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Remind me of a good friend seeing how far a rumour would spred, managed to get it on the front page of New York Times, from the UK back in the late 80's early 90's before texts and internet true story

Two years ago a friend of mine was staying around on March 31st. He went to sleep and I stole his car keys and drove his car off the drive and round the corner of the cul-de-sac.

Me and the missus woke him up with some urgency in the morning saying "Get up! Your car's gone!".
Hilarious stuff.

Between him and that crowd it is the height of a prank and is still talked about today.
Obviously me and mine are all a boring lot who don't do much other than steal each other's cars


Since then I've not had any great ones but I did manage to convince someone at work today that there was a hippo in the garden.
I was stood by the door looking into the garden and she said "What you looking at?"
The first thing that came into my mind was a hippo so I said that.
She ran over to the door saying "Where?!" and was genuinely surprised and disappointed that there was no hippo.

I'm so immature.

ah..its a shame you didnt try and convince your friend that he arrived on foot, not by car...

this wasnt on april the 1st -but once, once rang my best mate up, and said that i'd been to the doctors and they'd found a couple of lumps and i'd have to have some tests...

i strung it out for 3 days, then rang him up saying i'd gotten the results back, and the lumps they found - turned out to be something called "testicles"...

I think it worked so well because his previous car had been stolen.
He phoned his mum and everything... she told him to call the police so we had to put an end to it before it went too far.

He moved to Weymouth to live with a friend of his for a year too... I helped him move (geekiest car journey EVER - but that's another story).
When we got there he introduced me to his West Country friends as "the guy who played the April Fool with my car".
That coupled with the fact I had bought them all Sambuca made me pretty much a success.

In a magazine called Real Lives the have an article on April Fools day pranks. It features none other than Dan Baines and his famous 'mummified fairies'

Might have to go see if I can find that mag then, I want a fairy