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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Not really an April Fools Prank, but a prank.

My father in law lives in NJ. NJ is famous for not allowing it's subjects to pump gas.

I taped a muscular nude gay guy playing card (don't ask why I have it lol) inside the fuel door on his truck.

It was 2 months before he realized it was there when he pumped his own gas in Pennsylvania.

OK You have to tell us how he responded.

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Originally posted by Wayniac:
If you have access to your target's idle Windows computer, this is fun:

1) Move the mouse pointer to the lower right corner to hide it from view.
2) Take a screenshot of the desktop (ALT + Print Screen).
3) Paste screenshot into new image in Paint. Save as JPG or Bitmap.
4) Set saved screenshot image as the new windows desktop background.
5) Delete or hide desktop icons, all of them or just a few, your choice.

Sit back, watch and enjoy!

Adding to this.
Flip desktop 180*, screenshot, set as desktop, flip 180* again so it appears normal, mouse moves the 'wrong' way.

Had the perfect opportunity to prank a guy named Dave by programming Windows to respond with a variety of different .wav files all taken from 2001 A Space Odyssey.

For example I programmed the backspace key with "I'm sorry Dave I can't let you do that."
Incoming email was the HAL 9000 saying "Just a moment... just a moment... there's a message coming in." I still use that one on my computer for email from a certain person.

I thought it was pretty funny; however, the IT Techs didn't since I wasn't supposed to have admin credentials. They never figured out how I managed to pull that off.



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Two of my favorites:

Change the settings of the keyboard to Korean.

Edit the RWIN D-Word value for Windows to only accept one bit per second.

See how long it takes the IT experts to fix it.

I worked in a comm center in the service. We would change some of the teletypes (yes, I’m that old) to Russian Cyrillic.

>Night shift
>Patrol car with trunk mounted antenna
>Skittish co-worker
>A dozen or so old style flash bulbs taped to police radio antenna at rear view mirror height
>Wait for co-worker to clear office after taping little pull string fireworks to the office door and his patrol car door. He though he was safe in his car because it had been locked .... until he keyed up the radio.

Tape a big ball of bubble wrap to the top of a tire inside the wheel well out of sight.

The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe (April Fool's Day - 1974)

Residents of Sitka, Alaska woke on the morning of Monday April 1, 1974 to a bright, clear day. They could see right across Sitka Sound to Kruzof Island, where the familiar sight of Mount Edgecumbe, a volcano dormant for 400 years, loomed. But today something was different about the view. A menacing plume of black smoke was rising from the crater. It looked like the volcano was preparing to blow!

Concerned residents spilled out of their homes onto the streets to gaze up at the volcano. Calls poured in to local authorities. The Coast Guard commander radioed the Admiral in Juneau who ordered a chopper be sent out to investigate.

As the Coast Guard pilot approached Mt. Edgecumbe, the plume of smoke grew in size. Finally he was right above it, and he peered down into the crater. At first, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. He looked more closely, and then he laughed. Stacked in the cone of the volcano, burning with a greasy flame, was a huge pile of old tires. And spray-painted in the snow beside the tires, in 50-foot-high black letters, were the words "APRIL FOOL."

Pulling Off the Prank

The fake eruption of Mt. Edgecumbe was the work of a local prankster, 50-year-old Oliver "Porky" Bickar. The idea to ignite the volcano had occurred to him in 1971. As soon as he thought of the idea, he knew he had to do it. So he collected 70 old tires that he kept in an airplane hangar. But he had to wait three years, until April Fool's Day 1974, until the visibility conditions were just right for the prank.

When he woke that morning on April 1, he looked out his window and could see right across the sound. So he looked at his wife, Patty, and said, "I have to go do it today." She replied, "Just don't make an ass of yourself."

Although Porky had prepared the tires, he hadn't arranged for a chopper pilot to fly the tires out to the crater — and this detail almost foiled his plan. The first two pilots he contacted refused to do it, but then he phoned Earl Walker, in Petersburg, who agreed to come over as soon as the morning fog in his area cleared.

Porky also secured the assistance of some friends — Harry Sulser, Ken Stedman, and Larry Nelson. They were all part of a group calling itself the "Dirty Dozen" that used to meet every week for coffee and conversation at Revard's Restaurant.

As the pranksters waited for the chopper, they piled the tires into two, large canvas slings. Soon the pilot had arrived, and they attached one of the slings to a hook on the bottom of the chopper. They also took along some smoke bombs, several gallons of kerosene, and some rags. Then they headed out to the crater.

After the chopper dropped the first load of tires into the crater, Porky got out and began stomping the words "APRIL FOOL" in the snow, as the chopper headed back for the second load.

When the chopper returned, all the men piled the tires into a stack. Then they lit them on fire and headed home.

The pranksters had taken the precaution of notifying the FAA controller of their plan. As the group returned to Sitka, the controller radioed them: "You have clearance. And by the way, the son-of-a-(gun) looks fantastic."

They had also warned the local police, but they forgot about the Coast Guard, which is why it wasn't long before the Coast Guard pilot was retracing their path out to the mountain.

The Reaction

The prank succeeded beyond Porky's wildest dreams. News of it got picked up by the Associated Press and ran in papers around the world.

The reaction of people in Sitka, once they realized the volcano wasn't really erupting, was almost uniformly positive. Even the Coast Guard wasn't too mad about the stunt. Porky met the Admiral years later at a Fourth of July party. As the Admiral walked over to meet him, Porky was afraid he was going to be chewed out, but instead the Admiral told Porky he thought the prank was classic.

Alaska Airlines also liked it. The company included Porky's prank in ad campaign the following year, 1975. The campaign highlighted the irreverent spirit of Alaskans by collecting together brief accounts of great "brags" pulled off by Alaskans. Porky's brag read:

On April Fool's Day, I hired a chopper and flew 70 old, kerosene-soaked tires on top of the dormant volcano, Mt. Edgecumbe, that looms over Sitka. I set the tires on fire, and the billowing, black smoke created one hell of a commotion in Sitka. I dare you to top that April Fool's joke."

Porky's favorite response to the prank came in 1980. He received a letter from an attorney in Denver, inside of which was a clipping from the Denver Post with a photo of Mt. St. Helens erupting. Attached was a note that read, "This time, you little bastard, you've gone too far."

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^^^ AWESOME!!! ^^^

This was the funniest and largest April Fools in the Hampton Roads area that I know of since I have lived here. If you don't already know Mount Trashmore is a Public park that is completely made out of trash. The resulting hill of trash that is now covered in dirt and grass is about 60+ feet high. We actually have another park being built with an even higher trash hill that is over 145+ feet high and expected to open in 2030+.

Mount Trashmore


Mount Trashmore 2


An April Fool's prank by WNOR disc jockeys Tommy Griffiths and Henry "The Bull" Del Toro got more than laughs Wednesday morning.

Their morning drive-time warning that Mount Trashmore, Virginia Beach's converted landfill, was about to explode triggered calls to 911, a police visit to the radio station, and an investigation by the Federal Communications Commission.

Now WNOR vice president and general manager Joseph D. Schwartz says he is considering disciplinary action against the pair.

The hoax began when Griffiths and Del Toro told listeners that a University of Virginia seismologist had detected a methane gas buildup under the old dump. They said everyone within a 7-mile radius of Mount Trashmore was to evacuate.

"A lot of people believed it and started evacuating," said J.J. Freeman, director of the Norfolk division of the FCC.

The area's 911 telephone emergency system was jammed with phone calls around 6:30 a.m., said Lou Thurston, public affairs officer for the Virginia Beach Police Department. The Virginia Beach Emergency Communications Division, which handles all 911 calls, received 50 to 60 calls within an hour Wednesday morning, Thurston said.

"Our major concern was tying up our emergency lines," he said. "We didn't want any panic to start as a result of this."

Some worried listeners called other radio stations to find out if the emergency was real. WCMS-FM (100.5) received several calls.

"People were wondering what was going on," said Mike Meehan, WCMS' program director. WCMS disc jockeys quickly explained the joke to concerned callers.

About 6:45 a.m., Virginia Beach police asked WNOR to stop issuing the false warnings, the FCC reported. When the warnings continued, a Chesapeake police officer was sent to the station.

The local FCC office contacted WNOR's Schwartz, who indicated that he was unaware of any complaints. Schwartz then issued an apology, which was broadcast throughout the rest of the day.

The FCC is gathering information to send to commission headquarters in Washington, D.C.

1992 Mount Trashmore Explosion April Fools Joke

Paperclip fun

- Connect every paper clip in a box on someones desk end to end in a long chain and layer them back in the box so they look normal

- Paper clip every file in the hard copy file together, but just out of sight

Pencil Fun

- Remove all of the lead from someones mechanical pencils. For added fun replace them with red or blue leads

Music fun

Go to a conference room, call someone, and play one of those catchy but annoying tunes from your cell phone into the receiver

Place one of the players from a musical greeting card some where in someone's office where it would be very difficult to find. Taped to the back of a cabinet is often a good choice


Email fun

- Change their email notification sound to something really annoying

- After their name in their signature line, add in 8pt font "and I hear voices in my head"

Kitchen fun

- Fill a Coke or Pepsi bottle with hot coffee and swap it with someones pop bottle in the refrigerator right before lunch and watch them try and figure out why their favorite soft drink is really hot.

General Office fun

- Place instructions for the new software upgrade making the photo copier voice activated, include a list of commands to be used. Include the phrase "If a command is not recognized, speak slower, more clearly, and louder until the machine executes the command"

- Place a rubber spider or mouse on a sink in the bathroom

- Fill a 16 oz cup with confetti and rig it to dump when someone opens a cabinet

It takes about 50 cubic feet of Styrofoam packing peanuts to fill up a Chevy Monte Carlo. A little more if you're filling up the center console, under the seats and glove compartment.


A remote control door bell placed above the drop down ceiling, trunk, or some other out of the way place works really well too.
"Ding-Dong"
"Ding-Dong"

at random times....

Back in California, my then-favorite radio station (KCAL, pronounced "K-cal," Redlands, "active rock" format) played a prank. They announced they were going to a country format with new owners and that everyone was going to lose their jobs. All the DJs got together on-air and pretended to lament the change and loss of their jobs while reminiscing about old times. They had me going for a little bit until they said the station would be renamed "KCOW" (pronounced "K-cow.") Then I realized what day it was.

Take someone's desk fan and open the cover then tape a nickel to the back of one of the fan blades, then put the cover back on. When they turn it on, the fan will hop right off their desk.

Put a sign up over a shared printer/copier: "NOTICE: our printer has been upgraded with voice recognition. Simply address it as: "HP 106 W, make 20 copies, black and white, double sided." Or, "HP 106 W, make 20 copies, color, single sided."

There is a voice recognition learning curve, so you might initially need to repeat your command several times in a slightly louder voice. But once the voice module has you in its data banks, recognition will be instant."

A friend of my daughter was constantly being warned by everyone that he needed to keep his truck locked, but he always scoffed at them. One day while he was in class, someone filled the air vents in his truck with pink glitter and turned the fan on high. I guess it was fun watching him start his truck.

I'll just leave this right here:

http://www.cbs8.com/story/2184...-the-best-prank-ever

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April Fools! 20-year anniversary of the best prank ever

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http://hoaxes.org/af_database/...e_lands_in_san_diego

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Space Shuttle Lands in San Diego (April Fool's Day - 1993)

Dave Rickards, a deejay at KGB-FM in San Diego, announced that the space shuttle Discovery had been diverted from Edwards Air Force Base and would land instead at Montgomery Field in a few hours (at 8:30 am). Montgomery Field is a small military airport located in the middle of a residential area just outside of San Diego. Thousands of commuters immediately headed towards the supposed landing site, causing enormous traffic jams that lasted for almost an hour. Police eventually had to be called in to clear the traffic. People arrived at the military airport armed with cameras, camcorders, and even folding chairs, ready to witness the landing. Reportedly the crowd swelled to over 1,000 people.

Of course, the shuttle never landed. In fact, the Montgomery Field airport would have been far too small for the shuttle to even consider landing there. Moreover, there wasn't a shuttle in orbit at the time. The police were not amused by the prank. They announced that they would be billing the radio station for the cost of forcing officers to direct the traffic. In its defense, the radio station said, "It was a joke. We're sorry, but it was April Fools. We're just trying to have some fun." The prank was actually not original. A Belgian newspaper had perpetrated the identical hoax on its readers in 1992. However, the San Diego hoax fooled far more people than its Belgian predecessor.

The above is incorrect in the fact that Montgomery Field is a civilian use regional airport; it is about 5 miles south of Miramar though.

I had to quit pranking on April 1st. People got too sensitive.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
I'll just leave this right here:

http://www.cbs8.com/story/2184...-the-best-prank-ever

I had forgotten about the April Fool's shuttle landing diversion. For some people, having access to Google in the palm of their hand would not make a difference in that prank.