April Fool's day pranks; do you have any good/bad/mean examples?

My one brother did this to another brother back before cell phones: oldest brother was staying at younger brothers house. Older brother had bought a lottery ticket and left it on the counter. So youngest brother wrote the ticket numbers on his hand and offered to call the lottery hot line to get the winning numbers. As younger brother pretended to read off the winning numbers, older brother was thinking he had won as each number was being “repeated” from the hot line. Totally funny to the rest of us. Not so much to my oldest brother.

Senior in high school; April 1st spent twenty minutes with mother and father taking Real Estate “For Sale” signs from our lawn before going to school. My mom was on the phone for a day calling all the Real Estate offices. Half the kids in my home room were snickering when I got to home room about 5 minutes late.

BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino

I want to go to the meat section of my local supermarket and when asked if I need help, point to the crab legs and say, “Are they supposed to twitch like that??”

A co-worker once told a story at lunch about a game of pool he got into. The other guy was pretty good and my friend won a couple of racks. Normally, when you’re winning, the other person will ask if you want to up the stakes and this is when you want to quit because this other player is going to turn on the talent and clean you out.
But my friend thought he could beat this guy so he said “Okay.”
But the other guy didn’t want to bet on a game of pool, he wanted to bet he could stick a cue ball completely inside his mouth! Well, you know how big a cue ball is, so my friend said “You’re on.”
But the cue ball didn’t quite get past the guy’s teeth so the guy held the ball there and smacked his head against the wall, the ball being in between his teeth and the wall, and it went right in!
I was riveted!
I was aghast!
And then I asked the dreaded question: “How did he get it out?”
And my friend looked me right in the eye and said “Stuck a cue stick up his ass.”

Came home from work, turned on the kitchen faucet…and got nailed in the face with water because my son had taped the sprayer handle down.
He had corn flakes in his bed that night.
;)

He had to sleep on cornflakes? That’s a funny prank.

Well he swept them out of the bed but you can never completely get them out until you wash them! I mean, you sit or lay before you know they are there and some break into tiny pieces!

Another time he stole a mannequin’s hand and stashed it all over the house…like on my pillow, in the knife drawer. He finally.returned the hand to its rightful owner.

My son was a shit! And HIS son is just like him!!

Our boss seth dressing up like a banana all day last year and acting like it’s no big deal.

On Facebook I posted a message to my son. I said,
“Christopher! It is April 1st, you stay on your side of the county and I’ll stay on mine! AND NO PHONE CALLS!!!”

The last phone call I got was a double prank on April Fools day 5 years ago. I was sitting in a convenience store parking lot, having just been fired from my job (which he didn’t know of course,) when he called. Told me his wife was expecting again.
I said, “Really?!”
He goes, “April Fools!”
I’‘m like, “Chris. Not nice!”
He goes, “April Fools again! She IS expecting!”

Correction: it was * 6 years ago. *