April Fool’s Day can be thought of as a day of whoopy-cushions and mischievous laughter, or at least that’s what society has made it out to be.

While playing pranks is not limited to one day, some people enjoy to partake in the celebration of fooling friends and family April 1st. In the case of secondary education freshman Megan Landry from Pierre Part, pranks can end up fooling more than a few people.

“One time me and the guy I was dating acted like we broke up on Twitter and everyone thought it was real and started picking sides and everything and my brother was even in on it,” Landry said. “We had the whole Twitter world eating popcorn refreshing our tweets.”

Aubrey Simmons, a Social Studies education sophomore from Ruston, took advantage of April Fool’s Day to prank her mother, because when is fooling your parents not fun?

“So we wrote my mom a letter from our local library telling her she had overdue book called The Working Mom and if she didn’t return it she would have to pay a fine or have her library cared take,” Simmons said. “We even looked up the director of the library and my dad signed her name so it looked official. We stuck it in the mail and when she got she started freaking out because she didn’t remember checking out the book.”

Pranking family is always fun and it can sometimes show how much they care about you… Maybe even enough to drive to the border because you’re about to get deported like Accounting major Daniel Garcia from Lockport.

“I played a joke on my aunt and called her to tell her I was in Matamoros because I was departure and immigration didn’t believe I was a citizen. She freaked out and was going to find me,” Garcia said.

Pranking is great when you are the one doing the pranking, but what about when you end up being the one getting pranked? In the case of Brianne Burgess, freshman Dietetics major from Houma, that is exactly what ended up happening.

“When I was 17, one of my friends convinced me she was pregnant,” Burgess said. “I almost had a heart attack.”

There are always those people that remember the date because they have their lives together, but sometimes people simply remember April 1st because they got pranked in the past. In the case of Kimberly Rodriguez, Mass Communications Sophomore from Las Vegas, remembering April fools was the reason for being fooled with the truth.

“My mom told me she was pregnant on April first of my 6th grade year and I didn’t believe her all day until she showed me the test. I had been asking for a sister for years,” Rodriguez said.

And of course one cannot forget about April Fool’s fails like Julia Toadvin, a freshman education major from Baton Rouge.

“When I was little I tried to prank my mom by putting a rubber band around the sprayer at the kitchen sink,” Toadvin said. “I did it that morning and forgot so when she told me to go wash my hands I sprayed myself. Haven’t done an April fools prank since.”

There are also the fails where someone attempts to fool someone they love. Jordan Lang, a mass communication freshman from Paulina, at least tried.

“Last year, I attempted to prank my brother by wrapping saran wrap around the toilet,” Lang said.

Although Lang’s prank didn’t work, he still loved to participate in the day’s festivities.

“I suck at pranks, but I love pranking people anyway,” Lang said. “I can’t keep a straight face pranking because I just think I’m hilarious.”

Not everyone has successful pranks, but the fun in April Fool’s Day is more in the planning and the moment where one can feel like the villains in the cartoons we watched growing up. Much like these villains, you can’t help but think you are brilliant when coming up with the latest prank on the international holiday of pranks.