Toughplantostop April Fool tricksters

March 1985

A BRAY resident has come up with a tough plan to wipe the smile off the faces of April Fool tricksters.

He wants to see heavy fines and if necessary prison sentences imposed on anyone caught playing a practical joke on April Fools’ Day which this year falls next Monday.

And he has called for Government legislation to bring in laws to allow for the prosecution of offenders.

These hardline proposals have come from Mr Quert Yuiop, an Irish citizen living in Bray, but originally a native of Albania.

Mr Yuio, who runs a typewriter shop in Dublin said that he is fed up with people playing practical jokes on him every year on April the first.

‘Most people seem to think it’s very funny but I’d say it’s a serious nuisance. Something should be done to stop it,’ he said. Mr Yuiop suggested that people sent to prison for April Fool offences could be accommodated in spike Island, along with car thieves, to avoid overcrowding of the country’s jails.

‘I don’t suppose the government will be able to put legislation through in time for this year but if they started work now, they might have the law in for next year,’ he said.