Many of us have likely witnessed a prank in action or perhaps planned one at some point in our lives. They’re supposed to be harmless, like taping off someone’s mouse sensor or replacing family photos with those of Danny DeVito. However, sometimes, even with the best intentions, jokes go south. And in extreme cases, it can threaten the well-being of others.
Recently, the AskReddit community was discussing exactly that - practical jokes that went horribly wrong and almost ended in tragedy. From lighting hairspray to swerving cars, these stories now serve as cautionary tales for anyone who might think of pulling one.
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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.
"tripping toddlers" ?????? Did I read that correctly???? Please tell me I need to get my eyes checked.
This exact behaviour existed long before social media. TikTok doesn't change much about that. The true problems with social media aren't some stupid challenges.
You may be right, but I feel it has gotten way out of hand with these challenges spreading all over social media. Now you can "compete" with kids from all over the world over who is the stupidest.
Load More Replies...Memories are short I guess. Jackass and similar shows were huge in the 1990s. Current society came from that "lad" culture without degenerating into mindless animals. Extreme, revolting, and gore content was widely available on the internet and "shock" pages like lémonparty and góatse were viewed by huge numbers. There are always going to be unruly kids, pointing fingers at a video app is just a diversion from the facts of our parentless, increasingly divided society.
tiktok's really no different to things like ebaumsworld, early youtube and the like.
I'm not boomer either technically speaking. But if I had a lawn I'd tell youngins to get off of it. /s
I had friends who did that in college but we were all experienced rock climbers with full protection. We hung a banner protesting the Iraq War.
In denmark we have 4-5 serious burnvictims, 1 adult, 3-4 preteen Kids, because of a tiktok-thing 😒
Few years ago 2 guys went to a pub. They got drunk. There was a random guy who fell asleep on the patio of the place sitting in his chair.
The 2 men decided they gonna prank him and tie him to the chair with tapes. They asked the bartender girl for tapes and tied him.
This was close to closing time and they decided to leave him there for the night, cuz how funny it'll be when he wakes up taped to the chair in an empty bar. The bartender girl was fully in. So she closed the place and they left him there.
This was in November and the man froze to death at night. It was clear he woke up and tried to break himself free, so he didn't freeze to death in his sleep. He froze to death while being completely concious and awake.
All 3 were sentenced.
Manslaughter. In July, "only" illegal restraint. But November in a non-tropical climate...f***ing criminal.
I can answer that! Not long enough for anyone that knew the deceased.
Load More Replies...That poor man! Does anyone know where this was? I can’t click on the link as I don’t have a Reddit account.
Hungary. He was an incredibly poor person and father to four children, living in an economically deprived area. I'm not going to go into full detail on his murder, but while they preserved his dignity, his killers went for maximum humiliation. (He was fully dressed.) This is an area where people don't get much in the way of education and since temperatures rarely go below 0°C at this time of the year, they probably didn't think that this could be the outcome. I'm not defending them, just saying that this happened in red-neck country, f**k in the middle of nowhere.
Load More Replies...Realistically manslaughter. They didn't intend for him to die. Murder generally requires malice and intent. Manslaughter requires negligence.
Load More Replies...Where I am from, it's completely 100% illegal to sleep in a bar - the second they see you asleep, you are out the door.
https://xpatloop.com/channels/2019/12/prank-turns-into-tragedy-in-hungary.html
So a group of the big beefy football jocks grabbed the dweeby nerdy kid under his arms and escorted him, against his will, to the rear of the football field / track / stadium. There was a drainage cistern there, covered by a heavy grate, built as a catchment for the water running off the sports complex. It was normally dry unless it was raining.
It was nicely dry when they dumped the dweeby kid in the hole and let the grate fall, trapping him there. Well, it was just a prank, just a joke, but they failed to tell him that they intended to return at the end of the day to let him out. Meanwhile the dweeby nerdy kid had a big exam he'd been studying for and he didn't want to miss the class. So after the beefy dudes left him there in the hole, he tried to climb out on his own.
The grate was too heavy for him to lift from below. It fell on him, breaking his neck.
It was the scandal of my high school career and the beefy dudes, though kicked off the football team, expelled from school, and brought before court, never served any time for this accidental murder.
That was in 1971; the dead kid would be retired by now had he lived through the prank, and he probably would have had a stellar intellectual career.
Bullies need to serve jail time! Face the consequences of their actions, despite their athletic abilities or who mommy and daddy are! That's the only way bullying would be stopped!!!!!! I hate bullies with a passion!!!!
I think you mislabeled the characters in this story. Instead of "Big beefy dudes," they are sociopathic jerks. Dweeby nerdy kid = innocent victim. The descriptors used above are insulting to the victim and paint a picture of high school social hierarchy that does not make a lick of difference. Call it what it really is.
I'd say they should all be locked in that drainage for a couple of hours
Folklorist Moira Marsh, author of the book "Practically Joking," believes that pranking appeals to people because it requires a good deal of creativity. "They take planning. They take knowledge of a situation, knowledge of the person you're targeting. Sometimes the planning is extremely elaborate."
Since harmless practical jokes often result in laughter, it adds even more fun to it. "It's important, psychologically, to have time for play," Marsh explains.
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.
You don't "get over" ptsd, it just triggers less over time.
Load More Replies...That is terrible...how did an elementary school kid get the idea for this prank? I don't really want to have a picture of it, but I did not think it was even possible to hang yourself in a (school) bathroom stall? (edit: put felt sympathy into words, in addition to asking question of how this could even happen. And no, while I do have some vocabulary issues with colloquial/non-dictionary English, I definitely do not have an interest in ways of deceading. Until I read this post today, I honestly believed school bathrooms a safe place in terms of hanging yourself. (sadly, I did know that they'll never be a 100% safe place in cases of horrible despair).
On a lamp or pipe hanging from a ceiling? Also, one can hang themselves on basically anything - doorknobs, bed frames... anything. Person only needs like 20-30 kg of pressure on their trachea to die. I'm not sure about English but in my country the term for hanging in sitting/lying position is "atypical hanging".
Load More Replies...Your mom went to yell at the girl's father? I don't know the guy but I'd be traumatized if I was the girl's father. The last thing I'd need is a mother coming to "lose it on me"...
Read it again "hang herself" . It was a close call for a Darwin award. So the girl with the PTSD deserves more sympathy from me, if l'm honest.
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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 f****d up a simple prank so badly he had basically stabbed himself in the back.
Well, I'm sure the police preferred that to the alternative and it was a great story for them to tell later (him, not so much).
My husband once put on my Dockers thinking they were his, came downstairs in a panic because they were too small, then did that hop thing to try to pull them up while standing in a doorway. He hit his head on the doorway and he crumpled to the ground. So there he is, splayed on the floor, wearing too small pants he couldn't button and came up to his ankles and I'm pissing myself laughing. If I had the one opportunity to have a moment in my life to have a recording of forever, it would be that. I so wish I had that.
This was a good one. A silly prank going bad but only hurting the prankster.
Whew! I was scared he’d pierced his skull. Dude got what he had coming.
Decades ago, a neighbour's brother was getting married and went out for his stag night with his friends. There was a tradition at the time of getting the stag really drunk and then doing something like stripping them, tying them to a lamp post and throwing flour/sugar/eggs/paint at them and leaving them like that for hours. The stag was absolutely terrified of this and was waiting for it to happen the whole night long. When they finally made a move to grab him he started to run. They gave chase. He ran into a chip shop, drunkenly leapt the counter, and fell right into a vat of boiling oil. The wedding had to be postponed, and he eventually got married on day release from hospital whilst covered in bandages. He required skin grafts and was left with permanent scarring and disabilities.
There are way too many of these "Get our buddy drunk AF' stories on this list. What is wrong with these people?
That, and bullying. Why do people think it's fun to make people frightened or panic?!
Load More Replies...Call me boring or downvote me, but stag nights are really fúcking and I'd probably not get married at all if my fiance wanted one (which he doesn't, but still). Every single time I hear of a stag night, someone gets injured and/or people try to force them to do something they don't want to. I've witnessed myself and seen things such as the groom to be being hungover during the wedding, having an injury whilst drunk or getting lost so he missed the wedding, throwing trash at the groom or wife because "tradition" (don't ask me whose brainrot tradition that is), or the entire relationship ending up in the bin because some m**o decided to get a stripper or go to a strip club even though the bride to be clearly stated that this was a no go to her. Fûck stag nights.
Have none of these donkeyDicks ever seen a story about a kid who got alcohol poisoning and died or worse, was in a persistent vegetative state forever after drinking too much? Are they not taking anything away from these stories?
sounds fake right? which chip shop has a "vat of burning oil" just on the other side of the counter. and for that matter a counter you can just leap over.
Load More Replies...I feel bad for the potential groom, but he knew the tradition and made a choice to get drunk AF anyway - even tho he was fearful the entire night. How did that spell *F*U*N* for him even before the accident?
Another motivation is the opportunity to have the upper hand over someone who normally has more social power. "If you are a younger person, you have license to play jokes on your teachers, your elders, your parents," Marsh explained. "You have the added thrill of a temporary role reversal or temporary power inversion. For a kid to be able to, for a little while, get the upper hand over an adult, it flips the usual relationship. It flips the usual power dynamic. That's thrilling and enjoyable."
However, Jonathan Wynn, a sociology professor, notes that if the prankster has more social power or privilege over their "victim," like a parent pranking a child or a group of students “pranking” a transgender student, then this should cause some concerns. A good prank should be shared, not targeted at one “inferior” person.
I was in my senior year of college. Some guy threw a grad party at one of his parents houses. I ended up going, cause why not?
Three guys who were wasted as f**k had this idea to shoot Roman candles at one their buddies who was coming out of the poolside bathrooms. It was two bathrooms attached to a small closet with pool chemicals and the door happened to be ajar.
One of the rounds went right into the closet and started a fire while there was a girl passed out drunk in the next stall. Everyone freaked out and called the cops, but nobody knew the girl was passed out.
Luckily, she survived with minor burns, but the guy's parents got sued. The girl was only 19 and had half her arm burned and a lot of her hair singed off.
"Drunk DUMB people"! I've been drunk a couple of times over the years, but never did some idiotic c**p like that! Most of us didn't...
Load More Replies...I hope their entire lives were ruined. Just imagine being a random person going to a random bar on a random day and dieing because of 3 idiots making a stupid prank. And in this way too!
Fireworks ina house, what could possibly go wrong. Oh and being used by drunks.
Ah to be young again. I've been in a roman candle fight once, just once. It's about as fun as you'd think. Almost lost an ear...
Don't push someone head into a cake "randomly". By randomly I'm saying without knowing anything about the cake. Sometimes to make big cake pastry chief put big wood pointy thing in it so the cake doesn't fall.
It can be VERY messy.
Just assume every cake have theses in it.
Just stop wasting perfectly good cakes by throwing people into it. It isn't funny for any party involved
Amen to that, I'd open a mini business to punch grooms for brides if they smack them into cakes if I had the time. There are several cases where cake stabilisators (the wooden pikes inside) took out eyes or caused other facial I juries.
Load More Replies...Along with the bride and groom smashing cake into each other's mouths I always thought this was one of the most overdone low rent "pranks" around. Not cute or funny.
Serious question, is this just an American thing or do people in other countries do it too?
Load More Replies...Even without any pointy thing hiding in the cake, It's still a*****e thing to do.
This whole smash her face into the wedding cake just doesn't make sense. What a waste of cake, then the cleaning of the dress, and the makeup has to be redone. I had friends who got married, and they just booped each other's nose with a tiny bit of icing. So cute.
i read about a bride needing stitches because the groom did the face smashing. Thankfully her eyes didnt get pierced
I had someone grind a large piece of cheesecake into my face at a restaurant. It clogged my nostrils and throat and I almost passed out. Everyone was freaked out.
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.
If a person wants to flick/throw/whip etc anything at someone, ALWAYS AVOID THE FACE. Best yet, don't flick/throw/whip anything at anyone ever.
Everyone knows you only whip a towel at someone's butt! :) Something is seriously wrong with you if you're going for the face.
Load More Replies...Isnt the snap / crack when you flick a towel just right because the tip very briefly breaks the sound barrier as it changes direction?
Load More Replies...Tennis is a real sport, dumbass. And, like, again, who hurt you? Stop being such a hater.
Load More Replies...One of the most common ways pranks go wrong is when they physically harm another individual. Therefore, knowing when it's a good idea to refrain from pulling one might be necessary. Psychologist Dr. Ronnie Siddique suggests asking these questions before carrying out a practical joke:
- Has the target of the prank stated they want this behavior to stop, or have they shown previous distress with any pranks?
- Is the target of the prank a vulnerable person, such as a child, an individual with a mental disorder, or a person with disabilities?
- Could this prank in any way cause harm to a person, either psychologically, physically, or both?
If the answer is yes to any of these questions (or perhaps all of them), it’s best to stop in your tracks and reevaluate your joke.
I was at a swimming pool with friends as a kid maybe 10 or 12 years old. We were in the deep end, and diving down to 12ft, picking up coins off the bottom of the pool. I was coming up from the bottom, and one of the kids thought it would be funny to hold me head underwater with his foot. I gasped as I broke the water, then got shoved back down and inhaled a s**tload of water, and panicked, and two other kids had to drag me out of the water onto the concrete where I coughed and vomited for what felt like 10 minutes.
Similar thing happened to me. Almost drowned. This is not a prank though, it's bullying.
Pranks are supposed to be fun. This (and none of others here) have absolutely nothing even remotely funny in them. These are clear bullying to me too.
Load More Replies...+ be awarre of secondary drowning. Water in the lungs can still kill you hours later
I thought it was called dry drowning or something like that
Load More Replies...I am so afraid of being in the water because someone thought taking my floating raft away from me in an ocean was funny, when I couldn't touch the bottom. I didn't realize how far out I was. I still get afraid around pools.
Someone tried this prank on me. Heavy emphasis on tried. Basically, I freaked out and got very aggressive. I ended up punching and kicking the guy in the nuts while trying to get free which marked the last time anyone tried that kind of thing on me.
Yeah, don't do that. I've been on the receiving end of it and done it myself, and it's really dangerous. Not necessarily for drowning, but painfully coughing up water for 20 min isn't fun and you can get nasty infections into your lungs or damage them otherwise. Never push someone under water who just resurfaced.
Something similar happened to me. As a kids, we were learning to swim. I had no problem with swimming, but I hated to have my head underwater, even for a moment, so i avoided jumping into water. Some classmates 'pranked' me by pushing me to pool and trying to hold my head underwater. A******s.
Similarly, don't ever do the 'how long can you hold your breath underwater' thing. Friend of ours passed out and nearly died this way
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.
Why is a prank story that ends without tragedy, and only a lesson learned, ranked #1 in a list of pranks that ended in tragedy? You mystify me Bored Panda.
Because it depends on the votes, and being a fairly new article means less votes. Give it a couple of days!
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Medical student graduated. They tied him naked to the bridge. Died of exposure.
What!? Why would someone ever think that was a good idea??
Sounds like manslaughtér or at the very least a lawsuit
Load More Replies...BPs definition of harmless is different than mine. Tying someone to anything is not harmless to me. I could be tied to a chair in a warm safe room and my heart would still be beating out of my chest.
I mean how could they know that would happen it's not like they're doctors or anything.
You don´t have to KNOW, you just need to think and ASSUME what could go wrong. And since when does an academic title say something about your empathy and wits? The fundamental error in all of this Thinking is that pranks are something funny for those who play them on others. You expose someone publicly for your own amusement and that says a lot about the low character of the pranker.
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Load More Replies...Being outside without cover can be dangerous, even at relatively high temperatures. 10-15 degrees Centigrade can be fatal, if exposed to it long enough. Ever really thought about the execution of Christ? The others, who were executed with him, were just tied to their crosses. That was not an unusual execution method back then, and people died of the exposure and fatigue.
Public humilitation and illegal restraint isn't a prank,but crime. Even if victim stays alive.
My great grandfather got his chair pulled out from under him by his best friend at work on April Fool's Day. My great grandfather broke his neck and died, his friend never forgave himself.
We never celebrated April Fools at my house, and everyone always thought it a prank when I explained...
My cousin was staying with us and thought it would be funny to spray oven grease all over the kitchen floor. This was my grandmother's house. I was the one who slipped and he thought it was oh so funny. All I could picture is my elderly grandmother in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
im really sorry, and i hope you got it cleaned up. no wait i hope you made HIM clean it up
Load More Replies...There's of course the well known story of the bride who got pushed in a pool by a friend right before the wedding and end up a quadriplegic. And another where a friend pushed a girl off a bridge before she was ready (they were planning to jump in the water) and she broke ribs/had other injuries. The victim pressed charges. You should never intentionally set someone else up to fall!
Slippery floors aren’t good pranks. You can bang your head, break your tailbone (as someone who’s done it TWICE, I can tell you it hurts and makes you miserable for the rest of your life), break your hands/wrists/arms trying to catch yourself, and don’t forget you can fall ONTO things and get hurt in myriad ways. Slipping is not a PRANK but rather the doorway to a lifetime of misery.
That is why I cringe when they are showing people falling on AFV. Lot of those people look hurt. I know it looks funny but it is not.
Load More Replies...They can be very funny, when they don't hurt anyone. There were a news site that wrote how now every garden owner must download an app, in order to register what plants they had in their gardens, for environmental purposes. The next day we were told, that it was april fools prank, but a lot of us had thought, that it was true.
Load More Replies...Coworker pulled a chair away from me as I was sitting down. I landed on my butt, right on the spot that caused me pain many times over the years. The boss heard me cry out when I landed. He sees the guy holding the chair and the guy says ‘I get tired of people taking my seat’, as if we have assigned seating? The boss says ‘if he is hurt, you won’t be employed here any longer’? I was ok, just surprised, this guy calls me throughout the day apologizing and asking if I’m ok. Rather than tell him off or let it slide I asked in a most serious tone ‘what’s your house worth?’
It’s not a prank… I think this is murder but it was accidental but still
Some kid did this to another kid in middle school. Kid fell and hit his head and needed stitches.
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.
Karma can happen long after someone did something so maybe he got karma for something he did in the past or something from his previous birth
Load More Replies...I mean this is a minor harmless prank but also funny that he got injured trying to do it
Thise sounds rather satisfying until you remember, that your mom would have a lot of extra work taking care of your stupid father.
OP's dad sounds super immature. And on a less related note, that arm in that picture is the hairiest arm I've ever seen.
Tragedy can be subjective. But, imo, receiving a serious injury is tragic enough for a list like this.
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Compressed air up the butt. Destroys the gut and ends lives...saw a few of those and people never learn.
I presume OP is a doctor otherwise I can't imagine why they see so many cases??
Maybe they work in insurances. You'd be surprised what idiotic things people deliberately do to themselves. Fun fact: your insurance DOESN'T cover you trying to do yourself a lip flip with kitchen oil.
Load More Replies...This reminds me of the guy who got a MRI scan with a "100% silicone butt plug" that had a metal core and it rocketed into his organs like a ãss-railgun
What the hell stories does everyone here read when not on bored panda
Load More Replies...And sometimes people who should know better do pranks like this. I've heard of firemen making CO2 bombs when they're on shift and bored because there are no fires. Small plastic bottle, not too much CO2 and it's a bit like a small firecracker, small pop and no harm. Until that's not challenging enough and they go bigger and bigger. Eventually trying a large glass bottle and a heap of CO2. Massive boom, glass explodes and flies everywhere, hearing loss and bleeding ensues. Police called to the firestation because people thought a bomb had gone off (technically it had).
There's a video of this, from the security camera. It happened in India if I remember correctly. Don't look it up if you're easily shocked.
I've seen that video. Well, if it's the one where the guy just drops dead nearly immediately.
Load More Replies...Something like that happened in Spain. They boy almost died but he forgave his "friends".
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.
Office pranks are pretty common. Normally they don't escalate to harmful levels. Things like replacing someone's desktop wallpaper with a funny picture, or filling a drawer with confetti, replacing their monitor with a microwave oven or when they came back after two weeks holiday having put up crime scene tape around there cubicle and used tape to mark out a body outline on the floor. And yes, all those happened where I worked.
Load More Replies...Cause for immediate dismissal at the company I work for.
Load More Replies...This is why all office chairs now are five footed or six footed instead of the old three and four footed ones from teh old days.
Chairs are designed to be safe in case a wheel breaks, but they're not designed with office pranks in mind.
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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 f*****g chance. I think I dodged something that would have gone VERY wrong.
That's not pranking, that's bullying and downright sociopathic.
Load More Replies...HOW did they think that holding a friggin n knife to someone's throat was a good idea?
Should have called the cops and states housemates were planning to assault her with a knife
Huh? What blackface? Isn't it this person from this photoshoot : https://www.pexels.com/photo/evil-clown-with-bloody-hand-standing-behind-a-glass-door-5427761/ ? pexels-cot...71afc7.jpg
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.
I have this fear, too (especially when I drive past kids) - even though it never happened to me.
If there's young kids around I have the fear but same - I've never had a kid run out in front of me but it COULD happen, so fear
Load More Replies...My classmate did it to me when I was 8 y.o. I was terrified, as a car missed me barely by few centimeters. Our teacher had seen the whole situation and told ME that I should be more careful. The bully got scot free.
My dad hit a toddler once. Residential neighborhood, all the kids ran out from between two parked cars. Dad saw them, but he didn't see the two year old. He wasn't going any more than five mph, because a whole passel of kids had just run into the street, and the child wasn't hurt, but it really upset my dad for a long time.
Load More Replies...oh, thanks, old fear 2.0 unlocked. I always assume someone will trip and fall, either the 3rd 4th and 5th graders at my sons school, or the joggers who run right in the center of the lane and dont really move over, but now I have to worry about pushers too!
A few years ago I was driving away from my in-laws' house at around 10pm. The street was a narrow cul-de-sac with cars parked on both sides leaving enough space for only one car to drive down, so no space to swerve if necessary. Fortunately, I was driving slowly because I saw something come into the road from between two parked cars right in front of me and instinctively hit the brakes. That something was a two-year-old girl on a tricycle, and my car stopped no more than six inches from her. I took the girl back to her house to find that her parents were in their back garden having drinks with friends. I tore them a new one for being so irresponsible that they left their kid riding unsupervised at the front of the house while they were having fun round the back. That it was late at night on an unlit street made it even worse. They tried to claim it was my fault because it was a quiet little street and there wasn't usually any traffic at that time of night. Idiots!
I would have call the police. An unattended toddler playing in the street at dusk...not only are they lucky you didn't hit the child, their lucky a pervert didn't just pick her up and walk away with her!
Load More Replies...I pass several schools and bus stops on my way to work and I always go snail paced whenever there’s little gangs of school kids waiting at the bus stops. They *love* jumping out at traffic or pushing friends in front of traffic, they really really do!
in the early 90s, a teen pushes his buddy on a skateboard in front of my moving car (I was going 35MPH); the friend fell off; it scared me and broke the skateboard - thank goodness the teen fell back and not forward!
What was funny about that? Hey, let's push you into traffic, ha ha. Stupid
We have a saying here in Sweden (when learning to drive), to see all children as "living traffic warning signs". Children are unpredictable and can do really stupid things. Oh, and if one kid is biking over the road, be prepared for more kids coming after them".
/ My house overlooks a main road and as I was walking out my front door one day a kid did exactly that to his friend. Unfortunately 1the car wasn't going slow, only around 35mph so not speeding but still a young boys body against a powerful jeep was no match. I'll never forget the sound his head made when it hit the road after being pretty much flung like a rag doll by the car. Can still see hear the sound, plus the screaming. And see the blood in my nightmare. In fact his blood literally stained the road for months. The boy obviously died and his silly friend didnt receive any punishment legally but he felt so guilty he tried to unalive himself twice.
I did not need such an experiance. I always drive slowly and try to drive as far left as is possible if there a kids and/ or parked cars on the right. My driving instructor asked me why I am more afraid of parking cars then of the ones that are driving towards me. Well, stupid, if I hit a driving car, only the cars will get bumps, but if I hit a kid that jumps out between those parking cars, then the kid could die! Personally, I don‘t want that on my conscience, thank you! (That driving instructor was an idiot by the way)
My buddy thought it would be funny to swerve his car towards the ditch and turn away at the last second. We wound up going into the ditch, slamming into a culvert, and flipping end over end. There's still debate amongst a few people whether he meant to do it or not. Apparently he was the butt of a lot of jokes and I just hadn't been around the group of people long enough to understand how deep it went. So, maybe a prank gone wrong, maybe attempted crime. I have no idea.
OP makes it sound like the guy had been bullied to the point where attempted murder -suicide is plausible.... and that everyone else was aware. That doesn't sound like a healthy dynamic even if this was just a prank gone wrong.
I feel like maybe he's the butt of the joke since the accident and not pre accident
Load More Replies...Some girls at my high school had a wreck because a passenger jokingly grabbed at the steering wheel, fortunately they just spun out and ended up across the road in the ditch. They lied and told the cops they were driving in the direction they had landed. Now my state has rules about newly licensed drivers being able to drive with other young people - teenagers are dumb
Actions w/ cars aren't pranks, they are potential manslaughter or worse. Cars aren't weapons for revenge or rage either. I think I agree w/ another poster, not going to read the rest. Sad , dangerous and depressing.
The guy who tried to jumpscare his family at the Grand Canyon and instead slipped and fell to his death.
If I recall this properly, his young daughter(s) saw him fall to his death?
At least it was him who died snd not anyone other of his family. As mush as it would be a good punishment for him to have been the cause of a loved ones death, I‘m happy it was him. YOU DO NOT DO SUCH A THING!!! Idiot Idiot Idiot. What if it had been a child? His child? His wife? I hate hate HATE idiots who do not think stuff through!
You'd be surprised how many people fall into the Grand Canyon while blithely ignoring all the railings and warning signs.
He got what he had coming, but I can’t believe sooo many people get horrid ideas and think they’ré great. They can’t think it through to the potential consequences?
"BOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhh..."
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.
Is this from Jackass or similar? I saw part of an episode of that one time, just stupid, stupid stupid.
Those aren’t the names of Jackasses; they’re just run-of-the-mill jackasses.
Load More Replies...Jeff was attempting a stupid and dangerous stunt and got badly injured. David didn't "hit" him with the excavator. The dude was intentionally swinging on the arm. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
Jeff said he wanted to stop and david didn't, then Jeff sustained life changing injures, weird thing to defend but go off
Load More Replies...Who hurt you? Are you alright? There are many hotlines to get help if you need it. <3
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Wasn’t there some couple that made a “prank” in which the girl shot her BF because they thought a book would stop the bullet (it didn’t)? I think 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.
Jesus never said "ACT like an idiot and I'll protect you.,...
Load More Replies...Yeah that one happened and Mythbusters covered it. They did a whole episode on what is and isn't "bulletproof". I think it's the same episode where they covered a husband and wife who were keeping their guns in the oven. Yeah Americans. Wife comes home to preheat the oven for dinner and bang, gun goes off and shoots the husband. Honestly keeping any gun loaded when not in use is flagrantly stupid. Just ask the Armorer of the set of Rust after Alec Baldwin shot that guy. She was the armorer, it was her job to keep live ammo OFF SET! Stupid people with guns suck.
Too true. A recent story on our local news where one friend "accidentally" shot and killed his friend by putting a gun to his head and "joked" was was going to kill him. Obviously the quotes are because I really find his story unbelievable, but another person in the car supposedly confirmed the story, but that doesn't exactly mean it's true. Another similar and unrelated "joke" by others only days later. I blame the users, not the gun.
Load More Replies...Not very accurate. As I understand it it was another copy of the same book under the same conditions EXCEPT as he (Pedro Ruiz) was holding it the book was compressed. It wasn’t really a prank - was a stunt for YouTube views. Tragic as the g/f was pregnant with his child and ended up doing time.
I don't care about whether the book would stop the bullet or not, I wouldn't trust someone to be accurate enough to hit it. Slight flinch as they pull the trigger and they shoot you in the face instead.
I can‘t understand how you can shoot at someone for whatever reason (except if you really want to injure or kill them). I would not do that even if they wore the best bulletproof armor!
Yes, I read that. They filmed it. They had a little kid in the house. 🤦🏻♀️
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.
Unrelated to the story but the bottle in this photo is confusing me lol, it looks open but no liquid is coming out
You have to zoom in closely and look really hard because it sort of blends in with the background but it’s there
Load More Replies...Again, would these "friends" think it was funny if this was done to them?
When my dad was a kid, he thought it would be fun to shoot open safety pins at stuff with a slingshot fashioned out of a rubber band. Eventually, he aimed at his older sister and she ended up with a safety pin stuck in her forehead. It's a good thing he didn't hit her in the eye.
How could anyone not understand that children don't think like adults?
Load More Replies...My parents' roommate had a blow gun with metal darts that he used to tinker around with... He was goofing around one day and shot me (a pre-teen at the time) in the lip. Chipped the tooth behind it, too...
WTF! My siblings and I used to shoot rubberbands at each other. I'm still afraid it will happen again. My eye doctor asked me if I wanted contact lenses, and I told him Heck No! I was afraid of getting a rubberband shot at my eye. He asked me what kind of people I worked with. Yeah, it's a phobia.
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 f****r 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.
Butterfly knives are a stupid weapon for stupid people. They're widely banned for good reason. Like Nunchucks, they look cool when handled by a professional but when price to entry is like $15, a lot of idiots who watch too many movies are going to buy them. Buy a yoyo instead. Learn to juggle. You can look cool without the deadly weapons. EDIT: I just realized I said that when my last GF was a sword dancer. The irony is not lost.
its diff, your gf the "sword dancer" had training to use them, most people won't have training like that, that is where the problem is, they see people with training doing it "soooo easy" they think they can, but they cant cause.... they didn't train
Load More Replies...When I was a kid, we had a camping knife that was actually a folding knife and really hard to open up. Always annoyed the hell out of me that I was so hard to get the blade out, but now as an adult I understand that this was a safety measure to prevent idiotic stunts like this.
Butterfly knives specifically. A letter opener knife would probably be fine.
Load More Replies...There are actually Butterfly training knives. They are made of plastic. OP could get one of those.
I don't think stabbing someone in the eye with a plastic knife is going to go well either
Load More Replies...Why are kids even being exposed to knives at such an immature age in the first place?!
A knife is a tool. You can teach a 6yo the proper way to handle a knife (under supervision) and a 13yo should definitely be mature enough for owning a knife.
Load More Replies...Amazing the OP didn't get the (digestive exhaust) beaten out of him for this, even before he progressed to actually maiming people.
No, a switchblade the blade pops out of the handle when you push a button. It's basically spring powered. A butterfly knife has a split handle that is hinged, you manually swing both parts of the handle 90 degrees and lock them in place to use the blade.
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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.
No, it doesn’t. The Jackasses hurt themselves, and not other people. It was one of the rules. Please don’t go around telling people the Jackasses hurt innocent bystanders because they didn’t.
Load More Replies...Off topic, but the dude closest to the camera in the photo, what’s up with his back? 😂😂 Lol, I know it’s just the angle the pic was taken at, but when I first saw it, I thought “His waist so much narrower than his shoulders.” 😂 😂 (comment not meant to make fun of people by the way, just laughing at my own mistake)
Unfortunately, people (I use the word loosely) like to watch this type of entertainment. If they stopped watching, morons would stop making them.
If you did that s**t in the Hood where I live, your dumbass would be shot. The guys around here wouldn't play around just beating on somebody, they will just point blank shoot your a*s.
When I was in the restaurant business there was a waiter who used to prank people by pretending to drink a hot cup of coffee, then pretend to throw it in someone's face. The cup was empty, and it was looped to his finger with a thick rubber band, so it actually was kind of funny. The cup would come toward your face, and then bounce right back in his hand instead of hitting you. BUT OK so this other guy tried to do with with a weak skinny rubber band, which broke, and the ceramic mug hit me full force in the forehead. Had to go to the hospital for xrays, it was ok except for a bad headache for a day or two. So the ER trip would be covered by workers comp, we said the cup fell off a tray and hit me. That's when I learned that "horseplay" is a legal term.
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. .
The whole handle could easily have slipped from your hand too. So very, very very BAD idea!
When I was a child… maybe 11 or 9… maybe younger, I can‘t remember…. I was in a forest with my sister and mother. We were searching for mushrooms and goofing around a bit. I found a large rock (large for my child self) and threw it. I wasn‘t very good at throwing. It went very high and not where I aimed at. It landed maybe 1-2 meters away from my mother. I could have hit her head. In the middle of the forest when cellphones did not exist yet. It gave me such a fright! I never did it again and maybe that‘s why I am so scared of things going horribly wrong….
I tried balancing a hammer on my hand by the handle (moving a little to keep it balanced); ended up watching it tumble off my hand and land hammer side down on my then hubby's freshly operated on knee
………. I am very sorry for your husband. Why did you do it so near your husbands freshly operated knee in the first place?
Load More Replies...I did the same to my sister but with a plastic ladle... It broke off mid flick, she managed to dodge it. Wasn't a hammer though and wouldn't have hurt her much even if it had hit her but still...
Why do people think hurting, or pretending to hurt someone is funny?
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.
Never ever do that! The flame can cause the hairspray tube to explode like a little fire bomb if you're unlucky!
I feel sick even saying this but my cousin tortured and killed a mouse in this way when they were younger. Thought they were toxic then? Nothing compared to what she is like today, such anger and controlling issues. We don't speak anymore surprise surprise.
Having worked in mental health services including child and adolescent, there’s good reason for asking have they ever harmed a pet or animal deliberately…..
Load More Replies...I saw a dude in drag do the hair spray flamethrower at a couple of drunk guys who were hassling him. He (very calmly) reached into his "drag bag" a whipped out a can hair spray, lit his lighter and shot a foot long flame at them. They got the Holy Ghost and slammed down their beers and hit the door like something out of a cartoon.
An idiot threw a can of hairspray into a bon fire when I was in HS. A poor girl received second and third degree facial burns. So sad.
I had thought I heard some advice somewhere . . . Don't play with fire.
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!
When I was in third grade a first grade kid thought it would be funny to walk around the school and rub peanut butter on people Had two people go to the hospital that day it was not Pretty.
It's a funny prank if you don't know about allergies, bit allergies are a birch (you know what I mean).
Nowadays, people are becoming more aware of allergies. First grade kid probably weren't aware of how dangerous something like that could be. It should be taught. Cafeterias can be dangerous places. I'm an adult, I run away from coconut.
Peanut allergies can be very serious. I know someone who can asphyxiate if he’s even in the vicinity of peanut products.
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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.
Not sure I believe this one. Those plastic bags would have to be filled with methane or something to do that.
It's real. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/burned-partygoer-dies-of-injuries/7SS2LD7WON3HM757MRD2LJ6BIM/
Load More Replies...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 p**s. 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.
"Actual" boyfriend makes it sound a bit as if the teacher wad "involved" with that girl, too.
The wording on this one was pretty confusing. So is the "He" who did the punching the teacher? Why the heck would he punch her boyfriend, even if the kid did get the girl pregnant it's none of the teacher's business.
Load More Replies...We once pranked our gym teacher by putting fake barf on the floor when I was in grade school. That's about as far as anyone should ever go!
Fake pregnancy test was left in the school toilet . Person took it to the teacher saying who it belonged to. Teacher thought boyfriend of girl knocked her up . Beat c**p out of him is what I see .
Load More Replies...Some in my high school (years before I started) but some d**g in the home ec teahcers coffee. She was one of the nicest teachers so whoever did that was utter trash
Yeah... not believable unless teacher was either the girls father or her "daddy"(eww and illegal)
Thought the teacher was a woman and she was going to have a heart attack and die. Idk what this story is.
unless the teacher was related to the girl or her bf why would he hit the bf?
I am so terrified of bees, well especially now because when me and my brother were kids.. My brother thought it would be funny to p**s off bees, he found a beehive and decided it would be funny to throw rocks at it and run away. Just as he did I came walking and well he forgot to tell me to run and you can guess where it went, I had bees in my hair, my jacket basically everywhere.. I had no idea he did that until we both became adults and he finally confessed to me, I was convinced that I was just at the wrong time and place, but guess I have found out who caused me my phobia of bees 😂.
When I was five, i sat in an ant nest by accident and ran around screaming "There are ants in my pants!" This happened twice, the second time with chiggers. And people wonder why I'm afraid of small bugs lol.
I was in Louisiana and I was in my family’s yard and stepped in a fire ant mound… I was eight and still remember it
Hmm. Had a group of girls I was playing with tell me to go ”get the mail” (we were playing an outdoor house/fort that had its own mailbox for cuteness or something). They failed to tell me the mailbox had a wasp nest in it, so I got stung immediately. Found out later they knew the nest was there, they just wanted me to get stung so I’d go away. So glad I got moved to a different sitter not long after. That was one in a long line of “pranks” and stupidity that included me getting tied up and left in a closet, and my sib spending the better part of a day bleeding after a sledding accident because the sitter didn’t think it was important enough to call. Doc said if the sib had been brought in hours before, they’d have gotten stitches. Instead it managed to start closing on its own due to constant pressure.
I am sorry you endured that. 😥 Edit...spelling.
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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.
Geez, why are people downvoting Rachel, she didn’t understand something and asked for an explanation. If anything, that deserves an upvote.
Load More Replies...Many of these "pranks" are just plain old bullying. I was bullied a LOT when I was a kid, it has caused me bodily harm and almost got me killed. You will never catch me "pranking" anyone.
I hate these thinfs continuing to perpetuate pranks like this. A prank is something INTENDED to make both sides laugh. Wrapping up your funiture in wrapping paper, for example. Long story short. If the "victim" isn't laughing, the prank was bad.
Load More Replies...Good god, people are idiots. I couldn't go any further after about ten of these stories. I'm fuming at all these idiots.
Not a single one of these is readable on the app. Only the first few words show up.
I don't think these people know what pranks are. Bullying is not a prank. Murder is not a prank. Stupidity is not a prank.
The Darwin awards await some...but "pranks" are just stupidity. Understandable if you're 5 or 6, but if you're old enough to understand consequences, this really shouldn't happen.
Can someone at BP please fix the posts. They only display the first sentence and then we have to go to reddit directly to read what it says, when you try and hit back it creases your app.
Does any of you people from Bored Panda actually know that most of the people cannot read your posts?
What's wrong with the display of the text? Also the back button...I need to press it 3 times to work...
Many of these "pranks" are just plain old bullying. I was bullied a LOT when I was a kid, it has caused me bodily harm and almost got me killed. You will never catch me "pranking" anyone.
I hate these thinfs continuing to perpetuate pranks like this. A prank is something INTENDED to make both sides laugh. Wrapping up your funiture in wrapping paper, for example. Long story short. If the "victim" isn't laughing, the prank was bad.
Load More Replies...Good god, people are idiots. I couldn't go any further after about ten of these stories. I'm fuming at all these idiots.
Not a single one of these is readable on the app. Only the first few words show up.
I don't think these people know what pranks are. Bullying is not a prank. Murder is not a prank. Stupidity is not a prank.
The Darwin awards await some...but "pranks" are just stupidity. Understandable if you're 5 or 6, but if you're old enough to understand consequences, this really shouldn't happen.
Can someone at BP please fix the posts. They only display the first sentence and then we have to go to reddit directly to read what it says, when you try and hit back it creases your app.
Does any of you people from Bored Panda actually know that most of the people cannot read your posts?
What's wrong with the display of the text? Also the back button...I need to press it 3 times to work...
