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neytjie 7 months ago

I really hate tiktok. It's like the dumbest of the dumb are competing for clout. Idiots

29points

Nitka Tsar 7 months ago

What the hell? Do with yourself what you want, but leave others alone!

12points

Jessica SpeLangm 7 months ago

Yes, we need more Darwin award winners and rid the planet of these TikTok idiots.

5points

Regina Holt 7 months ago

"tripping toddlers" ?????? Did I read that correctly???? Please tell me I need to get my eyes checked.

5points

Terran 7 months ago

This exact behaviour existed long before social media. TikTok doesn't change much about that. The true problems with social media aren't some stupid challenges.

4points

Chrissie Anit 7 months ago

You may be right, but I feel it has gotten way out of hand with these challenges spreading all over social media. Now you can "compete" with kids from all over the world over who is the stupidest.

3points

Becky Samuel 7 months ago

Memories are short I guess. Jackass and similar shows were huge in the 1990s. Current society came from that "lad" culture without degenerating into mindless animals. Extreme, revolting, and gore content was widely available on the internet and "shock" pages like lémonparty and góatse were viewed by huge numbers. There are always going to be unruly kids, pointing fingers at a video app is just a diversion from the facts of our parentless, increasingly divided society.

4points

Rayne OfSalt 7 months ago

tiktok's really no different to things like ebaumsworld, early youtube and the like.

4points

Sheila who? 7 months ago

I'm not boomer either technically speaking. But if I had a lawn I'd tell youngins to get off of it. /s

3points

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago

I had friends who did that in college but we were all experienced rock climbers with full protection. We hung a banner protesting the Iraq War.

3points

Somebodys grandmother 7 months ago (edited)

In denmark we have 4-5 serious burnvictims, 1 adult, 3-4 preteen Kids, because of a tiktok-thing 😒

1point

Array Index Out of Bounds 7 months ago

A person that is comfortable with themselves needs no conformation from others.

1point

TheGoodBoi 7 months ago

When we were kids, we would tie fishing line from lamp post to lamp post across the street and listen to the line go up and over the cars and make a "twang" noise. The last time we did it, a guy stopped and ran after us. The "last time".

1point

PSimms 7 months ago (edited)

Why the irrelevant, gratuitous and insulting boomer reference? Your post would be stronger without it.

1point

Hannah Taylor 7 months ago (edited)

Thank you! Nowadays, it seems like a deficiency to over the age of 30.

1point

Lee 7 months ago

TikTok really needs banned. It's messing with young impressionable brains that aren't even fully developed yet. Before TikTok did you see anyone 'identify-' as a hawk and asked people to call them 'hawkself' as a pronoun? Well done China. You're electronic Trojan horse is creating generations of absolute fools, destabilising society.

1point

Becky Samuel 7 months ago (edited)

Decades before tiktok we had shows like Jackass, which make the current pranks look extremely tame. The vast majority of tiktok is just silly dances and makeup tutorials. Blaming tiktok for destabilising Western society is hilarious when you consider how badly Weatern society has played itself.

3points

John Canovan 6 months ago

How about train surfing. These kids ride on topi of the subway cars for the thrill. Unfortunately, sometimes they forget there is a tunnel ahead, and they end up slamming into the tunnel at a high rate of sp.I have seen too many of these, always leading to death.

0points

becca wolfe 7 months ago

Four boys in my 13 year old's grade decided to try something "cool" they saw on Tiktok involving pouring nail polish remover on a mirror and lighting it on fire. One boy was seriously burned and another had more mild burns

0points

becca wolfe 7 months ago

In my 13 year old's school, a group of boys decided to try something "cool" they saw on Tiktok involving putting nail polish remover on a mirror and igniting it. One was seriously burned and another was mildly burned

0points

Mary Bricklin 7 months ago

They did that to toddlers? Who in their right mind could ever think that's funny?

0points

Kyra Heiker 7 months ago

I remember a group of high school students doing a scavenger hunt and didn't think about the fact that they were committing felony theft in one case. The property owner ended up shooting and killing one of them.

0points

K. LNU 7 months ago

I hate that people will post others (without their knowledge) to make fun of them for whatever for "likes." How sad of an existence does one have to have, that a "like' is what they need for their self esteem?

0points

bookbuddy 7 months ago

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Auntriarch 7 months ago (edited)

Bookbuddy, Bored Panda titles are notoriously inappropriate, and sometimes change while you're halfway down a list

6points

BROmanicus85 7 months ago

You're getting really annoying by this point...

1point

Pheyonagh 7 months ago

Let it go. It doesn’t matter

1point

Ok_Ambassador_9111 , Nite Searcher/flickr Report

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Few years ago 2 guys went to a pub. They got drunk. There was a random guy who fell asleep on the patio of the place sitting in his chair.
The 2 men decided they gonna prank him and tie him to the chair with tapes. They asked the bartender girl for tapes and tied him.
This was close to closing time and they decided to leave him there for the night, cuz how funny it'll be when he wakes up taped to the chair in an empty bar. The bartender girl was fully in. So she closed the place and they left him there.
This was in November and the man froze to death at night. It was clear he woke up and tried to break himself free, so he didn't freeze to death in his sleep. He froze to death while being completely concious and awake.
All 3 were sentenced.

Final score:

228points

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Rachel Pelz 7 months ago

Manslaughter. In July, "only" illegal restraint. But November in a non-tropical climate...f***ing criminal.

130points

triviaqueen , Keira Burton/pexels Report

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) So a group of the big beefy football jocks grabbed the dweeby nerdy kid under his arms and escorted him, against his will, to the rear of the football field / track / stadium. There was a drainage cistern there, covered by a heavy grate, built as a catchment for the water running off the sports complex. It was normally dry unless it was raining.

It was nicely dry when they dumped the dweeby kid in the hole and let the grate fall, trapping him there. Well, it was just a prank, just a joke, but they failed to tell him that they intended to return at the end of the day to let him out. Meanwhile the dweeby nerdy kid had a big exam he'd been studying for and he didn't want to miss the class. So after the beefy dudes left him there in the hole, he tried to climb out on his own.

The grate was too heavy for him to lift from below. It fell on him, breaking his neck.

It was the scandal of my high school career and the beefy dudes, though kicked off the football team, expelled from school, and brought before court, never served any time for this accidental murder.

That was in 1971; the dead kid would be retired by now had he lived through the prank, and he probably would have had a stellar intellectual career.

Final score:

161points

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Mari Laukkanen 7 months ago

again, not.a prank. bullying.

233points

silent-l , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

Folklorist Moira Marsh, author of the book "Practically Joking," believes that pranking appeals to people because it requires a good deal of creativity. "They take planning. They take knowledge of a situation, knowledge of the person you're targeting. Sometimes the planning is extremely elaborate."

Since harmless practical jokes often result in laughter, it adds even more fun to it. "It's important, psychologically, to have time for play," Marsh explains.

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) I was in grade 1 if we had to use the washroom we had to go in pairs teachers rules. Some girl from a much older grade thought she'd prank her friend by "hanging" herself in a bathroom stall. She slipped off the toilet when we came in. Opened the door and saw her struggling. My friend grabbed her legs and tried to hold her up to keep her from choking to death while I ran to find my teacher. I remember running out of the bathroom down the hall, and seeing kids lined up peering into the windows. I don't know how many were in on it. The girl was helped by the teacher. The girl was not injured seriously but it must have been traumatic for me because I would wake up middle of the night screaming. I remember my mom visiting the girls home and losing it on the girls father a few days later. The nightmares continued for years afterwards.

Final score:

147points

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Ace 7 months ago

That's classic PTSD, I hope they got over it eventually.

88points

silentarcher00 , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) A friend of mine's dad once decided to jump out of an empty wardrobe and scare his wife when they were house shopping. He didn't see a downward facing hook at the back of the wardrobe and when he jumped up to leap out he caught his back on the hook and ripped his skin open. They had to go to A&E to get stitches and the police showed up as the doctors were concerned it was a stab wound. So he had to explain to the police how he had f****d up a simple prank so badly he had basically stabbed himself in the back.

Final score:

133points

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WindySwede 7 months ago

"Et tu myself"

154points

Decades ago, a neighbour's brother was getting married and went out for his stag night with his friends. There was a tradition at the time of getting the stag really drunk and then doing something like stripping them, tying them to a lamp post and throwing flour/sugar/eggs/paint at them and leaving them like that for hours. The stag was absolutely terrified of this and was waiting for it to happen the whole night long. When they finally made a move to grab him he started to run. They gave chase. He ran into a chip shop, drunkenly leapt the counter, and fell right into a vat of boiling oil. The wedding had to be postponed, and he eventually got married on day release from hospital whilst covered in bandages. He required skin grafts and was left with permanent scarring and disabilities.

WorldWideWig Report

Final score:

117points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago

There are way too many of these "Get our buddy drunk AF' stories on this list. What is wrong with these people?

155points

Another motivation is the opportunity to have the upper hand over someone who normally has more social power. "If you are a younger person, you have license to play jokes on your teachers, your elders, your parents," Marsh explained. "You have the added thrill of a temporary role reversal or temporary power inversion. For a kid to be able to, for a little while, get the upper hand over an adult, it flips the usual relationship. It flips the usual power dynamic. That's thrilling and enjoyable."

However, Jonathan Wynn, a sociology professor, notes that if the prankster has more social power or privilege over their "victim," like a parent pranking a child or a group of students “pranking” a transgender student, then this should cause some concerns. A good prank should be shared, not targeted at one “inferior” person.

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) I was in my senior year of college. Some guy threw a grad party at one of his parents houses. I ended up going, cause why not?

Three guys who were wasted as f**k had this idea to shoot Roman candles at one their buddies who was coming out of the poolside bathrooms. It was two bathrooms attached to a small closet with pool chemicals and the door happened to be ajar.

One of the rounds went right into the closet and started a fire while there was a girl passed out drunk in the next stall. Everyone freaked out and called the cops, but nobody knew the girl was passed out.

Luckily, she survived with minor burns, but the guy's parents got sued. The girl was only 19 and had half her arm burned and a lot of her hair singed off.

BeyondXpression , WmJR/flickr Report

Final score:

111points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago

Drunk people and fire. It's always drunk people and fire.

85points

Lorithias , Gregg O'Connell/flickr Report

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Don't push someone head into a cake "randomly". By randomly I'm saying without knowing anything about the cake. Sometimes to make big cake pastry chief put big wood pointy thing in it so the cake doesn't fall.

It can be VERY messy.

Just assume every cake have theses in it.

Final score:

111points

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Enuya 7 months ago

Just stop wasting perfectly good cakes by throwing people into it. It isn't funny for any party involved

170points

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) A kid at school whose dad flicked a towel in his face. It got his eye really bad and he had permanent damage. The kid was an up and comer in the local tennis league as well. Really sad.

Prstty , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

Final score:

106points

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Kaedyn Walsh 7 months ago

If a person wants to flick/throw/whip etc anything at someone, ALWAYS AVOID THE FACE. Best yet, don't flick/throw/whip anything at anyone ever.

73points

One of the most common ways pranks go wrong is when they physically harm another individual. Therefore, knowing when it's a good idea to refrain from pulling one might be necessary. Psychologist Dr. Ronnie Siddique suggests asking these questions before carrying out a practical joke:

Has the target of the prank stated they want this behavior to stop, or have they shown previous distress with any pranks?
Is the target of the prank a vulnerable person, such as a child, an individual with a mental disorder, or a person with disabilities?
Could this prank in any way cause harm to a person, either psychologically, physically, or both?

If the answer is yes to any of these questions (or perhaps all of them), it’s best to stop in your tracks and reevaluate your joke.

#10

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) I was at a swimming pool with friends as a kid maybe 10 or 12 years old. We were in the deep end, and diving down to 12ft, picking up coins off the bottom of the pool. I was coming up from the bottom, and one of the kids thought it would be funny to hold me head underwater with his foot. I gasped as I broke the water, then got shoved back down and inhaled a s**tload of water, and panicked, and two other kids had to drag me out of the water onto the concrete where I coughed and vomited for what felt like 10 minutes.

Fy_Faen , MarcTutorials/pexels Report

Final score:

106points

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Diolla 7 months ago

Similar thing happened to me. Almost drowned. This is not a prank though, it's bullying.

144points

#11

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Dumb neighbor kid thought it was a good prank to hide behind parked cars along the side of the road and jump out at approaching cars.... Didn't get hit because the first car was driving very slowly and the owner got pissed enough that he never dared to do it again.

poklane , Bruno Brandao/pexels Report

Final score:

99points

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bookbuddy 7 months ago

Why is a prank story that ends without tragedy, and only a lesson learned, ranked #1 in a list of pranks that ended in tragedy? You mystify me Bored Panda.

4points

Pedantichrist , Andrea Piacquadio/pexels Report

#12

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Medical student graduated. They tied him naked to the bridge. Died of exposure.

Final score:

98points

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the dancing demon (she/her) 7 months ago

What!? Why would someone ever think that was a good idea??

108points

#13

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) My great grandfather got his chair pulled out from under him by his best friend at work on April Fool's Day. My great grandfather broke his neck and died, his friend never forgave himself.

We never celebrated April Fools at my house, and everyone always thought it a prank when I explained...

bulbagill , Pixabay/pexels Report

Final score:

98points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago

My cousin was staying with us and thought it would be funny to spray oven grease all over the kitchen floor. This was my grandmother's house. I was the one who slipped and he thought it was oh so funny. All I could picture is my elderly grandmother in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.

98points

Mariambarouma , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

#14

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) When I was younger my mom was out on a walk with her friends and my dad thought it would be funny to pelt them with water balloons when they came around the corner. As soon as they rounded the bend, we ran out with our water balloons and my dad tripped and fell and broke his foot, his leg, and his arm.

Final score:

90points

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Mohsie Supposie 7 months ago

Instant karma, or PRE-karma?

88points

#15

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Compressed air up the butt. Destroys the gut and ends lives...saw a few of those and people never learn.

_Ed_Gein_ , anon Report

Final score:

90points

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QJBean 7 months ago

I presume OP is a doctor otherwise I can't imagine why they see so many cases??

58points

#16

Recently my coworker pranked my friend and I by removing the wheels on our desk chairs. Unfortunately she removed two wheels right beside each other and thought we would notice before sitting down. Then she had this crazy elaborate scavenger hunt for us that ended with us finding our wheels in jello at the end like something out of the office. It was an amazing prank on paper but I had been having a rough morning when I got to work and didn’t notice and just sat right down…suffice to say I fell right backwards off the chair and hit my head on the ground. Luckily it wasn’t bad and I just got a bit of a bump, but that certainly changed the pranking dynamics in the office.

WolffHDGaming Report

Final score:

89points

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BROmanicus85 7 months ago

"Pranking dynamics"?!?! Where do you work?! The circus????

120points

Bumblebees_99 , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

#17

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) When I was young I went to a friends house for a sleepover where they had a prank planned. They dressed up in creepy clothing and makeup, and one of the girls (we didn’t get along) had a real knife and was planning to slam me against the wall and hold it up to my neck when I came downstairs. Luckily one of the girls got scared before I got there and ran upstairs to tell me what was about to unfold before I went downstairs. She was so scared she asked me when I went down there to ‘play along’. Wasn’t going to take that f*****g chance. I think I dodged something that would have gone VERY wrong.

Final score:

86points

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Jason 7 months ago

My ideas of pranks don't involve holding real knives up to people's throats.

108points

#18

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Dumb kid thought it was a funny idea to push his friend from a sidewalk towards my car.

Good thing i was driving slowly so i was able to stop in time.

Since that day i'm always afraid someone is going to push a person under my car, when i drive near sidewalk with people on it.

Drogovich , Mary Taylor/pexels Report

Final score:

86points

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The only Plueschopossum 7 months ago

I have this fear, too (especially when I drive past kids) - even though it never happened to me.

51points

AstroWorldSecurity , JESHOOTS.com/pexels Report

#19

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) My buddy thought it would be funny to swerve his car towards the ditch and turn away at the last second. We wound up going into the ditch, slamming into a culvert, and flipping end over end. There's still debate amongst a few people whether he meant to do it or not. Apparently he was the butt of a lot of jokes and I just hadn't been around the group of people long enough to understand how deep it went. So, maybe a prank gone wrong, maybe attempted crime. I have no idea.

Final score:

84points

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PFD 7 months ago

OP makes it sound like the guy had been bullied to the point where attempted murder -suicide is plausible.... and that everyone else was aware. That doesn't sound like a healthy dynamic even if this was just a prank gone wrong.

75points

#20

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) The guy who tried to jumpscare his family at the Grand Canyon and instead slipped and fell to his death.

_CozyLavender_ , Rodrigo /pexels Report

Final score:

83points

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doredde 7 months ago

That´s just stupidity.

81points

#21

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) This isn’t my story, but David Dobrik hit Jeff Whittek with an excavator. He was a part of his vlog crew and they were supposed to be filming a video where the excavator would swing them around. David ended up slamming Jeff into the side of the excavator after going too fast and then abruptly stopping. It broke lots of bones including his skull and caused lasting damage.

groundunit0101 , Pastime/youtube Report

Final score:

82points

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Ace 7 months ago

Is this from Jackass or similar? I saw part of an episode of that one time, just stupid, stupid stupid.

23points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#22

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Wasn’t there some couple that made a “prank” in which the girl shot her BF because they thought a book would stop the bullet (it didn’t)? I think they tried shooting a different book before trying to do it. The other book stopped the bullet, the one they used did not and it ended up with the guy dying.

Olveyn , Byron Sullivan/pexels Report

Final score:

81points

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Smart writer 7 months ago

Wasnt that a bible and a desert eagle? Well done jesus and friends

37points

#23

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) I heard this story around where I live where during a wedding, the groom was "abducted" as a prank by a bunch of friends, made extremely drunk and then had boots put on his feet that said friends then filled with construction foam. The foam hardened, sealing both of his feet inside so tightly that it cut off the blood flow, which ended with him needing to have both of his feet amputated.

anon , Juliano Goncalves/pexels Report

Final score:

81points

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Enuya 7 months ago

Wasn't a story about this very incident on BP few weeks ago?

75points

FUCK_INDUSTRIAL , Gustavo Rangel/pexels Report

#24

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) When my dad was a kid, he thought it would be fun to shoot open safety pins at stuff with a slingshot fashioned out of a rubber band. Eventually, he aimed at his older sister and she ended up with a safety pin stuck in her forehead. It's a good thing he didn't hit her in the eye.

Final score:

68points

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Bored something 7 months ago

How could anyone think that would be a good idea?

59points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#25

I used to do this trick with a butterfly knife when I was a dumb 13 year old, where I would flip it around like I was gonna open it but keep flipping to where it would be closed again and then thrust it at your face like I was going to stab you in the face.

This one time I did it with this other kids plastic handled knife where the handles were a bit fatter and rounder than the normal brass handled ones and it didn't fit my hand quite as well as the knives I was used to.

I did my twirly twirl and thrust with the knife but because the handles were fatter than normal I missed the catch and as I was thrusting towards the kids face the knife folded open. Stabbed that poor f****r right in the bone at the bottom of the eye socket/top of the cheek bone.

Stabbed him good. There was a knife point hole there and It was leaking blood. Would have been worse if the blade had a proper point on it.

I was a couple of mm away from taking out that guy's eye. Needless to say, neither the kid it happened to nor the people watching me thought it was anything less than deliberate.

Never played my butterfly knife trick in anyone ever again.

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Final score:

64points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago (edited)

Butterfly knives are a stupid weapon for stupid people. They're widely banned for good reason. Like Nunchucks, they look cool when handled by a professional but when price to entry is like $15, a lot of idiots who watch too many movies are going to buy them. Buy a yoyo instead. Learn to juggle. You can look cool without the deadly weapons. EDIT: I just realized I said that when my last GF was a sword dancer. The irony is not lost.

75points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#26

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) There used to be this video series on Youtube called 'Hood Pranks' or something like that - not sure if it's still around, but plot of every show was these geeky guys going into some of the toughest neighborhoods of NYC and playing stupid pranks on people where they got beat up in half the episodes. I recall one prank where one of the hosts got knocked out with a single hook to the jaw.

boxingfan828 , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

Final score:

62points

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 7 months ago

Sounds a lot like jackáss lol

19points

#27

When I was in the restaurant business there was a waiter who used to prank people by pretending to drink a hot cup of coffee, then pretend to throw it in someone's face. The cup was empty, and it was looped to his finger with a thick rubber band, so it actually was kind of funny. The cup would come toward your face, and then bounce right back in his hand instead of hitting you. BUT OK so this other guy tried to do with with a weak skinny rubber band, which broke, and the ceramic mug hit me full force in the forehead. Had to go to the hospital for xrays, it was ok except for a bad headache for a day or two. So the ER trip would be covered by workers comp, we said the cup fell off a tray and hit me. That's when I learned that "horseplay" is a legal term.

Lucinnda Report

Final score:

62points

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Mohsie Supposie 7 months ago

Total amateur!

13points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#28

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) I once had an hammer in my hand, and pranked my sister by "throwing" it on her. Unfortunately, the hammer head detached from the handle it flew straight to her head, thankfully missed by few cm. .

Crazy__Donkey , Ksenia Chernaya/pexels Report

Final score:

57points

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Mohsie Supposie 7 months ago

The whole handle could easily have slipped from your hand too. So very, very very BAD idea!

50points

sapperbloggs , rory-the-roman/reddit Report

#29

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Me and some friends were spraying hair spray down a tube with someone lighting the other end. Between sprays, one of the guys looked down the tube to see if there was flame inside the tube. As he did this, someone sprayed more hair spray into the tube.

It turns out there *was* still flame in the tube, because my friend's head was engulfed in a ball of flame. He didn't end up with any major burns or other injuries, but he had no more eyebrows, eye lashes, or fringe for a while.

Final score:

55points

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Mohsie Supposie 7 months ago

Not so much a prank, but sheer stupidity!

72points

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#30

When I was in 8th grade, a buddy of mine and i decided to prank his little brother by making him think that the camper he loved to play in was on fire. We had a glass jar of gasoline and poured some gas near the camper on the ground and lit it to freak him out. We assumed he would grab the water hose to try to put it out. As you can probably guess, he didn't grab the hose. He of course grabbed the jar of gas and chucked it on the fire thinking it was water. Huge flames shot up and we truly did almost burn the camper down. Thankfully we knew to throw dirt on it along with water and got it out. His parents were PISSED!

Final score:

55points

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Wubedhheij 7 months ago

And you were let off the hook?!?!

19points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#31

When I was in third grade a first grade kid thought it would be funny to walk around the school and rub peanut butter on people

Had two people go to the hospital that day it was not Pretty.

Equivalent-Hat-7600 Report

Final score:

52points

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Rachel Pelz 7 months ago

Allergies, I suppose?

44points

Usual_Addendum411 , Justin/pexels Report

#32

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Some years ago, a staff party for a brokerage, everyone in costume including a young guy wearing plastic bags. Took his girlfriend into a cubicle in the gents for a shag. Guy in the next cubicle thought he’d playfully flick a lighter under the door. Exploded in flames, guy died screaming and the girl had massive life changing burns. The guy that did this had a huge nervous breakdown and never worked again.

Final score:

50points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 7 months ago

Not sure I believe this one. Those plastic bags would have to be filled with methane or something to do that.

39points

#33

I remember my classmates and me wanted to prank our teacher who's like 57 years old, it's like a fake pregnancy prank that a girl in my class would do. We set up a fake pregnancy test on the bathroom bin while the girl tried to act all nervous, once the teacher entered the room, she goes out to the bathroom acting like she wanted to take a p**s. She waited for like 5 to 10 minutes, and when she came back, a girl "snitched" on her and brought the fake pregnancy test. He went to her actual boyfriend and punched him in the face until his node bleed. He went to the ER and got like a broken nose, black eyes. He got fired and we got suspended for the prank. Honestly one of the most stupidest thing I've ever participated in.

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47points

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Rachel Pelz 7 months ago

"Actual" boyfriend makes it sound a bit as if the teacher wad "involved" with that girl, too.

56points

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#34

I am so terrified of bees, well especially now because when me and my brother were kids.. My brother thought it would be funny to p**s off bees, he found a beehive and decided it would be funny to throw rocks at it and run away.
Just as he did I came walking and well he forgot to tell me to run and you can guess where it went, I had bees in my hair, my jacket basically everywhere.. I had no idea he did that until we both became adults and he finally confessed to me, I was convinced that I was just at the wrong time and place, but guess I have found out who caused me my phobia of bees 😂.

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47points

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Sage(formerly Impasta) 7 months ago

When I was five, i sat in an ant nest by accident and ran around screaming "There are ants in my pants!" This happened twice, the second time with chiggers. And people wonder why I'm afraid of small bugs lol.

17points

#35

People Are Sharing Ways In Which ‘Harmless’ Pranks Ended In Tragedy (35 Stories) Dared a guy to jump/leapfrog a garbage bin. Another guy opened it last second (not planned).

He only ended up with stitches near his eye but could have gone a lot worse.

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Final score:

36points

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Rachel Pelz 7 months ago

I don't get this. Wouldn't he leap into a open garbage bin?

27points

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Diolla 7 months ago

Many of these "pranks" are just plain old bullying. I was bullied a LOT when I was a kid, it has caused me bodily harm and almost got me killed. You will never catch me "pranking" anyone.

53points

FluffyDreg 7 months ago

I hate these thinfs continuing to perpetuate pranks like this. A prank is something INTENDED to make both sides laugh. Wrapping up your funiture in wrapping paper, for example. Long story short. If the "victim" isn't laughing, the prank was bad.

28points

FluffyDreg 7 months ago

That said im sorry you were horrifically bullied. That shouldn't have happened.ed and im glad you are here now.

13points

Anna Ekberg 7 months ago

Some of these stories should be classified as murder attempts and not bullying.

12points

doredde 7 months ago

THIS!!!!

6points

Marcellus II 7 months ago

Almost none of them are "tragedies" ("dad wants to throw waterballoon, trips and breaks four bones" = maybe karma, but certainly not a tragedy).

3points

MellonCollie 7 months ago

Good god, people are idiots. I couldn't go any further after about ten of these stories. I'm fuming at all these idiots.

15points

Egg Lady 7 months ago

I try to avoid anyone who thinks these "pranks" are funny. many of these are more like hazing, endangering people lives for their own amusement.

14points

G R 7 months ago

Not a single one of these is readable on the app. Only the first few words show up.

8points

Patti 7 months ago

Yes this is happening to me too.

2points

ConstantlyJon 7 months ago

I don't think these people know what pranks are. Bullying is not a prank. Murder is not a prank. Stupidity is not a prank.

7points

Apatheist Account2 7 months ago

The Darwin awards await some...but "pranks" are just stupidity. Understandable if you're 5 or 6, but if you're old enough to understand consequences, this really shouldn't happen.

6points

Sleepy Panda 7 months ago

Can someone at BP please fix the posts. They only display the first sentence and then we have to go to reddit directly to read what it says, when you try and hit back it creases your app.

5points

Patti 7 months ago

Same

0points

SDLT010 7 months ago

Some of these are just straight up fücking murder

4points

marius mako 7 months ago

Does any of you people from Bored Panda actually know that most of the people cannot read your posts?

4points

marius mako 7 months ago

What's wrong with the display of the text? Also the back button...I need to press it 3 times to work...

4points

Justin Tyme 7 months ago

One time when I was a kid, I was hanging out with some friends from around the neighborhood. We convinced one kid to pee on an electric fence. He didn't get any lasting damage, but it definitely hit him hard.

2points

Tomato Smudge 7 months ago

The only prank I pull on slow days at work is telling my customers (the ones new to paying with cash, unfortunately) to slide the bills through the card swipe on the pinpad and watching them do just that.

1point

Becca not Becky 7 months ago

Remember the skull-breaker challenge? It was a Tik Tok prank a year or two ago, and some kids wound up with serious injuries.

1point

Catherine Rowe 7 months ago

What am I doing wrong...I'm only getting a bit of the explanations

1point

SilverSkyCloud 6 months ago (edited)

does anyone remember the "crazy clown" prank a few years back in the uk? basically idiots dress as scary clows and go around at night scaring people for laughs, anyway i read a news article where one person did that at a womans house and banged on her windows terrifying her, she was heavily pregnant and went into premature labor, i cant remember if the baby survived and i dont know if the as*hole was caught

0points

Seanette Blaylock 6 months ago

Most of these so-called pranks are stuff the Marauders would have found unacceptable.

0points

weatherwitch 6 months ago

This made me feel so angry and furious that I felt like I just wanted to punch the absolute twats who did these horrific 'pranks'

0points

clairebear 7 months ago

Pranks are the lowest form of humour, even "funny" ones rely on someone being humiliated. I distrust people who find pranks funny, I think they are psychopaths.

0points

Rhys 7 months ago

That was throughly depressing. Pranks are meant to be funny, these are mean, dumb and dangerous. Kids can do stupid things as they lack experience and might not understand consequences but too many of these were by people old enough to know better. I also don't believe being drunk should absolve people either.

0points

Pamela24 7 months ago

If you wanna see *actual* cute and funny pranks to heal your soul, look up "Matthew and Paul" on YouTube (their short videos). They're a couple where Matthew pranks Paul (who's blind) constantly but it's all in good fun and it's clear that Paul enjoys it and has said multiple times he doesn't want Matthew to stop. It's the sweetest thing, I promise.

0points

ZuriLovesYou 7 months ago

Whatever happened to whoopee cushions and sticking googly eyes everywhere?

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Maisey Myles 7 months ago

Pranks should be funny and harmless or done by people with a brain. I once took a screen shot of my coworker’s Home Screen and mad it it his wallpaper. He kept clicking on icons. No one was harmed

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Alecto76 7 months ago

I love "pranking" but never anything that would hurt anyone. My last - I had ordered an adult toy. In the box was a sticker with a cartoon vagina and something about being a happy vagina. Anyway, I stuck it on the lapel of my husband's coat. I thought he would notice. And he did. After going to the mechanic, post office, grocery store and pharmacy. Saw it in a mirror while paying at the gas station.

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Diolla 7 months ago

Many of these "pranks" are just plain old bullying. I was bullied a LOT when I was a kid, it has caused me bodily harm and almost got me killed. You will never catch me "pranking" anyone.

53points

FluffyDreg 7 months ago

28points

FluffyDreg 7 months ago

That said im sorry you were horrifically bullied. That shouldn't have happened.ed and im glad you are here now.

13points

Anna Ekberg 7 months ago

Some of these stories should be classified as murder attempts and not bullying.

12points

doredde 7 months ago

THIS!!!!

6points

Marcellus II 7 months ago

Almost none of them are "tragedies" ("dad wants to throw waterballoon, trips and breaks four bones" = maybe karma, but certainly not a tragedy).

3points

MellonCollie 7 months ago

Good god, people are idiots. I couldn't go any further after about ten of these stories. I'm fuming at all these idiots.

15points

Egg Lady 7 months ago

I try to avoid anyone who thinks these "pranks" are funny. many of these are more like hazing, endangering people lives for their own amusement.

14points

G R 7 months ago

Not a single one of these is readable on the app. Only the first few words show up.

8points

Patti 7 months ago

Yes this is happening to me too.

2points

ConstantlyJon 7 months ago

I don't think these people know what pranks are. Bullying is not a prank. Murder is not a prank. Stupidity is not a prank.

7points

Apatheist Account2 7 months ago

The Darwin awards await some...but "pranks" are just stupidity. Understandable if you're 5 or 6, but if you're old enough to understand consequences, this really shouldn't happen.

6points

Sleepy Panda 7 months ago

Can someone at BP please fix the posts. They only display the first sentence and then we have to go to reddit directly to read what it says, when you try and hit back it creases your app.

5points

Patti 7 months ago

Same

0points