What's the Best Prank You've Ever Pulled?

So rugby player Manu Tuilagi has to write an apology letter for giving David Cameron the bunny ears outside Number 10. That's the one minor problem with pranking the British prime minister on national television – a lot of people see it, a lot of people get angry and a lot of people want you to make amends.

However, not everyone is an England rugby player, and not everyone has publicly owned up to the pranks they've pulled in the past. So I thought, in support of Tuilagi's plight, I'd make some people to do that. London, what's the best prank you've ever pulled?

Bernie: It was when I was in halls at uni and, for a laugh, we swapped someone’s dorm room furniture around with another friend's stuff. And then we also got a fat gay guy to sleep in their bed and surprise them when they got home.

Was the person annoyed?
Massively pissed off – they wouldn’t speak to us for a week. I guess we didn’t know each other that well at that point, to be fair.

Gabriella: I can only think of one thing. When I was at boarding school as a kid out in the country, we had lots of chickens around us. And we caught loads of them and put them in the opposite dorm house

Did you get into trouble?
Yeah, everyone from that house chased us around for ages at, like, 5AM. It was worth it, though – loads of chickens going crazy and shitting everywhere.

What do you think of what Manu Tuilagi did to David Cameron?
Good on him – I would; David Cameron’s a dick.

He then apologised on Twitter afterwards. What do you make of that?
Because this wasn’t that much of a big deal, I think it’s OK. But Twitter apologies are a bit shit.  They’re too public and impersonal. I probably wouldn’t accept an apology on Twitter.

Fair enough.

Hardeed: We broke into our school on the last day and put pictures up all over the walls and moved stuff around. We didn’t trash it, though.

Did they find out it was you?
They knew it was our year, but couldn’t pin point it on anyone individually, so they let it go. They laughed it off.

What do you make of Cameron's bunny ears?
It’s alright – nothing major. I'd probably do it if I got the chance.

Would you consider yourself a prankster?
I do little pranks with my housemates and have a laugh, but not big ones. I don’t wake up in the morning thinking, ‘Oh, what can I do to people?’

Have you ever regretted anything you’ve done?
Just silly ones, like when you pull someone’s chair out when they’re about to sit down. Some people get really embarrassed. I feel a bit bad.

Abbey: Our friend was at the gym and we knew he was there, so we went to the car park. We pulled out a page in a street directory with his address on it, circled it, wrote, "We’re gonna get you" and stuck it on his car window. Then we hid in our car to watch him get it.

What did he do?
He clearly started freaking out, and he pulled out and started driving. So we started following him in our car, then he noticed he was being followed so stopped his car, got out and saw it was us.

Was he mad?
Yeah, he got really mad and we just burst out laughing. He did get over it pretty quickly, but his face at the time was priceless.

Amy: I filled a condom with shaving foam, attached it to my friend's door and it exploded. My friend ended up calling the police because she was so scared. Such an overreaction.

How old were you?
I was only 17 – it really wasn’t a big deal. But I was shit-scared because I thought the police were going to come. She cancelled it in the end, though.

Phew.

Previously - Would You Support the Proposed Ban on Burqas?