The meanest joke/trick anyone has ever played on you?

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I randomly got thinking about this event which led to my second story below and I wondered if it would make a for a good thread.

My first cruel joke was when my husbands workmates arranged the Christmas night out in a nearby city. We were going out in fancy dress, to a comedy club and then staying over. They decided we would go in fancy dress, the theme being the 70s. DH and I bought our outfits and when we turned up to the meeting point we discovered it was a joke on my DH and noone was wearing fancy dress until later in the evening. I got change into my 'next day' clothes which being in my 20s and being someone who made an effort was smart but as a young Mum who didn't go out much or ever stay away, I was robbed of a change to get dressed up nice for the earlier drinks.

The second story was on my wedding day. Our two photographers were DHs friends. We went for a shoot away from the venue in the back of one of their cars and they gave us a scratchcard as a wedding present. I scratched it and we had won £10,000. Everything went in slow motion, we were 21 and this would allow us to put a deposit on a house and start our married life off really special. It felt really magical to win that on our wedding day. A minute later they started giggling and I realised it was a fake scratchcard.

I'm glad to say none of these pranksters are in our lives anymore!!!

In the 50's my DM was about 8 when she invited by another girl to her birthday party. My DM was pretty shy and very excited. Being the 50's she got dressed up in her best dress, a present was bought and my Gran walked her round.

As you can imagine on this thread, there was no party and only one victim.. DM had to stand on the front doorstep while her Mum was being told by the girl's Mum that there wasn't any party while the girl watched from inside the house. Not the world's most intelligent "prank" but it must have been crushing and also a working class, post war family didn't exactly have spare cash to spend on non-existent birthday presents.

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OMG I hope it stopped at phone calls xxx

Some people are evil. I am not a prankster.
Mine is so disturbing I dont think it is considered a prank, definitely an evil act.
When I was a young teen I had sex I was to young, I told my best friend.
He moved away I got a letter a few months letter of newspaper cuttings like the body guard from him to say sorry but he was HIV positive.
I was 15 in Ireland in the 1990's. 3 years later best friend told someone she done it, I truly believed I was HIV positive until that day. I was anorexic when it came out.
I never thought someone else wrote it, I was very naive.
Wow have not thought of it for years.
If some of these on the thread happened to my DC I'd go ape shit on the person.

Bar from a few, this thread should be renamed 'meanest cases of child and general abuse forced on you'

@Recrim wtf had happened?
Omg not funny but kinda ...

Jesus Christ. Most of these aren't pranks. They are vicious, particularly mean, nasty!

When I was 14, I went to stay with my aunt and every morning I went down on the beach to walk the dogs with her new partner. Every morning, he told me that there was a family tradition to swim out to the island in the bay, and that all my older siblings had done it when they were my age, and that I should too. It never crossed my mind that he was joking! So one morning, I wore my bathers under my clothes, stripped off on the beach and plunged into the sea. He shouted out after me, but I ignored him.

Anyway, it took a long, long time to swim out to the island. He had said that my siblings had done it before breakfast so I was ashamed that it was taking me hours. He sent the life guard out in a boat to rescue me, but I absolutely refused to get into the boat with them. How humiliating to be rescued when my siblings had all done it with no trouble! By the time I reached the island I was so, so tired, too tired to even climb up. I just tapped a rock and swam back.

My aunt was absolutely furious with me, and I thought that it was because I had taken so long, and I felt ashamed. It was only years later, that I found out that it had all been a lie! My siblings had never swum out there! Also, he had not told my aunt the truth about his joke. He told her that I had just gone crazy and swum out for no reason even though he tried to stop me.
It's quite funny in retrospect but would have been less funny if i had drowned lol.

Didn't happen to me, but to friends who had a council house and had advertised for a swap nearer her family. They got all excited at an answer that seemed made in heaven: right location, right size, right rent. I heard all about it and saw how thrilled she was. The icing on the cake was that the swappers had a dishwasher and were planning to leave it. She had a time arranged to ring and discuss final details with the other party and two other couples - 'friends' - piled in to listen.

After she had chatted excitedly and finalised the deal, the 'friends' did the big reveal. The house didn't exist. The swapper was a friend's sister; the pictures were of the sister's ex-council house that she had spent a fortune doing up. It was all a massive set up for a joke at her and her husband's expense. Cue guffaws of delighted laughter at their cleverness and her gullibility.

The friendships ended that evening. I was left to explain later to one of the jokers that it's only ever acceptable and funny if the reveal brings joy and relief, not bitter disappointment.

I had not known how stupid and gratuitously cruel people could be to their supposedly dear friends until that episode.

Why the fuck are people (the pranksters) like this?!?

They enjoy the power

What's so lacking in them they feel the need??

They only feel good when they are being 'better' than others in their own eyes
The parent ones to their own kids are particularly disturbing.
Just awful.

Yep.

I'm sitting here and my belly keeps doing little sumasaults. I know my mother did some awful stuff to me but I have obviously blanked it out.

She would do something and then at intervals tell people how funny it was and how we all laughed. In reality she was the only one laughing.

The wedding ones I think are getting less common because hotels / venues are on to things like this. I went to a wedding a few years ago and a group of us had created a 'first night kit', condoms for the first night, paracetamol in case you have a headache, crisps in case you are hungry, lots of bits to give them a laugh. The hotel wouldn't let us anywhere near the room and quizzed us about what was in the packet and I think they even checked before putting it in the bedroom.

The one saying a child has died, that's horrendous. I was once at work (cardiology department) many years ago. My manager had an unusual name and a request came through for an ECG on a patient who had the same surname and the same first name as her son. I made a comment, something like 'Oh look it's the same name as your son', and she didn't hear me correctly and thought her son had been brought it. I was mortified, the misunderstanding was for only a couple of seconds.

Pranks are only funny if they are a) actually funny and b) something the recipient finds funny, not humiliating or hurtful.

I am currently on the look out for a can of tuna. My carer and I started a game a couple of days ago, tesco delivered and he put everything away apart from the tuna.

He's just missed it with the bagless deliveries, but now it appears in odd places, in his hat, under a soft toy. It's his turn to hide it and mine to find it.

Here's a harmless fun one my sister and I pulled on our cousin to lighten the mood.
My cousin lived with us due to her mum (my aunt) dying when my cousin was young so she is more like a sister to us as we grew up together and were treated all equally.
Anyway, my mom bought a pineapple and cut it all up nicely. She put it in a tupperware in the fridge for easy access. My cousin ate the whole thing. She ate the whole pineapple and when it came to pudding later that day my mom went to get the pineapple but it was gone. No harm done, my cousin was hungry and ate a healthy snack.

My sister and I printed off hundreds of tiny pineapple pictures and hid them in her room. Everywhere! For months she was finding pineapples hidden in drawers, in socks etc. We all laughed and still reference the pineapple incident now

My DH in a crowded Disney park. He had DD in a pushchair and he pushed her behind a display. Only his head was visible above the display and he called over to me “Have you got DD?l” There must have been less than a second between him saying that and pushing her pram into view but I instantly burst into tears. I can’t think why he thought it would be funny.

When I was in snr school I pulled off a boys popper tracksuit botttoms. I thought it would be funny but when I saw how embarrassed and upset he was I felt really bad.

My dh (school age) peed in a bottle intending to get a mate to drink it but a girl drank it by mistake. He felt really bad and looked an absolute c*nt.

When I was 12 a friend made up a boy and pretended he liked me, got a nerdy boy she knew to call me pretending to be my hot love interest, wrote love letters, the whole lot. I wasn't embarrassed when I found out the truth. I just thought it was a weird thing to do. How would I have known she made it all up.

Sometimes pranks are how you take them. One person's prank is another person's bullying.

Op, your friends/dp's "friends" are c*nts.
Are you still in contact with them? I'd phase then out and try to make new ones.

My DH in a crowded Disney park. He had DD in a pushchair and he pushed her behind a display. Only his head was visible above the display and he called over to me “Have you got DD?l” There must have been less than a second between him saying that and pushing her pram into view but I instantly burst into tears. I can’t think why he thought it would be funny.

From the outside I actually laughed because this is so blackly funny as a parent ... But if my dh actually did something like this, I can honestly say I'd probably be locked up for attempted murder.

i told my brother that my 30th was smurf themed grin. even sent him photos of a smurf cake and decorations in the run up. he showed up painted blue, white shorts and white hat. it was actually "roaring 20s" theme and everyone else was in pearls and flapper dresses. except papa smurf.

You're rather pathetic, aren't you.

I remember at uni out at a club had an issue with me ( mostly down to jealousy) and kept throwing drink all over me when I wasn’t aware. I clocked it the third or fourth time. I was drenched and it totally ruined my night. She never admitted it. She acts like some sort of saint on fb now as one of her kids has a minor disability but I know deep down what a nasty, bullying mean streak she has.

I went to a gruesome office party at my xhs workplace and they'd hired actors to play terrible waiters. A bit like "the play that goes wrong". Meant to be funny but one of the woman "waiters" rudely told me my dress was too tight. Ha ha not funny.

I'd got the dress cheap at TKMaxx and paid for it to be let out and thought I'd done a good job if looking glam. She was playing a part but it was the strangest idea of a "fun" evening and I was genuinely crestfallen and upset.

Re the smurf thing, I would actually find that funny if dsis did it to me assuming it was a low stakes party and a friendly crowd ( ie not populated by my boss, my arch nemesis or my ex and his new gf). Would at least be a talking point.

I’d put it on a different category to the rest of these.

That was sort of a hardcore thing for you to do, Moneyperson. Glad the twat got a fright he deserved as well.

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At school, 2 twin sisters from another year came up to me and asked me if I wanted to hear a joke. Ok, I said.

"When will there be a white Xmas?"
"I don't know" I said.
"When all you P*s get out of our country."

They also threw food at me in the dining room at a later date.

Fucking racist cunts. Hope their lives turned to shit.

My DF always thought he was great at practical jokes. I was and still am terrified of spiders, my dad picked up on that and would chase me around the house with them. Once I had locked myself in the bathroom he would then try and push them under the door to me. He would also tell me that whenever he would find one he would put it in my room.

He also decided one day I had a crush on a celeb, which I didn't (I was 9). He would put pictures of him all around my room, draws and in my school bag, so they would fall out once I opened my bag at school.

Bar from a few, this thread should be renamed 'meanest cases of child and general abuse forced on you'

I am really hoping that some of these aren't true. Some of the stories in this thread are utterly haunting.

@paranoidmum2 thank you, yes they were fucking racist cunts.

I just remembered another. My boyfriend at the time was working abroad for 6 months, a girl we knew was out there with him, I spoke to her occasionally but not often. He had been having issues with being ill for no apparent reason (3/4 months later he needed a blood transfusion and was told that he'd obviously injured himself at some point and the long term illness was related) but anyway, this girl messaged me telling me that he was really not well, she was really worried about him, etc. I tried to call him and couldn't get hold of him. Couldn't get back to her either. I continued to call with no answer so obviously was getting very worried. A few hours later she messages again saying he's been sent to hospital as he's fainted or something. Again, really worried but hear nothing more. He eventually called and admitted that it was a prank and he was fine. Should have dumped him then tbh. Stayed with him another 1.5 years the prick.