What is the best prank you ever pulled? Explain what you did and the person's reaction?

When I was about eight years old I decided to scare my mom. After she had put me to bed, I snuck over to her room and wedged myself between the side of her mattress and the wall (so I wouldn't leave a telltale bump in the blankets) and then waited... and waited... and waaaaaaiiiiited... (smashed against the wall) for about an hour. When she finally got into bed, I waited even longer until she got good and comfortable and started to drift off to sleep... then, I grabbed her arm.

She started screaming, which is understandable considering that, as far as she could tell, a hand just reached through the wall to attack her. At the time I thought it was hilarious. Now, however, I'm wondering how close she came to a heart attack that night.

Once for April Fools day (when I was away in college) I called my mom and left a message on her answering machine telling her I'd been thrown in jail! I gave her this awesome song and dance saying yes, we'd been out drinking, but we went to Waffle House to get some food and sober up. Phil was loaded and kind of loud and an officer came over and told us to keep him quiet.

Well, Phil started yelling at the officer and I tried to keep him quiet, but Phil wasn't hearing it and jumped the cop cause he was all mad - I tried to break it up, but the cop arrested us both, and now I'm in general population and a big Mexican guy took my shoes and I'm scared mom! Come get me out! PLEASE!

Boo hoo! Brilliant performance. I of course called back and left a message saying April Fools.

Well, a few hours later, my step dad called and said mom got the message - and was on her way down (3 hour drive) to get me out of jail and was HOT. He tried to calm her down, but "you know your mom's Irish temper, she was pretty upset and wouldn't hear anything else, and she never heard your second message! So she jumped in the car and will probably be there in about an hour.

Steve, you might want to meet her at the County Jail since that's where you told her you were. " After I got back home from going out to County about two hours later, I discovered a message on my machine with them both laughing and saying Apri Fools. Not funny.

My mom is a prankster when it comes to giving gifts. I decided to return the favor finally one day ( I was 30 when I thought of it). She loves glass ware as much as gift certs to restuarants.

I found an empty box from the bin at the nearest high dollar china shop, broke a cheap glass and put it in the box, taped a card (with gift cert inside), and went to her home. When I was reaching to give her the box, I "accidentally" dropped it. You should have seen her face both when I dropped it and when she found that she had been had.

I am unable to either describe the prank or the reaction, since this would ruin my plan and take all the fun out of it. It is one of the biggest and the longest running pranks ever conceived! If I reveal it here, you will all be accessories after the fact and could be held responsible.

If you guess what my prank is, your success may result in a great tax liability, and you may find yourself to be responsible for the administration of unimaginable amounts of invested funds. Tomorrow will be too soon to guess correctly, and too late.

What you do is stand on a chair inside your kitchen and hold a cup up to the ceiling. Now call you significant other into the room & in a frantic voice say, "I've caught a BUG! Grab that broom and hold this cup up against the ceiling while I go grab some tissue paper to dispose of it."

He/she hold the cup up with the handle of the broom .... you walk away. NOTE: important to use a plastic, non see through cup for this to work. Also helps to have the broom near by.So, after a few minutes you have not come back to dispose of the bug they're gonna get tired of waiting ... they call for you, resist the urge to laugh.

Eventually they will walk away, and in so doing drop the cup which is filled with water onto their head.

When my oldest son was about 6, we told him we were going to make "dirt pudding" for the family. My wife and daughter (about 7 at the time) went outside, and came back in with a Tupperware bowl full of "dirt. " My oldest son was stoically upset about this, and said, "Well I'm not eating dirt."

He took it so seriously! He was really upset. Now, dirt pudding isn't really dirt, of course.

You make custard pudding with a generous layer of ground Oreo cookies on top. The cookies, when ground so well, look like dirt. Before we could get him to eat it, we had to tell him what it really was.

We took it a little farther with my parents, though. We put the pudding in paper cups for them, then the Oreos, per usual. We gave them the cups and told them that they were flowers we had planted in the cups, for them to put in their garden.My daughter also had one of these cups, and while they were talking to us, she oh so subtly took out a pinch of "dirt" and ate it.

My mom was surprised and said, "Wait, did she just eat that? " Dad said, "No, it's a plant." "But she ate some! " So they tried it, and liked it.

:).

My pranks tend to be simple and subtle. My best prank was to change my bosses' Internet desktop star screen to a Babel Fish translation (sorta like this:) babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=d... So the page looked the same at first glance, but the language was different. He was pretty confused when he came into the office, and even got our tech support guy to come look at the page.

Once I clued him in on it he was rather good-natured about it. I have a very kind and understanding boss.

... to tell people I'm going into politics to make some serious societal changes. Unfortunately the surprise was on me. They BELIEVED it!

Haha!

A co-worker once asked me to get something out of her car for her, so I snuck off and punched as many little paper dots as I could with a 3 hole punch and put them in the defroster vents, then turned the defroster on high, so when she started her car they all shot everywhere. The best part is, a bunch got stuck in there and they came out all Winter long!

Well I don't prank people as much as I shuld! Its so fun so I cant give you a funny story about me so I found this and its thee best youtube.com/watch?v=5kdYYcV3xFw.

In college we had this boulder dubbed "the spirit rock". People would paint it different things for football games or greek events and that was fine. The college buried it at one point because groups were too excited over it.

The students dug it back up and were all excited. But after a while it just looked like crap because people would take whatever leftover silver and pink spray paint and paint to let everyone know "We Rock" it the least artistic way possible. I felt a statement needed to be made, but what could I do to a huge boulder.

We tried to tar and feather it but that was easily painted over. Gasoline failed to ignite the tar and paint so we were left with one option. In the middle of the night a few friends and I assembled a plywood frame around the rock and covered it with 4000lbs of quick- dry concrete.So when all the hungover bums came strolling by for Saturday brunch before the big game they were greeted by an ugly blocky lump.

And for kickers I penned a letter to the editor begging that "The perpetrators should be brought to light and get what they deserve" and so on and so forth. It was published in the school paper right next to the picture of the sad rock. Many were outraged and the student council cheered when the rock was sledge hammered free.

But the establishment types reveled in the each bewildered look.

I was working at a corn maze a few years back and my friend made a MASSIVE sword that year out of wood. My mom, sister and a few others decided to come by one night, and I was told of this. I was around the end of the maze with this huge sword at hand.

I was in a robe so I blended in with the statues around me. When my mom came out of the section before me I started to move slowly towards her when I was about 20 feet away. I then ran in a posture like I was about to use the sword, she fell to the ground in response of this but I kept coming, just as soon as I was a few feet away I started to swing the sword then I stopped dead short of her group and stopped, waved and said, " guys ^_^" and helped her up.

That was the best reaction I got from scaring my mom, she was so embarrased because of the fact that she had a little accident from the fear. She loved it though.

Best prank I ever pulled was pretty complex and long, so bear with me. My brother had been talking over IM to a couple of twin girls we both knew, saying that he was feeling depressed and suicidal. They started bothering me, telling me how he was going to kill himself, and pleading for me to go talk to him about it.

I know my brother pretty well, so I was pretty certain he was just doing it to scare her, but since I wanted the twins to stop bothering me about it I went to talk to my brother. Well, him and I have a bad habit of getting good ideas when we talk together about stuff, and instead of persuading him to stop, him and I came up with an idea to convince them that he had overdosed on insulin (as he is a type 1 diabetic) and was being hospitalized. So the next time I talked to the girls (after having gotten him to block them, so they couldn't see he was around) I told them that they had been right after all, I was terribly sorry for disbelieving them, and that he was in the hospital in serious condition.

A few days later, he unblocked them, both of us told her he was better, then we did the exact same thing again. We did this same thing basically 3 or 4 different times, and every time the twins believed everything. Finally, the one week my brother was going on a ski vacation while I was going to be home (We had earlier formulated a plan that we would tell them he had died from an insulin overdose, and they wouldn't find out that he was actually alive until we saw them that summer, we go to an island in Maine every summer, and we see them up there).

This was the perfect opportunity, so the night after my brother had left, I told the twins that my brother "was deader than my grandpa after his last stroke. " Well, they started freaking out, and posted all sorts of sad notes in their AIM profiles (back when people actually read those) about how much they were going to miss him and whatnot. Later I found out they had even told one of their friends that he had died, requested that she post something about missing him, and she had told them that it was just a prank being pulled on them (they said she was heartless).

Well, the next day we began getting a storm of phone calls from people wishing their condolences. Apparently these girls had told their parents, who decided it was their business to alert every single person on the island that we visit about this tragedy. One of the last sets of people that was notified was my grandparents (so they were getting 3rd hand information) who just heard that someone in our family had died.

They called the state cops to check if they knew anything about someone in our family dying, as well as our aunt and uncle. My mother was furious, as she had to return probably 15 calls that day, explaining what had happened. She also called my dad (who was on the trip with my brother), who did his utmost to not bust up laughing over the phone about it (lest he also incur the wrath of my mother).

Over the next week we probably got 10 more calls from people offering their condolences, each of them refueling my mother's anger. Needless to say, my brother and I were grounded for quite some time from using the computer (he for longer than I, as he had pulled another prank via the internet just about 3 months earlier). When we showed up at the island that summer one of our friends up there saw him and said, "Whoa, I thought you were dead!

What happened?!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.