April Fooling people I didnt mean to April Fools.
One April fools day in 2003. I decided to call my brother up and tell him that they had bombed the Canary Wharf. This was itself a little tasteless but oh well.

Little did I know at the time, he was out in the countryside with some friends, and had no access to a TV or Radio. What was going to be just a stupid little joke, soon came out into a full on chronical "Yes theres smoke pouthering out of the 7th floor. Oh shit... I think theres just been another explosion from the roof! They reckon about up to 200 are dead and people are still trapped inside!"
He soaked the lot up like a sponge!

Now not only was he out in the countryside with friends, these friends also had friends and family who work in the Canary Wharf building, and were in tears and shock when their attempts to contact them failed.

To make matters worse, i didnt even reveal that I was joking at the end of the call. And it took them a number of hours to realise I was just joking and know that their loved ones were infact OK.

Result? A written humble apology by me. I upset a lot of people that day.

But then again, they should have realised it was Bank Holiday monday as well as April 1st. So they probably wouldnt have been working anyway :)
(Miggyman, Fri 14 Dec 2007, 14:12, Reply)