Famous Pranks in the News
When you think of pranks, the first kind that comes into your head is April fool’s day pranks. You can easily find year-round prank ideas by searching for famous pranks in the news. All you have to do to look for these pranks is search online and get the list of the many famous pranks in the news, on radio stations, on television stations, game shows, and websites. These famous pranks in the news range from the mundane to the absurd. Some pranks involve taking the really simple things and making a big issue out of them. Some take serious happenings such as corporate buyouts and make them really funny.
Some of the more famous pranks in the news are ones like the Taco Liberty Bell. Taco Bell said that they were going to purchase the Liberty Bell that would then on be known as the Taco Liberty Bell. When the White House was asked about it, they also replied jokingly that the Lincoln Memorial was also sold and would now be called as the Lincoln Mercury Memorial! Another of these hilarious pranks is about the sale of The Beatles to Apple Inc.
If you take the categories of famous pranks played by radio stations, there are too many to mention. One of the most hilarious pranks is where one station in San Diego said that the Space Shuttle would be landing on a tiny airstrip in the city. So many people believed it to be true. Enough people wanted to go see the landing that they caused many traffic jams. What makes this even funnier is that there was not even a Space Shuttle in orbit at the time.
Another famous prank in the news is the one where a show in New Zealand reported that the Prime Minister had recently created a law that banned the use of cell phones in the country. This led to a lot of people calling and protesting the ban believing it to be real. There is another prank where a radio station in England said that U2 would be performing live on a rooftop in a nearby city. This led many fans of the band to rush to the city. It turned out that it was only a tribute band that would be playing.
Some of the most famous pranks are the ones done by the BBC in England. For example, reporting that the Swiss were going to harvest spaghetti from spaghetti trees because they managed to get rid of the dreaded spaghetti weevil. Another is where they said that they had perfected Smell-o-vision, to get smell over the airwaves to viewers. However, their best by far has to be when they reported that the clock on the Big Ben, London’s most famous landmark, would be made digital, which sent many into a tizzy. Another great one was where they reported that the door of 10 Downing Street is to be replaced with a red one as that was the color of the ruling party at the time. Even newspapers carried the story.
