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!!!

It's just your usual Daily Mail/Sun reader type mentality

One that really stands out was a fake Xmas present from my mum. It was an item that she knew I would hate. Then she gave me my 'real' present which was a couple of tacky ornaments she had taken off a shelf at her house and no longer wanted.

We had to go into our adoptive mother's bedroom to say goodbye before going to school . She got up later .
One April 1st she screamed there was a spider on me , I was hysterical with fright , more from the shouting than the idea of a spider and ran out to my dad's car.
I was made to go back and apologise. Apparently it was done because everyone at school would be doing this to me later and I had to toughen up.
She spent most of our childhood telling us we were pathetic and we'd never survive out in the world.
Turned out the world was pretty wonderful place especially when I went NC with her.
She was a petty cruel women , she would often ' tease' us about our appearance and then be fake surprised when we finally cried.

@tillytrotter1 what you remember is a time when people could discriminate and be assholes because the people you were offending were too scared to stand up for themselves.

Jesus. I worked in an office where we played daft jokes on people, the type of thing where you'd ask a person to make a call and speak to Liz but it turned out to be Buckingham Palace or kidnapping a non personal item off their desk (think a bic biro or a stapler) and sending a ransom note for it (the item would always be returned quickly) The worst thing we ever did was when the manager bought advent calendars for everyone and gave one lad a fake calendar with all the chocs removed. As soon as he'd opened a few doors on December 1st and realised it was empty he was quickly given his proper calendar. Silly things that neither hurt nor belittle the prankee.

Some of these though. They're awful.

Two that spring to mind for me is being passed a drink on a school trip that I took a swig of to be told someone had gobbed in it (not envy) and by then best mate getting her cousin to call me to say I'd won an amazing competition I'd entered, something along the lines of all expenses paid trip to Florida for the whole family. We were dirt poor and I was so excited about that one

Gosh what horrible people! to those victims.

My boyfriend remembers being about 8 and his mum wasn't speaking to his dad. He was to find out later it was due to his dad's philandering. His dad told him to go tell his mum that his dad had had a terrible accident and was bleeding. His talked him into doing it 'because otherwise your mum won't speak to me'. To this day my boyfriend feels so guilty about it. Ugh

@joyfullittlehippo love the prank on your manager, much more my kind of fun! 🙂

@Ticklovetock This makes me really sad as my 2 year old has a squint.

My dad told me that my cat had gone to the vets and she had been put down. It’s s good thing I saw her in the garden or I’d have been so broken. It was a mean thing to do

In 1970, when I was just married, I was listening to a programme on the radio about a nasty prank. A young , very shy couple got married, and were staying in the hotel where their reception was being held. The best man and two of his friends thought it would be hilarious to hide under the couple's bed. The bride cried as she told how she had been a virgin, and how her first experience of sex, and those intimate first conversations with her husband had been ruined when after an hour those three idiots suddenly rolled out from under the bed.

Can three men really stay so silent under a bed for over an hour?

My parents were extremely strict and although I was a very well behaved (controlled) kid they regularly thought the worst of me, there was no trust whatsoever
One evening when I was around 18, instead of being out enjoying my youth, I had sat around my older brothers house watching tv. I came home by 10:30 and went to bed 🙄

Later a mystery phonecall was received. A lady said her son was dating me and she wanted to know where he was, he had missed his curfew. She knew me by name, described me, said I had been seeing her son for weeks. My Dad totally believed I had a secret relationship and my life was hell for ages

I could neither convince him it wasn’t true, nor that there was nothing wrong if I DID have a boyfriend

Someone who knew our family dynamic well knew exactly what buttons to push

I have always felt sad about that one

@paranoidmum2. You wouldn't think so, would you? But if you'd heard the girl's distress, you'd have to believe it.

@81Byerley what fuckwits

Mabel I salute you for egging the vile little shit’s car!

I have never - and will never - find such ‘pranks’ funny. They are sadistic. And as for parents who think it’s funny to humiliate children, words fail me!

When I worked in retail I used to open the store and sort delivery so would start at 6am on my own. The night before a group of my colleagues decided to dress a mannequin up and hang it from the stock room ceiling by a belt. The whole place was pitch black so I walked into the mannequins legs, I was in a blind panic and didn’t realise it was a mannequin until I switched the lights on and grabbed its legs. I still feel huge panic when I think about it and couldn’t go in there on my own. I left shortly after, they didn’t know but when I was younger my uncle commited suicide the same way and I found him. Every time I tell this story people think it’s a genius prank but I honestly have never felt so terrified and sick.

People are such arseholes.

Theres a few but the worst was when my father pretended I'd ingested poison and would die and refused to take me to hospital. I was hysterical but he told me it was my own fault as I was greedy.

My crime had been to lick a serving spoon after it had finished being used. It only had fruit juice on it.

Why the fuck are people (the pranksters) like this?!?
What's so lacking in them they feel the need??
The parent ones to their own kids are particularly disturbing.
Just awful.

@Sagradafamiliar I felt physically ill reading that, so I simply cannot imagine how you felt. That is absolutely beyond evil

This isn't on a par with some of the absolute horror on here, but I still remember it so clearly.

My family moved house when I was a child, a long distance move away from the primary school I loved and all my friends. I'd been allowed to choose some new bedding and bits for my new room. For some reason my mum then decided to tell me that they were planning on letting my new bedroom out for b&b. My sibling played along.

She kept it going for way too long before saying it was a joke. I was crying as I was already so miserable with the move. It still seems such an unnecessarily mean thing to have done in the circumstances.

I fucking hate tricks. They are always borne from spite.

Obviously an ex, but one who thought this sort of thing was funny - and a massive fan of Beadle's About and the stitch ups on Noel's House Party, etc - his highlights included;

Regularly chucking buckets of cold water over me when I was in the shower (no lock on the door),
Got complimented upon how lovely and shiny my hair was by somebody just after I'd treated myself to the best haircut I'd ever had before or since, which made me feel wonderful so I told him how nice that person had been (female, by the way). Later that night, I was in the bath and he offered to wash my hair for me (which sounded seriously sexy). I passed him the bottle of posh shampoo, saying there wasn't much left, he said it would be plenty. A couple of minutes into relaxing as he massaged my scalp and thinking 'yeah, this is hot', I caught a vaguely familiar whiff. Fucking Immac. He'd bought fucking Immac specifically to coat my shiny hair with. He almost pissed himself with laughter at that one.

The last prank (yes, there was one more, as I was still too much in shock at the Immac incident to coherently hoy him out of the 2nd floor window like I should have done) was him regularly chatting up the receptionist at my new job so that one day, I was called down to collect a large delivery, only for him to spring out of the box screaming at me. I called him a fucking cunt and ran off crying from the fright just as a multimillion pound client walked through the door with three directors and the owner.

I was fired then I decided I was going to fuck the super good looking bloke from sales as he had been really nice to me in calming me down and taking me for a drink to recover from the shock, resulting in a five year relationship and DD2 arriving two years later.

Seeing as that last prank cost the arsehole boyfriend his girlfriend, his home and his pride (he didn't take kindly to being dumped, he had a complete breakdown over it - and no sympathy from his mother, who told every girl he dated how he had ended back in her spare room because 'it serves the stupid little fucker right' - she liked me a lot), I suppose the joke was on him in the end.

My boyfriend said he was HIV positive and he needed to tell all his partners to get tested. It was such a stressful time. It was negative as it was a 'hilarious' prank.

(by all his partners, I mean, his current one and his past ones)

A few years back my 5yr old son had a nasty accident at a holiday home we were staying in with all the extended family. He hit his head and had a nasty cut across his face which resulted in a trip to a large children’s hospital to see a plastic surgeon. The following day one of his older cousins thought it’d be funny to lay on the floor covered in tomato ketchup (blood!) and pretend to have been hurt. And my SIL pretended to call for help. My mother in law fell for it briefly but laughed when she realised. I didn’t find it remotely funny!!!!

My god the works has done truly awful people in it, so much sympathy for those being hurt so much.