Ever have a practical joke go wrong....

[corie161]

We have this ongoing thing here at work with a fake rat in a trap that we've been pulling on people occasionally. It's been hilarious thus far. We've even brought the thing camping and had fun with it with different people there. It's really has been a hoot.

Right now we have it placed for the Uniform guy that picks up the maintenance uniforms.

Everytime we place it for some unknowing victim I wonder if this will be the one that will have a major phobia of rodents and have a coronary. So it got me thinking, has anyone ever done something they intended to be funny that turned out the wrong way?

 

[Christine]

Way back in the early 90s, and I was much younger we had this guy in the office bragging about his potsmoking days. We decided to "dummy" up some form letters and put them on people's chairs (only the people in the group) and they said "If the below box is checked, you have been randomly selected for company drug screening." Of course, the guy in question was "selected." He freaked out so bad that he *almost* walked into the head honcho's office and confessed. Fortunately we were able to stop him but it could have been bad.

About 3 years ago, our office moved into a very bad, crime-ridden section of D.C. Everyone was on edge about it because people were getting robbed, shot at, etc. There were drug deals going on right outside the window. One morning a guy in our office came in very early and put some of that police tape on the floor in an outline of a body. Right in the middle of the office. A lot of people actually REALLY freaked out. He got in trouble for that one.

 

[CathrynRose]

Christine!!! The body - police-outline!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!

ROFL! Too funny!

 

[Christine]

Christine!!! The body - police-outline!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!

ROFL! Too funny!

It was hysterical.

 

[Gaspode]

Hiya,

When I was in Junior School (which means I was about 8/9yrs old I think) I missed the first day back at school due to being ill. Well when I went back the next day I learnt about a kinda practical joke the staff had done which had **really** backfired....

They had got all the kids of my year into an assembly and told them that there was some disease going around and thus they were all in quarantine and couldn't leave the school or see their families for the next 6 weeks!!!! I'm not kidding they really did this. Apparently a lot of the kids were totally distraught, crying and screaming etc....

The idea behind it all was that it was that terms 'topic' in school. What would it be like if you had to stay their for 6 weeks? What if you couldn't see your family etc and we had creative writing projects etc to do over the term about the 'situation'. Of course we were free to leave at the end of each day

I don't think it went down well with parents either.

Not so well thought out!!!!
Gaspodé

 

[Pooh Crew]

A few years ago, dh and some co-workers went to a conference in Vegas. On their last night there, they all wanted to go out gambling together but one guy said he did not feel well and went back to his room. They were all giving him a hard time and decided to razz him a bit the next day by sticking some adult-type giftshop underwear in his suitcase. To make a long story short, the guy's wife discovered the underwear and confronted him--he confessed to having been with a hooker on his last night in Vegas! The guys all felt so guilty about having "outed" their co-worker that they never confessed that they put the underwear in his bags.

I guess what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas.

 

[Hercules10]

To make a long story short, the guy's wife discovered the underwear and confronted him--he confessed to having been with a hooker on his last night in Vegas!

That's the funniest thing I've read...usually when a guy gets busted he tries to BLAME his co-horts for pulling a prank on him.

 

[CathrynRose]

A few years ago, dh and some co-workers went to a conference in Vegas. On their last night there, they all wanted to go out gambling together but one guy said he did not feel well and went back to his room. They were all giving him a hard time and decided to razz him a bit the next day by sticking some adult-type giftshop underwear in his suitcase. To make a long story short, the guy's wife discovered the underwear and confronted him--he confessed to having been with a hooker on his last night in Vegas! The guys all felt so guilty about having "outed" their co-worker that they never confessed that they put the underwear in his bags.

I guess what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas.

OMG, OMG, OMG!! Wowie!!!

 

[belleandthebeast]

A few years ago, dh and some co-workers went to a conference in Vegas. On their last night there, they all wanted to go out gambling together but one guy said he did not feel well and went back to his room. They were all giving him a hard time and decided to razz him a bit the next day by sticking some adult-type giftshop underwear in his suitcase. To make a long story short, the guy's wife discovered the underwear and confronted him--he confessed to having been with a hooker on his last night in Vegas! The guys all felt so guilty about having "outed" their co-worker that they never confessed that they put the underwear in his bags.

I guess what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas.

They actually did his wife a favor!

 

[jennyl772003]

My husband honks the car horn ALL THE TIME just for fun, cuz he knows it annoys me.

One day I decided to get back at him, and I disconnected it under the hood.

Wouldn't you know it, we are driving along, and a car in the lane next to us decides to lane change into our lane without looking. My husband is laying on the horn, but no sound is coming out. We were nearly sideswiped before my husband got us out of that mess.

I felt SOOO bad!

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Not a joke but something that happened.

I worked in a nursing home in my 20's when I was single and not happy about it. I had my own home and my parents lived in the same city. I wanted to find the right guy and settle down. So one of the patients I was caring for kept asking me why I wasn't married and if I wasn't married why didn't I live with my parents. He did this day after day. One day I had finally had it and I told him that my parents were dead. He started crying and was so sorry about them. I felt terrible.

 

[imsorry]

Not really a practical joke, but not long ago I posted something I thought was funny and someone got insulted/hurt. I felt so bad because it never occurred to me that my joke might hurt someone. Sometimes the keyboard is quicker than the better judgement!

 

[corie161]

Well, that was a disappointment, the guy didn't even notice the rat under the bag of clothes. Takes the fun right out of it!! We think our next unsuspecting victim is the new maintenance worker expected to start in a couple of weeks.

 

[chichihoney]

when i was in school this teacher didn't like shuffle board . i kept telling her that. the next day she typed up a hard test which i couldn't read i did the same front and wrote a letter back to them they could not read it

 

[Tigger&Belle]

These stories are too funny--thanks for the laugh. I personally can't think of any, but it does remind me of a family story. Before I was born (or when I was too young to remember), but grandfather and step-grandmother (she was never a grandmother figure to any of us kids...) came to visit. Josephine was a good eater and it was known that she would finish up whatever food we were having. My mom served green beans and my siblings put a green hot pepper in the bottom of the bowl of green beans, knowing that Josephine would be the one to finish up the food. I guess she shoveled her food in, too, and did not notice the hot pepper until it was too late. She was NOT happy.

We also had a fake ice cube that had a pretend fly in it. I think Josephine was the brunt of that joke, too.

 

[corie161]

These stories are too funny--thanks for the laugh. I personally can't think of any, but it does remind me of a family story. Before I was born (or when I was too young to remember), but grandfather and step-grandmother (she was never a grandmother figure to any of us kids...) came to visit. Josephine was a good eater and it was known that she would finish up whatever food we were having. My mom served green beans and my siblings put a green hot pepper in the bottom of the bowl of green beans, knowing that Josephine would be the one to finish up the food. I guess she shoveled her food in, too, and did not notice the hot pepper until it was too late. She was NOT happy.

We also had a fake ice cube that had a pretend fly in it. I think Josephine was the brunt of that joke, too.

We did the fake ice cube thing to a cousin while eating at Old Country Buffet. She was only about 12 at the time. When she noticed it we were all laughing and the table clearer walked by disgusted that we would do something like that to her, and that she could be traumatized for the rest of her life. That was 5 years ago...We still laugh about it to this day!

 

[barkley]

i was not a part of this one but i was attending the college it happened at.

the community college i attended had a traditional practical joke that the security staff would always play on the "new guy". the first time he was authorized to patrol on his own they would radio him that there were reports of a break-in at the science building and that the "perp" was hiding under a sheet. the new guy would go into the building and see a sheet covered table with something under it. 9 times out of 10 he would grab the sheet and pull it back to find one of the discection cadavers "in it's full gory glory" laid out.

they curtialed this prank when one of the newbies fainted and slammed his head on the edge of the table.

 

[Hercules10]

I really can't go into deatil (lest I be banned). But suffice to say ya'll should never leave your PC's powered up and logged into your e-mails. Some mean individuals may send a racy e-mail to someone who you really don't like or even a member of the same sex
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[Parkhopper]

One year in high school (many, many moons ago) on April fool's day, I decided to hard boil all of the eggs in the house. My mother woke up and decided to fix scrambled eggs for all of us for breakfast and was FURIOUS!

Suzi

PS I ate egg salad for a week as partial punishment.

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

In our home, our family was never allowed to have any fake snakes or do the fake snake practical joke because my Dad almost had one go bad that really wasn't a joke!

One evening he came out of the bathroom and saw a snake laying across the doorway to the bathroom. He thought that I had done it as a practical joke, so he lifted his foot to step on it. Well, at the exact same time, 1) he remembered that I was out skating that night so how could I put it there and 2) the snake started to slightly move! Turns out a very long water moccassin had gotten into the house. Good thing he didn't step on it!!!