• From feeding your teachers hash brownies to¬¬¬¬¬¬ faking your death to torment
your ex-wife, we count nine pranks that went horribly wrong!
9 – Cross-Dressing Doll gets Security Officer the Sack,
• In 1990, Toy ‘R’ Us nightwatchman Ron Zero decided to spice up his shift – not
with hash brownies, but by dressing up one of the Ken dolls in Barbie’s clothes.
• Seems like a harmless enough prank – until customer Carina Guillot and her twelve-year-old
daughter Jocelyn later caught sight of the unique Mattel doll and thought they had a
rare collector’s item.
The cashier did not dissuade them.
• Not long after, the pair was offered a cool four grand for their rare find.
The story quickly went national and the bored nightwatchman was forced to own up to his
gag.
The whole thing caused such a drama that Ron was fired four days later.
The moral?
Dressing dolls in drag isn’t cool, kids.
8 – Co-Worker Set Alight for Announcing Wedding,
 Forget strippers and beer, in 2010 concreter Gianni Catanzaro had a different kind of bachelor
party experience – one that resembled torture.
On the eve of his wedding, Gianni was grabbed by two of his co-workers, punched in the groin
and had his hands and legs bound with duct tape.
With friends like that who needs enemies?
 His supervisor, Leonardo Zaccardelli, hacked off Gianni’s clothes with a knife
and pelted him with eggs while he stood in his underwear.
This was supposed to be the end of the prank, but Zaccardelli took it too far, pouring petrol
at Gianni’s feet and setting it alight.
Gianni was unable to escape and had his legs badly burnt.
 Gianni was wheelchair-bound and had to be taken to hospital nearly every day.
His wedding and honeymoon were subsequently ruined and it took him so long to recover
from his burns that he lost his job.
The two workers responsible were fined and received good behaviour bonds.
7 – Dentist Gets Caught Turning Patient into Pig,
• Dr Robert Woo is a dentist with a strange sense of humour.
While doing light dental work on an employee, he decided to install a pair of false boar
tusks over her teeth.
• The gag was a bit of an inside joke, as this particular employee had grown up on a
pig farm.
Woo took a photo of his tusked patient while she was still anesthetised, then removed the
tusks and replaced them with the usual caps – no harm done.
• Woo could not help sharing the pictures with the rest of the office, but when Miss
Temporary Piggy found out she was not amused and sued her boss for $250,000.
• Woo’s insurance company refused to cover the suit, so Woo sued them, forcing them to
fork out $750,000.
I mean, they cover fire and theft, but not ‘turning your disgruntled employee into
a pig’ That’s just ridiculous.
6 – Heart Attack Induced by False Deadline, • Glenn Howlett was a London City Hall worker
and textbook workaholic who could always be seen racing about trying to meet deadlines.
While on holiday, Glenn received a memo that the stressful report he’d been working on
was actually due two weeks earlier than he’d planned for.
• Returning home, Glenn and his workers raced to meet the impossible deadline.
The stress he experienced was so great that he collapsed from a suspected heart attack.
• From his hospital bed, Glenn apologised for failing to meet the deadline and applied
for a dishonourable early retirement.
The pranksters were then forced to inform him about their hilarious joke.
• Glenn promptly sued City Hall for damages and, weeks later, a memo was sent around discouraging
workers from pulling pranks.
The memo was sent on April 1st… 5 – Hash Brownies Take Out Entire Staff,
• At the end of their last year of school, eighteen-year-olds Joseph Tellini and Ian
Walker decided to bake all their teachers some brownies as a parting gift.
• But these brownies had a secret ingredient – and, no, it wasn’t love.
Unfortunately, these teachers had never experienced the wonders of hash cakes before, so within
hours all nineteen staff members became ill and had to be rushed to the emergency room.
• The canteen was also wiped out as waves of these teachers got serious cases of the
munchies.
The students were ordered to do volunteer work.
4 – Man Convinces Ex-Wife He’s Hanged Himself,
 In 2004, angry lunatic Randy Wood instructed his ex-wife to come over because he had ‘something
to show her’.
She had moved on since their separation, but Woody had one last emotional head game to
play with her.
 Upon her arrival she discovered her ‘late’ ex-husband hanging by a noose from a tree
in the front yard.
Distressed and probably feeling responsible, she immediately called 911.
Immediately a whole crowd of cops, firemen and paramedics arrived.
 As firemen cut Wood down, they discovered he was totally fine and that he’d been supporting
his body weight with a concealed harness.
Randy Wood found his ex-wife’s grief hysterical, but he didn’t enjoy his $1,000 fine or year
in jail.
3 – Dead Dog on Car Prank, • Dog lovers, you might want to turn away
for this one.
In 2004, Paul Goobie played a disturbingly sick practical joke on his co-worker, Kevin
Meloy.
He somehow got hold of a dead Chihuahua and tied it to his co-worker’s car bumper.
• Kevin, who was hard of hearing, was completely unaware of the deceased animal flopping about
at the rear of his vehicle.
He drove for miles and failed to notice the disgusted honks of the angry motorists around
him.
• Eventually, Kevin became aware of his deceased passenger and alerted the police.
Paul was charged with unlawful disposal of a dead animal and being a dick.
2 – Fake Press Release Causes Financial Crisis,
• On August 25, 2000, financial journalists received credible word that Emulex Corp had
announced revised its earnings and was being investigated for accounting irregularities
resulting in the stepping down of its CEO.
• Because of the news, the company’s stocks plummeted from $113.06 to $43 in the space
of two hours.
Furious shareholders demanded to know why they hadn’t been consulted.
No one at Emulex had been consulted because the whole thing was a fake.
The CEO wasn’t leaving, earnings were fine and there was no impending investigation.
• It turned out twenty-three-year-old Mark Jakoba had made the fake leak while interning
at a small internet news company.
He stood to make a profit and thought the ensuing chaos would be funny.
He reportedly did not enjoy his jail time.
1 – High School Prank Deemed Act of Terror,  On the last day of high school, Tyell
Morton played a practical joke that almost landed him in the slammer.
He snuck into the girls’ changing room through a window and put a sex doll in the showers.
 Unfortunately, his shenanigans backfired in a big way as someone saw him climbing through
the window, dressed in a hoodie and gloves and carrying a big black box.
They immediately assumed he was planting a bomb, so the Indiana Police bomb squad were
called and the school was evacuated.
 Tyell Morton was arrested and charged with institutional criminal mischief, which
could have potentially cost him eight years in prison.
Fortunately, he only received a suspended sentence and a few weeks of community service.