April Fools Jokes

[bellringr]

Two of my coworkers cooked up a great joke to play on another fellow coworker this afternoon.

 

This coworker (who is more than a litle gullible) just bought a new car. We took a page from that car manufacturer's website, saved it and uploaded it to my site with a few little modifications. On the front page we added a section regarding "Urgent Recall Information" that went to another page (looking like the manufaturer) with the following two "recalls."

 

Kia Motors America, Inc.

 

Models: 2000-2004 Kia Optima

 

Number Involved: 21,533

 

Dates of Manufacture: October 2000 - March 2004

 

Defect: On certain passenger vehicles, the side air bag wire harness for the driver position could be misrouted. This could result in its being pinched or cut by the seat cushion tilt mechanism.

Damage to the wire harness could result in the side air bag deploying at anytime. There is an additional chance that the chemical used to deploy the air bag, sodium azide, could escape into the cabin of the vehicle causing heart palpatations, convulsions, lung damage, or even death. If this occurs, open the doors immediately to disperse the gas.

 

Remedy: Dealers will check for proper routing of the side air bag wire harness and secure it in place with a plastic tie-wrap. If the wire harness is damaged, it will be replaced. The manufacturer has reported that owner notification began March 3, 2004.

 

Owners who do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact Kia at 1-800-333-4542.

 

(NHTSA Recall No. 01V156/Kia Recall No. SC020)

 

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Kia Motors America, Inc.

 

Models: 2000-2003 Kia Optima

 

Number Involved: 16,231

 

Dates of Manufacture: October 2000 - March 2004

 

Defect: Evidence has concluded that the tires are defective on the Kia Optima due to improper vulcanization of the rubber. It has been proven that if the vehicle hits even a small pothole it could flip and roll ultimately destroying the car.

 

Remedy: Dealers will check the tires and provide the vehicle owner with Good Year Aquatreads free of charge. If the tires on your car are less than 2 years old a can of fix-a-flat will be provided instead of new tires.

 

(NHTSA Recall No. 01V156/Kia Recall No. SC020)

 

So, one of my cohorts calls her on the phone and asks her what year her new car is and that she needs to come look at this right now. We had the address line turned off in the browser in case she looked. She reads the recall page and is freaking out making alot of incredulous sounds mixed in with a few "Oh My Gosh!" thrown in. LOL She's printing off the information to take to her dealer and is spazzing because she "drives up a road every day with lots of potholes and she and her daughter could've died at any time!" A coworker and I are crouched in the next cube holding our sides in silent laughter!

 

At the bottom of that page, in red I had written, "Important Additional Information -PLEASE READ BEFORE GOING TO YOUR DEALERSHIP" which had to be pointed out to her as she's still going nuts over her daily near-misses with death. When she clicked on it, a page with April Fools! at the top and lots of smileys came up. She starts laughing, and the whole unit (who were all in on the joke) just cracked up! We had people from two rows over coming to ask what was so funny!

 

Best thing was, she sent the link to her even more gullible mom and got her too!

 

I have to say it was the most successful April Fools joke I've ever been a part of.

[Virtual Imager]

As a tax accountant, this is the one day of 'tax season' that brings me a few smiles... you can only imagine what I tell clients today about how their tax returns came out. woooot

[Larry]

haha.. I always thought kia's self destructed anyhow.. but I always believed that wasn't an april fools joke

[ejh]

I don't know if anyone tunes into Sean Hannity... but he started out his three hour show by stating that now that his "Hanitazation" tour is over, he has had a change of heart and is now liberal. No longer supported the President... etc... They even went as far as to have someone who did a REALLY good Bill Clinton call up and congratulate Hannity on switching. I was driving home from school and nearly had a heart attack on the road there- speaking of which, after it was over he said that he had gotten a call that someone from Miami had been admitted to the hospital because of heart tremors from the shock of this. It was really scary though! He went on for the first two hours of his show and finally let it out during that last hour. I just worry about those poor people who turned off the show early! LOL

[bellringr]

LOL - of all days, people should EXPECT this stuff!

 

Did anyone by chance see Progressive's website today? They had all kinds of insurance coverage for UFOs, if your car is damaged in an alien abduction, etc.!! Sad thing is, there are people dumb enough to fall for it. I hope their phone people were given permission to mock them. hehehe

[ThumpAZ]

My favorite was Howard Stern's faking his being pulled from the airwaves. I was in shock for nearly an hour when they came back from a break and it was Howard again.

I have already done a personal boycott of ClearChannel stations and events, and was ready to do the same of Viacom due to this.

Then i got to hear te distraught calls of the far west coast folks who were not in on it yet, due to the delay from East to West coast.

 

Then I had some real fun at work telling the Facilities managers of a very sdtrictly controlled cleanroom (FDA Class 1K cleanroom for those in the know) that one of our guys had been spray painting some mounting brackets up in the clean-space airhandlers so they wouldn't rust from the humidifier's dry steam mists. You shoulda seen them getting redder by the scond and typing a frenzy to pour over the log files from the particulate monitoring systems... which I told them I had taken offline the day before, and had conveniently rerouted the links from the machine in my little cave to empty folders.

I almost got walked off the site, but it was too muuch fun. This was my way of getting them back for having worked 39 of the previous 48 hours.