There was one time, when I was much younger (just a kid) really, when a television show came on which showed clips of some crazy pranks pulled on some Japanese (at least, I think it was Japanese) television show.
Let me tell you right now, that although this was being broadcast on American television, it most certainly was not American. Something like that could never happen here, in the land of a million lawsuits.
These pranks were not little league material. Most of them had something to do with scaring people - and they did a good job!
One of my favorites was when someone would be startled out of sleep. Whoever was conducting the prank would do their best to scare the living daylights out of the sleeper. So, one guy might go right up to the ears of the sleeper, and yell at full volume.
There was one, and I am not entirely sure how they managed to pull this off, where there was a rock band that set up all of the material - guitars, drums, amps, and surrounded the bed. Then, after a count, the bad exploded into a song, and naturally, the sleeper woke up in fear, not knowing what was going on.
There was another one that I have tried, from time to time, to find on Youtube, but have not yet succeeded in finding. It was weird, and will take some explaining. There was some road somewhere within a city, and there was a big hole in the middle of this road. The pranksters (hope that word does not sound too stupid) got this weird kind of suit, almost square, and it was made to match the road as perfectly as possible. The idea was to blend in.
I am guessing you can get the drift of what the prank was about. People would walk by, and the guy would jump up out of the middle of the road, and give chase. There was one clip after another of people getting startled, and running away, with shocked, and even horrified, looks on their faces.
One poor bicyclist was so scared, that he fell off of is bike. When the pavement guy started giving chase, the poor bicyclist was still no the ground, and he tried his best to make his escape. He looked like he was seeing a monster. Eventually, he was able to find his feet, and he ran full speed, leaving his bicycle right in the middle of the road.
It probably sounds cruel, and there's good reason for that. It was cruel.
Yet, it was undeniably funny.
Cruel, but funny.
More recently, there have been other videos like these, intended to scare people. One from Brazil was really well thought out and executed. It featured an elevator (I don't really think that it was an actual elevator), where people would go in, and things appeared normal at first.
But a minute or two into it, and the electric seemed to flicker, and then short out altogether. It was presumably entirely dark, and this little girl would suddenly appear out of nowhere. Every clip that they showed, of course, was of scared people.
The girl would look a bit distracted at first, but then would turn to the elevator passenger, and let out a shrill scream.
Then, the lights would go out once again, and the girl would disappear. Actually, she was a real life girl, and she would just hide in the secret compartment.
But the prank worked, and worked well. Well enough that one guy sprinted out of the elevator as soon as the doors opened, and raced out of the building, with the haunted girl running, screaming after him.
Of course, I had to do further research on those Brazilian pranks, and they had some other pretty decent ones, as well. One featured a cemetery with a dead bride looking for a groom. judging by the reaction of some of the guys, you would swear that the whole thing was staged, and everyone was in on it, and just acting out their parts. But I'm not so sure.
Another one, which was not quite as funny, had a gigantic rat going in between people's feet on a park bench. There was a guy with a fake rat attached to a stick who would have to play this prank, and he (deservedly?) got a beatdown from some of the angry targets of the prank.
I did manage to find some videos of extremely rude ways of waking people up. Some of these are brutal. Unfortunately, the picture quality is not the best, so you really cannot gauge the reaction as clearly as would be desirable. But you definitely get the picture, nonetheless.
Some of these are crazy! But it's pretty funny! Especially the waterslide at the end!
Usually, I like to write some thoughtful pieces, if possible. Or perhaps I will comment on what is happening in the news lately. Or perhaps do some kind of a review on books or movies, or even the occasional article.
This is just another side, however. I like to laugh, and these videos definitely helped me to do that. If you're in need of some kind of a lift or picker-upper, I would definitely recommend taking a look at some of these videos!
In the meantime, here are some pretty funny, and perhaps even scary, pranks that can be found on Youtube. Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWrE_E9SOhk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeemJeom7Ok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Zx3x8Ao7g
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