Your most fiendish April Fools gag ideas (real, planned or only imagined)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Nods. Ferret Herder knows how to pull a good prank off. I’m usually not involved, but I do make lots of suggestions. Here’s my best one to date:

There is an industrial sized paper shredder at work. We don’t feed that beast 10 or 15 sheets of paper at a time, we toss handfuls down its maw. It’s belt fed, and the belt is constructed like a steel belted radial tire. The top layer of the belt started to come off in one spot. We knew that the belt wouldn’t just snap and take someone’s eye out, but boss didn’t know that.

We pointed it out to the boss. This being a very large, industrial machine that was under warrenty…that was owned by a government agency…in a very out of the way place (wow, that sounds so cool and mysterious :cool:), we knew that it would take a while for the belt to be replaced.

Everytime my boss came to visit, I worried and fretted about the belt snapping and taking someone’s eye out. The belt kept fraying, and the shredder guy would point out the new damage when I took her to the shredding room. My clerk, who is a serious motorhead, would point out the “excessive” wear to the sides of the belt and talk about serpentine belts in cars.

We did this for almost 2 months.

Finally, the big day arrived! April Fools Day The boss had promised to come to the office to look over some numbers. I brought some frozen berries to work and let them sit on the counter to thaw. After boss arrived, I gave her the reports and she sat down at my desk to look at them, then said I needed to check something from a different area. (think a block big warehouse full of boxes of documents)

I went to the break area, mushed up the berries, painted the shredder guy’s face and hand with “blood and gore”, soaked a handful of papertowels with red juice and shredder guy held the clean side against his face. It wasn’t anywhere near hollywood quality, but I was counting on the bad lights and the shock factor.

I ran back to the office from a different direction than the shredding room and was leaning over boss to point at something on the spreadsheet when clerk came into the office, supporting shredder guy. Shredder guy staggering and muttering about the belt snapping. I gave out a small scream and said OMG, he put his eye out!!!

Boss fell for it, hook, line and sinker. The best part is that “I” am never involved with this sort of stuff, so she is blaming my clerk for it. I’m an innocent victim as well :smiley:

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Sometimes its REALLY boring at work. Was it really evil for me to dig holes in the gravel under the flagpole to celebrate groundhog day? :smiley:

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Once my friends and I took a couple of floor jacks and lifted the victim’s car’s drive wheels ever so slightly off the ground. They got into their car to drive home, and their car wouldn’t go anywhere.

It was kind of dangerous, in hindsight, but funny at the time.

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At work we played a joke on a guy working in the surveillance room. In on it was the General Manager, two guys a step below him, and 2-3 security guards.

Middle manager was taken into the office. Security told the surveillance guy that he was about to be told some bad news (surveillance had no audio, only video). Suddenly the MM just busts out like he’s completely irate. Yelling and screaming he takes his work badge and throws it on the boss’ table; I mean a tantrum befitting Lou Pinella. Security guys bust in to “restrain” him.

Meanwhile a different manager is on the phone with surveillance listening to him describe the scene, doing his damnest not to bust up laughing. Tantrum guy ended up leaving to the parking lot then coming back. We hear the security radios light up, “He’s coming back in!!! He’s coming back in!!!” It was flawless.

I was just going to ask my boss to sign a memo stating “In consideration of non-smoking employees, employees will no longer be allowed to smoke within the building” and post it. State law actually banned it for everybody before I ever did it though.

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This is one I have been itching to try… probably never will, so I hand it to you…

I live in a northern Canadian city, and we use a LOT of sand during the winter to help with traction on frozen icy roads. About April 1, of every year the gutters/curbs of the streets are a sandy, muddy mess.

I want to start gold panning it one year, and call a local newspaper and show them the 1/2 oz of powder gold i “found” in just a few hours…

What makes this trick REALLY work is that there is gold in highway/road sand. A Tiny fraction of an oz in every ton. But powder gold is very fine and will show a few flecks in almost any pan…

So Newspaper does human interest story on gold in raod sand… some other people try it and get real but smaller results (because of amature panning, don’t chat know… grin)

Result gutter gold rush!

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Copied and pasted from the last April Fool’s thread. This wasn’t on April Fool’s day, but still pretty funny;

Here’s what I did for my dad’s wedding. Traditionally someone has to prank the groom’s car, right?. At the time, my dad had just bought a brand new Grand Am GT with all the fixings. He called it his Crisis Car. Well, he knew that me and my brothers are all inveterate pranksters, and would be up to something, and we were on lockdown. All of our bags were searched. Any time we went to the store he inspected the contents. I wouldn’t be surprised if he looked in the car later to see if we’d hidden mischeif in there.

While everything was being set up the day of the wedding, we walked down to the hobby store to buy what we needed. Now all we needed was access into the car, as it was locked and rightfully so. My brother, the sly devil, had left something in the car and asked my dad for the keys to retrieve it. He gave us That Look, and said “I will be watching you”. Thankfully he meant that metaphorically.

My brother ran out of the building, and caught up with us. Our work was about to begin. We each took one bag of foil confetti we’d bought at the hobby store, and slit the top of the bag, just a little. Carefully, oh so carefully we poured the glittering metal into all six AC vents, making sure not to spill. Oh, spilling could leave evidence, which would alert the victim, and the prank would be ruined.

Once we emptied the bags, we searched for evidence of our crime, and vacated the car. We’d had to work quickly, lest he suspected something was amiss. Just before leaving I sat in the driver’s seat and adjusted all the vents to face the driver, then cranked the AC all the way to max. This was to ensure it happened right away, rather than later whilst driving on the highway. That would be bad.

We got through the wedding without incident, and he got a ride in a limo to the reception then back home, so he went back the next day to go get the car alone; his love, his passion, his fault he didn’t check the car later

He approaches with suspicion. He looked at the tailpipe to see if a whistler had been installed. He looked under the hood to see if fish or other meat additives had been left on the engine. He looked under the car for cans tied underneath. He opened the windows and looked under the seats. Under the front passenger seat he found a single piece of red foil confetti. It was nothing! Satisfied that the car had been unmolested, he gets in and starts the car.

When he showed up at the house, he was more glittery than a Twilight/stripper cosplay convention. He was coated in it. He was a veritable pointillism of sparkly confetti. My sides hurt so much from laughing I could barely breathe. All of ours did. When I went to look in the car, it looked like a confetti grenade had gone off. No surface was spared. Well, there was one spot; there was a Dad-shaped outline on the driver’s seat that wasn’t as coated, but it was there. He thought he was clever, checking the car before leaving! He’d even seen the vents all pointed at him, and noticed the AC, but didn’t realize the truth until it was too late.

He had that car 8 years. To the day he sold it every so often a lone strand of confetti would fly out of a vent. I’m sure if it’s driving it still is to this day.

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I usually do an April fools at work each year,

last year I forged and distributed a memo (allegedly from our overzealous safety manager,) stating that according to the new standards each item in our warehouse had to be individually wrapped , even small items as screws and nails, and the large Items such as the a train undercarriage (I even added a picture of bubble wrapped undercarriage)

I already know what I will do this year, some manager decided that our factory needed 50 plus flat screens for company communications or something, he is still waiting for the PowerPoint software to control them, so the screens haven been hanging for the last 2 months without any thing showing. I plan to make letters giving employees the chance to decide what content should shown on the televisions; sports? Movies? News? Or perhaps MTV? (Adding a note the CEO already ruled out porn) and that the suggestions should be submitted to their manager before the end of March

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At work several years ago, we played a pretty good April Fools trick on our store manager. We created an official-looking memo from the regional office, informing him he was being transferred to a tiny new store in a neighboring town. He was so bummed to be transferred! He was on the verge of calling his boss to protest the transfer, when some of us gave the joke away.

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Every morning on April 1st, my mom would wake me up by saying “It snowed a TON last night! School’s cancelled!” And I would snap out of the grogginess, and then she’d say “April Fool’s!”

Lame.

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That is CLASSIC. I bow to your prank-fu!

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The OP’s plan sounds mean. I’d never be able to pull the rug from under my kids like that- the dejection on their faces would be etched on my mind forever, with the caption “I caused that”. Why not tell them at dinner- hey kids, for your spring break this year we’re going to the beach", or some thing they’ll be happy about. Then when they go to bed that night, ask them “so, whaddaya think- interested in going to the beach?” “Yeah!” “Well, I was just kidding- we thought it would be more fun to go to Disneyworld! April Fools!”

And messing with a man’s ride? I just have your basic sedan, not a dream car or anything, but if anyone ever poured confetti and glitter into the vents as a joke, those fuckers would be dead to me.

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A couple years ago I pulled a simple but devastating prank on my stepson. His middle school start time was an hour later than my stepdaughter’s elementary school, so he could sleep an extra hour in the morning, and he lorded that over her for months. Time to knock him down a peg…I set his clock ahead, and changed the alarm time so that he’d wake up at 7:30 (half an hour early), but it would seem like he was getting up at 8:30 (half an hour late)

On the morning of April 1 he barreled downstairs screaming “I’m late! How did that happen? Aahaahah!” And there at the breakfast table was his sister, who was not in on the joke, looking at him like he’d lost his mind. It took him about a minute to realize he’d been had. He was so sunk that instead of yelling at us or getting mad he flopped down on the sofa, defeated.

This year the joke was on him again, but not because of us…the school district changed the start times so he has to get up at 6:40, and his sister doesn’t need to get up until 7:40. There is a lot of grousing.

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Hw old were your brothers when your father killed them, and how did you escape execution? Just kidding, a masterful prank. Did he make you and your brothers clean it up?

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But to me, the whole point of the humor of an April Fool’s comes from the contrast of negative to positive - the relief that something upsetting was not, in fact, real. It’s not your everyday surprise. I agree that a purely negative “rug-yanking” prank like saying “April Fools” to a DW trip, if that were in fact the sum of the prank, is just mean and not really funny. So if we weren’t actually going to DW I would never do it (in fact I strongly suspect my rather perceptive second daughter will have this insight).

Other yank-pranks like the aforementioned A/C glitter car-bomb, or my “pillow son” prank on my wife a few years ago, is in a different vein - more of a “gotcha” than an act of demeaning or embarrassing someone, done to someone you know will take it the right way. For example the father in that story KNEW something was up. He even knew it would be car related. He spent effort in scouting for it. He failed in a fashion most visible and memorable. THAT IS FUNNY! (It helps that I don’t consider my car some sacrosanct extension of my life like some people seem to do.)

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I pulled the switching of the computer keys on my hunt and peck boss. The best part was that she called the IM department who came down and couldn’t figure it out at first either. She won’t fall for it again so I have to come up with something different this year.

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It just isn’t a very good prank. It’s clumsy, almost. “We’re going! No we’re not. Yes we are!” What you’re effectively doing is subduing their excitement. When you finally get to the big reveal, they’re not going to know whether to believe you, and the big moment will pass. You don’t want to have to convince your kids that they’re actually going to Disney World, you want that moment to be HUGE.

It would work much better if you had a fake place to go first. Tell them they’re going on a week-long tour of Civil War battlegrounds, then hit them with the big reveal a couple hours later.

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Well yes, originally I was going to just pack them into a car and say “you’ll find out where we’re going”, but as soon as they realized we were going to an airport and the tickets said Orlando, FL, I would think they’d figure it out :slight_smile:

Plus my wife does the bulk of the packing for these trips and she’s a transparent blabbermouth, except for the rare instances when she decides to pull a trick on ME and I so completely can’t imagine her being devious that I get suckered by the most ridiculous of ruses. (Like believing an old family friend had decided to throw a pre-wedding rehearsal party at 1pm at a bowling alley. She will NEVER let me live that one down.)

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Yeah, I meant just to do it all on April 1.

“We’re going to Gettysburg!!”

Wait 2 hours.

“April Fools! We’re going to Mickey’s house!”

House explodes.

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You could do what this guy did:
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I used to run a pizza restaurant, where we sold slices up front. On April 1st we’d always come up with some disgusting pizza to put amongst those being sold as slices, just to get the customers’ reactions. “What is THAT?!” “Oh, just a new special we’re trying out…” My favorite was the year we made a pie with whole Vienna sausages and huge globs of Cheeze Whiz.