Brave man. I must admit, I completely misunderstood – I thought that you were deliberately seeking provocation as an experiment to see how people would react when confronted with the fact it was a prank. After all, firestarters push boundaries.
It also reminded me of the ‘BBC Code Lab’ prank in 2011, which was a very early April Fool’s joke. Hindsight is a wonderful mentor: https://teachcomputing.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/bbc-codelab/amp/