Celebrating April Fools’ Day… with a Prank!

The month of April can be a rough. Not only is this section of our calendars filled with proverbial showers (we supposedly have to wait until May for the flowers), but also the 15th is usually the last day we can put off filing our taxes.

So what better way to start off such an ominous month than by playing a prank that will have people talking for weeks afterwards? Here are a few of the more famous ones people have pulled off through the years:

• An edition of the Madison Capital-Times in 1933 included an edited photo of the Wisconsin state capital in ruins. The accompanying story claimed that the building was wrecked by a series of explosions caused by hot gas produced by the “verbose debates” in the chambers.
• On April 1, 1957, the British Broadcasting Corporation told viewers that there had been an “exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop” in Switzerland that year, due in part to “the virtual disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.”  
• In 1996, Taco Bell ran an ad announcing that it had purchased the Liberty Bell. While the stunt had its critics, it changed the way many companies viewed April Fools’ Day marketing.
• Not to be outdone, Burger King published a full-page ad in USA Today announcing the creation of the 'Left-Handed Whopper' in 1998. The next day, thousands of southpaws showed up to try their new favorite burger only to find it was a hoax.

Do you have any pranks up your sleeve?