Not everyone’s a fan of April fools day, so to avoid it completely taking over our sub today we have decided to do this megathread to contain any and all content relating to this mildly annoying day.

Please share the best/worst pranks you’ve seen below, or perhaps a prank you have done or are planning to do yourself!

All other April fools day-related posts will be removed.

by cattacos37

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  1. Hotel Chocolat sent an email about a rainforest type thing they were going to do in Cambridgeshire, with chocolate infused rain and whatnot. I clicked the email because I thought it wasn’t that far fetched – we have the Eden Project in Cornwall after all! 

    I’ll admit I didn’t read the email properly – never do – and didn’t notice the “pick your own chocolates grown from the cacao tree” bit which would’ve made it slightly more obvious it was an April fools joke. But now I’m just sad I won’t get to stomp about in chocolate rain puddles.

  2. About 20 years ago when the internet was just taking off.

    I went to the pound shop and bought a cheap laurel and hardy statue (back then the pound shop actually sold everything for a pound) .

    I printed off a fake invoice/receipt for their £500 statue and a “certificate of authenticity” along with a letter thanking them for their purchase and that they have signed up to a subscription service and would get another “comedy greats” statue every month for the discounted price of only £400.

    This letter had lots of clues that it was a wind up and from me.

    It had my mobile phone number.

    A made up email address something like “april_comedy1st@gmail.com”.

    My address (I just missed the town off but included the postcode)

    The date was 1st April.

    The product reference code was “gotchafoolapril1”

    I parcelled all this up and posted it to my Uncle to arrive on 1st April.

    I was expecting a phone call or even an e-mail however there was no word.

    It turned out that he completely missed the clues, so he froze his bank account and cancelled his credit cards.
    My aunt was on holiday visiting relatives in Ireland at the time and she was left with no money for 4 days untill a new account and cards could be sorted out.

    It took me several years before I owned up , simply because he was always going on and on about internet safety and how he almost got ripped off.

  3. My parents called my grandparents on April 1st to tell them that their first grandchild had arrived the evening before.

    My grandmother laughed and hung up.

    That was more than 40 years ago and I was born 3 weeks early 🙃

  4. My wife told me she was pregnant with our unexpected 4th child on April the first. How I laughed.

    Who laughing now when a 3 year old comes into our room at 6am saying they’ve poo’d themselves after eating a whole chocolate egg and family bag of gummy worms.

  5. When my partner and I were about to complete on our first house, we had an issue with searches that a gabian wall in the garden didn’t look solid. She was always a little worried about it.

    April 1st rolls around so I whip up a very obviously fake email from April I, our new estate agent, telling us the wall had fallen during the night.

    I sent it, we had a nice little laugh. The wall collapsed on April 2nd. We laughed a lot less.

  6. Dad told me to to come upstairs in the morning, knock on the bedroom door and ask my Mom why the tv and vcr player had gone?

    I did, she jumped out of bed, flew down the stairs, into the living room , didn’t see the little side table that had been left out, tripped over it, hit the deck and my dad behind her shouting April fools

    When my dad saw her face his face dropped, my mom had a bloody nose and bit her lip so hard it drew blood

    TV and VCR stood there untouched

    It’s the sole reason I don’t play pranks, and probably the third angriest I’ve ever seen my mom

    It’s still a sore subject now 30 years later

  7. Helped a friend move apartment last year. Left behind in a cupboard was a box of CDs and a lot of them were homemade music compilations. I found a blank one and wrote on it with a sharpie. “15 Bitcoin” and slotted it back in amongst them. He found it about an hour later and he went crazy with excitement. He was devastated to find it was empty. I felt bad

  9. We have every photo in the house where you can see our son’s face covered with a photo of Rick Astley.

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