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April Fools Day Tricks On Dangers
A day for hoaxes and tricks, here we have brought you
some funny incidents that happened on April Fools Day. The events that
have been documented here are real and have caused false alarms in the
victims. Funny April Fool warnings can make people run for life or hide
under their desks and here you can read how:
- In 1949, Phil Shone perpetrated a prank on April Fools' Day that
forced the New Zealand Broadcasting Service to send out a memo
before this day each year to new Zealand radio stations to report
'only' the truth in keeping with the rules of broadcasting. Shone
was a New Zealand deejay for radio station 1ZB and the hoax that put
his name in history was about a mile-wide wasp swarm that he
announced to be headed towards Auckland. He even advised them about
some safety measures such as wearing their socks over their trousers
when going outside and leaving honey-smeared traps outside their
doors. Hundreds of his listeners were taken in and followed the
directions dutifully until he finally admitted it to be just a joke!
- Porky Bickar created a widespread panic and alarm in the
residents of Sitka, Alaska in 1974 by flowing hundreds of old tires
into the neighboring but long-dormant volcano Mount Edgecumbe and
lit them up to release black smoke leading people to think that
volcano was becoming active again and erupt anytime soon. The terror
caused by his prank got so imprinted on everyone's mind that when
Mount St. Helens erupted six years later, a resident of Sitka wrote
to Bickar stating in an angry tone that he had crossed his limits
this time.
- A government agency called Arizona Pest Removal Information Line
(For Outside Operations Listings) (first letters of every word
spells 'APRIL FOOL') announced on 1st of April, 1994 to the
residents of Glendale and Peoria, Arizona that everybody has to
remain indoors from 9 am to 2:30 pm as a widespread aerial spraying
was scheduled for the day under 'Operation Killer Bees' to eradicate
a killer bee population in the area. The yellow fliers in the
neighborhoods caused quite a furor and people kept looking out of
the windows for pest-control planes and tried calling the phone
numbers of local television and radio stations that were provided
for more enquiry.
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