Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SACRAMENTO, April 1 (UPI) -- As an April Fool's Day joke, a group of friends dressed up a sculpture of a human head in Sacramento, Calif., with a Groucho Marx mustache and glasses. The leader of the pranksters, John Marcotte, is a Web designer for University of California at Davis and also runs the comedy site BadMouth.net. Advertisement "We subvert the paradigm, in a good way," Marcotte told the Sacramento Bee. "Sometimes it's funny to see that the world can surprise you in a happy way." The Bee talked to others who said they believe that although pranks such as this appear to be carefree, there is often an underlying message. Some even refer to it as an art. "A prank should always have a higher purpose," says John Hargrave, who runs the comedy Web site ZUG.com and is author of "Prank the Monkey: The ZUG Book of Pranks." The Bee found that pranksters are everywhere. One schoolteacher reported putting notes on doors saying "class canceled" and leading pupils to the wrong room. An office worker told the Bee she gets a kick out of dimming the monitors on co-workers' computers and lowering the volume on their phones. Advertisement
