33 of the Wildest April Fool’s Day Pranks People Have Ever Pulled

‘Three months later, it wasn’t sticky anymore’
33 of the Wildest April Fool’s Day Pranks People Have Ever Pulled

When it comes to April Fool’s Day pranks, most people have no shortage of potential victims to choose from. Even so, one Redditor opted not to trick their friends, family, bosses or coworkers, and ended up pulling a fast one on themselves instead in a gag gone wrong. “I stayed up late and switched the sugar with salt by the coffee machine,” they recalled of their would-be practical joke. “The following morning I proceeded to wake up and make myself a steaming hot cup of salted coffee because I’m an idiot.”

Despite this prankster’s idiot status, other April fools managed to get weird with it on the beloved (and feared) holiday. Here are the wildest pranks they’ve pulled, including perilously placed ketchup packets, hours of Nickleback and a door handle that stayed sticky until summer.

gentlybeepingheart 3y ago I stayed up late and then switched the sugar with salt by the coffee machine. The following morning I proceeded to wake up and make myself a steaming hot cup of salted coffee because I'm an idiot. - 15K Award Share ... Alix_InWonder 3y ago Was the prank for someone else or was it just for your future-self? 3.1K Award Share ...
AntEconomy1469 Зу ago Sister decided it would br comedic to put glue on the door handle. 3 months later it wasnt sticky anymore. 4.3K Award Share ... + 69 more replies
 Зу ago Used to work in a nursing home. One year we took all of the furniture out of the administrators office, and made it look like a patients room. I'm talking bed, dresser, tv, medical equipment, the works, all along with a patient who was in on it in the bed. When he came in the next morning he just about died laughing. One of my better memories from working in that shit hole. 3K Award Share ... + 12 more replies
KuhlThing Зу ago I was in 2nd grade. Our teachers loaded us up on a school bus and told us we were going to get pizza. We, being like 7 years old, were both stupid and excited. After we were all loaded on the bus and the headcount was done, the teachers told us to quiet down for instructions, then they both said April fools! and we had to go back to class. 9.6K Award Share ... bool_idiot_is_true 3y ago Were they trying to start a riot? 4.1K Award Share ...
Jonah_Boy_03 Зу ago My mom has a condition where shes constantly cold, even in the summer. My sisters took a Master lock and put it through the prongs of her heating blanket. She responded in the middle of the night by dumping water on both of them while they were sleeping to find the key 3.3K Award Share ...
itstanktime Зу ago I hooked a mouse to a friends computer and moved it a tiny amount every few seconds 925 Award Share ...
Simmonsdude Зу ago When | was still in school I decided to wake the house up 4 hours early by changing the clocks and waking everyone up in a panic saying we are late...joke was on me though as | was far too tired to function for the rest of the day though! 4.8K Award Share ...
CallMeTinCup Зу ago Got called in to work by my boss. I sarcastically laughed and said nice try, and hung up. Next day I got called into the office being asked why I had an attitude for no reason when a simple sorry I can't come in was all she needed. Turned out she wasn't messing with me. 5.2K Award Share ...
mariegriffiths Зу ago I knew my boss was having a piano delivered that morning so I told him that his wife called as it was too heavy and had fallen through tge floor. Не fell for it but Im sure it limited my career. 2.4K Award Share ...
 Зу ago Showed up to 4th grade with a cast on my leg. Everybody immediately knew it was an April Fool's joke and I had to spend the rest of the day with a fake cast on my leg 1.2K Award Share ... Dragonridermom Зу ago My mom actually broke her arm on April 1st and no one believed her until April 2nd. 672 Award Share ...
KazumaWillkiryu Зу ago Edited Зу ago This was big news mistaken for a joke. I was born on April 1st. The birth was pretty hard on my mother and I. My mom had an estranged relationship with her mom, but thought she should know that she had a new grandchild, despite everything. My mom gave her the news via phone call. My grandmother's response? What the fuck? You called me for the first time in two years just to tell me a goddamn April Fool's joke? You're worthless! Then she hung up. My mother wept. My father called his mother
danichisAT17 Зу ago My birthday is on April 2nd. When I was about 8 years old my dad told me on April fool's day that president bush called and said there were no more birthdays, they were illegal. I believed the shit out of him and cried my eyes out. I still remember it very vividly! 2.1K Award Share ...
 Зу ago In 5th grade | didn't have any friends, except my teacher, who was cool. On April fool's day a kid I really quite liked offered me one of his oreos at lunch. I was thrilled, not because of the cookie, but because of the gesture of friendship. Yeah, he had replaced the oreo's cream with toothpaste Award Share 6.2K ...
Ashleighbell032 3y ago My brother was at the beginning of a nasty custody battle for his eldest daughter against her maternal grandparents. My mom called me crying and said that she, my niece and my brother were just pulled over by police, and that my brother had been arrested for something made up by his ex. I was so scared and concerned and was freaking out. Crying, the whole nine yards. It went on for quite a while, then I heard him laughing in the background. - - - 380 Award Share ...
KingMickeyMe 3y ago Hmm, do attempts count? When I was like 15, I tried to tell my mom that I got a girl pregnant. She just looked at me and laughed 6.4K Award Share ... PetriBOll 3y ago thats harsh 2K Award Share ...
 3y ago When me and my younger brother were little, we wanted to prank our mom. My brother had a slight cold. We looked up the worst possible diagnosis with these symptoms and basically claimed the doctor said that's what he likely had. Even looked up on how this disease was reported and how it was generally handled. Told her on the phone while she was at work, thinking we were being SOOOO funny. The disease we came up with was tuberculosis, Suffice to say mom left work early that day. That wasn't very pleasant for everyone involved. 2K
spamulah Зу ago not too bad but funny. my 10 yr old daughter taped ketchup packets under the toilet seat so that when i sat down to pee in the morning all this red bllloooooddddd squirted into the toilet water. She Got Me! thats for sure - 1.8K Award Share ...
catastrophiced Зу ago Kept asking people if they had found my prank yet, did it for ~3 months. Finally cracked, there was no prank. I was lazy, but god was it funny. 1.3K Award Share ... + 9 more replies
incrementaler Зу ago One of my friends duct taped me to my bed on a night he was staying over, snuck out around 5 in the morning. I woke up around 8 and couldn't move, I was stuck there for two hours before my parents woke up to me screaming for them... 2K Award Share ...
damnyoutuesday 3y ago I worked the night shift at the front desk of my dorm on March 31st one year. Me and the other kid working took a sweatshirt and sweatpants, filled it with pillows and blankets, and made it look like someone fell asleep doing homework at the table in the backroom. Scared the hell out of our boss when she went to wake him up and the dummy fell to the ground and split in half 823 Award Share ...
not_another_drummer Зу ago One year I mixed green food coloring into the scrambled eggs and served up green eggs and ham. My girlfriend thought it was disgusting and wouldn't eat them. They tasted fine, honest. The next year I separated the yolks from the whites and only put the coloring in the whites. Green eggs with yellow yolks and ham. She wouldn't eat them. And, insisted that I was no longer allowed to make eggs on April 1. On March 31 the next year, I very carefully used a hypodermic needle to inject green food coloring into the yolks of
jimberley Зу ago My friend convinced me that, due to the proximity to Easter, the Pope had cancelled April Fool's Day and had it rescheduled for the following week. It worked. 1.1K Award Share ...
MonkeyCube 3y ago A friend of mine wanted to tell her boyfriend that we slept together. Luckily she told us her plan and my roommate and I were able to convince her it was a horrible idea. 1.2K Award Share ... frontal_robotomy Зу ago Yeah that's not a prank, that's just stupid 633 Award Share ...
ariabeans Зу ago I was at a pub that had a jukebox. You couldn't play the same song twice but I found out they had Nickelbacks photograph the studio recorded version as well as the live version. I plugged in $20 and queued up those 2 songs alternating as many times as I could then left the bar. If I were to estimate I made those people listen to that song for at least 45 minutes. Nothing like pranking an entire pub. 626 Award Share ...
WolfThick 3y ago I one time I super glued a giant dildo to the trailer hitch on my roommates truck. Took him 2 weeks to find out it was there. 934 Award Share ...
hometowngypsy 3y ago I put an out of order sign on the men's bathroom at work. In tiny font I put April fools. Left it for a few hours. No one realized it was a joke so I felt a little bad all the guys have to go find other bathrooms. One I've had done to me was by my dad. Не twist-tied the handle down on the sink sprayer when he left for work. When I went to rinse out my cereal bowl I got sprayed in the face and had to change before I left for school. I
BazookaPowPow Зу ago In middle school i attempted to put laxatives in my teachers coffee. She definitely didnt deserve it, i was just being a little shit. On the way to school a kid took some of them from me and ended up shitting himself. I'm thankful he did because I only got suspended for intent. If I followed through, I would've been expelled. My parents made me write an apology letter and made me do manual labor during the course of my suspension. It was a very formative experience for me and I'm glad the consequences weren't terrible. 847
HVenturePrivateDick Зу ago Every year, I put something in my mom's coffee. One year, almond extract; the next, artificial butter flavor. When I was 10, I put salt in her coffee then went to the bathroom. After wiping, realized there's blood on the tissue and in my underwear. Went to mom and asked her how she got me so good. It dawned on both of us at the same time and she just said something along the lines of welcome to womanhood. 533 Award Share ...
glycophosphate Зу ago Mom packed lunches for my dad & my brother to take to school (dad was a teacher). She cut out squares of waxed paper just a little bit smaller than the bread and put it in the sandwich along with the egg salad. Dad thought it was a very good prank. Brother ate his whole sandwich and never noticed it. 165 Award Share ...
JK_NC 3y ago One year a co-worker left his desk and neglected to lock his computer. I took a screenshot of his desktop, moved all his folders from his desktop and replaced his background to the screenshot of his desktop I took earlier. Не came back and was confused why none of his folders, shortcuts or files on his desktop were working. 332 Award Share ...
 3y ago A couple told me and other friends at the time that they broke up. We were relieved, because they always argued with each other and it was really sad to see. We told them we think it's for the best and that we hoped they'll be very happy as soon as possible. Some people asked the guy if it was because he accepted the fact he was gay. But it was just a praaaaaank. The guy was indeed gay, I saw him a few years later and he was much happier. Haven't seen the girl but I
ShellemBellem 3y ago I baked chocolate chip cookies that were actually mashed potato patties with black beans. My kids were 2 & 4 years old then and they still won't eat mashed potatoes 1.1K Award Share ...
danboon05 Зу ago My mom and her friend would randomly pull pranks on each other when I was little (so around 30 years ago). That ended when her friend listed my parents house for sale in the local small town newspaper, with the footnote: *divorce pending My mom did not appreciate having to individually explain to practically the entire town that she was not getting a divorce and her house was not for sale. 11K Award Share ...

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