I'm deeply on record as hating April Fool's Day because there's nothing less funny than bad comedy. 4/1 (1/4 for my European friends) is basically being locked in the banquet room of an Applebee's that stretches from Maine to San Diego on an open mic night where every citizen has signed up for their four minutes.
Anyway, if you're going to do April Fools Day, do it right. Commit to the bit. Like this guy.
Feel free to post other (good) examples of leveraging the day below.
Just flat out wrecked that beaver! It will never be the same.
You can't fool me, I know April isn't real.
Legendary.
I sent an ad to the apprentice about a week ago for a King Dick pipe wrench.
I heard a guy on the radio this morning, he said he takes a Tim Hortons take out coffee cup, puts a strong magnet in it, puts it on the roof of his car then drives to work. It's amazing the lengths people will go to to try and tell you there's a coffee on the roof of your car.
Wow.
I pranked my co-workers today. I was the only one in the office today, so I poured a cup of water on the floor, turned off most of the lights, and took a picture of the puddle. We've been having roof leaks.
I told them that we have a new leak, and it dripped onto an electrical panel which caused a fire when I turned on the lights and took out power to half of the building.
My I let them panic for about an hour and then let them off the hook.
My boss's response:
After Her Late Majesty The Queen died, a number of nostalgic little stories about her began to circulate, as you might expect. One that I heard involved a British shopkeeper who was "volunteered" to sit next to her at lunch during a Royal visit to his community. When they sat down to eat, he chose to begin the conversation by saying, "You've made people think I'm a liar, Your Majesty."
The Queen looked a little startled, and asked him to explain.
"Well, Ma'am, I'm one of those shopkeepers who never closes. Day in, day out, my store is always open. So when I put a sign on the door saying 'Closed – having lunch with The Queen,' what are people going to think? Especially since today is April 1st."
Her Majesty burst out laughing and they had a very nice lunch.
I started a new job yesterday. Didn't bother telling anyone because of the date. 
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
That's so fantastic! My boss and I have a similar sense of humor.
When we were still in the office, we used to always joke that if HR heard the way we talked to each other, we would both be fired.
I went too far once, but just a compilation of little things. I moonlighted at a restaurant and was the closer. The night before April 1, the closing mgr and I decided to rig up some tricks. This was a Windows point of sale environment.
I made a screenshot of the POS interface, made it the desktop background, then minimized the program and hid all the icons. Then, I put a small bit of transparent tape on the mouse.
My manager did some little bar tricks, like swapping this or that.
Apparently this caused quite a bit of havoc. Since the computers were apparently unresponsive, they rebooted the server like ten times. Failing that, they started sending orders to the kitchen by hand, panicking the whole time about how long they would be down.
The next time I came in the owners were quiet and polite, which made me very nervous for a while.
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