Photos by Lisa Aciukewicz
Roman Bartlett, Mettacomett Path
“Last year, it was really late and just before bed I went on Facebook. My cousin had posted R.I.P. for Leonardo DiCaprio. I was freaking out trying to figure out if it was true. Then he updated: ‘Gotcha!’”
Patrick Foster, Bolton Road
“In my dorm in college we filled up a bucket with water and propped up against someone’s door. When they opened the door, the whole room flooded.”
Jake, Harvard General Store
“I pull pranks every chance I can. My favorite is on the dog on the third floor. I run up there and steal her chew toys and hide them.”
Doug Coots, Ayer Road
“When I was in high school, my best friend told me that he had just come from the doctor and had been diagnosed with some kind of heart disease. He convinced me that because of his condition we had to run everywhere we went. So for the next couple of days we ran everywhere. He finally admitted it was a joke. I was bummed.”
Dan O’Connell, Shirley
“This guy I deliver to called my boss and told him I was speeding. So I took a picture of his establishment and then I went and took a picture of the rat on the Chuck E. Cheese sign and put it on his door.”
Jan Parnie, Depot Road
“When I was growing up we planted a garden with my dad. On the night before April Fools’ he went out to the garden and replaced all the small tomato plants we put in with full-grown plants. We couldn’t figure it out!”
