Practical Jokes That Went Horribly Wrong 

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This is why I prefer pranks that screw with peoples heads rather than doing anything damaging. One time years back someone modified the welcome signs on the edge of city limits. Nothing as blase as making funny curse words. Oh, no. They went so much further. They made a cover that went over a little supplementary sign with the city's logo underneath, changing them to say things like "City of Speed Traps" and "Road Construction City". and my personal favourite, "Welcome to Edmonton, Alberta's Capital City. Suck it Calgary"

I had one of those, "You kids stay off my lawn!" neighbors growing up. He did have a beautiful lawn though. He spent lots of time taking care of it, Then one day the fire trucks and ambulance showed up ant took the man away. He'd suffered a massive heart attack. He survived but he was gone for weeks and weeks. As my dad suffered from terrible allergies it was my job to mow the grass every week. Once the man was no longer caring for his lawn it started getting over grown. I'd watch every day as his wife came out first thing in the morning and drive away not returning until well after dark. I assumed (correctly) she was going to see her husband. As his grass started to become over grown I decided on my own that I should walk over and mow it. I just started doing this every Saturday. He had automatic sprinklers so I didn't need to worry about watering the grass. After nearly the entire summer I mowed and trimmed his lawn. I tried trimming his bushes but I realized I was doing more harm than good so I quit before I did too much damage. I found out later that on the day he was let out of the hospital he was dreading what his lawn was going to look like. He'd asked his wife but she said she had not once thought of the condition of the yard. Frankly, I think if I'd replaced her car with my mother's car, I doubt she would have noticed. If the keys were in it she would have just driven my mom's car to the hospital. She had more important things on her mind. He was really surprised to kind his grass freshly cut and very well maintained. The bushes needed work, but that was all. He called me on the phone (I didn't know he knew my name) and asked if I had been cutting his grass, but his town was gruff an unfriendly. Afraid I'd be in trouble if I admitted to trespassing, but the neighbors ratted me out. The next day his wife knocked on my door with a huge plate of some really amazing lemon bars. She told me not to worry about her husband. He liked to pretend to be crotchety and unfriendly, but he had been deeply touched that I had taken over his yard care when he could not. I ended up mowing his grass every week from then on, and formed a friendship of sorts with him. He said I was okay but all my friends were a bunch of hooligans. I had to look that word up! He lived a few more years, then his wife passed away, and he followed her a week later. I was surprised to get the few thousand dollars he'd left for me. I'd always refused his offer of payment. I said it wouldn't be a good deed if I was paid. And the Karma was worth more that the money.

My oldest sister dead ass fell for bonsai kittens. She was absolutely convinced it was a thing and was outraged by it. She was in her 20s, and it didn't occur to her that it could be a hoax until someone asked her how she thought the kittens ate or took a shit or, idk, breathed, if they were sealed in a container. I'm still not totally sure if logic prevailed. It would be the first and only time for her, if it did.

Skelator laughing at simons write up cracked me up 😂

Simon keeps the C-bomb holstered for the right moment. Us Aussies sprinkle it around like glitter in a kindergarten

Anyone else catch the Jaegermeister carton superimposed over his Coke can at around 13:20? Brilliant 😂

Cats are both a solid and a fluid.. my cat will crawls into the weirdest crevices on her own. Including vases, boxes, cabinets, etc

I work as an ER veterinarian and see high dogs about 2-3 times a week. Dogs love marijuana. People freak out because the dog keeps falling over and can’t walk well. They also startle very easily. If I ask if there is any way the pet could have gotten into any marijuana there is usually much denial and then a mention that their brother is visiting and smokes or the neighbors smoke all the time. At times a teenager will be sitting right next to Mom or Dad and I will look at them and just know they are the ones that have the weed. It often comes out after I have brought in a 1000 - 2000 dollar estimate for diagnostics and hospitalization since everyone denies vehemently that the dog could not have gotten into marijuana. If marijuana exposure is diagnosed then 99% of the time they just take the dog home to monitor. It wears off in 12-24 hours. Very, very rarely they can become comatose and have seizures but they have to consume a lot of marijuana for that to happen. And no - I don’t know exact amounts. Just keep your weed locked up and don’t throw roaches on the ground. Fun times in the ER!!

Never mind Dihydrogen Monoxide contamination, it's that Carbonic acid that gets into soft drinks all the time that's a huge problem... :P

"feed basement staff" LOL NO 😂😂😂😂 That had me rolling 😂😂😂

dont think the delightful increase in Venture brother clips has gone unnoticed Julian. it has been noticed, and appreciated :)

I love there was a demonstration of what every American was thinking when Simon said, "What does it have to do with thumbs... or tacks?"

As a kid pranks were jokes. Looking back some(if not all) of those "pranks" were actually felonies.

the darkwing duck memeage makes me so fucking happy

Your kid's plates balance on a mountain ridge of sedimentary food products but you dryclean your curtains? 😂

My favorite part of the cat prank, is that anyone should know, that if you give a cat a container, they will willingly morph their own shape to sleep in it.

13:17 - Simon's Coke becomes Jägermeister

The fact that neither Simon nor his spouse regularly CLEAN THE TABLE after the children eat is one of the most unnerving things I've ever heard on Brain Blaze.

The Jägermeister @13:18 explains it all.

lol I love that Simon learned that drawing pins are also called thumb tacks at the same time I learned thumb tacks are also called drawing pins

Simon the C word is common vocabulary for my people. It’s like our calling card can anyone guess where I’m from 😂😂

I dig the SW neon lighting up 16:07 - Someone has to get Simon a proper power supply for it!

I’ve legitimately stared at my tongue in the mirror trying to do different things with it for about 20 minutes while sober.

I’m in Oz, the tourist slogan for the Northern Territory is “CU in the NT

I'm glad there's somebody who remembers that, When There's Trouble, You Call DW.

Simon, when folks ask me what happened to my hair, I point to my beard and say it permanently migrated south for the winter!!

This one was seemed even better than usual. The editing was on point in this one. I demand a shameless sequel episode immediately.

last time i was this early i was born

I'm still hoping one day Simon does the keeps ad with a massive mullet wig. I mean he will probably have to whip it off and say it's not because of keeps but going along with it for a bit will be so funny 😂

Oh...this was wall to wall greatness! The laughter tears are still streaming down my face! I needed this today (one of my cats slipped the veil last night. Sadface.) I like how The Blaze has become like going to a midnight showing of Rocky Horror due to the running memes. Skeletor rules so mightily. Being able to "sing along", so to speak, is interactive fun! Thanks, Julian (where do they sell a carton of Jager?!), Dave, and Simon. I needed this BAD today. Blaze on, Blazers! >koffkoff

Thumbnail brings me back to the days of "bonsai kittens" 😂

Would Simon be less compelling with a hair transplant‽ I, personally, don't believe so. Bald is a sign of power, but so is Elon Musk.

3:07 Thumb Tacks are sometimes called "drawing pins", because they are often used to secure posters and drawings to a wall or cork-board.

I laughed hard at this one. Awesome editing, Julian! Thumbnail was a masterpiece! And anything making fun of Simon is in a class all its own!

So one of my father's friends, way back in the day (I'm older than Simon, and my father was in his mid-20's when I was born) had a mother who worked in the school cafeteria. His family also owned a cascara tree farm. Cascara bark is used to make natural laxatives, often in the form of teas. This kid decided to put a bunch of cascara bark into a bucket of water and just let it steep cold for like a month or so. Then he went to work with his mom, and helped her out in the morning prepping for the lunch before school. He used the water with the mix for the soft-serve ice cream machine, and then headed off to class. Since he and my dad were friends, he warned my dad not to have any ice cream that day. Lunch comes, and most of the students who bought lunches get ice cream after their meals for dessert. So do a lot of staff. Soon, people are clogging up the bathrooms. There are lines and students out the doors. They're shitting in the hallways. It's pandemonium. They had to close the school down for three days. Turns out that when cascara bark sits in water for that long, it's POTENT. The kid hadn't expected the effects to be quite so spectacular. I think this falls into the "pranks gone wrong" theme of this video.

The Moose Jaw Times Herald once asked the citizens of Moose Jaw, SK, Canada to leave their landline phones off the hook because the phone company wanted to blow the dust out of the phone lines. This was April 1st.

Dave “I have a script for Sideprojects” Simon “I’m not using that” Dave “I’ll sneak it into a Brain Blaze then” 😂😂😂

Never heard Olathe pronounced that way lol. It's "Oh-lay-tha"

Your confusion about thumbtacks means that Britain must not have had "Sticky Tack," because that was the precursor invention. It was basically adhesive putty, and now that i think of it, it might also be a former military invention, as used in sticky bombs.

Editor already put in the info about the name thumb tacks but to answer Simons question about the name drawing pins. The name comes from the origin of the product - being used to pin drawings to walls. Mostly the crappy artwork we used to bring home from school but they also worked for posters.

The editing in this vid is absolutely A1, I was laughing so hard!

Bonzai kitten was hilariously unbelievable and the cute kitten meow when the page loaded made it even better 😅

8:59 On that note I just opened a store that sells dehydrated water, it comes in volumes up to 1 cubic light year. Just add water and it makes as much water as you need. Sadly we can not offer a container large enough to hold the resulting volume of water.

Ok, if your dining table is nasty enough you need to steam clean it, somebody isn't doing their house cleaning right🤣🤣🤣

Canal street manchester always has the c missing fun sign messing with XD

Simon has way too much faith in humanity

Pasting in the JagerMilk was an odd choice

Here just in time 😁

The Owen Wilson “wow” killed me 😂

I hate hate hate this experiment and the movies that go along with it. But I sat and watched the whole thing because simon was talking about it

"I'd never do that, that's illegal" *points and laughs*only in your part of the world, Simon!

There's a giant wooden horse in the hills of Adelaide south Australia with it's own sign that reads "Giant Rocking Horse" Its actually a toy shop in which the owners sell their unique wooden children's toys. The sign got changed to say "Giant Fucking Horse" interestingly enough.

Back in the 90s, there was a website (that still exists today, but it appears RU-vid doesn't like including links in comments), that was created as a joke, and talked about the dangers of DHMO. in 2004, the city of Aliso Viejo in California almost banned DHMO (among other things). The bill was about a week away from coming to a vote, before it was realized what DHMO actually was.

My brother WAS the ‘Tim’

I dunno whos editing this episode, but holy hell, they've hit all of my favorite cartoons!!! Fricken love it Hats off to you

Couple things Simon, Kansas City is actually primarily in Missouri. Olathe is pronounced "Oh-Lay-tha". It is unfortunately in Kansas, and undermines my argument that the idiots were all in Missouri... I'm a Kansan. We have a rivalry with Missouri.

Back in the 90s, before satellite radio really got moving, Opie and Anthony were DJs on 107.3 WAAF in Boston. They pulled some pretty good pranks, but on April fools day in 1998 they got fired after announcing that Boston’s Mayor, Thomas Menino, had been killed in a car accident in Florida in the company of a female prostitute from Haiti. Before that I do recall they had a big competition for a few weeks with the prize being 100 Grand and when the guy who finally won was losing his mind with excitement on air they revealed it was the 100 Grand candy bar.

There was a boxer called the boxing binman called Rendall Munroe. He won the European and British Commonwealth Super Bantamweight championship.

Kansas City resident here. You're correct in that KQRC radio disc jockey "Johnny Dare" isn't his real name (shocker, I know); he was born "John Caprefoli."

6:45 HOLY SHIT! Shout out to Kansas City!!!! That's where I live and I used to listen to Johnny Dare for years. Also Simon yes that is not his real name. Fun fact his mother is from England.

Didn't expect a dark wing duck meme, great job

I have three comments on this video. One: I’m 90% sure I know the family of the Stonerock kid. It’s a rare name and I had friends of that last name in central Ohio where the sign mess happened. Second, I have asthma and can’t smoke anything so edibles are the only way I can consume the magic herb. It recently became legal in Ohio and I’ve been enjoying certain gummies. Finally, I started work a couple years ago at a local flooring store. We tad a huge batch of sort carpet and vinyl remnants that we decided to give away. I drew cartoon dog heads and taped one to the top of each remnant displayed in our large front window. I then put up a sign saying, “Free to a good home. Adopt one today.” Next day was my day off. Came in the day after that and caught a huge load of teasing and faked indignance about all the trouble I caused. People thought we were adopting out dogs from litters of unwanted puppies !!!!!! The guys fielded complaint after complaint from animal loving citizens who thought we were irresponsible dog owners trying to get rid of a massive number of unwanted dogs! I didn’t live that one down for many months! I repeat that they were cartoon styled line drawings of dog heads and a couple cat heads taped atop short rolls of flooring remnants! Smh!

I was young when that bonsai kitten site came out. I remember being so upset and crying to my dad. He comforted me and explained how it was done. Now I'm so sceptical of everything.😂

I was driving through Kansas City when that happened. It was around 2002, If I remember correctly. I had no idea that it spread to where people on other continents had heard of it. I was listening and laughing, and eventually, the radio station later on let the cat out of the bag, letting everyone know not to call the water department, and that it was just a joke. I caught on immediately, because this is actually a pretty old joke. Anyway, I still think it's funny that people fall for dihydrogen monoxide pranks.

I believe the writers are superb and it seems like each episode is better than the last. While I enjoy every aspect of this creator’s content (all channels), I am the most impressed with skill level of the editor or editors. The antics and sarcasm of the editor is amazing and done in an undeniably intelligent manner. I am just an old man but I am a fan forever. I wish the best of health and happiness to you all and your families!

Better radio April Fools joke was Opie and Anthony in Boston in 1998. They said the mayor of Boston died in a firey car crash and never once said April fools, got them fired from the station and they went on to New York, syndication, and then XM

People putting stuff in food is horrifying as a chronically ill person on many medications. THC and laxatives could lead to severe reactions and then a manslaughter charge. Which I don't think any kid would want that out of their prank, at least I can hope

How many brownies would the guy have to eat to have it effect him for 10 days.....he ate most of them, didn't he?! 😂🎉😂😂😂😂

What the f*** was up with that Jäger-milkthing? 😲

Kansas City is in Missouri. And it's pronounced Oh-lathe-uh. --Former Kansas City resident. 😛

14:30 The FBI having more important things to do... Well it was this OR investigating the criminal activities of rich people that destroy thousands of peoples lives.

My cat modifies her form many times a day. Sometimes she's pear shaped, sometimes a loaf, on occasion a donut, the letter C, and, just for giggles, a cat shape. Why be limited by the bonsai kitten fad?

13:18 Jager? 13:38 I'm with you there.

Yeah we on the East Coast would not fall for that but the crazy midwesterners who continue to vote for Trump who really should be in jail always fall for dumb crap like this the only thing to do there😊 is watch the corn and wheat grow

The only body mods pets should be getting are little tattoos to indicate they’re fixed, and when they nick a feral cat’s ear to also indicate that they’ve been fixed. IMO

There's a German band called "Joint Venture", who composed a satire song about the first person ever to die from a cannabis overdose. He was a dock worker in the Netherlands city of Rotterdam by the name of Hank. The song begins very somber, telling of Hank and how he loved his work at the docks. The final verse then reveals that Hank died at work, when a chain above him snapped and caused him to suddenly "overdose" with four and a half metric tons of "good red" and that if weed were legalized, it could be transported by much more safe standards 😏

I've gotten a few people with di-hydrogen monoxide myself. Hilarious!😂

19:56 meanwhile in Australia....

Simon, are you wearing white socks with all those dark colored clothes on in your keeps ad read? I just never envisioned you as that kind of person

Simon walking on eggshells while Im over here on the west coast smoking that legal weed 8)

Oh my God anybody who ever put a cat in the box needs to be in a box themselves is what I'm sure thousands of people said. However big brain people sat back and laughed 🔥💯

I'm from KC and can say it was hilarious and we were very disappointed in our fellow citizens

20:00 "You use the 'c' word when you really mean it" or like many Australians, who use it to refer to their friends.

To be fair to the trash collector, my best friend's dad was a trashman in LA, and he once had a guy hiding in a plastic bin jump out and make a stab at him. Instead, the kid fell over due to his lunge tipping the entire can over. He tried to stab the dad in the foot. However, they wear steel-toe boots, and all he managed to do was mess up the leather a bit. So he leaped up, brandished the knife, and ordered "Gimme your money." My friend's dad explained that he didn't keep a wallet on him while in uniform, but he could have his watch. The mugger agreed, took the watch, and hightailed it out of there. The dad guessed he must be "new at this" and estimated he was barely a teenager. The best part: it was a watch from Pic-N-Save, $5 brand new, the face was scratched to hell, and the faux leather strap almost worn out. It was totally worthless, which is why he used it for work: if it broke and fell into a trash bin, he could just leave it there rather than try to dig it out.

0:45 - Mid rol ads 2:25 - Back to the video 6:50 - Chapter 1 - Contaminated water supply 10:00 - Chapter 2 - Bonsai kittens 15:15 - Chapter 3 - Herbal brownies 19:20 - Chapter 4 - Stop sign prank 22:25 - Chapter 5 - Hiding in a bin

Haha Simon you bought the wrong kind of steam cleaner for curtains!!

Herbal brownies is also called magic brownies, according to Gonzales the test rabbit 😉

TangentBoi actually defending pets? Surely not🤷‍♂

I would advise cleaning the table more frequently like after every meal that tends to stop the buildup

I once scared my mom while she was baking and got a baking sheet smacked across my head. 😂

Funny you mention about the bins as I used to work as a loader on a bin lorry and I would throw extra bags in whenever I could. You can’t do it all the time though as things are different now, there’s a lot more households for one which means the truck gets full faster which means more trips to the tip and you are only paid up to a certain time of day, no one wants to go over that limit for obvious reasons, this is why the days of taking everything that was left out are gone. There’s also legislation now classing upholstered things like furniture as something called PoPs which stands for Persistent Organic Pollutants, these have to be collected separately as they are charged at different rates, it costs a lot more to tip PoPs than general waste because of this which is why your old office chairs and other furniture doesn’t get taken. If someone at the transfer station was to spot seating in a tipped load then it would be reclassified from general to PoPs, you don’t want that with the 10 tonne load off a bin wagon (or rather the council doesn’t) as that is a far more expensive tip which the tax payer has to cover. That’s why most councils will now charge you to collect stuff like that.

Simon you capitalist, you told the weed muffin story in a video a few years ago. I've been going back and reliving the evolution of the channel

The dead scares the piss outta me idc anything where the dead is has that real evil vibe no sir, not for me.

Hahaha I was living in KC when Johnny Dare aired this. I was laughing so hard.

19:47 Canal Street in Manchester is very rarely that on the signs, especially as it’s the gay village.

Can Julian PLEASE get some more blazement rations!!!! Absolute diamond!

13:10 to 13:18 there's a bit of a continuity issue there Simon-me-lad.

yes dave we called our tim,jim the pig,and one night the dads of the street decided to kidnap his reliant robin,and leave it upside down on top of the old concrete bus shelter

Definitely had to review everything I ate today when the neon SW came on the screen.