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At the school where my wife works, a teacher's prank also backfired.

Very pregnant, she dumped some water on the floor and told a student her water had broken. The response was almost instantaneous and universal, and the school nurse had her flat on her back on a gurney as the fire department was being called, before she was able to stop anyone.

Not too many people laughed.

Keith B wrote:I was working on a phone line once in a jewelry store. I accidentally shorted the line that was the direct burglar alarm to the police department. Unfortunately it was a silent alarm, so we had no idea it had been triggered. Two local officer came into the store, but as they came in, everyone was going about their normal business, so it was VERY apparent there was nothing happening, As well, I was standing behind the counter and when they saw a fellow officer (reserve office) with an sheepish look on his face they knew there was no robbery in progress, but they also knew who accidentally triggered it.

I was placing the cables to put new phones in the teller's stations at the Key Bank on Swan Street in Albany NY. Because I couldn't work behind the counter during normal hours we made arrangements for me to be there from 0700 to 0900 to do the cabling. The branch manager got me inside and then went into his little office.

About 0800, as I was getting close to finishing the cabling, I stood up and looked out the windows, and thought I saw someone peeping around a corner looking in. After watching for a moment and seeing no movement, I hunkered back down behind the counter to continue my task.

A couple of minutes later I heard a sound like someone tapping on the windows, and looked up to find a large portion of the Albany Police Department standing outside the windows on two sides of the building, extremely well armed: Thompsons; Shotguns; and a couple of rifles I coundn't identify.

One officer was standing in the middle of the crowd, pointing at me, then all the guns, and beckoning me to the door.

Apparantly I had set off the silent alarm about 15 minutes before and the first officer arriving had noticed me crawling around behind the teller cages.

After a few minutes of quesitoning they turned us loose, but the manager got a lecture for not notifying the police that there was out of hours work being done.