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“When a suspicious-package investigation was going on, I noticed a ton of Facebook posts about possible explanations for the incident. I posted that dinosaurs had hijacked a C-5 coming in from South America so the government was doing a cover-up. People took that one way too far.” – Airman Liam Moher, 436th Medical Squadron technician

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“When I was in college, I told my mother one of her worst fears: I was pregnant, not getting married, and dropping out of college. She and my sisters came up to my school to hold an intervention to get me back on track. That was when I told them it was a joke.” – Airman 1st Class Sonya Meaders, 436th Comptroller Squadron finance specialist

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“A police officer stopped me for a minor traffic violation and I asked him to help me prank my stepfather. I arrived at home in the back of a squad car to the dismay of my stepfather, who was running a 102-degree fever. As soon he started yelling, I told him it was all a joke.” – Airman 1st Class Devann Forman, 436th Security Forces Squadron specialist

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“A friend had a favorite, expensive ornamental hookah that my friends and I took one day. We went around taking photographs with it in different locations in town. We ended up sneaking into his house to return it and placed the photographs all around.” – Airman Russell Blackie, 436th Maintenance Squadron aircraft structural maintenance specialist

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“On April Fools’ Day, our flight at basic training told a gullible trainee that he had been elected to be the ‘Canine-P Monitor’, who was responsible for cleaning the dormitories with ‘Canine-P solution’. He ran around panicking every day for weeks trying to find the stuff. We waited until Amnesty Hour to tell him it didn’t exist.” – Airman 1st Class Tim Zajeski, 436th Communications Squadron transmission systems technician

Man on the street: What April Fool's Day prank have you pulled on someone?

Published March 29, 2011
By Airman 1st Class Samuel Taylor
436th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- Team Dover shares some practical jokes they've played in the past in honor of April Fool's Day.

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