Here at BBM, we love a good practical joke as much as the next guy. Hiding in a bedroom wardrobe then leaping out to scare someone is a personal favourite, although Miranda Kerr’s lawyers failed to see the funny side.
Yet, unfortunately, it seems some people just can’t take a joke these days – and that includes Gold Coast school cleaner Shane Green who was given more than $156,000 in compensation last month after workmates led him to believe there had been a “sex romp” in the staffroom as a practical joke.
A couple of workmates set up the scene with a mattress, pillow and bedclothes taken from the school’s sick room. They then littered the room with empty wine and beer bottles, a packet of condoms with cream squirted inside and women’s underwear bought specifically for the joke.
“He was horrified and subjected to great emotional stress by this trauma especially when they didn’t own up to the joke and left him believing it was real,” his lawyer rumbled. 
Discharged party poppers and “some of the contents of a packet of chips” on the floor were the finishing touches for the faked sex odyssey.
“He was devastated by the incident,” his lawyer added. “Who could he speak to? Who should he report this to? He bottled it up.”
Call us callous but isn’t it a little bit of an overreaction to take things to court over a harmless practical joke? Again, we said the same thing to Miranda Kerr’s lawyers but they didn’t agree. Especially when they found semen in her underwear drawer.

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