Pranks gone wrong
When Nathan Maynes put salt in the sugar containers, he didn’t imagine he would have to consume the concoction that would result from the mix-up.
Maynes, a junior majoring in communication, said after he schemed his April Fools’ prank on his mom, he was really putting himself at risk for experiencing a traditional family recipe in a whole new light.
Maynes said he thought his scheme was clever. It was humorous watching his mother put more and more salt in as she tried the stew that called for sugar. She realized that the stew was progressively tasting worse and was most definitely not gaining the sweetness that the recipe needed, Maynes said. His mother realized that her son had pulled a fast one on her and in turn let him eat the entire batch of stew.
“I felt so sick afterwards,” Maynes said.
Some April Fools’ jokes have ended in the death of a family pet. Aaron Anderson, an undeclared freshman, said he called his friend who lived across the street and told him that his cat was splattered on the asphalt after being run over by a car.
Anderson said, “I ran outside to the street to see my friend’s reaction only to find my own cat actually flattened.”
How’s that for irony?
After blocking off all the water faucets in the house with clear packing tape, Jordan Shettel, a sophomore in finance, went to bed awaiting the pandemonium that his trick would bring the next day. He said he woke up early to use the bathroom and in his groggy state forgot all about putting the tape on the faucet the night before. The water exploded all over him, he said.
However, this prank was not a total waste because Shettel said he still managed to soak a few of his brothers. It was worth soaking himself to see their reactions, he said.
The old plastic wrapping the toilet trick never gets old, but undeclared freshman Nathan Call said to make sure that the trick is done with the right technique or it is really easy to catch, especially during the day.
Call said he wanted to prank his brother on April Fools’ with this charming trick; however, his brother saw the plastic wrap right away and laughed at him for not doing it right.
A prank on a teacher went awfully wrong when a group of elementary school kids sprinkled cinnamon on their teacher’s desk. Dalton Bennett, a freshman majoring in accounting, remembers this prank well because the teacher ended up in the hospital. He said that the teacher’s students knew that she was allergic to cinnamon and figured she would be sneezing all day. Instead, she ended up in the emergency room.
“She breathed it in and her throat started to close,” Bennett said. “She wasn’t a really popular teacher so a lot of people were pretty happy.”
The moral of the story? Think carefully before executing a clever April Fools’ Day prank this year.
–catherine.meidell@aggiemail.usu.edu