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To ask what the meanest prank or trick someone has played on you?

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MissionItsPossible · 07/09/2017 16:30

I'll start. When I was a teenager someone found half a dead cockroach and buried it in a plate of chips whilst I had gone to get a drink. I came back and started chatting to them and eating chips but not looking at my plate. I didn't eat the cockroach thankfully but actually had it in my hand and poised ready to eat it when I noticed the gleeful/horrified expression on their face, looked at what I had in my fingers and threw it on the floor whilst retching. I felt sick! (And threw my chips away because they had been contaminated) Angry

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MissionItsPossible · 07/09/2017 16:31

Thread title should be what IS the meanest prank or trick someone has played on you

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Dottie39 · 07/09/2017 16:44

My brother told me he had hidden a surprise for me in the cupboard under the stairs - I went to look like a mug and of course he shut me in there and wedged the door for the next hour. It was dark and I am still claustrophobic. I was six, he was fifteen and babysitting me.

SundaySalon · 07/09/2017 18:01

I worked in a clothing store and used to do really early starts, about 6.30am. My colleagues (who usually didn't start until 7.00am) got there twenty minutes before me and set up a manikin in black jeans and a black hoody standing in the staff room doorway. They turned off all the lights, reset the alarm and locked the doors. It was winter so pitch black outside too, when I swung that door open I genuinely thought I was going to pass out through fear. Even when I realised it wasn't a real person (serial killer) I was still screaming. I refused to go in alone from then on, just incase.

To their credit they planned it for a week and had to get the spare keys and alarm codes off the manager especially for the occasion.. it's funny now but I got very precious about it at the time Blush

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MissionItsPossible · 07/09/2017 18:05

Dottie Flowers you poor thing, has he ever apologised or know how much it affected you?

Salon I would have probably shit myself and to this day still wouldn't laugh about it!

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hackmum · 07/09/2017 18:05

That's not funny, Sunday, that's just cruel.

DubaiismyBlackpool · 07/09/2017 18:08

When I was 14 my younger brother sneaked into my bedroom and hid under my duvet. I came into my room, switched the light off, ran across the floor (frightened of the dark) and jumped into bed. All of a sudden an evil laugh erupts from next to my head. I screamed blue murder, mum came and clipped me for making a fuss.

I still check my duvet almost 40 years later.

DeadGood · 07/09/2017 18:11

I hate this sort of stuff, I'm really glad my friends and family aren't the type to engage in it.

followTheyellowbrickRoad · 07/09/2017 18:15

When my son was small he was given a inviting to a party. He was really excited as he didn't often get invited. The birthday girl had used a left over invitation and wrote it out with the wrong time and place. He's grown up now and it still upsets up to think about it.

DanHumphreyIsA · 07/09/2017 18:17

Someone played one of those videos to me where you have to watch carefully and closely and the ring lady or whatever jumps out and screams at you. It was the first time I'd ever seen one and the PC volume was at max.
This was over 10 years ago, to this day, before I watch a youtube video I check the comments to make sure its a genuine video.

jimijack · 07/09/2017 18:19

My friend stuck a sanitary pad to the back of my jacket and I walked around Manchester sporting this aged 15.

Bitch.

DanHumphreyIsA · 07/09/2017 18:24

@followtheyellowbrickroad thats horrible your poor son!

dibdobs · 07/09/2017 18:30

Yellowbrickroad Did u tell the mother I would have been fuming ! Worst thing was my first job in a pet shop, bitchy colleagues who knew I was scared of spiders and one of the tarantulas died and they grabbed me and put it dien my back and squashed it onto my back , I remember a leg coming off in my bra it was awful! Cows!

ilovesooty · 07/09/2017 18:49

I was in my early teens and my friend had a boyfriend. She offered to set me up with his mate and spent ages describing him and planning what I should wear. After a week or so she admitted she'd made him up.

PuffinNose · 07/09/2017 18:49

In primary school, someone left some dead snails in my desk drawer over a school holiday. When we came back they'd started to decompose over my books and my desk STANK and even after I'd been made to wash it all down and tidy up the remains (blgh) it still smelt. Obviously I got blamed and as a consequence they made me keep the smelly desk for the rest of the year and redo the work which was ruined. Never found out who did that.

In another primary school, I got another girl into trouble so she pinched all her arms so there were marks and then got her friend to tell a teacher I'd done it. Her expertise was the perfectly timed bursting into tears. Obviously I got into lots of trouble. In a way I was (am!) In awe of how well she planned and executed it all.

DanHumphrey - someone got me with one those videos. It was terrifying!

I'm hardly innocent though. I have no idea how I found out but I realised the back of a friend's wardrobe was loose and I could squeeze behind it and you couldn't tell. So I did and then started making spooky noises. I can't remember where my friend thought I was during this but needless to say she got properly scared, was screaming and refused to go back into her room. I sneaked out, all innocent. I don't think they ever figured out what I did but her parents were highly suspicious. We moved not long after so I never owned up. For all I know, she may still be terried of wardrobes.

PuffinNose · 07/09/2017 18:51

Followtheyellowbrickroad thst is horrible. Pure nasty. :( Did you tell her parents?

flyingspaghettimonster · 07/09/2017 18:53

A few years ago my son was twirling a wooden Xmas ornament around by the string, and it flew out of his hand and smashed our 60" plasma tv. It was back when those were still $2,500. We couldn't afford to replace it for ages and had no other tv etc... we thought it had been insured against accidental damage, but turned out the shop assistant had lied about what was covered.

A while after we got a replacement, my son found a screen saver of a cracked screen, and thought it would be hilarious to set it up for the new tv. I was less than amused...

SantanicoPandemonium · 07/09/2017 18:57

Someone I know got given one of those joke scratch cards in the pub one night, the poor woman was having a pretty rough time of it financially and she thought she'd won £250k. It was awful when she realised it was fake - she went to being on top of the world to so disappointed Sad She put on a brave face, but you could see a mile off how gutted she was.

Margay · 07/09/2017 19:04

When I was an undergrad, I had £15 a week to pay for food and bus fares after my accommodation was paid for. High-intensity degree so couldn't get a job, so I had to skip a lot of meals. As I walked home one day I saw a £10 on the ground, which fluttered away as I tried to grab it. A kid started laughing - he was in his garden and had attached invisible thread to it. It sounds stupid now but I was so bloody hungry I cried.

amermaideindesguise · 07/09/2017 19:05

some of these are horrible.Shock

PuffinNose · 07/09/2017 20:08

Setanico those things just aren't funny but especially if you are having financial issues to start with.
There was a programme about someone who thought it would be funny to trick his lottery syndicate into thinking they'd won millions. He let them put deposits on houses and all sorts before he owned up. They were daft to spend the money before they had it but it doesn't excuse him letting them.

DeathByMascara · 07/09/2017 20:13

Some joker pulling a chair from under me just as I was about to sit down in a restaurant. Buggered my back up for weeks, and I was so embarrassed I burst in to tears. Was about 19/20.

At school, a girl came up behind me when we were sitting in th canteen and started chatting to the people facing me. I noticed their gleeful expressions and realised she had been pouring sachets of salt in to my hair while speaking. It wasn't supposed to be funny to me though.

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MissionItsPossible · 07/09/2017 20:14

Oh wow, some of these are beyond what I had in mind, sorry for a negative thread, as amermaid said some of these are horrible, truly horrible, especially imo followTheyellowbrickRoad's post, what a horrible spiteful child. Your poor son Sad
dibdobs Are you on MN posting from prison!? That's where I'd be right now if someone had done that to me. Angry

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DoJo · 07/09/2017 20:17

When I was little I was looking through photos with my dad, and asked if there were any of me. He told me that I was such an ugly baby they didn't take any of me and sure enough, I never saw any.

I believed this until I was in my teens when I happened to mention it to my mum who was horrified and told me that they had had all the photos from that time put onto slides and that was why there were no photos. She gave me loads and I had them printed out - I didn't look that bad, but I never really forgave my dad or shook off the insecurity.

followTheyellowbrickRoad · 07/09/2017 20:19

I spoke to the school who said they would deal with it. I don't know what happened after that.

gamerchick · 07/09/2017 20:20

A 'friend ' emptied a bit of a cig out and put the insides of a banger (the type you chuck off the ground) I think it was then replaced the tobacco. Gave it to me to smoke where it exploded in my face. No injuries.

There was a kid in my brothers class who was a bit neglected and unkept so got called all the usual names and picked on. One Christmas he gave them all Christmas cards where the majority ripped them up in front of his face. It still upsets me to think of that. Kids can be really mean.