Originally Posted by justinsain

Every xmas someone in our family puts lotto scratch off tickets in the tree for everyone and we've never had a big winner. One year I found those fake lotto tickets and put one in an envelope marked for my brother in-law. It was a fake winner for $10,000.

Of course I had the video camera going as everyone scratched their tickets and when he thought he had won ten grand the room erupted in joy as the year had been tough on us all financially. Everyone was super happy until he read the back of the ticket and figured out it was fake. The mood of the room sudden turned sour and my sister was reduced to tears.

I've got it all on video and the range of emotions from high to low displayed in that room would rival anything on America's Funniest Home Videos. I felt bad and they were mad until I gave my brother in-law a couple extra fake tickets and he played the same prank on his boss the next day. Then he thought it was pretty cool.