Pranks

US teacher dies after teens’ toilet paper prank goes wrong

Jason Hughes taught math at North Hall High School in Gainesville, Georgia, where his wife was also a math teacher.

Creepy masked trio behind attempted ‘break-in’ in US were relatives pulling a prank, say police

A surveillance camera caught the trio threatening the family at the home's porch and damaging their property.

Chinese teens who peed in Haidilao hotpot broth in Shanghai fined $395,000

Haidilao offered compensation to more than 4,000 customers because of the teens’ reckless stunt.

Two more Singapore eateries duped by fake bulk orders from ‘Bedok army camp man’

Nasi lemak restaurant Sedap! had prepared 150 packets of nasi lemak with 150 bottles of water, but all went unclaimed.

Homeless Malaysian man who was given leftover chicken bones says he bears no ill will

Three content creators were criticised after they filmed themselves collecting the leftover bones of chicken they ate and offering them to a homeless man.

Two teenagers, 15 and 16, arrested for involvement in Queenstown bicycle prank

The three bicycles were lined up in a row, causing a taxi to slam into one of them in the wee hours of Dec 20.

Drone flight bans extended to New York critical infrastructure

Sgt. John Frassetto, left, and Detective Anthony D'Amico use a drone to monitor any nearby drone activity in Seaside Heights, N.J., on Dec. 13, 2024. In the Garden State, where the rash of sightings started a month ago, residents are looking to the skies, wondering why they still don’t have definitive answers from officials. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)

Taugeh cake, invisible furniture, mounted police: Did you fall for these April Fool’s pranks?

Many brands posted elaborate April Fool's pranks on their social media pages.

Osaka man lands in prison for unhygienic prank at Yoshinoya outlet to amuse his online fans

Construction worker Ryu Shimazu was seen in a viral video shoving into mouth pickled ginger from a common-use container at a Yoshinoya restaurant in Osaka.

Malaysian girl with cerebral palsy bedridden after chair-pulling prank

The girl’s mother took to TikTok to highlight that her child known as Iqa fell after a friend pulled her chair away.

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