Son Crushes His Fathers Lifelong Dreams In Lottery Ticket Prank
Eve Hartley— The Huffington Post UK
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When it's your lifelong dream to win the lottery, achieving it can seem almost be too good to be true.
For this unsuspecting father the fantasy of a big win was only too real when his son pranked him.
The moment of truth came as he read the terms and conditions of the deal only to find it scribed "valid in your dreams"
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His dreams were crushed when he discovered his sons antics
We salute the amiable reaction of the father despite his dreams being crushed by his son's fool-hardy joke.
April Fool's Pranks That Went Horribly Wrong
No smoke without fire(01 of05)
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Quite unbelievably, a local TV station in Massachusetts managed to convince people that Great Blue Hill, in the town of Milton, was a volcano that was possibly going to erupt in 1980.
Great Blue Hill is certainly not a volcano and is not even very tall, and the segment even had a message at the end saying April Fools, but the journalists at WNAC-TV in Boston must have been delighted when residents fell for their trick anyway. Until, that is, police received many calls asking if families should evacuate. The show's producer was fired.
What was he thinking?(02 of05)
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It wasn't your standard April Fools when American football player Bruce Irvin decided to tell fans the he was convicted for drunk driving. No-one found it funny, and the Seattle Seahawks player later said he was taking a break from Twitter because he was being trolled so much.
Costly joke(03 of05)
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One 1999 prank cost its orchestrators dearly. Jokers wanting to mock the booming dot com bubble make a pretend website called WebNode, and started selling "nodes" for $100. They claimed to have raised $4 billion from the government. We don't understand what the idea was either, but bizarrely thousands of people wanted to invest in the new "nodes". They were inverstigated by the FBI and paid a huge fine after being sued by the news service Business Wire.
Double bluff(04 of05)
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Hayleigh McBay went viral when she sent her boyfriend a message on WhatsApp this morning as a joke, saying, "I don't want to be with you anymore. I'm not happy." Imagine her horror when he replied, "Thank God you said it first." Luckily, it turned out in the end that it was a double bluff: he realised she was setting him up, so turned the tables on her. The pair are happily still together.
Fighting talk(05 of05)
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According to The Economist, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has challenged Russian leader Vladimir Putin, to a one-off judo match to decide the future of Eastern Ukraine, where violence and uncertainty have been plaguing residents since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. We're not sure this was an appropriate joke considering there are at least 14,400 Russian soldiers in Eastern Ukraine according to US expert Stephen Blank, and more than 5,000 people have died.When reached for comment, a spokesman for Angela Merkel reportedly said: "Bring it on."