# April Fools Gone Bad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2021, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162 "2021-04-01T15:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162/21 "2021-04-02T18:17:10Z")
> **[Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotheaded_Naked_Ice_Borer)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer is a fictional animal invented by Discover magazine as an April Fool's Day joke. > A short article on the Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer first appeared in the April 1995 issue of Discover magazine. The article was written by Tim Folger, then an editor at the magazine. Folger wrote several other April Fool stories for the magazine, including a basketball-sized particle named the "bigon", and the discovery of prehistoric musi... Note that this April Fools article was then picked up and republished. Promoting ignorance since… ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162/22 "2021-04-02T19:37:35Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > \*nitpick----“hearse”, not “hearst.” Just a typo. Since switching to Discourse/Chrome, I have to use my phone held in portrait orientation when composing replies which makes the keyboard super tiny. My rate of typos has increased significantly. My grandfather was an independent funeral director and I grew up with far more exposure to the biz than most. I’ve been in more than one hearse … in the front, of course. For a while, I had an account with the Illinois Funeral Directors’ Credit Union. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162/23 "2021-04-02T22:00:26Z")
One of my first jobs was at an NYC company that rented lighting and special effects. One year, on April 1st, the foreman handed me a large order for pickup at noon that day. The order seemed to be chock full of everything we didn’t have in stock, and I spent a few minutes in Superman mode, trying to plot out a path to fill it. Then I took a closer look at the paperwork and realized the name of the production was “My Foolish First”, the contact name was April and the delivery address was the Puck Building. It was a good prank, and a harmless one. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162/24 "2021-04-03T02:34:05Z")
A delivery company in France: > **[Deliveroo April Fool's joke backfires in France](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56617049)** > > Thousands of people get fake bills for hundreds of euros' worth of pizza but fail to be amused. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162/26 "2021-04-03T11:41:59Z")
That is awesome. An anti-prank, as effective as a real one! ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162/27 "2021-04-03T14:28:33Z")
> **[April Fools' Day prank leads to mom's arrest after telling relative she'd...](https://www.fox9.com/news/april-fools-day-prank-leads-to-moms-arrest-after-telling-relative-shed-been-shot-police-say)** > > Police and paramedics raced to a Kansas woman’s home thinking they were responding to a shooting. Officers said it was all a prank. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-fools-gone-bad/939162.md?page=1)