When Good Pranks Go Bad

Remember that post not too long ago about the importance of planning your prank carefully—lest it backfire on you and end up causing way more grief than it’s worth? Well there’s a little video circulating on You Tube this week that seems to demonstrate this point to a tee.

Of course, I’m still not 100% convinced that the whole thing wasn’t contrived. But whether or not it was staged is not the point. The fact of the matter is, something like this very easily could happen… and what started out as a goofy prank could end up doing quite a bit of damage.

For those of you that haven’t heard the viral phenomenon yet, allow me to paint a picture for you:

On his wife’s birthday, a man arranges to have some of his office buddies pull a little prank on her. They call her up, claiming to be his bosses, and explain that he’s just been fired, and that he’s on his way home. At first, the wife is very (understandably) concerned.

She lets them know that this is a terrible time for him to lose his job. They’ve apparently just had their first child, and bills are piling up. For those listening in on the phone call, you can tell that the “bosses” are trying hard not to laugh, but the poor wife is obviously so upset that she can’t hear it.

That’s when she asks what he did to lose his job, and all hell breaks loose.

When the so-called CEOs explain that her husband was caught in flagrante with his secretary, his now very ticked off wife let’s off a string of curse words that would make a sailor blush. She threatens to toss all of his belongings onto the street before he gets home. And then, she says it…

“Well, now I don’t feel nearly so bad for sleeping with his brother!!!”

Well, happy birthday, honey.