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It was very difficult to understand. It looked like a sort of bad prank, and it didn't have any sense of reality. – Henry Reese	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Haven't we learned anything? You must comply with the lawful orders of police officers who are lawfully investigating suspicious incidents and or criminal activity. This is a dangerous prank. It could have led to deadly consequences. – Clyde Parry	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We all actually kind of thought that this was their way of pranking us, you know, they, they, you know, the kids go in and prank them while they turn around and prank the kids. And that would have been absolutely fantastic, a great way to have dealt with it. – Shannon Tonroy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was a harmless senior prank that all of us parents knew 100% what was going on, they had planned as a group, you know, 40 students, which is half the senior class… to fork the field, which is putting plastic forks in the dirt. – Hope Jay	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I almost started thinking it was a prank to begin with, i would have been less surprised if somebody called and said,' Hey, he's going to be a saint.'. – Ray Kapaun	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I didnt think nothing of it [at first], i thought they were just playing games with me, like a prank. – Darnell Hicks	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I was suspicious as we were doing it because the questions appeared taped. But had no idea it would turn out to be such a fun prank, it gave us a very welcome good laugh. I appreciate their cleverness and that they created their video in a way that I don't feel was in any way mean spirited. – Carole Baskin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It was supposed to be parties and senior trips and senior skip day and senior prank, we didn't get to do any of it. – Isaiah Hart	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't think of this as an April Fool's prank...I wanted to tell you that protecting yourself is protecting the precious people around you. – Kim Gang-lip	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Today was a very challenging day, while there is little doubt this woman was doing it as a very twisted prank, we will not take any chances with the health and well-being of our customers. – Joe Fasula	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I get all of my family to put in before I go and do the shop, this year I spent $ 388 online at Morrisons, doing the big shop and making sure I had a variety of things in. ( Caters News Agency) Hayley Garbutt, Hayley Garbutt, charges about $ 45-a-head for a seat at her Christmas dinner table, the Sun reports. Her guests include her three children, their partners and her four grandchildren. She also invites some friends as well. I get all of my family to put in before I go and do the shop, she told the Sun. This year I spent $ 388 online at Morrisons, doing the big shop and making sure I had a variety of things in. But its not that Im being tight - it means I get to spend more in other aspects then too like presents - this year the tree has so many presents stacked around it, that you cant even see it. WOMAN SHARES HUSBANDS ELF ON THE SHELF KITCHEN-WRAPPING PRANK : 2 HOURS LATER AND A DIVORCE ON THE CARDS So, while her family has to pay to eat dinner, Hayley Garbutt makes sure that they get their moneys worth. – Hayley Garbutt	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
First thing, you think it's a prank, that someone wrote Sam Clemens, but when I saw it, I knew it was the real McCoy. – Mac Donnell	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think I'm just going to approach her like every other match I have been approaching. My routine has been working pretty well so that's how I'm going to go into the match, i like to look at prank videos on YouTube and listen to music. I love music that keeps me calm before matches, because obviously when you get out there there's a lot of nerves anyway. Yeah, I like to find my own space, put some relaxed music on. – Venus Williams	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I didn't at all mean to be insensitive to people who can't have children, a lot of people I know, their first go to prank on April fools is telling their parents they are pregnant to get a big reaction. But I will apologize anyway and take responsibility and say sorry to people who were offended. – Justin Bieber	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If it was a prank, why did you smear not only on his face or on his eyelids, but also in the eye itself? – Wan Shaharuddin	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Kyle Plush parents do it how Kyle Plush parents did it in the old days, write it down on an index card and the card is handed to someone somehow sending the person dispatching on that channel, he said. Plush suffocated after he became trapped under the third-row seat that flipped and pinned him while he was trying to reach his tennis equipment. The teenager told 911 operators where he was located, but authorities were not able to find him. A deputy sent to the scene soon after called in to report that he could n’t find anyone trapped in a van, and questioned if the call had been a prank. 911 DISPATCHER WHO ANSWERED CALL FROM BOY CRUSHED BY MINIVAN SEAT COMPLAINED ABOUT JOB DAYS BEFORE INCIDENT Police said Amber Smith, the 911 operator who answered Plush’s second call, failed to relay information to the additional officers who were at the scene. During the call, Plush explained to Smith the call was not a joke. I am trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of the Seven Hills... Send officers immediately, Plush pleaded. I ’m almost dead. – Kyle Plush	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
As a black student who has witnessed racist incidents first-hand around Manhattan this hurts the credibility of students who actually want to step out and say something about it, i ’m not sure what type of human being does this kind of thing as a prank. – Andrew Hammond	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
To see that be the pinnacle of this season was really cool, we’ve all come such a long way. ‘ THE BIG BANG THEORY ’ FINALE RECAP : SHELDON AND AMY STRUGGLE WITH LONG DISTANCE AND TEMPTATION That was n’t the only behind-the-scenes moment that the cast shared with the Comic Con crowd. According to Entertainment Weekly, Kaley Cuoco and Galecki revealed the circumstances surrounding an on-set injury from a prank gone awry. In an effort to shock the cast and crew during a scene in which the two characters were fighting, Galecki jokingly pretended to punch his co-star in the face. However, the actress' head accidentally caught a chair while she was falling and the end result was stitches in her eye brow. ‘ THE BIG BANG THEORY ’ ACTRESS MAYIM BIALIK RECEIVES ‘ DOOGIE HOWSER ’ ROYALTY CHECK FOR TWO CENTS. – Kaley Cuoco	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It was a stupid prank. – Joshua James	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're sorry. It was just a prank. It was just trying to scare him. – Joshua Benavidez	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We were just watching the movie and I noticed that the exit to the right opened up, i told [ friend ] Ashley [ Kurz ], I think someone’s doing a prank right now that’s going to be very funny. – Caleb Medley	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There are two dozen articles – and thousands of comments online – suggesting that this is a prank – and I am responsible for it, and I have to say – that’s disappointing. You play like 50 pranks and all of a sudden people don't trust you anymore. – Jimmy Kimmel	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done. – Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The higher the rank, the droller the prank. – Volodymyr Knyr	added by anonymous 11 years ago

It was very difficult to understand. It looked like a sort of bad prank, and it didn't have any sense of reality.

– Henry Reese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Haven't we learned anything? You must comply with the lawful orders of police officers who are lawfully investigating suspicious incidents and or criminal activity. This is a dangerous prank. It could have led to deadly consequences.

– Clyde Parry

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We all actually kind of thought that this was their way of pranking us, you know, they, they, you know, the kids go in and prank them while they turn around and prank the kids. And that would have been absolutely fantastic, a great way to have dealt with it.

– Shannon Tonroy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was a harmless senior prank that all of us parents knew 100% what was going on, they had planned as a group, you know, 40 students, which is half the senior class… to fork the field, which is putting plastic forks in the dirt.

– Hope Jay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I almost started thinking it was a prank to begin with, i would have been less surprised if somebody called and said,' Hey, he's going to be a saint.'.

– Ray Kapaun

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I didnt think nothing of it [at first], i thought they were just playing games with me, like a prank.

– Darnell Hicks

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I was suspicious as we were doing it because the questions appeared taped. But had no idea it would turn out to be such a fun prank, it gave us a very welcome good laugh. I appreciate their cleverness and that they created their video in a way that I don't feel was in any way mean spirited.

– Carole Baskin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was supposed to be parties and senior trips and senior skip day and senior prank, we didn't get to do any of it.

– Isaiah Hart

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't think of this as an April Fool's prank...I wanted to tell you that protecting yourself is protecting the precious people around you.

– Kim Gang-lip

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Today was a very challenging day, while there is little doubt this woman was doing it as a very twisted prank, we will not take any chances with the health and well-being of our customers.

– Joe Fasula

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I get all of my family to put in before I go and do the shop, this year I spent $ 388 online at Morrisons, doing the big shop and making sure I had a variety of things in. ( Caters News Agency) Hayley Garbutt, Hayley Garbutt, charges about $ 45-a-head for a seat at her Christmas dinner table, the Sun reports. Her guests include her three children, their partners and her four grandchildren. She also invites some friends as well. I get all of my family to put in before I go and do the shop, she told the Sun. This year I spent $ 388 online at Morrisons, doing the big shop and making sure I had a variety of things in. But its not that Im being tight - it means I get to spend more in other aspects then too like presents - this year the tree has so many presents stacked around it, that you cant even see it. WOMAN SHARES HUSBANDS ELF ON THE SHELF KITCHEN-WRAPPING PRANK : 2 HOURS LATER AND A DIVORCE ON THE CARDS So, while her family has to pay to eat dinner, Hayley Garbutt makes sure that they get their moneys worth.

– Hayley Garbutt

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

First thing, you think it's a prank, that someone wrote Sam Clemens, but when I saw it, I knew it was the real McCoy.

– Mac Donnell

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I think I'm just going to approach her like every other match I have been approaching. My routine has been working pretty well so that's how I'm going to go into the match, i like to look at prank videos on YouTube and listen to music. I love music that keeps me calm before matches, because obviously when you get out there there's a lot of nerves anyway. Yeah, I like to find my own space, put some relaxed music on.

– Venus Williams

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I didn't at all mean to be insensitive to people who can't have children, a lot of people I know, their first go to prank on April fools is telling their parents they are pregnant to get a big reaction. But I will apologize anyway and take responsibility and say sorry to people who were offended.

– Justin Bieber

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If it was a prank, why did you smear not only on his face or on his eyelids, but also in the eye itself?

– Wan Shaharuddin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Kyle Plush parents do it how Kyle Plush parents did it in the old days, write it down on an index card and the card is handed to someone somehow sending the person dispatching on that channel, he said. Plush suffocated after he became trapped under the third-row seat that flipped and pinned him while he was trying to reach his tennis equipment. The teenager told 911 operators where he was located, but authorities were not able to find him. A deputy sent to the scene soon after called in to report that he could n’t find anyone trapped in a van, and questioned if the call had been a prank. 911 DISPATCHER WHO ANSWERED CALL FROM BOY CRUSHED BY MINIVAN SEAT COMPLAINED ABOUT JOB DAYS BEFORE INCIDENT Police said Amber Smith, the 911 operator who answered Plush’s second call, failed to relay information to the additional officers who were at the scene. During the call, Plush explained to Smith the call was not a joke. I am trapped inside my gold Honda Odyssey van in the parking lot of the Seven Hills... Send officers immediately, Plush pleaded. I ’m almost dead.

– Kyle Plush

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

As a black student who has witnessed racist incidents first-hand around Manhattan this hurts the credibility of students who actually want to step out and say something about it, i ’m not sure what type of human being does this kind of thing as a prank.

– Andrew Hammond

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To see that be the pinnacle of this season was really cool, we’ve all come such a long way. ‘ THE BIG BANG THEORY ’ FINALE RECAP : SHELDON AND AMY STRUGGLE WITH LONG DISTANCE AND TEMPTATION That was n’t the only behind-the-scenes moment that the cast shared with the Comic Con crowd. According to Entertainment Weekly, Kaley Cuoco and Galecki revealed the circumstances surrounding an on-set injury from a prank gone awry. In an effort to shock the cast and crew during a scene in which the two characters were fighting, Galecki jokingly pretended to punch his co-star in the face. However, the actress' head accidentally caught a chair while she was falling and the end result was stitches in her eye brow. ‘ THE BIG BANG THEORY ’ ACTRESS MAYIM BIALIK RECEIVES ‘ DOOGIE HOWSER ’ ROYALTY CHECK FOR TWO CENTS.

– Kaley Cuoco

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It was a stupid prank.

– Joshua James

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're sorry. It was just a prank. It was just trying to scare him.

– Joshua Benavidez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We were just watching the movie and I noticed that the exit to the right opened up, i told [ friend ] Ashley [ Kurz ], I think someone’s doing a prank right now that’s going to be very funny.

– Caleb Medley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There are two dozen articles – and thousands of comments online – suggesting that this is a prank – and I am responsible for it, and I have to say – that’s disappointing. You play like 50 pranks and all of a sudden people don't trust you anymore.

– Jimmy Kimmel

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Even though some might say this is just a teenage prank, who knows what this teenager might have done.

– Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The higher the rank, the droller the prank.

– Volodymyr Knyr

added by anonymous
11 years ago

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