31 Pranks That Went Way Too Hard

‘Someone made a pipe bomb and threw it in a metal trash can’
31 Pranks That Went Way Too Hard

What’s the difference between actually being kidnapped and getting abducted as a part of a prank? At a certain point, not much. 

But don’t take our word for it — just ask the Redditor whose pal was abducted on Halloween, tied up, blindfolded and then left in a cornfield for an hour. “Was not funny,” they recalled of the “gag” in what may be the understatement of the century. He isn’t the only one who found the faux kidnapping less-than-funny either, the justice system also failed to jive with the pranksters’ sense of humor, and hit those responsible with some serious consequences — namely, “time in prison.” 

Those joksters-turned-convicts aren’t alone in taking pranks too far, however. Whether they’re misguided April Fools’ Day goofs or high school hijinks gone wrong, these pranks went from kinda funny to cruel in the blink of an eye.

tornadobravo 4y ago One of the guys on my high school track team was pantsed directly in front of the girls from the team. Не wasn't wearing underwear. The person who pantsed him was one of his close friends. 890 Award Share ...
not7withu 4y ago not so much a prank, but in high school, there was a girl who was apart of the spectrum and she was showing off a dance, and these cheerleaders were clearly laughing at her. The thing is, is that the girl didn't realize they were making fun of her. They told her to do it again just so they could laugh more. 754 Award Share ... + 9 more replies
The-DapAttack 4y ago I was 14 and going out to eat with my first girlfriend and my mom at Jimboys. Just like 90% of 14 year old males, I suffered from acne pretty bad. We were eating and having a good time and out of nowhere my mom looks to my girlfriend and asks Do you like popping bumps? My eyes widened, she knew I horrified by her question. My girlfriend just got quiet and her face went red. She then proceeds to say What?!?!? its not like she can't see them, and you need someone to do something about
NerdSandwich 4y ago Edited 4y ago The TV show WB Superstar from the early 2000's. It was a show like American Idol, but they were actually looking for the worst singers. But they told the contestants they were looking for the best singers until the very end of the competition, when they revealed the truth to the winner after their final performance in front of a live audience. Very cruel show. 958 Award Share ... + 16 more replies
chdeal713 4y ago A girl wrote an elaborate letter pretending to be another girl in class and handed it to me. I was shocked to receive my first love letter and felt like garbage when I found out it was fake. 1.3K Award Share ... + 20 more replies
caffeineandvodka 4y ago I remember when the ALS challenge was popular | read an article about a prank played on a special needs high schooler. These kids told him it was just water in the bucket, but it was also piss, cigarette butts, all sorts of disgusting shit. Then they put the video all over the internet, as though the bucket wasn't enough. - 6.3K Award Share ... diamond 4y ago That's... that's assault, right? Please tell me somebody was prosecuted for that. 3.4K Award Share ...
NiGaKaT 4y ago The girl who hid her boyfriend's wheelchair on YouTube that shit wasn't funny 3.7K Award Share ... + 163 more replies
BritasticUK 4y ago A friend of a friend in high school had her boyfriend pretend that he'd died. Не had one of his friends call her saying he had died in a car accident and had someone else calling up pretending to be a doctor from the hospital. She was hysterical. Later that day (after she kept asking the fake doctor which hospital it was so she could be there) she found out it was all prank to see if she cared. Horrible. Anyway, they broke up. To this day it's the nastiest prank I've seen in person. 28K Award
noncenuggets450 4y ago A group of 5 boys decided to throw rocks from an overpass at the cars below, one of the rocks ended up going through a car's windshield and killed the driver. The boys got charged with 2nd degree murder. 998 Award Share ... Ok-Expression9307 4y ago That's not a prank that's just 2nd degree murder 743 Award Share ...
lydiethesquidie 4y ago I remember seeing a video where they switched the pregnancy test to a fake positive one on their friend struggling with infertility. Fucked up. 8.1K Award Share ... actofparliament 4y ago I remember seeing a video where they switched the pregnancy test to a fake positive one That's fucked up. on their friend struggling with infertility. Oh man that's really fucked up. 3.6K Award Share ...
Snedlimpan 4y ago | was once prank called by someone, a classmate presumably, and they told me they were going to kill my best friend who was in the same class as me. It was really fucking weird, the school never figured out who it was, they just asked if my friend had any enemies. Bro, we are eleven...? Share 17K Award ...
mesu2713 4y ago My dad told me that when he was a kid, a friend of his gave him a glass of lemonade was draino mixed with something else and my dad vomited for hours, thankfully he survived and went on to have kids, but his vocal cords were never the same. 2.6K Award Share ... + 135 more replies
Tiny_Parfait 4y ago A friend of mine faked her suicide to get back at her boyfriend for April Fools Day. I had helped her without knowing she was going that far. Her boyfriend had called her a slut and dumped her when she told him she was pregnant. Don't miss living in college dorms, don't miss either of them. 9.9K Award Share ...
mox44ah 4y ago Prank war going on in between two houses that were next to each other in San Diego, CA circa 2014. My cousin lived in one of the houses and this happened when I went to visit him a few years back. House #1 pulled a prank that led to a member in House #2 being late for his first day of work. (It was collateral damage but the guy ended up getting fired for it) Guy who lost his job came home furious. Не then took a 15 pound medicine ball and painted it to look just
mrsprinkles3 4y ago Edited 4y ago in 6th grade I opened my locker and a note from the boy I had a crush on fell out saying he liked me too. A bunch of girls in my grade were there when i found it and were super happy for me, or i thought they were. When I went to the boy to ask him about it he said he didn't write it and the group of girls who were there when i found the note had written it. I turned around and sure enough they're laughing. But it crushed me,
Slevinkellevra710 4y ago When i was a kid, somehow my classmates found it funny to piss in other people's cans of soda. | did not have a good childhood. 18K Award Share ...
NBfoxC137 4y ago Someone asked a guy to be her boyfriend, he said yes and the next day she invited all her friends to tell him that she did it as a joke. 22K Award Share ...
binarysol0 4y ago & Saw a guy tip over the port-a-potty with someone in it. That memory is clear. I think it was his gf.... 30K Award Share ... MaesterMarwyn 4y ago Probably wasn't after that. Lol 18K Award Share ...
 4y ago Seen a video of two small girls. One told the other to look at the doorknob really close as it distorts your face, she then slammed the door right into her face hitting her teeth! 12K Award Share ... Magsi_n 4y ago FYI, if you're missing teeth (as 8-9 year olds tend to), it's really fucking easy to break shiny new adult teeth. Source: a large dental bill. 3.8K Award Share ...
 4y ago I just got pregnant, aren't you happy for me? Said on April 1 in front of a woman who had a stillbirth a month before. 5.1K Award Share ... + 58 more replies
nyquistj 4y ago The first time I met my brother's new girlfriend she pulled me aside and started crying. She told me that she was pregnant but my brother wasn't ready to tell anyone. She asked me to check up on him cause he was really nervous. A couple days go by and I texted her to see how she was doing and if my brother was doing okay and if they needed anything. She asked me what I was talking about. I said the baby. She replied: Oh, you believed me! I was only joking, I'm not pregnant! I
FitInvestigator6740 4y ago A group of girls at my highschool told a girl that they were hanging out at one of their houses at nine near a train station, but they really just made up a time and place that would make her stranded at the last train stop with no more trains home. Award Share 46K ... hpp3 4y ago in the spirit of cruel revenge she should've gotten her mom to call each of those girls and say  <name> didn't come home today, she said she was meeting with you, do you know anything? 9K Award Share ...
coldshulder 4y ago In College, at the end of the year a club I was in had a roast of the outgoing seniors. My friend running the roast couldn't come up with anything for one of the guys, let's call him Ben. To drum up ideas, he called a bunch of Ben's close friends (also in the club) and asked them for things to make fun of Ben about. Thinking this was a confidential conversation, they proceed to absolutely lay into Ben: the guy is seriously lame honestly, when I'm talking to a girl and he is there, it is
Possible_Shift_4747 4y ago Edited 4y ago Killing a farmers cow as some sick joke. The cow was not a meat cow either it was the farmers beloved pet and he pet it and fed it and played with the friendly cow each and every day. The farmer sued the kids who killed the cow and he won 70K and 20K for emotional upset. Stay winning kings. The cow was an old bull, it was the most friendly cow I have ever seen, it was not even neutered and had really big horns and loved sitting next to the farmer and
sale heyitsdoza 4y ago Edited 4y ago In highschool, someone made a pipe bomb and sneakily threw it into a metal trash can. One of my friends unknowingly walked by when it exploded and blew out his ear drum. The trash can looked like a peeled banana afterward. That person was ratted out and expelled. Edit: kid was arrested afterwards. Saw him ten years later working at a car wash. All of this happened in 1997 14K Award Share ...
 4y ago The LaBrant family vloggers told their 5yo (step) daughter a few years ago that they were going to have to get rid of their dog because it wasn't behaving well around the baby as an April's Fool joke and posted it on YT. 528 Award Share ... + 13 more replies
hobo_clown 4y ago Friend of mine had a crush on his coworker, it was sort of an open secret. His manager tried to help him, offered advice, some things to say, small gifts she might be into, etc. What no one knew at the time was that said manager and said coworker had recently started dating and hadn't told anyone yet. So he meant it as a prank on his new girlfriend to be put into these awkward situations, but my friend's feelings were really hurt when it all came out. 48K Award Share ...
Bloodragedragon 4y ago Happened to me. Was at my first school dance in middle school. Was always the shy kid, so I was surprised when one of the popular chicks came to ask me to dance. I said no because I was shy, but I was elated that | got asked. A few mins later I'm in the bathroom stall and a few kids come in and start talking about how they paid her 10 bucks to ask me, and if I said yes she would have just tripped me and made me look dumb. | never went to another
The_Patriot 4y ago when they gave that raccoon the cotton candy. bastards. Award Share 11K ... MarvelMatt924 4y ago For context to anybody who doesn't know, Racoons, apparently, wash their food before eating it, and these guys gave a racoon a piece of cotton candy and the racoon washed it for it to disappear into the water. This is one cruel world we live in. 6.1K Award Share ...
JoeyLucier 4y ago I put meatballs in the chute for the ice maker so when my roommate went to get some ice his glass filled up with meatballs. 9.6K Award Share ... slapthefatcat 4y ago I laughed until I realized that meant the further ice would taste like meatballs as well. 4.7K Award Share ...
relation PeeGeePeaKee420 4y ago 20 years ago, a friend of mine was prank kidnapped on halloween. Driven to a cornfield and left tied up and blindfolded for an hour. Was not funny. The friends that did this actually got some time in prison. 1.9K Award Share ...

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