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!!!

The fake scratchcard one was done on an old colleague of mine a few years back. By her husband!!!

She got a picture from him while we were at work of the winning card and was absolutely over the moon. Devastated when he text her back an hour later saying it was a fake.

He wasn't a very nice person.

@Brimful. That’s horrific. I couldn’t ever imagine doing something or seeing so awful. I’m sending you many stranger over the internet hugs!!

@ShamefulBlanket that's awful.

Not long after DM and DStepF actually set up home together so I would have been about 11/12 I was having a strop with DStepF about me being told off for not shutting the back door properly so that it let the heat out. Anyway he then goes into the garden and after he'd walked out the back door I slammed it shut behind him to kind of prove a point and he goes 'arrghh!!' Holding up his hand to the window but with one finger bend over IYSWIM so it looked like it was missing I mean obviously fake but part of my brain clearly just freaked out and I proper fainted bouncing my head off the kitchen table and vomited all over the floor.... I next remember being in the back of the car (on the way to A&E) to him telling my DM that he was only joking and he didn't realise I'd react like that and her saying that she'd told him that I was a much more 'sensitive soul' than his children and he just couldn't do things like that to me! Long story short i got a to keep one of the pictures of my brain from the scan, their kitchen table still has a big dent in it from my forehead and we never EVER make jokes about fingers! (Although jokes about NOT making jokes are regular and hilarious )

I love a prank, filling up balloons with water on birthdays then asking my son to burst them for me. Sticking wallpaper on the outside of my sons closes bedroom door and filling the space with packing polystyrene etc.

My ex pulled the most horrendous prank on me though and I never forgave him for it.

My older kids were at a relative's house for a few hours, I had a 3 day old baby we were sitting watching TV and I dozed off.

He shook me awake and there was a news flash on the TV, loads of footage and really realistic looking events that was announcing that everyone had started attacking everyone else with nuclear bombs, it really did look so realistic, and it was when Korea and America were going toe to toe as well.

It then said that there were bombs heading for the UK and wished everyone luck then the TV went dead.

We live beside somewhere that would get bombed for sure. I started freaking out, my kids weren't with me, I was a new mum again, I was howling trying to get in touch with my relative. I was in a blind panic.

Then he started laughing and told me it was a YouTube video.

I was fucking livid. I felt sick. He thought it was hysterical.

I still cant fathom why he thought it was funny. Even thinking about it now makes me feel ill.

I fucking detest practical jokes. This is very minor compared to others on this thread but my ex liked to hide my stuff for a joke - eg my watch, my wallet. Tbf he stopped when he saw it upset me but it took me right back to being bullied at school by others who loved hiding my belongings too. Why do people think this is funny?

A long time ago I was very pregnant. In fact it was only 7 days to my due date. I only finished work 3 days before. had just done a 4:30am Heathrow pick up of “D”H, who had just spent 3 weeks in New Zealand being shmoozed by companies wanting his business. He had had a great time. Travelled via HKong on the way back, spending an extra day there to “see the sights”.
I was presented with a Tiffany box and was quite excited thinking he had got me something lovely given I had uncomplaining put up with quite a bit clearly. I open the box to find, not a lovely gift for me, but a solid silver teething ring for the baby. Very useful! Ok very pretty but the comment that went with it was “ I thought it would be really funny to watch your face as I knew you would think it was for you”. Twat.
I wish I could say I threw him out but it took another 2 years to get free and another 3 years to appreciate how cruel he was.

Alexa you are horrible that isn't funny at all.

My cousin once told me he'd rung for a taxi from an obscure railway station for the fun of it, knowing that he didn't need one or know anybody who did. He had no grudge against the company, just found it amusing.

@checkerbabes and @boredboredboredboredbored. You had me in tears. Massive massive hugs. Your both worth more than 1000 of them xxx

When I was 18 and in my 1st job, we had an office full of pranksters. My car had broken down so I had come to work in my Mums.... I'd mentioned this and said how protective Mum was of her car as it was new and she was very proud of it. Some lovely person rang my extension and said could I go to the car park immediately, security were at my car and a device had been discovered underneath it... they needed the keys to move it to the security area and do a controlled explosion (high security Government building). I ran to the car park, sobbing uncontrollably and thinking "oh my god, she's going to kill me" to find a note on my car saying "gotcha". I then had to go back into the office to see them all laughing, and I then got a bollocking from my Boss for leaving my desk for so long and joining in their pranks

I was nearly raped at a party when I was 14. I’d kissed this super popular boy about 30 mins beforehand. He then said I was making it all up. Which in turn made everyone think I’d made the attack up

I got w phone call later in the week. With someone saying they were coming to my house to kill me. My father was a police officer. So my mum said to tell the girls at my school (who we thought made the call) that because of my fathers job. Our calls were recorded and the numbers were kept for us

It worked a treat. The next day the girl tearfully admitted to it.

I never saw or someone to them ever again.

They’ve all cocked their lives up it seems. Karma.

I can’t believe the cruelty of some of these - especially the ones inflicted on people by their parents, how could they be so awful to their own child?

I cannot abide “pranksters”. My older brother was always pulling stupid pranks, very immature stuff but it’s one of his personality traits I really dislike. I’ve always found him to be a bit of a saddo.

The thing that is so nasty and insidious about ‘pranks’ is that the prankster themselves seems to get off on the power of making someone feel stupid. My dB was always playing stupid tricks, putting stink bombs in your bedroom etc which on the surface may have seemed harmless but were designed to make the victim feel embarrassed or look stupid - and always to someone younger/weaker. I suspect because he is really quite nasty at heart.
One day he pushed it too far with me and I flipped out and called him a dickhead etc - we got into a row and he didn’t like that and squared up to me (Even though he’s 10 years older and I was pregnant at the time). Made me see his true colours. Actually writing this reinforces what a dick he is. His long term girlfriend has just left him and I suspect she got sick and tired of his “jokes” too.

In a precious job I had to man an 'advice line' where members of the public could ring to make complaints. My boyfriend (who became my husband unfortunately but no ex thank god) used to ring the line when he knew it was my shift and pretend to be an irate person. He did this a couple of times and I had to keep my cool in front of my boss when he owned up to it being fake on each occasion.

Previous not precious! Didnt like the job that much

Ive heard some awful stories about fake scratchcards. Really misjudged.

@Pomfluff
I wish I could say it was an honest mistake but the nurse who was in the room with us came up to me when we were at reception on the way out, and apologised and said she hadn’t agreed with the doctor in doing it.

Some of these are so sad. Nothing awful but I’d started at a new boarding school and my house had a v ‘cool’ group. About the second week in there was some kind of inter house debate or talk in the evening, in a hall I hadn’t been to so I was going to have to go at the same time as my year group. I said I needed to nip to the loo and to wait, rushed in and out and the whole group had buggered off without me. I was too shy to wander round the school looking for the venue (or worse still enter the hall knowing they’d ditched me and try to find a seat on my own). Missed the event and when they all came laughing back later no one acknowledged I’d not been there or explained they’d had to rush off or anything. So not a practical joke but still stings a bit!

God some of these. My heart breaks.

@alexafindfilms you are vile

Mine is I’d just started secondary school, I was at an all girls school and there was a boy on my train who I really fancied who went to the boys school.

One day on the way home, he beckoned me over and I went over, he asked me out. I was 13 and I couldn’t believe he wanted to go out with me. He asked me in front of all friends so I thought he must really like me. So I said excitedly said yes. To have him laugh in my face and told “I’d never been seen dead with likes of you”

I was 13. In front of a packed train with kids from both schools. I’m 43 now so it was 30 years ago and I remember it literally like it was yesterday.

I felt the humiliation all the way through school as I had to see him every day. In the sixth form I started dating the rugby caption from his school - and suddenly he started giving me the time of day and trying to be my friend.

Then on our last day of secondary school sixth form, me and some mates were a bit shit and decide to get some eggs and flour and start flour bombing the boys cars parked outside school.

I went straight up to his car, eggs and flour all over it. It felt good. Revenge had taken 6 years.

He phoned me, saying he knew it was me and was going to call the police. I told him go ahead, it was no more than he deserved and to go fuck himself

Never heard from him again

I could cry at these stories. No pranksters involved, just sadistic, nasty humans who are fucked up and want others to feel shit and powerless like they do.

I'll be vague. A family member took my child on an outing and just before they were due to set off home, rang me screaming and hyperventilating down the phone, saying that my child had had a fatal accident. I can't even describe how I felt. Then they started laughing, 'it was only a joke'. I've made them feel silly apparently as I didn't laugh along when they revealed it was a prank.

I've remembered an actually funny prank... just to perhaps lighten the mood.

We had a new puppy when I was a kid. The usual puppy training accidents. Dad had been doing some DIY and had some leftover expanding foam. He sprayed some into the shape of a poo and painted it brown. We all went round to the neighbours and he locked up. When we got back mum was the first in and the poo was on the hallway floor. She was saying "oh dear" when Dad brushed past her saying "not to worry Alice, I'll get this one!" And grabbed it with his bare hands and shoved it in his pocket. Her face was brilliant.
We still mention that joke when a pet has a poo incident "unfortunately it wasn't expanding foam..."
Anyway that's what I think of as a practical joke. Just silly and no one being upset.

Who the fuck pretends a child has died as a prank??

@ShamefulBlanket
I had similar when I was at school.
One girl from a group of "friends" grabbed my phone from me and called a boy that I had a crush on. She pretended to be me, saying loads of embarrassing things and telling him I loved him.
It went round the whole year group and nobody believed it wasn't me on the phone. I was a shy girl with no confidence and it was awful.
To make it worse I had to share a table with him in science class, and before this happened it was a nice break from this usual group of "friends" as none of them were in that class. I used to enjoy being part of a different group during that class with people who weren't always making digs at my confidence. After the phone call though, nobody believed me and ended up thinking I'd lied through embarrassment. My school experience was generally pretty soul crushing

Sagradafamiliar, that is the worst one in the thread. Who the fuck would do that? Very, very disturbed person. I can't even imagine how you felt for those few seconds/minutes.