With April fools around the corner what are some of the best pranks you have played?

1. Got the idea from a local radio station. I had posted on local classified sites, our newspaper, etc to call (this phone number) on (this date) and do your very best impression of a goat, and hang up. If yours was the best, youd be entered to win. Didnt say what youd win. Just that you could win. The number was my husbands...on his birthday. The first call came in at 5:00am, an hour before his alarm. "BAAAAAAH!" *click* He got home that night and glared at me, "I dont know how, but i know you did this." His voicemail was FULL of goat noises.
   — IRaiseCowsMoo


2. Obviously not me, but in the early 1900’s some guy in Paris posted an ad in the newspaper reading something like «  young and rich widow looking for a nice husband. Meet me in the park with a white rose on your lapel, so I may recognize you » That guy then sent an anonymous tip to the police that « The White Rose », an anarchist group were preparing an attack on parliament and meeting in the park. Dozens arrested...
   — Pippin1505


3. Back in 1999 I put a 2 week notice on my bosses desk on April 1st. Nobody even asked me about it. I continued to work for said two weeks and then left. Three days after not showing up to my previous job, I got a call asking if everything was OK. I said everything was fine and I had started my new job. After a moment of silence he said "So the note on my desk was serious?"
   — longnapper






4. The best prank I ever heard of was told to me by my best friend’s dad. When he was in college, he and another guy were the only ones to stay at the dorm over winter break (it was kind of sad, really—neither had families that they wanted to see). They were quickly bored, so they picked the lock to the room of a guy who was a jerk, then took the door off the hinges, and then—he swears this is true—drywalled over the doorway and painted the hallway. The guy comes back from break, walks along the hallway, room 505, 506, 508...wait, what? His room is gone. The guy actually went outside, looked up to their floor, and counted windows to see if his room had completely disappeared from the space-time continuum...
   — MonkeyDavid


5. I'm thinking of finding a recording of two guys having an NSA-like conversation and having my mother's amazon echo play it at a random time during the day.
   — MRiley84


6. One year April Fool's was on a Sunday, so all throughout the evening before I snuck around methodically changing the clocks ahead by 4 hours. The next morning (on April 1) the parents woke up around their usual time and to their horror found out we were all 2 hours late for church. Which doesn't sound like a big deal, except my dad was the head pastor. After watching them in sheer panic for a few minutes I caved and told them. They were NOT amused.
   — inv4zn






7. Not me but my sister once unscrewed the shower head and placed a hard life saver candy in there, so that after my shower I was subtly sticky. :(
   — The_Wise_Frog


8. I replaced my housemate's soap with a very neatly carved block of extra mature cheese. He was a very hairy gentleman and complained that the smell remained for the rest of the day despite several more- cheese free- showers.
   — Zulu-Cthulhu


9. I sorted the keys on my boss's keyboard alphabetically.
   — Sevarra






10. My sister did not back up her phone despite me telling her to several times. I had the same phone as her. I backed up my phone reset it to factory settings switched covers with her phone and watcher her morning descend into chaos.
    — Ghost_Peanuts


11. One summer at camp, we brought a life size cutout of a professional wrestler and set it up inside the bathroom of the counselors cabin. The screams echoed through the night. It was beautiful.
    — Damnit_Bird


12. Not me, but my mom played a good one on my dad. One morning, he poured his usual bowl of cereal and set it on the table. He put the spoon in it, then got up to go to the bathroom. While he was gone, my mom took the spoon out and replaced it with a fork. My dad's look of confusion was priceless
    — throwaway4noreasons






13. Not much of a prankster, bit I do put frozen peas in the fridge ice dispenser. When my mom goes for ice water, she gets peas instead.
    — GoddessError


14. I'm a fan of benign pranks. I used to have a job that involved driving with a partner for an hour each way, once a week. One year, I had an especially gullible partner who I often teased about how easy it was to get her to believe anything. That year, April Fools' fell on my driving day. After a few minutes driving, I found a spot in the conversation to say "you know, it says 'gullible' on the ceiling." She gave me a jokingly dirty look. "Please. I know that one, I'm not *that* clueless." "Are you sure? Because it definitely says that." "Ha, ha - try another one." "Well, okay then," I shrug and go back to driving. The moment a minute later when she surreptitiously sneaked a peek at the ceiling and saw that I'd actually written "gullible" directly over her head - the sweetest prank payoff ever.
    — feioo