Word: prankster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Aztec ruler, Eulalia Guzman packed up for another trip to Ixcateopan. The red-faced Bank of Mexico kept its own counsel. One question remained unsolved: Was the hoax the work of a 20th Century man, or had it been perpetrated by some long-forgotten 16th Century prankster...
...plywood with two radio tubes and a quart oilcan mounted on pieces of plastic. Painted on the wood were a hammer & sickle and the letters, U.S.S.R. Another "flaming saucer" that spun down from overhead gave Shreveport, La. a good scare, turned out to be a joke by a local prankster who wanted to frighten his boss...
While things were relatively quiet, someone from Thayer took a successful potshot with a snowball at one of the Yard cops. The startled officer dashed after the prankster and both disappeared into Thayer's Middle entry...
Police have taken the bomb's remains to the State Police Laboratory in an effort to discover its origin. They provisionally attribute the bomb to a prankster's attempt to re-create the excitement of the January 9 robbery...
...Jest. Near Bursa, Turkey, two passengers jumped from a speeding bus when a prankster, riding along in a coffin, raised...