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Joke Turned on Youngster
The Indianapolis News reported on the victim of a street prank who exacted revenge. A "little Italian boy" working at a fruit stand in the market house had tied a purse bulging with paper to one end of a string and fastened the other end behind his counter. He then threw the pocketbook into the aisle:

In a few minutes along came a busy woman, and seeing the tempting purse pounced on it. As it jerked from her hand, a whoop went up from the little Italian. So it was a prank, was it? She would teach him how to get cute with an old lady! Then fruit began to fly. Orange after orange hurled at the dodging boy who was being constantly advised to duck and jump by a horde of delighted youngsters. The ammunition was more than oranges, for some bananas and grapefruit were spinning toward their owner. Not until all the fruit on top of the stand had been exhausted did the angry marketer stop her barrage and start on.

April Fool's Day Categories: Freelance Pranksters, United States, 1919, Street Pranks
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