• From manslaughtering Bigfoot to atomic wedgies that literally kill, we count 15 innocent
pranks that pushed things way too far.
15 - Bigfoot • A fifteen-year-old girl was left traumatised
after a prank on a highway in Montana went very very wrong.
• A 44 year old man named Randy Lee Tenley decided one night that he wanted to have a
bit of fun.
He put on a highly camouflaged ghillie suit and went down to a nearby highway with the
intention of staging a Bigfoot sighting.
Unfortunately, he was so well camouflaged that a young driver accidentally hit Tenley
with his car and he died at the scene.
• It was unclear whether the Sasquatch impersonator was drunk at the time.
14 – Pepper Spray Rumble • In America there is an old tradition of
seniors playing school-wide pranks as part of their graduation ritual.
• Unfortunately a lot of these pranks can get out of hand very quickly.
At Baldwin High School, police were called when up to 50 students were involved in a
frenzied fight.
The police arrived to find the school surrounded by smoke bombs and crickets, and were forced
to pepper spray the fifty brawling students.
• It is believed that the smoke bomb pranks were the reason fifty students decided to
pulverise each other.
13 – Poo Stink Brownie Time • Accepting home cooked brownies from teenagers
is a questionable decision at the best of time, and this prank was no exception.
• Students at Blue Valley High School in Kansas thought it would be hilarious to mix
a high dosage of laxatives into some chocolate brownies and then serve it to their teacher.
Unfortunately the teacher had a medical condition that involved dangerous seizures and ended
up nearly dying from the laxatives.
• Luckily the teacher recovered in hospital and the students were heavily reprimanded.
12 – Animals Errywhere • Sometimes there is a much more severe
outcome than someone being embarrassed or annoyed by a prank.
• At Mason High School, a group of students figured it would be funny to release a whole
bunch of animals into their school.
Unfortunately these students didn’t care much for animal welfare and when they bust
into a local animal farm they left a string of dead animals, including a kitten, rabbits
and even a peacock that died from one of its legs being broken in the heist.
• Sure, animals are funny!
But not when the joke is on them.
11 - Bugger • Another prank involving animals ended
in criminal charges and a student being disqualified from their own graduation.
• After ordering them online, a group of students broke into their school and released
seventy-two thousand ladybugs.
When the alarm went off, teachers found the bugs covering every inch of the hallway.
It took four hours and seven employees to remove most of the beetles.
• Even the janitors admitted that there was probably still thousands more ladybugs
hiding around the school.
10 – Glitter Bandits • A prank that was way less serious, but
equally as annoying happened at Jamestown High School in Chautauqua County.
• Apparently a bunch of teenagers broke into their school and threw a large amount
of glitter in the hallways before tying string around all the walls.
It might seem like a fairly innocent prank but school officials decided they wanted to
persecute the offenders to the fullest extent of the law.
• The harmless teenage glitter bandits faced criminal mischief and tampering charges.
9 - Vastards • According to one Reddit user, his high
school prank backfired in a really sad way.
• He and his friend snuck into their private school late on a Friday night and spent over
five hours smearing any and every surface they could find in slippery Vaseline.
They used 20 jars of Vaseline covering door handles, markers, chairs, chair levers, phones
etc.
When they turned up on Monday expecting to see the teachers raging, they were shocked.
The janitors came in on Saturday and spent their entire weekend removing every trace
of the Vaseline before school started on Monday.
• No one but those poor janitors had any idea of the prank.
8 – Watermayhem • What seemed like an innocent prank by
this class of students, turned out to be a really insensitive mistake.
• According to reddit user Mattlitz96, a student in his class thought it would be amusing
if all 700 students were to bring in a watermelon and cover every inch of the school in them.
They all brought in at least two, so the school ended up being buried in thousands of giant
fruits.
However the African American principal was not impressed.
• That was the day the reddit user learned about cultural sensitivity.
7 – Halloween Tragedy • For some people, Halloween is a time to
pull the most hilarious pranks.
For others, it’s a time to get pranked.
• Some people can’t take a joke, but a guy from Arkansas had a reaction that went
waaaay too far.
After a group of teenagers covered his car in eggs, leaves and mayonnaise, he pulled
out his gun and fired at the vandals.
One of the teenagers received a shot to the head and died nearby.
• The angry gunman claimed that he only wanted to scare the young people.
I guess it worked; her friends will be traumatised for the rest of their lives.
6 – MC Cheato • Radio hosts are notorious for their goofy
on-air antics, like making prank calls.
• One radio presenter found himself with serious regrets when he made a prank call
to his wife while live on the radio.
He pretended he had a confession to make, that he was cheating on her with someone else.
Understandably, his wife did not take the news very well.
But in a cruel twist of fate she told him that she had actually been cheating on him
too, with his brother.
• Needless to say he didn’t come out of that one the winner.
5 - Kidnapper • It’s a long standing tradition that
before a groom gets married and settles into a boring serious life, his friends pull one
last epic bachelor prank on him.
• The bachelor in this case was kidnapped while he was out in public by a group of masked
men and thrown into the boot of a car.
The masked men who were really his best friends then drove him off and surprised him with
a bachelor party.
• Unfortunately some innocent bystanders thought they had just witnessed a terrorist
attack and called police in hysterics. 4 – Mon Amour
• According to a reddit user, a prank he played when he was fifteen nearly got his
teacher fired.
• During his French class at school, this student wrote a joke love letter in poorly
written French and signed his friend’s name.
He then snuck the letter into the teacher’s bag.
At the end of the class she asked his friend to stay behind.
She told his friend that she felt the same way but their love was forbidden.
His friend just stared back at her with no idea what she was talking about.
• Eventually he found out what happened and his friend was understandably embarrassed.
3 – Slight Overreaction • A man from Montgomery County was definitely
not the right person to play a joke on.
• Peter Jok Atem was working with another man at a meat processing plant when Atem became
the butt of what should’ve been a harmless joke.
Another man pulled Atem’s chair away just as he went to sit down and he fell to the
floor.
The next day, Atem decided to get his revenge.
But instead of pranking him back, Atem straight up stabbed the guy to death.
• There’s no excuse for violence, not least over a classic chair prank.
2 – Overboard • When a group of friends went on a river
cruise to celebrate a bachelor party, they never imagined that one of them wouldn’t
be returning.
• British man Nishanthan Gnanathas was playfully wrestling with one of the bachelors on the
cruise ship when he fell and hit his head, knocking him unconscious before then falling
into the water below.
He was a notoriously good swimmer, so when he failed to resurface, his friends jumped
in to find him.
• Unfortunately they didn’t find his body and no murder charges were made on account
of it being accidental.
1 – Atomic Wedgie of Death • If you ever received a wedgie as a kid,
you know they’re pretty painful.
• In 2013 a man was having an argument with his stepfather when he broke out into a rage
so furious that he yanked his step-father’s underpants right over his head and around
his neck, generally referred to as an atomic wedgie.
The stepfather asphyxiated and died shortly after.
The assaulter claimed he was acting in self-defence when his stepfather was insulting his mother.
• He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter by wedgie.