We all love a good prank. As long
as we’re not the ones on the end
of it, of course. But sometimes,
despite careful thought and
meticulous planning, things can
go awry. Perhaps the banana
falls out of the exhaust pipe or
the plastic wrap across the toilet
snaps, or maybe you end up
going to jail… uh, what? Here are
ten practical jokes that resulted
in everyone wishing they’d stuck
with the good old fashioned
whoopee cushion.
10
Fake Death
Prank: Man convinces ex-wife
he’s hanged himself
Ex-wives. Let’s face it, their
second role in life is being the
punch line to pretty much every
joke their former lover can come
up with. But in 2004 there was
one ex-wife who was certainly
left with the last laugh. Randy
Wood, embittered and angry and
wanting to get one over his past
ex, called her up and told her to
come over to his place. He had
‘something’ to show her he said.
When Wood’s ex-wife arrived she
found her ‘late’ ex-husband
hanging by a noose from a tree
in the front garden. Rather than
grab the nearest stick and beat
him like the human piñata he
really is, she immediately called
911, presumably in hysterics at
what she had seen. Cue, firemen,
policemen and paramedics
showing up en masse. But when
a fireman went to cut Wood
down they found a concealed
harness supporting his body
weight and one sniggering ex-
husband totally intact. It was a
short lived victory however, as he
was subsequently fined $1,000
and sent to jail for a year.
9
Public Cheating
Prank: Husband’s cheating past
revealed live on radio
We’d all do anything for a free
concert ticket, wouldn’t we?
Especially if the artist in question
is one of our fav bands of all
time. But would you do this? In
2008, to win tickets to a Kanye
West’s concert one woman
agreed to call her husband live
on radio and tell him that their 9-
year-old son wasn’t in fact his.
What could possibly go wrong
you ask? Hm, thinking they were
trading confessions, the
bewildered husband blurted out
the immortal line: “I’ve been
screwing your sister for the last
year!” Whoops. What’s worse,
she didn’t even get the tickets.
8
Dental Disaster
Prank: Dentist gets caught
turning patient into pig
Nobody likes going to the dentist
let alone a demented one who
has a penchant for turning his
patients into farm yard animals.
Dr. Robert Woo is one such
dentist. When doing a bit of
dental work on one of his
employees he thought it would
be funny to install a pair of false
tusks on to her teeth. This was
no spur of the moment practical
joke either, Woo deliberately
choose boar tusks because the
employee in question had grown
up on a pig farm. Clearly not
quite sure how the joke would
go down, Woo photographed his
little project whilst his patient
was still anesthetized and then
removed the tusks, replacing
them with the usual caps. All
good thus far. But then Woo
decided to share his practical
joke with the rest of the office—
oh the wisdom! Miss Piggy-for-
the-day obviously didn’t see the
funny side. She sued her boss for
$250,000. But the real joke was
on Woo’s insurance company
who were forced to fork out $
750,000 when he sued them for
not covering his practical joke.
Come on though. Woo’s got a
point. If most insurance
companies cover for fire and
theft, surely it’s not that hard to
cover for ‘When turning one of
your female employees into a pig
doesn’t work out quite as you
planned’.
7
Wedding Announcement
Prank: Co-worker set alight for
announcing wedding
When you learn that one of your
best buds is going to get married
you throw a little party for him,
right? You might order a keg of
his favorite beer perhaps, or call
up all of his mates and get them
together for a Friday night
down-the-pub knees up. Not if
you’re Australian Gianni
Catanzaro. His co-workers
decided something a bit more
special was required to celebrate
his last days on Earth as a
bachelor. Firstly, Gianni was
grabbed, punched in the testicles
(which, as we all know fellas, is
already a pretty bad ‘prank’ as it
is); had his wrists and ankles
duct taped to a fence; was
striped to his underpants; and
egged. Enough’s enough, right?
Wrong. Gianni’s loving co-
workers then thought it would
be a good idea to pour gasoline
on to the floor and set it alight.
Fair play to the lad, Gianni actually
managed to get himself free, only
to fall, face first into the roaring
flames. The outcome: a
postponed wedding and a
cancelled honeymoon. The
kicker: Gianni was the one fired…
because the burns to his face
and exposed body weren’t
punishment enough for the
awful heinous act of announcing
his marriage to his mates.

6
Hash Cakes
Prank: Hash cakes take out entire
staff room
Joseph Tellini and Ian Walker are
the sort of kids everyone would
have wanted at their school. In
their last year at senior high the
two 18-year-old students
thought it would be funny to
repay their teachers for all their
dedication to the boys’
educational needs by baking
them a parting gift. But these
were no run-of-the-mill
brownies, these were brownies
packed with marijuana. The
teachers had clearly never
encountered hash cakes before
because within hours nineteen
members of staff were taken ill
and rushed to the nearest
emergency room and the pair
were ordered to do volunteer
work. Worse still, the entire
contents of the canteen were
wiped out as wave after wave of
teachers were hit with the
munchies.
5
Fake Deadline
Prank: False deadline prompts
near death experience
Life in the fast lane can be a
stressful one. Deadline after
deadline flies by without any
cessation. This was Glenn
Howlett’s mindset before his
colleagues at London City Hall
decided to wind him up. Poor old
Glenn was happily working
through his latest stress-
inducing report when he
received a memo informing him
the report was actually due two
weeks earlier than he had
planned for. Receiving the memo
whilst on holiday, Glenn quickly
returned home, set his office to
work and began the panic of a
life time—presumably whilst still
wearing his swimming trunks.
Shortly afterwards, he collapsed
with a suspected heart attack.
Contrite and apologetic, from
what could have quite possibly
been his death bed, Glenn
accepted that he would not be
able to complete the report in
time and decided to apply for an
ignominious early retirement. It
was at this point that one of the
pranksters informed him of their
hilarious joke. Great timing!
Glenn, as anyone in their right
mind would, saw the funny side,
and promptly, and successfully,
sued City Hall for damages. Some
weeks later another memo was
sent round, telling everyone not
to pull pranks. The best bit, if only
Glenn had clocked the date on
the original memo: April 1st.
4
Dead Dog
Prank: Dead dog on top of car
alerts police
Paul Goobie. Remember the
name because this guy pulled
one of the sickest practical jokes
of all time. Getting hold of a dead
Chihuahua alone is pretty messed
up but to then go and tie it on to
the bumper of a co-worker, Kevin
Meloy’s car is just plain twisted.
Completely unaware of the
deceased mutt flopping about at
the rear-end of his automobile,
Kevin drove for several miles
without stopping—partly due to
the fact Kev is a bit hard of
hearing and couldn’t hear the
numerous irate motorist’s
honking their horns in disgust.
Eventually, Kevin was alerted to
his dead passenger and he in
turn alerted the police, who
wasted no time in charging Paul
Goobie with the unlawful
disposal of a dead animal. You’ve
got to ask yourself, would he
have got away with it if he’d
have used a Doberman?

3
Fake Press Release
Prank: Fake press release sees
shares plummet
It was a normal morning on the
news wires on August 25, 2000
and then all of a sudden word
reached financial journalists that
Emulex Corp had announced
revised earnings and that they
were being investigated for
accounting irregularities
resulting in CEO, Paul Folino,
stepping down. Not surprisingly,
the company’s stocks sank from
$113.06 to $43 within two hours.
Shareholders, obviously, were in
bits. Why had they not be
consulted? Well, no one at Emulex
had been consulted. The whole
thing was a fake. Earnings were
fine, the CEO wasn’t leaving and
there was no impending
investigation. The following
week an arrest was made. Mark
Jakoba, a 23-year-old college
student who was working at the
small internet news company
that ‘leaked’ the information had
made a cool quarter of a mill
from the cheeky scheme. Not that
he could spend a penny of that in
jail of course.
2
Cross-Dressing Doll
Prank: Cross-Dressing Doll gets
security officer the sack
Being a night watchman at Toy
‘R’ Us must be boring as hell. So
why not partake in a little spot of
doll play—or even dress up a
male doll as a female one? Poor
Ken didn’t know what hit him.
And neither did Carina Guillot and
her 12-year-old daughter, Jocelyn
when they walked into the store
in Florida in July 1990. Believing
they’d spotted a unique Mattel
doll, and not dissuaded by the
cashier in the shop, the mother
and daughter left thinking they
had a collector’s item in their
midst. Shortly after they were
offered $4,000 for their rare find.
Once the story went national
however, Ron Zero, the bored
night watchman, ‘fessed up. His
reward for his honesty? He was
given the sack four days later.
1
Epic Jail Term
Prank: High school joke results in
potential epic jail term
It’s the last day of high school.
You’re thinking of doing
something radical to have one
last dig at the place that has
owned you for so many years of
awfulness. You decide to play a
practical joke: to sneak into the
school through the girls
changing room window and put
a sex doll in the showers. Yes. A
sex doll. But, oh no. Somebody
sees you climbing through the
window, hoodie and gloves and
big black box and they think of
all the logical things you could be
doing and decide, yes, you’re
planting a bomb. The school is
evacuated and the Indiana State
Police bomb squad clear the area
costing the school over $8,000.
The teenager in question, Tyell
Morton was arrested and
charged with institutional
criminal mischief, which could
have seen him spend up to eight
years inside. Luckily, he only
received a suspended sentence
and a few weeks of community
service. There’s one kid who’s
learned his lesson: don’t climb
through school windows
brandishing a sex doll.

The weddin announcement prank z just plain SICK! How do we those folks who did it dint emigrate enmasse from ALUU village?