pranks

This video has been all over online, and people are saying that the British Prank Show has simply gone too far.  In the video, people are in an elevator when the lights start to flicker, it eventually goes dark, and a girl comes out of a trap door and screams...

Somebody with a seriously warped sense of humor and some time on their hands went around the London subway system and stuck these signs up. Some of these are ridiculous. Some of them contain nuggets of truth. Some of them we wish did. All of them are hilarious. Then (it is 2012) the person took pictures of them, uploaded them to the internet and shared them on Reddit. These are our favorites. Read

The Internet hasn't just changed the way we gather information, communicate and share videos of cats battling printers. It also gives pranksters a completely new venue to do their worst.

This video is basically just a bunch of people reacting predictably to a zombie man chasing them, but there are a few treasure moments in this prank on the people of Columbus; namely a woman who threatens to use self-defense on one zombie, and a guy who's bike will not go no matter how fast he pedals...

The Chinese are known for stealing American technology. For example, there are entire unauthorized counterfeit Apple Stores over there.  But, apparently, that’s not all they’ve been stealing. It has come to Conan O’Brien’s attention that a Chinese talk show called ‘Da Pang’ has lifted his show’s opening almost frame-for-frame without his permission. While they say imitation is the sincerest form o

Brian is able to terrorize his coworker with the same clear-tape-across-the-door prank over and over.

When it comes to his faltering marriage, you could say Dino Spinelli put some gasoline on the fire when he put some water in the tank. The 36-year-old Wisconsin man was charged Tuesday for felony criminal damage to property for allegedly filling the gas tank of his wife's car with water last summer. Spinelli was reportedly trying to get back at her because she wanted a separation.

Two high school seniors at Westfield High School in Massachusetts wanted to entertain their fellow students by staging a lightsaber battle in the school cafeteria during lunch. According to onlookers, one of the seniors entered the cafeteria from one side, and the other from another, and then they met in the middle for a 30-second showdown with their toy lightsabers.

It's April Fool's Day today (no, seriously!), which in recent years has morphed into God's gift to the Internet. Today, sites everywhere are doing their best to prank unsuspecting users, and we'll be the first to admit that we've fallen for a few of them. (Thanks, Google!) As such, we've pulled together the best jokes and gags across the web that will have you laughing all the way to April 2. Read