For those who are struggling for a good April Fool's prank. Don't think I could top this one.

 

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Redneck Condominium Community

 

Apparently somebody really built that.

 

I lived in a suite as an undergrad and one of the guys pulled two great pranks on one of the others.

First, he completely filled his bedroom, floor to ceiling, with crumpled up newspaper. When I saw him doing it, I was really concerned -- what would happen if a fire started in there? But he had taken that into account -- he unplugged everything in the room and put masking tape over every outlet, then he taped the light switch into the off position.

But the second one was classic. We had gone exploring in the waste dumps for Coors Ceramics and run across this huge pile of small hexagonal tiles (about 3/4" across). Unbeknownst to anyone, this guy got a piece of plywood and cut it to exactly fit the door opening to the bedroom. Then he glued these tiles to fill the entire thing. Took him about three months, hiding it under his bed the entire time. Then one night while the other guy was asleep in his room, he set this up outside his door and braced it with 2x4s to make it very solid. The next morning when the guy opened his door, he thought he had actually been bricked in to his room!

 

For those who are struggling for a good April Fool's prank. Don't think I could top this one.
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We actually did this to my boss when he was in vacation.

 

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Had a boss who had the habit of taking my pens. So one day I took a Bic pen apart, pulled out the ink cartridge and filled the empty pen with silica sand, jammed the cap on the open end as tight as I could get it. Sure enough she took that pen. When she tried to open it she couldn't. Not without using her teeth. She finally got the cap off. In that instance the sand flew out of the pen all over her desk. "TONY!" she yelled. I just laughed my arse off. Said "That'll teach you to take my pens."

Another prank took place one very foggy morning. We jacked the bosses car up and put blocks under the axels so that the tires barely touched the ground. Everything looked normal. When he got in it to go to lunch - wheeeewwwwww, the tires would spin, but the car would go nowhere. There were reprisals, but he never knew who was responsible for that one.

 

I bet this study is going to be a serious contender for an IGNoble prize this year:

Everything is awesome: Don't forget the Lego

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Six paediatric health-care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre-ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score.

 

I once attended "Special High Intensity Training". And boy did I get a lot of it.

 

Spoiler

 

 

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Prove it.

 

Prove it.

you bring the genie and i will

 

Budget cuts and dedication

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Bird strikes would be a problem.

 

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That rotor looks machined, not wore down. If true - my gaud, the car has more tires than the driver has IQ!

 

I agree. For one thing the rivets holding the brake pad to the shoe would have done far greater damage, and likely at some point the outer ring would have broken away from the fins and would have created all kinds of havoc.

 

Like a huge fraction of content on the internet, it's 99.94% certain that it's a put up job. When it's just to make a humorous meme, that's fine. It's when they try to claim it's legitimate that I get really annoyed.

Having said that, someone's going to ask ChatGPT what can happen if they don't service their brakes and it will come back and show this as an example.