The first week of April is always an interesting time as stories of April Fools Day pranks start to filter through.
I remember many years ago trying to think of practical jokes on the 1st of April. Most of the time it was only ever thinking about it. I don’t remember carrying out too many pranks.
I read this morning that an Albanian high school class managed to execute a somewhat dangerous April Fools Day stunt on their teacher. It seems that they all took sedatives and fell asleep in class.
All 20 students of a class in a school in Saranda, on Albania’s southern Adriatic coast, swallowed one or two Diazepam pills. They obtained the drug, similar to Valium, in a pharmacy, reports said.
When the teacher saw his entire class had nodded off, he got a little bit frantic and had all his students taken to hospital, where the story behind the joke unravelled. The school director apparently described the prank as “collective idiocy”.
I certainly wouldn’t recommend any stunts like that. Mind you there were several classes I can recall from my student days where I wouldn’t have needed any kind of help to drift off to sleep.
Did you ever manage to pull off an April Fools Day prank at school? Did you get ‘stung’ this year?
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I remember playing a prank on a girl in my class when I was in Year 5. I put glue (using one of those UHU glue sticks) on her chair. Of course she sat in it and got really upset because it got all over her skirt. She had to kneel at her desk until the glue was cleaned off her chair. I don’t think I ever owned up but I remember lots of pranks got out of hand that year. Not sure why I chose that girl, I think it was just that she was out of her seat and I saw a window of opportunity. I haven’t done any April Fool’s Day pranks since.
I was fooled three times on the Internet….