A man in England decided he wouldn't let expired qualifications stop him from making homeade dentures and selling them to poor, unsuspecting toothless victims.  Many of this fake dentit's patients soon found themselves with their poorly made teeth falling out or becoming chipped.

I sure hope my wife doesn't read this story since she just got some work done on her teeth a couple days ago.  Of course, I probably won't be able to resist steering her toward the article since it's too good an opportunity to pass up.

File that under tooth fairy's revenge?

What would you do to get paid time off from work? If publishing an obituary for your living mother was what you were thinking, then you and 45-year-old Scott Bennett have something in common.  That's right, apparently getting paid bereavement time off from work was so important to Bennett that he wrote up a fake obituary for his no-so-dead mother.

Unfortunately for Bennett, relatives saw the obituary in the paper and reported the falsehood.  Bennett has since been charged with disorderly conduct.

File that under teaching momma to play dead.

Apparently sending an email reply full of expletives to over 4,000 people is just as bad for six figure recruitment executives as it is for the rest of us.  Gary Chaplin, the executive in question, lost his job after sending an email saying that the person who made the initial email was "too stupid to get a job" along with some expletives for extra flavor.

I'm not too fond of headhunters (or the whole recruitment profession in general to be honest) so a story like this actually warms my heart a bit.  Of course, the person called out for being too stupid to get a job probably isn't having those same warm fuzzy feelings.  And while I may not sympathize with headhunters, I must say I've had plenty of times where I wish I could just tell a potential employee (or even current employees) that they were too stupid to be working.

File that under headhunter seeking headhunters.

Florida's workplace oddities continue as Donnie Riggins, a Florida high school resources officer, has been fired after dressing up on Halloween as a gynecologist named Dr. Harry Beaver.  His actions were part of a skit he put on during the school's morning announcement, an announcement the faculty was none to please about.

The skit wasn't Riggins' only bizzare behavior however, as he also singled out a teacher during a speech about the dangers of drinking and driving. 

File that under too uncool for school.

Many jobs may require you to put your money where your mouth is, but for two city officials in Flordia, that meant swimming in a canal after a sewage cleanup to prove it's clean.

I'm not sure if the two job positions are elected positions, but the swim was one heck of a good publicity stunt either way.  Of course that's until they begin growing a third eye and their skin starts falling off.  All kidding aside, it'd be great if more people led by example like this and actually walked the walk. 

File that under mutant powered city officials.

I apologize for the lack of posts during the last few months.  Some of that was just an increased workload on my part as well as having to deal with hackers attacking my sites.  If you want to read a bit more about the hacking issues, you can head on over to my Net Morality blog.

Anyway, I should be back into the full swing of things again here soon so rest assured that more office pranks, funny news, videos, and jokes are on the way.  Until then, you may want to check out this office pranks roulette that I created on my new Activity Roulette website.

Obviously I think office pranks are a good thing. They are a way to make work more fun while hopefully improving employee relationships. Of course, some pranks go too far which is what Houston Independent School District thinks is the case when a procurement manager solicited a mail-order bride for a co-worker.

There's more than just the mail-order bride prank that's got the employee in hot water, but it's weird that the employer would raise such a stink about it when it's really not all that bad of a prank. The employee also had a supervisor being an empty box to that same prank victim, making the victim think he was fired. I supposed if he kept pranking the same person over and over again it would definitely fall under harassment, which is why you need to make sure whoever you prank has a good sense of humor because malicious pranking is just not a bright idea in a work environment.

File that under mail order pink slip.

If you're going to try and take money from your company by convincing your boss that your wife was ill with cancer and that she eventually died, you may want to fill your wife in on your master plan.

It would be great to listen in on this guys next interview for whatever job he applies for when they ask him if he had ever been arrested and for what. "I... uh... was arrested for stealing money from my old employer by telling them my wife died of cancer." Definitely not the best career move. His only chance is to hope they either don't ask that question or at least don't ask for details. Of course, he doesn't seem the brightest of individuals, so his job opportunities were likely already pretty slim.

File that under wife always messing up my plans!