because shes a traditional Satanist.

:bouncy:

<----- enjoys hiring the community college thespians to do her dirty work.

[AnticorRifling]

I transferred someone's desk and all his office stuff to another base while he was on leave. You never want to be on leave on April 1st that's like a no brainer.

[Shari]

When Scott, myself, and my mother (two play interference if he lunged at us) sat down with my dad and told him I was pregnant.

There are some facial expressions people make that you'll never forget.

[Stunseed]

Another employee at my store was selling his Buick. I waited for it to be pouring rain, and called the store from another line. Asking the price of the car, he told us 4 grand. So in an exclaimed thrown voice, I asked "Even with the extensive rear end damage?", he put me on hold and ran out in the rain to go check on the car.

As an added bonus, we turned off the automatic opening doors, watching him walk straight into the doors in his anger. He was surely pissed by the April Fools post-it note on the telephone, and me laughing on the phone line.

I think I'm going to scan a signed transcript from the owner of the co-op and edit it to look like an eviction notice, proceeded by placing it under the doors of people I know :shrug:

[SpunGirl]

This wasn't April Fools, it was the senior prank when I graduated (thought up by yours truly, of course!)

We bribed a janitor to give us a universal key to all the combination locks on all the lockers in the school. We spent five hours unlocking all of them, mixing them around in a big empty trashcan, and then replacing them at random.

The next day, *no one* could open their lockers. Everyone had to write down the serial numbers of the lock they had been stuck with and the office secretary (who was a raging bitch) had to look them all up and hand out the new combinations.

It was great. And no, they never discovered who it was.

-K

[DeV]

That's hardcore, Spun.

[Bobmuhthol]

rofl, way to not have locks already built into your lockers.

[Artha]

My evil senior prank plan so far is to get take off all the keys on every keyboard in the school. Except for 0 and 6. I'm not really sure how I'm going to pull that off.

[Edited on 4-1-2005 by Artha]

[Shari]

Heh.

In regards to Senior pranks (and I wish I could take credit for this) But my brother did something similar to Chadj. They released about 200 mice into the school, and somehow managed to drag a cow (yes, a real cow) up to the second story portion of the school. Apparantly cows will ready climb stairs, but not decend them. The cow was a friend's dad (who owned a farm) and I guess the father was in on it so long as the animal wasn't harmed.

I wasn't involved in my senior prank as I wasn't cool enough to be with the crowd who did it. We had this large step-down amphitheater and they plugged all the drainage holes, filled it with water, and crashed our security guard's golf cart in it.

[SpunGirl]

LOL, they flooded the theatre? How much trouble did they get into for that?

I remember my freshman year, the seniors took their motto "stick a fork in us, we're done," to heart and stuck like five zillion plastic forks in the football field. It was stupid.

My junior year, a group of seniors squirted super glue into every single exterior lock on the school. Sadly for them, it cost the school about $10,000 to replace all the now-useless locks. They found out who did it, and their parents were billed.

Criminal damage is a no-no.

-K

[SpunGirl]

Originally posted by Artha
My evil senior prank plan so far is to get take off all the keys on every keyboard in the school. Except for 0 and 6. I'm not really sure how I'm going to pull that off.

[Edited on 4-1-2005 by Artha]

Why 0 and 6?

-K

Edited: Nevermind, I'm retarded. I get it now.

[Edited on 4-2-2005 by SpunGirl]

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by SpunGirl
My junior year, a group of seniors squirted super glue into every single exterior lock on the school. Sadly for them, it cost the school about $10,000 to replace all the now-useless locks. They found out who did it, and their parents were billed.OMG they did that at my school too, except it was all the classroom locks. I thought they were being original. :( We got the same song and dance about "Oh, this costs so much money to fix", but I don't think anyone got caught.

[The Korean]

I don't get 0 and 6

[Bobmuhthol]

'06 is his YOG.

[The Korean]

ahhhh

[The Cat In The Hat]

I have never pulled an April Fools joke...

Sad, I know. I've just never had the desire to.

[The Cat In The Hat]

Originally posted by Artha
My evil senior prank plan so far is to get take off all the keys on every keyboard in the school. Except for 0 and 6. I'm not really sure how I'm going to pull that off.

[Edited on 4-1-2005 by Artha]

Count how many computers there are in the school, but a bunch of those cheap 2.99 keyboards from comp USA do it at home then just run around and switch them out fast.

[Artha]

The real problem will be getting into every classroom (because there is atleast one in every classroom) without being noticed. If I can figure out a way to do that, I'm golden.

[Latrinsorm]

Ninja lessons.

[SpunGirl]

You should recruit a guerilla task force to help you out, Artha.

-K

[Latrinsorm]

I'd offer to help, but I already got recruited by a gang. Bo-staff skills. You know how it is. :(

[Killer Kitten]

The zoo used to be big on pranks, a lot of jokesters on staff.

We had a keeper, George, who everybody really liked. George had a habit of falling asleep in one of the electric carts during his lunch break. One day while he was sleeping a bunch of us taped over the seat he was sprawled over. The end product looked something like a George taco, his head poking out one end and his feet the other. We even managed to tape between the feet and over his shoulders so he couldn't slide out from under the tape in either direction. Kept him that way all afternoon, using the cart as usual. He finally remembered his Leatherman was attached to his belt and he cut himself free.

For his revenge he recruited our director to call in the keeper who had instigated the prank and very gravely tell her that there had been a complaint by a member of the public about a man trussed up in one of the carts and being driven around the zoo. He was great, went on about how we cannot be seen to portray such an unprofessional image and that the higher-ups insisted that the perpetrator of the offense be dismissed. Had her almost in tears before he lost it and started laughing.

Zoo people are evil.