Top 10 Halloween Pranks That Went Awry
Although pranks seem more popular than ever and have even been the focus of the television show
Impractical Jokers (2011–present), such tricks can be dangerous to their perpetrators and their targets. Jail, injury, psychological trauma, lawsuits, and even death have resulted from some of these mindless hijinks.
As demonstrated by these 10 Halloween pranks that went awry, fun especially when it’s of a foolish nature can have serious and even tragic consequences.
10 False Alarm
In 2010, unidentified parents in rural Galatia, Illinois, played an ill-considered Halloween prank on their children that could have landed the pranksters in jail. The parents decided to frighten their children by staging a fake murder in which the children’s mother was the “victim.”