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Pranks Ever Played On The Pu...By PT
..MOREThese April Fools' Day pranks weren't just played on a roommate or girlfriend. These pranks were played on entire Nations, States and Communities. That's what makes them Epic. This list complies first recorded internet prank to expensive corporate pranks across the globe.



1.Left-Handed Hamburgers
In 1998, Burger King acknowledged the 32 million left-handed Americans by taking out a full page ad in USA Today introducing the "Left-Handed Whopper".

All the ingredients would be the same as the original except rotated 180 degrees. Thousands of people swarmed Burger King to try the new burger and praised its better taste. Thousands also requested the original Right-Handed Whopper.

The next day Burger King issued a press revealing the ad as a prank. Sometimes, America makes us sad.


2.Ban Water
The city of Aliso Viejo, California was preparing to ban foam cups because of a dangerous chemical called dihydrogen monoxide.

A city employee received an email warning him, and the city, of the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide and passed it along without even googling or wikipedia'ing the compound.

Before holding a vote, it came to the city officials' attention that dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific term for water. Apparently there are no chemistry classes in Aliso Viejo.

Consider Aliso Viejo pranked. Hard.


3.Volcano Erupts
Citizens of Sitka, Alaska had a rude awakening in 1974 when the dormant volcano Mount Edgecumbe began billowing clouds of black smoke. Residents flooded the streets in terror fearing the volcano was prepared to erupt.

Word soon spread that it was just a local prankster named Porky Bickar who flew hundreds of tires to the mountain and set them on fire, thus exponentially increasing his carbon footprint.

According to rumors, six years later when Mount St. Helens ACTUALLY erupted, people wrote old Porky saying "this time you've gone to far!" Awesome.


4.Taco Bell
April 1st, 1996. A full-page ad was published in the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post and 3 other major newspapers celebrating the sale of the historic Liberty Bell.

To help alleviate the mounting U.S national debt, Taco Bell "bought" the Liberty Bell and would be renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. It would be moved to the Taco Bell headquarters in Irvine, CA where it would be made available for public viewing.

Thousands of shocked citizens inundated Taco Bell and the National Park Service with phone calls.

It was then revealed that Taco Bell played a Nation wide April Fools' prank resulting in 1.1 million dollars in increased sales over the next 2 days for their restaurants.

5.Aliens in London
On March 31, 1989 a glowing UFO descended over London causing widespread confusion and panic among the Brits.

The flying saucer landed in the outskirts of London where onlookers, having been raised by way too much Doctor Who, gathered to make first contact with an alien being. A highly trained police officer poked the saucer with a stick and then ran as the door to the craft opened. A silver suited being stepped out of the saucer to greet the world.

The being was Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Records. He had built the craft and planned to land it on April 1st in Hyde Park, but was blown off course and forced to land early.


6.Loch Ness Monster Found Dead
March 31st, 1972. Zoologists from the Yorkshire Flamingo Park Zoo were looking for evidence of the Loch Ness Monster. They found a carcass floating in the Loch weighing one and half tons and over fifteen and a half feet in length.

The excited zoologist loaded the carcass of what they believed to be the "Son of Nessie" onto a flatbed for transport to Yorkshire. Police quickly stopped the team since it is actually illegal to remove "unidentified creatures" from Loch Ness.

The discovery dubbed "The Son of Nessie" immediately received world wide attention. Edinburgh scientists soon determined the body to actually be a bull elephant seal from the South Atlantic.

The next day the Flamingo Park Zoo education officer took responsibility for the prank. The seal had died a week prior to the incident at a nearby Zoo.

The prankster held the carcass in cold storage for a week before dumping it into Loch Ness, and then calling in an anonymous tip to his colleagues.

Yorkshire was had.

7.Global Gravity Shift
In 1976, astronomer Patrick Moore announced on the BBC radio that a once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignment would create a global phenomenon on Earth.

Pluto (back when it was still a planet) would pass behind Jupiter, thus creating weightlessness on Earth at exactly 9:47 A.M.

Thousands of people called into the station claiming to have experienced the event and reported having floated around their houses.

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We blame the 70's.

8.First Ever Internet Prank
In 1984, a message was sent to Usenet members from chernenko@kremvax.UUCP stating the Soviet Union planned to join the global Usenet network. (Usenet was one of the first forms of the internet before Vice-President Al Gore invented it single-handedly).

This was an unprecedented move that generated press around the world. Russia was joining us. RUSSIA!

Considering the seclusive nature of the Soviets during the Cold War, the announcement was a huge step forward to open relations. After two weeks without word from the Soviet Union, Piet Beertema revealed he wrote the message as a prank.

When Moscow did join the internet six years later it used the domain name "kremvax" in honor of the prank.


9.New Math In Alabama
An organization called "New Mexicans for Science and Reason" published a newsletter in April of 1998 featuring an article stating that the Alabama legislature would be changing the value of pi from 3.14159 to the "rounder" number 3.

This sparked enormous controversy throughout the scientific community and academia, resulting in hundreds of calls from around the world to the Alabama State legislature in protest. Many people were surprised anyone in Alabama even knew what pi was.

It was then discovered the original article written by physicist Mark Boslough was meant as a parody of legislative actions regarding the teaching of evolution in schools.



10.Half Price Newspapers
On April 1st, 1915, The Boston Morning Globe slashed its price in half. The newspaper staff was just as surprised as its readers by this drastic change when it showed up on newsstands.

Apparently, a production worker had changed the value on the paper immediately before it went to print. No one noticed the change until after the papers were in newsstands and over 60,000 copies were sold.

[Gatspy]

7.Global Gravity Shift
In 1976, astronomer Patrick Moore announced on the BBC radio that a once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignment would create a global phenomenon on Earth.

Pluto (back when it was still a planet) would pass behind Jupiter, thus creating weightlessness on Earth at exactly 9:47 A.M.

Thousands of people called into the station claiming to have experienced the event and reported having floated around their houses.

I wonder if everything else stayed put while they were floating.

[AbdiWahab252]

1.Left-Handed Hamburgers
In 1998, Burger King acknowledged the 32 million left-handed Americans by taking out a full page ad in USA Today introducing the "Left-Handed Whopper".

All the ingredients would be the same as the original except rotated 180 degrees. Thousands of people swarmed Burger King to try the new burger and praised its better taste. Thousands also requested the original Right-Handed Whopper.

The next day Burger King issued a press revealing the ad as a prank. Sometimes, America makes us sad.

Wow, that is some funny shiid

[SultanOrder]