Chocolate poop, a glitter bomb and worse: Bergen man sues over anonymous pranks

Someone doesn’t like Nicholas Carretta. Or, at least, they’ve got a wicked sense of humor.

That was clear when a chocolate sculpture in the shape of a penis showed up unsolicited at his Fair Lawn office in May 2019.

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Last November came another nasty surprise: a spring-loaded glitter bomb that exploded confetti in Carretta’s face and across his home in Oakland.

Two weeks later, another chocolate confection arrived at the home, this time shaped like a lump of poop.

Carretta has no idea who sent the packages, according to a lawsuit he filed last week. But he knows who arranged them – a pair of websites that advertise their services to send obnoxious, anonymous gifts by mail – and the Bergen man is out for legal revenge.

Carretta sued the two businesses, R&D Promos LLC and Rain Parade LLC in state Superior Court last week, demanding damages of more than $75,000 for the “fear, apprehension, harm and emotional distress” caused by the pranks.

The companies and the unknown sender, named as “John Doe” in the lawsuit, engaged in “extreme and outrageous” conduct that went “beyond all bounds of decency tolerated by society” in “a civilized community,” according to the complaint.

R&D Promos, headquartered in Queens, runs the website RuinDays.com, while San Diego-based Rain Parade operates its own, obscenely named delivery service. Neither company responded to messages left this week by The Record and NorthJersey.com.

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Rain Parade’s faux phalluses are sent “anonymously to the recipient of your choice!” the site promises. RuinDays.com, meanwhile, advertises its ability to “ruin your enemy’s day” with an assortment of prank items including a bag full of dirt and fake feces

“We discreetly and 100% anonymously package the most annoying things possible to receive through mail,” the site says. Suggested targets: a boss, your ex or a noisy neighbor.

“Maybe you just want to be a [jerk] and send the nice old lady across the street a box of annoying sand for no reason at all. We won’t judge.”

Carretta, however, does want some judging. “Ruin Days is not only aware of – but also condones – the fact that its customers use its services and products to send unwanted packages to unwitting victims with malicious intent,” says the lawsuit.

Both sites include disclaimer statements that their products are meant only as a prank and not for harassment. “These products are intended to generate a laugh and are not to be sent with malicious intent,” Rain Parade says.

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Carretta declined to comment through his lawyer, Bill O’Kane.

According to the suit, the glitter bomb was delivered around Nov. 11 of last year. The cylindrical tube was filled with 40 grams of confetti that RuinDays advertised as ensuring “total glitterstruction,” the suit said.

The bomb “exploded in his face, causing glitter to strike him with force in the eyes, nose, and mouth,” according to the suit. Glitter also ended up in Carretta’s clothing, a nearby desk, files and the carpet.

The chocolate poop arrived at his home around Nov. 27, in a package addressed to “Fat Midget,” the suit said. All the items were sent with “the purpose of offending, harming, and causing suffering,” it added.

Hard feelings are nothing new for RuinDays, which has also been sued by recipients in Kentucky, Ohio and Maryland. The plaintiffs, Carretta said, “should have reasonably anticipated being hauled into this court.”

Kaitlyn Kanzler covers Essex County for NorthJersey.com. For unlimited access to the most important news from your local community, please subscribe or activate your digital account today.

Email: kanzler@northjersey.com

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