This girl, Abby texted the group chat to tell us something bad happened to our friend Ella, that her mom sent a message saying she collapsed and fainted.

It had been several hours, and Abby said Ella hasn’t woken up yet, according to her mother.

I was worried, vented to my family about it, and tried calling her number. It appeared her phone had been turned off.

Later, Ella told me and her BF Michael that it was a prank and that her phone was off because she was on a plane. She was bored and thought no one would care if she was in an actual coma.

I was relieved and Michael was rightfully pissed.

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    Some people in my high school began saying that someone in their class died in a motorcycle crash. I’ll call the “dead” kid Nel.

    So Nel has a motorcycle (here in Costa Rica there are some sort of scooter-like motorcycles that you can drive without needing a license as long as you are at least 13 years old)

    So I enter the classroom these guys were at, and they tell me Nel is dead. I asked why, and their answer was “Because he tried to protect a beautiful girl from an incoming car and the car hit him”.

    I actually believed them for 15 mins until someone calls them out, and it turns out there was no crash. Nel just had a fever and didn’t go to school for the day.

    Hours later I realized their argument didn’t make sense. If Nel had protected another person from an incoming car, it would still hit the 2 anyways.

    At the end I was called a whiny removed because apparently I can’t tolerate dark humor.

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    Many many years ago, a friend of mine installed a remote control plugin on another friends Foobar (music player) without their knowledge. He then proceeded to troll by messing with the volume and the track playing, not only when he was visiting but also when he would pass by the house. He would check if Foobar was being used and then would troll a bit before continuing. This went on for about 4 months. The other dude was going insane trying to figure out what was happening.

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    Happened at my school 20ish years ago.

    School trip of multiple classes to a neighboring city. So they packed each class into a bus one by one, taking multiple trips.

    At some point someone put a piece of paper with “help, rampage kidnapping” into the back window of the bus as a “joke”.

    It wasn’t found out until the next class was on the road and suddenly was surounded by a armored police force

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    i caused a detective to freak and draw his service weapon because i put a mannequin of a small black child standing on his desk in his locked office