Has any member got any good April First pranks to relate ?

[studiot]

Now that we are passed the dreaded 1st, Does anyone remember any good pranks ?

I remember when I was in a student flat in college a prank played upon one other student.

In the middle of the appropriate night we all got up except Jack , got dressed and busied about making breakfast noises.

"Hurry up Jack, or you will be late for lectures."  "Didn't you hear the new?, there is a total eclipse this morning, that's why it is dark"

One by one we left for our appointed lectures and hid around the corner.

Sure enough afte a couple of minutes Jack emerged and set off for the college campus about 1.5 miles away.

He didn't twig till he got there alone.

[mistermack]

I don't like most of them, especially ones that cause fear, shame or embarrassment. But some of them are quite funny.  

One I liked was the guy who somehow carried a load of old car tyres up to the top of Mt. Edgecumbe, a dormant volcano overlooking Sitka in Alaska. He set fire to them on April 1, making it look like there was a live eruption. I don't think it caused a scare, but the people were agog. Who wouldn't be ? 

And another one was years ago, the Panorama BBC documentary makers, did a whole episode about the "spaghetti harvest" in Switzerland, with filming of workers trimming the spaghetti from the spaghetti bushes. An amazing number of people bought it, and it was harmless and very funny. 

[swansont]

I put this up a few years back, over the “Time Service” sign at work. Not many people noticed. Had to wait a year from my original plan, owing to rain. (paper sign)

I got rained out again and couldn’t do a “Navel Observatory” one last year.