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!!!

Beadles about was awful. And everyone had to pretend to be a good sport and find it oh so funny when it was revealed that they had been stitched up.

When I was about 8, I went on a school camping trip. One of the boys from my class made friends with me and spent loads of time talking to me - I was really flattered and happy. He told me that a space ship had landed in the woods near by and I went with him to have a look. When we got to the clearing, all his friends jumped out and stole the sweets I had just bought in the tuck shop. They all ran away laughing. It was so clever and brutal - I'm 44 and it still makes me sad to think about it.

As a student I spent a summer working on a kibbutz and tried to learn some basic Hebrew phrases from the youngsters. I only found out after nearly 10 weeks that when I was saying what I thought was "Good morning" I was, in fact, saying "Go to hell"

God - mine is really minor compared to these ( Tribbles one is sweet, though )
Group of boys with older, scary sister told me she wanted to see me - l nervously spent all afternoon mooching round the village trying to find her. That's it ... I want to hug everyone else on here, some people are utter bastards!

Wow these are awful. My Grandad was a silly prankster. I think back and smile about some of them, walking in to grans house to find all photos of us had googley eyes and fake beards. Silly things that made us smile.

I dont really have an example, My DB was just a horrible bastard from the moment he turned 17. Put fag ends in my drink etc. Stopped when I kicked him in his bollox, not suggesting it was the greatest response but after swallowing a fag butt I saw red.

My dh went to court for traffic offenses as a teen, just for faulty lights and minor stuff but he missed the ‘producer’ so had to appear.

He and his brother thought It’d be hilarious for bro to ring and say he’d been sent down.

Wasn’t.

Good grief there are some nasty, vindictive fuckers out there.

Mine is that when I was 13 a boy at school pretended to ask me on a date. When we met he secretly recorded the conversation so he and his friends could have a good laugh at me later. Not as bad as some of these, but really made me feel shit.

I was/am quite introverted and a friend wanted to throw me a birthday party. It really would be the last thing I’d like. She asked year after year and I continuously said no way!

One year she invited me to her house for dinner. I walked in to a house full of people (most I barely knew). I asked why she had done it and she said that SHE wanted a party. I was so hurt and hated every second of it. Our relationship was never the same.

When I was about 15 (early 90s), I fancied a 'friend's' brother. She and her cool group told me they had shown him a photo of me and he had said I was really pretty. We even spoke on the phone. Then I found out that they had actually shown him a picture of another girl at school. It still makes me feel hot with humiliation and shame. I never felt pretty, or fancied, like those 'trendies' and I was so thrilled. People can be very cruel.

When I was maybe about 4 or 5 I was playing out in the street with my older brother and all the kids from the street (as you did in the 80s) it was a boiling hot day and I asked one of the girls whose house we were near if I could have a drink she came out with a mug of water Inwasnsonhot I tipped my head back and started downing it only to discover she had actually filled the mug from the recently boiled kettle!

Meanest one I remember was as a young teen.
I was abused by members of a pedophile ring as a young teen. I'm not saying this for sympathy but I have to disclose the facts to understand the environment of the trick. I dont want sympathy, and the only reason I mention them is due to the trick played.
There was a number of people involved and some days we were "expected" to make videos for customers. At the age of 13 I wasnt doing what they wanted me to do. I hated them with a passion and rebelled as much as I possibly could at the time. But this day I had threatened to "tell" despite the threats they made. I was laughed at and told I could get myself into so much trouble by doing that. They made me believe police wouldn't help amd tjat they jad friends in the police. After things had moved on, we were mid "Job" as they put it, and suddenly there was a hell of a noise. These too big police officers barged in in uniform. At first I thought it was my lucky day, I was literally right in the middle of been abused. But the policeman instead grabbed me and started telling me I was under arrest for sex offenses, I was 13, they were screaming at me when i tried to explain what was going on they told me I was the only one who was doing anything when they entered the room then asked the one abusing me (a grown man) if he wanted to press charges against me. He said Yes. They cuffed me and shut me in the back of a van. It turned out they were only another two assholes who had dressed up in realistic uniforms. The van was something they had created to use in videos. I totally missed the lack of police marking and the rubbish attempt to look like a police van due to my fear, But at 13 it terrified me, it was hard enough going through what I did but believing that the police wouldnt help and were arresting me for been abused was terrifying. I always remember this as the meanest trick they ever pulled. Thats why when two of those who were there where arrested eventually, I took great pleasure in watching them been put in a police van and been cuffed. That was the one thing that allowed me to move on from whta happened.

Worked in an advisor role at a charity and the whole organisation clocked off early one year at the last day before Xmas (and to go to the pub for the afternoon). I offered to stay until the end of the day and staff the phone line in case of emergencies - pre internet so clients wouldn’t know why we’d closed up early. Got a call that afternoon from a ‘client’ threatening suicide, and I dealt with it and tried to help them - they hung up abruptly. I felt totally panicked and upset and shakey as only person in the building and I was also young and in my first job.
Got to the pub to find everyone falling about laughing as it dawned on me it was a colleague having a ‘joke’ with me and not a real client in distress. Burst into tears and ran to loos. The whole night was ruined and I still can’t believe they did it tbh. Also can’t believe I felt I had to stay all night with them and not complain about it. Would like to think I’d have told them all to fuck right off now that I have developed some confidence at my advanced age! Arseholes.

Lots of these are awful.

I worked for the council in a department the public would ring up and ask things.
Colleague on a few occasions put a voice on and would ring us up. The questions he would ask would subtly get more and more bizarre. He had a stopwatch to see how long we would last before calling him out.
One time I nearly swore down the phone as the questions were ridiculous- that was a real call

When I was about 9 or 10 or so, around the year I wasn’t 100% sure if there was a Santa or not, myself and my older brother (he was 10/11) went down Xmas morning with my younger siblings to see what Santa had brought.

There were presents for my younger siblings (5/6 year age difference so clearly not for us) but nothing for us two. I can remember trying so hard not to cry and my parents smirking at us. They then pretended to ‘find’ boxes behind the couch which turned out to be a new computer ‘for’ us (in reality my dad got it for some work but it was apparently for us to play on).

Definitely not as bad as some listed here but i always remember thinking how could they enjoy watching us almost crying. More from my dad as he can be a bit of a dick and think he’s being funny.

I distinctly remember him doing to me what a previous poster said, deliberately letting me think I was lost in a public place or crowd when I’d lose sight of him and I’d be panicking, only to be so relieved to ‘find’ them.

Few other minor things from him or both my parents but still stuff I would never ever do to my little DS for ‘a laugh’. Idiots.

My god, some of these are horrendous. I am so so sorry for so many of you, you've encountered some really horrible people, ten times worse that they're family or friends.
Makes me feel lucky to know no ones ever been this cruel to me. Hugs to you all.

When I turned 18, my friends were going abroad for the first time. I wasn't going because I had dd1. My brother told me my parents were paying for me to go but it was a surprise so I couldn't say anything.

I was so excited my mum kept going on about my birthday surprise. My birthday came and I I couldn't wait to get to my parent's house.
The birthday surprise was my mum and dd1 had made a cake and set up a party in the back garden
( with dd's dolls) I kept waiting for the other surprise.
Eventually I asked about the holiday. My mum was confused and told me don't be so bloody stupid you've got a child and you don't even have a bloody passport.
My brother thought it was hilarious.

Humans have such capacity for inane cruelty. It's so depressing.

@alexafindfilms Are you not reading these stories? What you did was truly horrible, and you shouldn't be proud of yourself for it.

@Bunnybigears
You’ve posted that before, I remember because at the time I read it, like I did now, remember thinking how horrible and dangerous such a prank was and how it could have killed you.

@Brockaslass that’s on a whole different level 💐

None of these are remotely funny. They are all bullying and emotional abuse. I'm so sorry you were put through these things for 'laughs'. Brockaslass

I agree there is something very off about @tillytrotter1 's post.