These Pranks Went TOTALLY Wrong And Resulted In Some GRISLY DEATHS!

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Pranksters think they always have the last laugh until something horrifying happens.

Seemingly innocent things such as ringing a doorbell and running away or egging a car can have dire consequences. While the usual experience is embarrassment followed by laughter, for the people on this list, what started out as an innocent prank for a laugh ended in utter tragedy.

A practical joke that seems like a harmless lark can quickly turn deadly.

Again, it’s no laughing matter when someone gets killed in the interest of some innocent fun, but it happens more often than you might think.

Well, here are some cases of pranks going horrifically wrong.

WARNING: Don’t try these pranks at home.

NEVER TAMPER WITH STOP SIGNS

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In 2011, 18-year-old Derek Greenlee and 19-year-old Seth Stonerock thought it would be amusing to camouflage a stop sign by covering it with Vaseline-coated saran wrap.

Later, the joke took a nasty turn. Jeanne Shea, 80, blew through the intersection and collided with an oncoming car. Her passenger, 85-year-old Mary Spangler, instantly died. Shea died three weeks later.

Greenlee and Stonerock were charged with involuntary manslaughter.

 

A FATAL JUMP-SCARE

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A Colorado teenager, Premila Lal, was shot dead by a family friend during a harmless prank that went terribly wrong. She jumped out of a closet to surprise 21-year-old Nerrek Galley who thought she was an intruder and shot her. She died an hour later.

She planned to surprise him by jumping out of the closet, but the housesitter, 21-year-old Nerrek Galley, was packing heat at the time — this despite playing video games with her 15-year-old brother. When he heard the noises of her entry, he grabbed his gun to investigate.

Believing her to be an intruder, Galley shot the girl when she opened the door, and she later succumbed to her injuries at an area hospital. No charges were filed against Galley.

 

BIGFOOT SUIT SCARES TEENS INTO COMMITTING MANSLAUGHTER

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There’ve been a number of hilarious hoaxes orchestrated in the name of Sasquatch, but one man’s decision to suit up as Bigfoot to summon a few scares cost him his life.

Randy Lee Tenley, 44, of Kalispell, in Northwest Montana, was standing in the right-hand lane of U.S. Highway 93 Sunday night when he was struck by a car. A second car then hit him again as he lay on the road.

Tenley attempted a similar hoax before, but never along the highway.

 

RING, RUN, AND DIE

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“Ding, dong, ditch” was a common source of young amusement at one time, but when 16-year-old Mark Drewes engaged in the old door-to-door pastime in Boca Raton, Florida in 2003, it proved to be a deadly game.

Drewes was shot to death while walking away from the home of Jay Levin, who claimed he thought Drewes was an armed intruder. Levin pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 52 weekends in jail, and ordered to pay $750,000 in restitution to the boy’s parents.

 

THE MOST FATAL WEDGIE

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Wedgies might be an ordinary part of childhood roughhousing, but in 2013, an underwear escapade became fatal. During an argument, 33-year-old Brad Lee Davis pulled his 58-year-old stepfather Denver St. Clair’s bottoms so far up, that the elastic band slipped around his neck and asphyxiated him.

Davis claimed that the act was in self-defense and that St. Clair was supposedly insulting Davis’ mother, but he was ultimately sentenced to 30 years for first-degree manslaughter for St. Clair’s death.

 

A COP TRAGICALLY OVERREACTS TO A SILLY PRANK

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In another underwear-related fatality, a group of teens thought it’d be funny to throw their soaked drawers onto a nearby cop car after a late-night swim. However, once the officer tracked down the kids later that night, his retaliation involved the use of deadly force.

Trooper B.D. Gillespie of West Virginia suited up to exact revenge upon the jokesters and, after engaging in a skirmish with the group, assaulted 18-year-old Timothy Hill with pepper spray, his baton, and, ultimately, two rounds from his gun.

The boy died as a result of his wounds.

 

A HEART ATTACK IN THE LINE OF DUTY

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In 2005, five high school students in St. Charles, Illinois took their after-hours hijinks a bit too far. They broke into their school and stole a golf cart with the intention of driving into a campus pond, as others had done before.

They were caught in the act and, during a foot pursuit of the young suspects, 53-year-old Sergeant Daniel Paul Figgins suffered a heart attack. He was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Sources: Grunge

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