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Hey there! 😱 When it comes to pranks, things can sometimes take a dangerous turn, putting lives at risk. Let’s talk about some pranks that went very wrong and almost cost someone their life.
The Infamous “Swatting” Incident
One of the most dangerous pranks that almost turned deadly is the act of “swatting.” This malicious trick involves making a false report to emergency services, leading a SWAT team to raid the victim’s home.
– Example: In 2017, a swatting incident resulted in the death of an innocent man in Kansas after a prank call led to a police shoot-out.
Extreme Food Allergy Pranks
Playing pranks involving someone’s food allergies can have severe consequences, with potentially fatal outcomes.
– Example: A teenager in the UK suffered a severe anaphylactic reaction after pranksters put nuts in his food, unaware of his allergy.
Car Crash Prank Gone Wrong
Pranking someone by staging a fake car crash can lead to panic, emotional trauma, and even physical harm.
– Example: A YouTube prankster caused a real car crash while staging a fake accident prank, injuring themselves and others on the road.
Stay Safe and Think Twice!
Pranks can be fun, but it’s essential to consider the potential consequences before attempting them. Always prioritize safety and respect others’ boundaries to avoid any serious harm or accidents. If you witness a dangerous prank, speak up and prevent it from escalating. Let’s keep the pranks light-hearted and safe for everyone involved! 🚫🚨
Remember, pranks should bring laughter, not danger. Stay safe and prank responsibly! 👍 #safetyfirst #prankresponsibly
Not really a prank but I remember the tide pod challenge back in 2018
I heard this story around where I live where during a wedding, the groom was “abducted” as a prank by a bunch of friends, made extremely drunk and then had boots put on his feet that said friends then filled with construction foam. The foam hardened, sealing both of his feet inside so tightly that it cut off the blood flow, which ended with him needing to have both of his feet amputated.
I almost decapitated my friend when we were teens
Head cracker tiktok challange.
So stupid…
[source](https://apnews.com/article/youtuber-shot-tanner-cook-mall-a215712ddbf06b96be62b0e3a6be2047)
Well there was the one time that “prankster” got shot after harassing this dude
When I was younger my mom was out on a walk with her friends and my dad thought it would be funny to pelt them with water balloons when they came around the corner. As soon as they rounded the bend, we ran out with our water balloons and my dad tripped and fell and broke his foot, his leg, and his arm.
The “prank” is only funny when the prankster gets beat up/shot.
There used to be this video series on Youtube called ‘Hood Pranks’ or something like that – not sure if it’s still around, but plot of every show was these geeky guys going into some of the toughest neighborhoods of NYC and playing stupid pranks on people where they got beat up in half the episodes. I recall one prank where one of the hosts got knocked out with a single hook to the jaw.
There’s an old clip with someone hiding in a mailbox. Every time someone put mail, he pushes it out.
One guy had enough and shot the mailbox. AFAIK, they guy was killed in that prank.
I once had an hammer in my hand, and pranked my sister by “throwing” it on her. Unfortunately, the hammer head detached from the handle it flew straight to her head, thankfully missed by few cm.
99% of tiktok/social media challenges/pranks. Just the other day I saw some kids climbing up a construction crane and filming themselves. I suppose that that is not really a prank but a few months ago, I heard about senior students in high school who thought it would be funny to criss-cross the hallway of toddlers with fishing line for them to trip over and film.
Call me a boomer (I’m not) but social media really brings out the worst in human group behavior.
Dared a guy to jump/leapfrog a garbage bin. Another guy opened it last second (not planned).
He only ended up with stitches near his eye but could have gone a lot worse.
In hindsight this is fucking awful. But when I was in school, we put balaclavas on, “kidnapped” and tied my mate up at gun point – (was a toy gun). Coming from a place paramilitaries are rife it wasn’t the best idea (he dabbled a bit in the sale of an illegal herb). He had no clue what was happening. Safe to say he almost died of a heart attack that day. We’re all still mates though.
The science/biology teacher was explaining why snake Jaws, unlike human Jaws can detach. At the end he jokingly said “that’s why snakes can insert a light bulb into their mouths and take it back out without the glass smashing, unlike humans”
Our local A&E was pissed
I was in grade 1 if we had to use the washroom we had to go in pairs teachers rules. Some girl from a much older grade thought she’d prank her friend by “hanging” herself in a bathroom stall. She slipped off the toilet when we came in. Opened the door and saw her struggling. My friend grabbed her legs and tried to hold her up to keep her from choking to death while I ran to find my teacher. I remember running out of the bathroom down the hall, and seeing kids lined up peering into the windows. I don’t know how many were in on it. The girl was helped by the teacher. The girl was not injured seriously but it must have been traumatic for me because I would wake up middle of the night screaming. I remember my mom visiting the girls home and losing it on the girls father a few days later. The nightmares continued for years afterwards.
Medical student graduated. They tied him naked to the bridge. Died of exposure.
I remember my classmates and me wanted to prank our teacher who’s like 57 years old, it’s like a fake pregnancy prank that a girl in my class would do. We set up a fake pregnancy test on the bathroom bin while the girl tried to act all nervous, once the teacher entered the room, she goes out to the bathroom acting like she wanted to take a piss. She waited for like 5 to 10 minutes, and when she came back, a girl “snitched” on her and brought the fake pregnancy test. He went to her actual boyfriend and punched him in the face until his node bleed. He went to the ER and got like a broken nose, black eyes. He got fired and we got suspended for the prank. Honestly one of the most stupidest thing I’ve ever participated in.
Compressed air up the butt. Destroys the gut and kills…saw a few of those and people never learn.
Wasn’t there some siblings that made a “prank” in which the girl shoot her brother because they thought a book would stop the bullet (it didn’t)? I think they tried shooting the book once before the prank and the book stopped the bullet but not when they recorded the prank and well the guy died. I might remember it a bit wrong, feel free to correct me
Edit: as one of the responses mentioned they were a couple. They tried shooting a different book before trying to do it. The other book stopped the bullet, the one they used did not and it ended up with the guy dying.
Dumb neighbor kid thought it was a good prank to hide behind parked cars along the side of the road and jump out at approaching cars…. Didn’t get hit because the first car was driving very slowly and the owner got pissed enough that he never dared to do it again.
There was a youtuber who went to an outdoor public basketball court as a very realistic zombie.
He stumbled towards people, they were freaked out and then he’d full sprint at them. For a second in the video, you can see a guy pull a gun. IIRC, the guy noticed, stopped his acting and tried to diffuse the situation.
Edit: More or less [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4awVqRr1eCo) but can’t find the correct one
Not a prank but just as stupid as one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_'86
A kid at school whose dad flicked a towel in his face. It got his eye really bad and he had permanent damage. The kid was an up and comer in the local tennis league as well. Really sad.
This isn’t my story, but David Dobrik hit Jeff Whittek with an excavator. He was a part of his vlog crew and they were supposed to be filming a video where the excavator would swing them around. David ended up slamming Jeff into the side of the excavator after going too fast and then abruptly stopping. It broke lots of bones including his skull and caused lasting damage.
I used to do this trick with a butterfly knife when I was a dumb 13 year old, where I would flip it around like I was gonna open it but keep flipping to where it would be closed again and then thrust it at your face like I was going to stab you in the face.
This one time I did it with this other kids plastic handled knife where the handles were a bit fatter and rounder than the normal brass handled ones and it didn’t fit my hand quite as well as the knives I was used to.
I did my twirly twirl and thrust with the knife but because the handles were fatter than normal I missed the catch and as I was thrusting towards the kids face the knife folded open. Stabbed that poor fucker right in the bone at the bottom of the eye socket/top of the cheek bone.
Stabbed him good. There was a knife point hole there and It was leaking blood. Would have been worse if the blade had a proper point on it.
I was a couple of mm away from taking out that guy’s eye. Needless to say, neither the kid it happened to nor the people watching me thought it was anything less than deliberate.
Never played my butterfly knife trick in anyone ever again.
One Halloween when I was a kid, a neighbor came around with one of those “Party Poppers” that have a tiny charge that propels confetti or paper string outwards. Often used at Birthday Parties.
I opened the front Door, and the little shit decided there and then to let go off too bloody close to my Face.
Was temporarily blinded for about 10-15 minutes as a result. Any closer and it would’ve been permanent.
That was 25 Years ago. I haven’t seen him since, and haven’t celebrated Halloween either since that night.
Recently my coworker pranked my friend and I by removing the wheels on our desk chairs. Unfortunately she removed two wheels right beside each other and thought we would notice before sitting down. Then she had this crazy elaborate scavenger hunt for us that ended with us finding our wheels in jello at the end like something out of the office. It was an amazing prank on paper but I had been having a rough morning when I got to work and didn’t notice and just sat right down…suffice to say I fell right backwards off the chair and hit my head on the ground. Luckily it wasn’t bad and I just got a bit of a bump, but that certainly changed the pranking dynamics in the office.
Not happened yet (as far as i know) but I hate that amusement park prank in which operator says your belt is loose than pulls the lever.Someone really can kill themself trying to fasten their belt
Me and my two brothers shot dry peas with “slingshots” made from cut balloons taped onto an old film canister. We took turns shooting at each other trying to dodge. I shot one against my brother that I saw I slow motion went for his head, it curved nicely upwards, and hit him directly in his eye. At the hospital they were astounded that he wasn’t blinded by it, and fortunately his eye sight wasn’t affected in the long run.
Some kids in my neighborhood were knocking on doors and running away. They knocked on the wrong door.
Guy came out with a baseball bat. Scared the hell out of those kids.
Remember when Bill Murray tried to scare some harmless kid by pretending to be a zombie in the middle of the zombie apocalypse? Man that didn’t turn out well.
A friend or mine and I did a lot of shooting and he used to reload our rounds. One day he thought it would be funny to double load one of my rounds.
We’re out shooting, I pull the trigger, and BOOM, it destroyed my gun and I was fortunate just to catch a little shrapnel in my forehead. There went a $1000 firearm and I could have lost an eye, a finger, maybe my hands, or my life. I was NOT amused and refused to shoot his reloads ever again.
Dumb kid thought it was a funny idea to push his friend from a sidewalk towards my car.
Good thing i was driving slowly so i was able to stop in time.
Since that day i’m always afraid someone is going to push a person under my car, when i drive near sidewalk with people on it.
Me and some friends were spraying hair spray down a tube with someone lighting the other end. Between sprays, one of the guys looked down the tube to see if there was flame inside the tube. As he did this, someone sprayed more hair spray into the tube.
It turns out there *was* still flame in the tube, because my friend’s head was engulfed in a ball of flame. He didn’t end up with any major burns or other injuries, but he had no more eyebrows, eye lashes, or fringe for a while.
A friend of mine’s dad once decided to jump out of an empty wardrobe and scare his wife when they were house shopping. He didn’t see a downward facing hook at the back of the wardrobe and when he jumped up to leap out he caught his back on the hook and ripped his skin open. They had to go to A&E to get stitches and the police showed up as the doctors were concerned it was a stab wound. So he had to explain to the police how he had fucked up a simple prank so badly he had basically stabbed himself in the back.
When I was young I went to a friends house for a sleepover where they had a prank planned. They dressed up in creepy clothing and makeup, and one of the girls (we didn’t get along) had a real knife and was planning to slam me against the wall and hold it up to my neck when I came downstairs. Luckily one of the girls got scared before I got there and ran upstairs to tell me what was about to unfold before I went downstairs. She was so scared she asked me when I went down there to ‘play along’. Wasn’t going to take that fucking chance. I think I dodged something that would have gone VERY wrong.
Glen Howerton told a story on the ‘always sunny podcast’, he was at church camp and there was a barn decorated with farm tools, old western stuff and noose. So as you do, he and a mate took turns pretending to be hung, holding the rope around their neck with their hands, while the other ran to get someone to play a joke. “Come quick glen hung himself” bla bla bla. After a couple of rounds it was his turn again, then he remembers waking up, he’d somehow let go of the rope and literally hung himself, when his mate came back with another kid they panicked and got him down. His mate told him later that he had shit his pants with fear when he walked into the room and saw glens hands by his side.
I work in the fire service so there are a long list of pranks. One of the best so far has been when a guy ordered a chirping device off the internet. It made either a cricket sound or a beep. It was random intervals and was very realistic. We taped it onto a guys bed frame and turned it on. For a week he continued to look around his room, scouring it for said cricket. He was losing sleep and getting pissed. At one point he emptied his bed, frame, and everything else out of the room to find it. Finally, as his frustration hit a boiling point, we took it out of the room and hid it under his chair at the kitchen table to make it easier for him to find. Finally we had to tell him where and what it was. He laughed so hard it sent his heart into palpitations and we had to transport him to the hospital
Some years ago, a staff party for a brokerage, everyone in costume including a young guy wearing plastic bags. Took his girlfriend into a cubicle in the gents for a shag. Guy in the next cubicle thought he’d playfully flick a lighter under the door. Exploded in flames, guy died screaming and the girl had massive life changing burns. The guy that did this had a huge nervous breakdown and never worked again.
That guy who punched Houdini in the gut when he wasn’t ready, and actually killed him.
William McKinley, who would eventually become President of the United States, went to my college. He was expelled after he was caught putting a cow on the roof of what is now the administration building. For those who don’t know, cows can walk up stairs, but not down them. They are also very heavy. This means that the cow had to be slaughtered on the roof and come down in pieces.
A century later, they named the food court, “McKinley’s.” The logo uses letters that look like a cow when assembled.
When I was in 8th grade, a buddy of mine and i decided to prank his little brother by making him think that the camper he loved to play in was on fire. We had a glass jar of gasoline and poured some gas near the camper on the ground and lit it to freak him out. We assumed he would grab the water hose to try to put it out. As you can probably guess, he didn’t grab the hose. He of course grabbed the jar of gas and chucked it on the fire thinking it was water. Huge flames shot up and we truly did almost burn the camper down. Thankfully we knew to throw dirt on it along with water and got it out. His parents were PISSED!