Daily Practical Jokes and Funny Pranks

Brad Pitt and Matt Damon Prank George Clooney

2009-10-28T18:47:00.000-07:00

On The Late Show with David Letterman last night, the guest was Matt Damon. The interview started off by discussing the "Matt Damon is dead" rumor which is obviously not true noting that he is alive and well. It was a funny interview with the exchange of stories between Damon and Letterman.

Matt starts telling a story that a week prior to his arrival at the Venice Film. He has no idea Brad Pitt was out promoting Inglorious Basterds when an overseas journalist asked him when he and Angelina Jolie will decide to settle down. So Brad ended up pulling a hilarious joke that he and Angie will only get married if "George and his partner can legally do so."

So when the same Italian journalist came and ask Matt "is it true what Brad say?". Having no clue, he just went on and said "Yeah, of course it's true". When the journalist asked 'Do you mean George Clooney have a boyfriend?' tried keeping a straight face and went on to sat "Yeah, of course he's got a boyfriend. ‘And he wants to legally marry him?' We've been on him about this for years..."

It's "harmless little joke" as Matt calls it with Dave and told the he's pretty sure that Clooney is still laughing about it. Pitt, Clooney and Damon are known to be good friends who often joke and play pranks on each other. Now, we have to wonder if George Clooney is behind the Damon death rumors, or if he has something else up his sleeve.

Prankster Ribery wants more fun at Bayern

2009-10-28T15:14:00.001-07:00

Franck Ribery, a Frenchman Bayern Munich winger, loves to bring more fun games back to his training after working under Louis van Gaal for several months now. He always had a reputation of being a joker in the dressing room. He regularly performs hilarious jokes to his team-mates and even former coaches Ottmar Hitzfeld and Jurgen Klinsmann during his first two years with the club.

So far he kept his head down and just followed orders. Although training with more serious approach is also working well for him, Ribery may be planning to lighten up his present coach Louis van Gaal. However, there are doubts in Ribery that Van Gaal would not see the funny side to any shocking pranks ideas he pulls.

After being able to fully train on Tuesday after recovering from a calf strain that he picked up while on international duty for France. Ribery could be available to make his first start of the season this weekend. This allows him to enable Van Gaal to pick him with Arjen Robben, giving him more match fitness in his first-choice team on Saturday. He could appear for France in their crucial World Cup qualifier against Serbia tonight.

Jet's Sanchez psyched to face former USC roommate

2009-10-26T20:04:00.001-07:00

The Jets' starting quarterback rookie Mark Sanchez, the fifth overall pick of this year's NFL draft, is very excited and can't wait for the 2009 NFL season to officially begin. He is about to get a true educational experience since the defensive schemes and the speed of the game would ramped up more than just a notch compared to the preseason games on Sunday when they face the Houston Texans in Texas.

Sanchez first NFL game would give him captivating flashbacks, facing a fellow rookie and former USC college teammate, Brian Cushing, the Texans' strong side linebacker. Both rookies were roommates for about 21/2 years at Southern California. They grew pretty close and had their share of college yucks, pulling the kind of shocking pranks that stay in the memory banks forever.

According to Sanchez, Brian Cushing always had something going on in the house or something funny to say about practice or class. He used to have a snake in their apartment and when people would come over and fall asleep at their house. They would put the snake on their guests to see how scared they got which they taught was a pretty funny pranks idea.

At USC, Sanchez and Cushing saw players constantly come and go, and they were two of the mainstays, considered the vocal leaders of the offense and defense. When players needed a pep talk, they didn't mind firing their teammates up. Although the two have had hundreds of laughs together, there won't be anything comical if Cushing comes flying around the end and plants Sanchez on his backside. If that does happen, it's a sure bet that Cushing will do a little trash talking.

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Daniel Radcliffe claims he is done partying and pulling pranks

2009-09-24T17:04:00.000-07:00

The 20-year-old star Daniel Radcliffe claims he is too old for partying. In the past he used to play a lot of stupid stuff pranks and get involved with drinking or partying with the cast. Now, he no longer socializes with the rest of the ‘Harry Potter’ cast and crew because he wants to carve out a career as a respected, matured and serious actor.

He also blasted stars who are only interested in fame, insisting he hates the celebrity culture where people are celebrities as a by-product of what they do. He couldn’t care less about people reading every little thing about Peter Andre and Jordan. He said they don’t want to work, have no interests, no passions, nothing and yet they seem to be held up on pedestals. It does annoy him but can't do anything about it since his part of it.

Daniel’s serious attitude appears to be in contrast to his ‘Harry Potter’ co-star Rupert Grint. Rupert has been spotted at several UK music festivals this summer and makes no secret of his love of wild nights out. He recently said that when he's drunk, he likes to cause mischief. He steal props like the broomsticks from the 'Harry Potter' set and bring them out to the pub for comedy value. It seems funny at the time, trouble is he usually gets too trashed to remember what happened the next day.

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Woman ticketed after alleged 'Jackass' prank

2009-09-23T16:31:00.000-07:00

A woman called Lincoln police Sgt. Todd Beam just before 7 p.m. Thursday evening to report a disturbing incident. The caller said she was waiting to turn south onto 40th Street when she saw a man who was bound and gagged to get out of a blue SUV run into the intersection, which got caught and pulled back into the SUV by another man heading east on Van Dorn street.

The witness gave police a description of the SUV and the license plate number. An officer contacted the registered owner, who said a 25 year old Karla K. Tallon, had the SUV. According to Sgt. Beam, Tallon denied knowing anything about the incident when police called her. Another officer ran different plate number combinations, in case they had the wrong number.

Later, officers went to talk to Tallon and eventually admitted to them that she and her passengers were re-enacting a scene from the TV series because they thought it would be funny pranks ideas. They tied a 19-year-old man's hands with speaker wire and put napkins in his mouth to simulate the prank, Beam said.

She was cited on suspicion of obstructing a government operation because the incident used up police resources for several hours. She was ticketed after allegedly re-enacting a prank from the TVshow "Jackass" which features people performing dangerous, crude, ridiculous and self-injuring stunts.

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VP booked for dirty harrasing former company

2009-09-22T15:52:00.000-07:00

Dr SPS Grewal of Grewal Eye Institute in Sector 9 approached cyber cell of UT police to help track down a person sending him and his employees, including women, vulgar and objectionable SMSes and emails. Registering a case under Section 66A of Information and Technology Act police had immediately begun their chase within a month.

Cops on Thursday finally achieved some success after booking Khushwant Singh of Mohali, a former marketing vice-president of the eye center, for harassment. According to members of the institute, he quitted at the institute after which he began acting funny and doing stupid stuff sending a vulgar SMS to a woman administrative officer and some objectionable emails to Dr. Grewal.

The investigation lead to some shot off emails to other employees to defame Grewal and his women colleagues was also traced to a former woman worker whom happened to join the institute a few days ahead of Singh, but quit along with the accused dirty prankster. The institute initially suspected that it was just the work of a competitor, but to their surprise, it was a shocking prank pulled by their former V-P.

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Billboard prank for college football coach Charlie Weis

2009-09-21T15:23:00.001-07:00

Charlie Weis began his coaching career in 1979 at Boonton High School in New Jersey. He was named the 28th head football coach in Notre Dame history, agreeing to a six-year contract worth a reported $2 million per year.

Weis is the first Notre Dame graduate to hold the football head coaching position at his alma mater since Hugh Devore in 1934. His the first to serve as the Irish football coach on a full-fledged basis since Joe Kuharich in 1938.

Charlie thus far has taken it in stride stating "I'm the head coach at Notre Dame. I mean, welcome to my world." He knows there is a plenty of pressure to go around for a championship. But he should be used to that, since he was the offensive coach in Boston before heading to South Bend.

Like other typical NCAA Division I head football coach, he never played football at the college level. As he was preparing for his 5th year as Notre Dame football coach, someone decided it was time to give him a little extra "motivation" to have a winning year by pulling a prank in South Bend, Indiana. The still unknown prankster placed a hilarious jokes billboard message giving out best wishes and noting his 5th year of head coaching as an internship.

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AHS students face discipline for prank racist remarks

2009-09-17T15:44:00.001-07:00

A number of Anderson High students face discipline for a racial incident. The episode unfolded in the AHS parking lot as students were leaving school Thursday. A couple of students made inappropriate remarks of intentional inflammatory racial remarks shouting “white power”. At least one of them covered his head with a sheet fashioned like a Ku Klux Klan hood according to the Anderson Community Schools officials.

Based from the information received by school officials investigating the incident, the actions appeared to have resulted from a student dare. Some students knew that the racially charged incident was planned, though it’s unclear how many was involved. Anderson High School principal Pat Fassnacht said school officials have been contacting parents of students who were involved or who might have provoked the incident. He said a number of parents have been notified, though he declined to say how many.

On Friday morning, AHS increased police presence and metal detectors at the entrance. Reaction of the other Anderson students were credited by the principal since they took the incident as more of surprise and disbelief rather than get angry with the tightened security. The silly stupid stuff pranks ideas that turned into a serious prank will result in punishment ranging from suspension to possible expulsion according to ACS interim Superintendent Lennon Brown.

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Allen Iverson joining Grizzlies, not a funny stuff situation

2009-09-16T15:25:00.001-07:00

One of the N.B.A.’s most prolific scorers, Free agent Allen Iverson, were ignored by most teams allowing the Memphis Grizzlies to sign the 34-year-old Iverson. The one-year $3 million deal allows Iverson to possibly jump-start a stalled career and re-enter free agency next summer after a disappointing season split between the Denver Nuggets and the Detroit Pistons.

The frustration of this is not an off-season funny stuff that led Iverson to call the coming season something personal. The Grizzlies at 24-58 in the standings, finished last season 29th of 30 N.B.A. teams in attendance, took the risk of Iverson’s infusion among a young core comprising O.J. Mayo, Rudy Gay and the second overall draft pick this year, Hasheem Thabeet.

By Thursday afternoon, the homepage of the Grizzlies’ Web site flashed a large picture of a smiling Iverson and a promotion for a season ticket coupled with an Iverson replica jersey. The thought of Iverson as the centerpiece in the franchise’s marketing scheme and not the playbook has crossed his mind.

Iverson and Zach Randolph will be two of the team’s veteran players and looked to assume new roles as mentors. In the past, both have been the subject of off-court issues. He will look to displace Mayo or Mike Conley Jr.in the starting lineup. Iverson may get an early shot at redemption when the Grizzlies begin the season Oct. 28 against the Pistons.

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Mariner's recognition for team Pilots after 40 years

2009-09-15T15:14:00.000-07:00

It was an incredible day that ended with recognition at the Seattle Mariners game. A couple hundred longtime baseball fans experienced the Pilots, Seattle's first Major League Baseball team during 1969, who fell victim to bankruptcy after playing just one season.

They sat before 13 members of the old franchise in a Hilton hotel conference room and chuckled for several hours during the team's 40-year reunion. After all this time, after all the bitterness over having the team for just one season, the appreciation of those trailblazing players remains.

They were a motley crew of players who either just wanted a shot to play in the big leagues or needed to prove they still could play at this level, went 64-98 their lone year at a Sick's Stadium that was literally being renovated as the fans filled into the game. They spent the year playing stupid stuff pranks ideas on each other and trying to figure out what to do whenever the water stopped working at the ballpark.

It's the kind of story that a novelist couldn't imagine, but for the Pilots, it's just one of many funny tales. It's hard to believe that so much camaraderie could come from such a short period. The Pilots were a one-season wonder, perhaps even a one-season fiasco. They weren't around long enough to be considered a one-hit wonder. But they made an impression. And they'll stay alive in "Ball Four," in the minds of fans and in a new documentary expected to be finished in October.

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Favre joining Vikings may not be a stupid stuff idea

2009-09-14T15:10:00.000-07:00

Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress finally landed his man at quarterback, Brett Favre, a future Hall of Famer who now enters the NFL for his 19th season. The former QB star of the Green Bay Packers for the last 17 years would now join his long-time nemesis, the Vikings. After shaking off the rust in a few preseason appearances, he's ready to play on Sunday's 2009 NFL campaign season opener matchup against the host Cleveland Browns.

Teaming up with All-Pro running back Adrian Peterson, the reigning NFL rushing champion. Favre now have a stronger surrounding cast than he did under the New York Jets last season. It is the perfect situation for him, having Peterson to carry most of the offensive load, allowing him to limit the use of his aging arm. Though still reliable, the stamina for his throw that he had before during his prime years with the Packers had now faded.

After ending a three-year playoff drought last season that won them the NFC North Division crown since 2000, the Vikings enters the season pegged as a Super Bowl contender after the acquisition of Favre, coupled with the greatness of Peterson and a stellar defense led by two mammoth tackles and a fiery defensive end. The embattled head coach hopes that this year will be the one that keeps him employed.

The Vikings are banking on Favre to lead them to a second straight division title despite playing in an extremely competitive NFC North. With their rival Packers, whom despise their former starting QB for doing a stupid stuff by joining the Vikings, and Bears whom expected to make some noise with their gunslinging quarterbacks and Detroit whom just starting to go to a rebuilding process. Minnesota hopes of making it out of the first round of the playoffs.

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Big Brother 10 Rodrigo upsets Lisa with a prank

2009-09-13T18:47:00.001-07:00

Big Brother 10's Rodrigo has upset Lisa after playing a shocking prank on her. He waited outside the toilet door, and as soon as the door opened he shouted "Boo!" in Lisa's face.

As Rodrigo began laughing and giggling behind her. The shocked Lisa didn't find it funny. She began walking out into the garden and muttered that his lucky that she is inside the Big Brother house, otherwise things might have gone bad for him. Rodrigo skipped out to the other housemates but Lisa reiterated her displeasure.

Rodrigo carried on laughing unabashed, and sat down with the other housemates in the sunshine in the garden. He pleaded that it was just an intended funny tees hilarious joke. Lisa doesn't care if it was joke to him or not. She honestly told him that he needed to grow up.

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Standup comic sued slander by her mother-in-law

2009-09-10T15:17:00.000-07:00

Sunda Croonquist, a veteran stand-up comedian, is being sued by Ruth Zafrin, her mother-in-law. Her usual comic routine relied heavily on the mockery of her family. Typically using cultural references from her half-black, half-Swedish, Catholic-educated background. With frequent imitations of her mother-in-law, the in-law has grown tired and taken offense to all the jokes made at her expense by Croonquist.

Ruth Zafrin, the mother-in-law, is now suing comedian Sunda Croonquist for making too many mother-in-law hilarious jokes. Ruth Zafrin, is Jewish, and says Croonquist is spreading hurtful lies with jokes like the one about her mother-in-law urging her to name her daughter Hadassah or Goldie something hard to pronounce, like Shaniquah.

Though defamation and slander still hurt even when committed by a comic on stage, a joke is still just a joke. Sunda Croonquist has been making them for years like the one about how her mother-in-law, the day she met, welcomed Croonquist into her home. But Soonquist can't be having fun joking about the in-laws any more, maybe it's time for some new material.

Since the lawsuit was filed, Croonquist has bounced back and forth between anger and humor. She’s angry the action has estranged her husband and their two daughters from his family, noting bitterly, “This could have broken up my marriage.” Being a regular in the comedy scene, Croonquist has somehow found a silver lining and the lawsuit had sparked in her more jokes about herself and that of her mother-in-law.

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10 things to know about TNA

2009-09-09T15:43:00.000-07:00

1. Samoa Joe, one of the top wrestlers in TNA, gave an interview to Penthouse magazine where he talked about pranks ideas that wrestlers play on one another during backstage. When asked if he’d ever had a prank played on him, he responded.

2. Alex Shelley is Chris Jericho. NO! Don’t dispute this, don’t talk about his attitude backstage. I don’t care. Alex Shelley can cut an effortless promo and wrestle. That is very rare. He is your Chris Jericho and gets pushed into the main event. I don’t particularly care what happens to Chris Sabin.

3. Samoa Joe is your Stone Cold. Or was. I don’t know if you can build him up after what you did to him, but he should have been and should be the focal point of your company. Give him a make up white, get that silly tattoo off his face and let him go back to making your company money.

4. James Storm, Robert Roode or Hernandez should be world champion now. The hardcore fans who follow your product have associated all of your world champions with another company. Only AJ Styles and Abyss were creations of TNA, and Abyss won the world title on a fluke. You need to create your own history using your own stars, and having wrestlers be the representative for the company who don’t suck that we associate with being TNA originals is essential.

5. No more D-List celebrities seriously harms the TNA.

6. Matt Morgan is not great at cutting a promo. He is not too impressive in the ring. He is booked to look like a moron, which he probably is in real life. Why would you reward him with a main event push? What kind of message does that send to the other wrestlers? I bet he’s a real sweetheart backstage who tries very hard. You need to reward people on talent in the ring and on the microphone.

7. Recognize opportunities to make history. If Kevin Nash or Booker T become a world champion, you can say you have the only person to hold a world title in WCW, WWE and TNA. I don’t know why you would have either of these wrestlers and not want to create history.

8. I understand that they’re afraid Kurt Angle will leave TNA, if they take away the title off from him, if you don’t do everything to support him now that your star will go to Japan or quit the business. The shell of Kurt Angle is not worth the ghosts.

9. Don’t be afraid to let everyone drop a catchphrase. Wrestling isn’t art. It’s there to make money. People with catchphrases will make far more money than people without them. WWE has been getting away from this, it’s time for you to pick it up and run with it. This, more than any other point here, will take you to the next level.

10. Finally, have fun with it! You have a lot of young great wrestlers. You have most of the best women’s wrestlers in the world. You have a solid core of veterans, a few home grown stars and a lot of tag teams. There is no reason your show should be unwatchable.

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Forest Park’s Nate Brown stands out

2009-09-08T15:14:00.000-07:00

Nate Brown, unlike many of his teammates, has been with the varsity club of Forest Park football team for the last four years. It’s not just his tenure that sets him apart, but his temperament on the field and in the huddle.

Between funny pranks and hilarious jokes pulled on teammates, he led the Bruins with 81.5 tackles in 2008, including 19 that resulted in negative yardage for the opposition. Brown has made a name for himself on the defensive side of the ball as an all-district linebacker.

The rest of the guys look up to him since he's the heart of the defense and understands what they’re doing scheme-wise. Being part of the development of their school program helped him know what to expect and tries to help the young guys on the squad prepare.

Brown has been doing some preparing of his own this preseason, learning a new position as running back or half back in addition to his customary role at linebacker. Coach Chandler of Forest Park football team, knowing Brown has the best hands on the team, wanted to get more use out of his athletic tackle-machine and decided to try him as a running back this year. Brown always wanted to be on the offensive side of the play where he's the one going to take the hit and not other way around which he is well known for.

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Degeneration X overshadows young stars

2009-09-07T15:23:00.000-07:00

Since 2006, after the DX seemed to go extinct era, WWE got a whole new turned over audience. All of those new kids and families had not seen the "PG-version" of DX. The old era of mocking good ol' Vinnie Mac serments. They happened not to experience the the stupid stuff hilarious jokes, the joys filled with laughter, the shocking pranks ideas regularly pulled off, the humiliation of McMahon, and the other elements of Degeneration X which made wrestling programming reach the highest points of their ratings ever.

So with this 2009 re-emergence of DX, WWE is back on their usual heavyweight prime time rating status. While it's doing great for the mass number of fans, it holds the sense of urgency to build up any new stars since DX is holding up the show. Though it was just doing fine for the majority audience, there are some fans that made a big deal out of it. Mostly non-DX fans and fans that weren't fans yet during the prime of DX uprise. They want WWE to still focuse on other younger stars that they idolize which deserves more constant, consistent, and focused TV exposure to build up their character.

But since the WWE runs the show in cruise control. They let DX fill up as much TV time as possible. It's not their problem as long as they get results, either the fans hated or loved the idea of it. Either way, both haters and lovers are still considered one audience. So far the it's doing wonders for them since the Youth Movement came to a screeching and procrastinating halt. After all it's also how WWE arrived at this "crisis point" to begin with.

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Old man got stuck on cubicle due to sick prank

2009-09-06T15:25:00.001-07:00

A 57-year-old man, who only moved to Cairns seven weeks ago, had been a victim of a cruel toilet stupid stuff pranks ideas at Cairns Central shopping Center. The man said he visited Cairns Central regularly for a coffee every morning. But he didn't expect that he would experience the most humiliating situation of his life going there.

On his last visit, he had been in a rush to get to the toilet because of the food he had eaten the day before. Apparently, unaware and unlucky he happened to seat on the cubicle where some pranksters placed some strong adhesive glue. The man became stuck to the seat where he yelled out to another toilet user to raise the alarm. He had to be rescued from the toilet by emergency services and was taken to Cairns Base Hospital where he spent about 90 minutes as the seat was removed using industrial strength solvents.

Meanwhile, Cairns Regional Council community safety committee chair Di Forsyth hit out at the offenders and called for members of the public to help identify them. The council was disgusted that a gentleman has had to go through that because someone thinks it's funny, which indeed is a sick joke. It's it's quite a dangerous prank that could lead for some of the community to be outraged on it.

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Virginia Crisis Link Hotline prank triggers police response

2009-09-03T15:23:00.000-07:00

Police reported receiving a call from a Virginia Crisis Link Hotline operator who reported an adolescent male caller “stated that he was tired of his parents abusing him and that he was going to take his father’s shotgun and shoot them.” Saturday, Aug. 15 at 3:31 p.m. The hotline was able to trace the cell phone number to Winchester and provide police with the address of its owner.

Three officers responded and searched the home, they found a black air soft gun resembling an MP-5 in the teenager’s room, which they seized and held for safekeeping. They said they asked her whether her son was home, to which she replied that he was at the boat club with her husband.

Police reported they found her son a 13-year-old boy along with another 13-year-old friend and his 11-year-old brother at the boat club. The boys admitted to making the phone call “and all of them were extremely apologetic.

All three Winchester teenager who called the Virginia Crisis Link Hotline were advised on the seriousness of the call and how the prank call was not funny pranks at all. They were just issued with a stern warning, but no charges according to the police report.

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Norman North HS first day glued door prank

2009-09-02T15:33:00.001-07:00

Norman North High School had a sticky situation during their first day of class. After arriving at campus, the school's staff realized that someone put glue into a number of locks on the outside doors. They think it happened when people were on campus for an orientation session Wednesday night.

Robert Carbajal, a Sophomore at Norman North HS said, "I heard about it from a couple of friends of mine, and it was going around. I thought it was pretty funny at first because the doors glued shut, nobody can get in or get out so."

The Norman Public Schools Superintendent said the stupid stuff prank didn't cause any disruption to the school day and the incident was just an "inconvenience". At least 3 doors were glued shut and maintenance crews spent the morning cleaning the locks. It may have happened after people were on campus Wednesday night for an orientation. Students say it was a funny joke.

The district is reviewing surveillance tapes to see if they can identify who was involved, said Roger Brown, assistant superintendent.

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Buy Insult a Day Desk 2009 Calendar

2009-09-01T15:37:00.000-07:00

Are you getting tired of how badly your Boss is treating you? Want to buy office humor and pranks ideas for your boss? Insult-a-Day 2009 Calendar is the perfect gift.

As unrelenting as it is unapologetic it delivers the kinds of atypical aphorisms you wish you had said to your rude boss. Featuring humorous insults, jabs, and jeers from well-known comedians, films, and television shows, this calendar will have you chuckling guiltily.

Archie comics risky new concept

2009-08-31T15:32:00.001-07:00

Archie Comic Publications, a purveyor of the greatest Go-Along-To-Get-Along milieu in American comics, is said to release their 600th issue "Archie Marries Veronica: The Proposal" with an entirely blunder concept that could mess up the company. The story won't be a regular story of Archie Andrews and his pals live out their days on the little town of Riverdale. It would take place five years from now, in which Archie marries Veronica Lodge and spurns the good-natured, down-to-earth Betty Cooper.

Veronica and Archie are better off dating in high school than spending the rest of their lives together. Veronica would be much better off going to college and marrying an attorney or investment-banker in training, while Archie would be lucky to find a woman who will be content with what will likely be a hodgepodge of mid-tier salaried jobs and a couple of vacations in Florida.

A big factor why "Archie" has lasted on the industry, mainly because there are a lot of parents that encourage their kids to buy Archie books. It's just because they do know what they are getting from "Archie". All funny tales about teens and their crazy mishaps. Just innocent hijinks, practical jokes and pranks ideas. Marriage means having to get a job and worry about money not a fun thing for a reader who can barely figure out where his allowance is coming from.

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Having Fun with your Kids on Halloween Trick or Treat

2009-08-30T15:17:00.000-07:00

Halloween is coming, people feels the need to buy Halloween tricks, gag gifts and prank ideas. Kids are excited and ready to scare the hell out of their neighbors or get a treat instead. The older ones are thinking if they can still join the fun, more than just giving treats to little boys and girls. Definitely, Halloween would be nothing if there are no Halloween pranks and tricks. The very day is more frightening when nothing is making you busy, when you are boxed inside your house doing nothing.

Aside from April Fool's Day, Halloween night is the best time to play pranks on your kids, the perfect time to bond with your family. Indulge all the member in a horror movie marathon and give a consequence to those who got frightened by the film. You can also take them to a ghost tour or a home costume party.

When the streets are dark, you can hide behind the trees, and surprise them with the Halloween tricks that you prepared. Of all the people, they won't be expecting their own parents playing a prank on them. You can play dead to scare the hell out of them. And you can also pretend like a trespasser looting your own home. The children will be out for hours to play trick or treat in the neighborhood. Before you go out to watch them, you can plant your own funny pranks ideas inside the house, and make it work once you all arrive.

Act as if you are of their age. Loosen yourself from your childhood frustrations and giggle and stumble like you are only a grade school kid. Do things that he/she never thought you would do. Wear scary costumes. Dress like a scare crow or imitate some characters on your favorite horror movie. Buy glow in the dark Dracula fangs and stand from a dark corner. Call their names with a voice like Frankensteins' or other monsters. They will be startled by that prank even if they know that its a prank holiday. If you prefer just cooking in the kitchen, put a twist on your common Halloween dish, garnish them with spider or worm shape vegetables to make the food more chic.

Halloween day will be very fun if it is spend with your family. And there is more fun if the kids stayed safe until they are lying on the bed. While they are doing their trick or treat activity, you should stand by them to prevent accidents. We'll never know, there could be persons that intends to hurt or poison kids. Let them be visible on dark areas by putting glow in the dark tapes or necklace on their black costumes. Even better provide them with a flashlight to prevent them from getting tripped or being ran over by vehicles. Watch your kids and make them stay safe, failing to do so is the most horrible trick.

Teens fake abductions led to a 911 call

2009-08-23T17:09:00.000-07:00

A group of four 17-year-old teenage boys were reported to 911 by frantic neighbors on Northland, Kansas City, Mo. Monday afternoon. They reported that they saw a group in masks , pushed a teenager into a trunk at gunpoint. Capt. Rich Lockhart with Kansas City Police were chasing them all over the Northland for a half hour because people were flood calling 911 in belief that something bad had happened to somebody.

But when the cops caught up with the apparent bad guys, they let them go. It turns out that the group were just goofing around and trying to pull off a stupid stuff pranks ideas. The four teens had a clown mask, gorilla suit, and air pistol and were pretending to abduct each other. With a cell phone camera they planned to place the video online for possibly a movie-making dream.

It was sheer panic for anyone not in the know. One mom saw the ending near Shoal Creek Elementary. No arrests were made and police said the boys weren't doing anything illegal, but their parents were called. I don't even know why kids would even think to do that, I guess to be funny, to get on YouTube," Cannon said. And if nothing else, an official warning to not try this at home

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Bored prankster led to mailbox stealing arrest

2009-08-23T16:40:00.000-07:00

Although mailboxes are mainly used for delivering and placing private personal mails to every mailbox owner. Nicholas Charges Jennrich, a 26-year-old Cottage Grove man, decided to steal mail out of mailboxes in his neighborhood earlier this Month. He thought of it as a fun way of wasting his time due to pure sheer boredom.

According to police, the man was spotting riding a bicycle along Jeffrey Avenue South shortly before 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 8 in Cottage Grove. When he noticed the police, he tried to flee as mail flew out of his pockets. When police asked him why he had other people's mail, he said he was locked out of his house and got "bored".

The man faces mail theft and fleeing a peace officer charges. He could spend six years in prison and pay an $11,000 fine for his boredom stupid stuff pranks ideas.

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Prankster warned for serious offense on smart car vandalism

2009-08-23T15:53:00.000-07:00

Smart cars are very popular to commuters because of it's superior gas mileage and cute look that weighs about 725 kilograms. What gains attention to their business is the vehicle's unique look, that makes customers shell out a loaded model for up to $20,000. Evidently, that attention also brought the vehicle as the main target for shocking pranks vandals.

Media reports swarmed the internet of photos and videos of people using brute strength and long poles to tip the small smart cars. Windows, exterior mirrors and panelling of the cars were damaged, amused bystanders posed with the flipped car and snapped photos with their cellphone cameras. Outraged owners have vented their anger on blogs. One Alberta owner of a so-called "Smartie" was so furious, that he posted photos on the Internet and offered a reward of $1,000 for information leading to an arrest.

Ken Lust, sales manager of Smart car at David Morris Fine Cars, who also was a victim of a bad car prank three years ago, says goofing around with it isn't a harmless prank but rather a brazen act of property damage. The sales manager spent several hundred dollars repairing smashed windows and a bent gas cap. No one was ever arrested. Lust believes it was the work of several fellows who probably had too much to drink that night.

Some may think tipping over cars and shattered glass car pranks idea are harmless fun, but under the Criminal Code of Canada, mischief is a potentially serious offense, said Sanjeev Anand, a law professor at the University of Alberta. A conviction carries a variety of potential punishments, including a maximum sentence of between two and 10 years in jail, although such sentences are rare, the law professor said.

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Alumni pranksters thought as burglars by their former school

2009-08-18T19:22:00.000-07:00

Two 18 year olds, Alexander Neely of Pine Street, the son of Emmaus Borough Manager Craig Neely, and Samuel Murphy of Spruce Street were caught by the police late Monday night. The two, whom were both graduates of the school, were initially reported as burglars when school maintenance workers on a break noticed the teens on top of the school roof at around 11:30 p.m.

The television was placed at a borough curb for trash pickup, and the teens picked it up and took it to the school. One of them climbed a fence and scaled a wall to get up onto the roof with the intention of lifting a 20-inch TV set to the roof using the rope. They thought the two alumni were trying to steal a television, to their surprise it was just a shocking pranks that they're trying to pull off to their former school. Thinking that it would be funny for the passers-by to see a tv set on top of the school roof.

The result of the prank attempt incident prompted a response from at least 10 officers from three towns to the school at 500 Macungie Ave. The alleged pranksters were caught in the act. Evidently, both teens admitted their roles in the prank were and cited for defiant trespass due to their stupid stuff pranks ideas.

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Hills' Audrina on her way to the big screen

2009-08-17T20:15:00.000-07:00

Audrina Partridge, known as part of the still running for three years reality hit show "The Hills", proves to everyone that she too could act for real while playing a character other than herself in "The Hills". She didn't went to any audition to get the part. Instead, she received the script from the producers and it happened.

In SORORITY ROW, Partridge plays Megan, a feisty and sort of the sassy member in a group sorority girls. In the story her character boyfriend Garrett cheated on her, so naturally all the sorority girls wanted to get back on him. Because in the sorority row, if a member was cheated on, all the sisters of the sorority also got cheated on. So they decide to play some pranks ideas on an unsuspecting friend. Naturally, the pranks they tried to pull off went fatally wrong.

Even if she's still filming "The Hills" up to end of December for it's fourth season, she'd still go back and forth to shoot for the "Sorority Row". Since her involvement in this movie might affect her real life role in the reality show, the producers decided not to bring or show that part of her life in "The Hills". She said it's hard for her not to share it with the fans and bring them along her Hollywood journey, which is the main reason for her to move to LA since acting was her long passion and love in the first place.

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PGA 2002 champ Rich Beem pulls a car prank

2009-08-17T20:01:00.000-07:00

Most interesting story on Tuesday at the PGA goes to the prank tale told by Rich Beem, 2002 PGA champion at Hazeltine. After Beem won the championship, Hazeltine made him an honorary member. A year after, Beem and friends at El Paso Country Club played home-and-home matches against several Hazeltine members.

During the match in Texas, Beem played a funny stuff practical jokes on a Hazeltine member he knows only as "Virgil". The one of the few harmless car pranks began after Virgil and a friend parked their car in front of Beem's house. Knowing Virgil left the keys in the car, Beem arranged for a neighbor to take the car and park it down the street in a garage.

When Virgil mentioned he left the keys in the car, Beem let loose. "Are you stupid? Dude, your car's halfway to Mexico right now. I'm sorry, but it's in a chop shop. You've got no car." Virgil looked outside. No car.

"He friggin' lost it," Beem said, laughing. "He thought his car was in the middle of Mexico in a chop shop. He was panicking. I made him sweat for half an hour and I said, 'Dude, it's across the street in my buddy's garage.' It was pretty funny."

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Teens arrested for egg throwing assault

2009-08-17T19:22:00.000-07:00

Local youths, Brendan Johnson, 18, Brendan O'Neil, John O'Brien, Nicholas Romaine, Lauren Daly, all 17 and a 16-year-old were arrested for for throwing eggs at people the night of Aug. 4. The teens were caught doing the shocking pranks to a driver and pedestrians passing by. The teenagers probably didn't mean to do any harm, but still not a laughing matter for Walpole police, so they arrested the six who hurled them at passersby.

The impact of the eggs, thrown from a moving Toyota Highlander SUV raised welts on a jogging woman's arm on Washington Street that was also pelted with eggs at around 8:30 p.m. according to police. The jogger and the driver, who wished to press charges, said they didn't know what the hurled object was until each found the cracked shells. Shortly after, a second person called the police to report eggs had been thrown through the open window of her car.

The woman told the eggs hit the headrest of her children's car seat where one of her infants had been sitting just minutes before. She momentarily lost control of her vehicle but was more upset that one of her 7-month-old twins would have likely been hurt if they were still in the car. There was also a report of three walkers on Diamond Street being hit with eggs.

Sgt. John Carmichael spotted the truck at the intersection of Stone and School streets. Officers contacted their parents. Deputy Chief Scott Bushway wouldn't categorize it as a prank and that throwing eggs at a person is an act of stupid stuff pranks ideas. The police categorized the eggs as dangerous weapons because of the marks they made.

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Mila Kunis gets sick of the Ashton Kutcher questions

2009-08-17T18:16:00.000-07:00

Mila Kunis, now 25, got shot to fame playing as Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend "Jackie" on the hit TV series "That '70s Show". At the time of the audition for the role, all people auditioning were required to be at least 18 years old. So Kunis who was actually 14 at that time, told the casting staff that she was going to be 18 "one her birthday".

She was able to continue in the role despite having misled the directors. Despite her age, she had been considered the best fit for the character and was thought to have been creative in her way of gaining the audition. She has been nominated seven times for a Teen Choice Award for playing that role, but sadly never won.

The show got wrapped up in 2006. Since then, she hasn't worked in years with Ashton, the well known actor that loves to pull off hilarious jokes and pranks ideas to anyone. Though its been a long time since she played "Jackie", she admits that she still regularly has to answer questions about the actor. She just winces whenever an interviewer asks her about her former "That '70s Show" co-star Ashton Kutcher.

She says, "Yesterday, a woman asked me, 'So! Was Ashton a prankster on set?' I went, 'Oh my God. For real?' That's when I know the interview's going sour when they ask me what it was like kissing the known prankster and famous actor, Kutcher. She point out that the show's been off the air for four years now and it's just no longer cute or funny stuff to talk about anymore.

Cricket sport fanaticism taken too far

2009-08-12T20:12:00.000-07:00

In the early hours of the first day of this vital clash that ended with Australia convincing winners on the pitch at the 4th Ashes Test Cricket 2009 season. England collapsed to be all out for 102 in the face of some improved Australian bowling, with more than the occasional tired-looking shot being played.

A member of a supporters group calling itself 'The Fantatics' carried out an act of sporting terrorism, he pulled off a shocking prank by setting off the fire alarm at the England team's hotel. Resulting for the whole team to be forced out into the Leeds 4am at night. While fire fighters checked the hotel for the source of the alarm. They were allowed back into their rooms after a good 20 minutes had passed.

The web site 'The Fantatics', established in 1997, have a history of making gooses of themselves on the world stage. As recently as this year's Wimbledon tournament organizers were appalled by their over-the-top antics. 'The Fanatics' have come out and admitted that members of the group were indeed responsible for the so-called pranks ideas.

Anything a bunch of yellow shirt wearing Australian tennis fans try to throw back at the Barmy Army would only pale into insignificance, which might go part of the way towards explaining this mindless escalation. Annoying as the Barmy Army can be, they don’t stoop to the kind of behavior displayed by 'The Fanatics'. They sing hard, they sing long, they drive you to the point of murder, but as far as I know they don’t go setting off fire alarms at hotels.

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Taylor Swift Pulls off a Prank

2009-08-12T19:28:00.000-07:00

The 19-year-old Country music star, Taylor Swift, has always been a fun-loving prankster. She showed it bysome fun at a show in Kansas City August 8 at the expense of her concert-mate, Keith Urban. The singer appeared on stage with her band dressed in full KISS costumes and makeup when Urban called them to help sing his hit, "Kiss A Girl."

Swift emerged dressed as KISS lead guitarist Ace Frehley with her band, some of whom were also dressed up as Hershey's Kisses. She played with Kieth Urban for the show on his "Escape Together World Tour".

Although he looked visibly amused as Swift and her band moved about the stage in platform boots and spandex body-suits. Urban didn't miss a beat of the song when he realized the hilarious jokes pranks ideas pulled off by Swift.

Swift posted a message to her Twitter page about the stunt right after the show, saying,
"Pranking is a must. How about rushing his stage during 'Kiss a Girl' dressed like this?
It went down." she wrote.

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John Hughes' legacy of laughter

2009-08-11T20:06:00.000-07:00

John Hughes, a Michigan native, writer, producer and director of such films as "Uncle Buck", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Home Alone", has passed away at the age of 59 becuase of heart attack. His films featured outrageous pranks, hilarious jokes, funny tees, stunts and highly imaginative hi-jinx, mostly involving children and teens pulling off wild escapades that bewildered their elders.

John Hughes is now most likely sharing laughs with one of his previous stars, the late John Candy, who preceded him also by heart attack in 1991, at the age of 43. Two brilliant men who gave much happiness to the world, to whom we owe gratitude for the hilarity they produced.

Both cases were perhaps afflicted by their diets and other lifestyle choices. It is known that in John Candy's case, his father also died at a young age of heart disease. It's truly ironic that, in both instances, someone who gave us such gifts that increase our own well-being fell victim to such ailments themselves.

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Intent of phone pranks is to embarrass and humiliate

2009-08-11T19:21:00.000-07:00

An 18-year-old East Texas teenager is being accused of criminal mischief due to a stupid stuff pranks ideas and also speculated as a member of a notorious online group Pranknet.org, whose members orchestrate and carry out malicious and destructive shocking pranks, then brag about what they've done.

A web site that specializes in uncovering misdeeds and wrongdoings using public records, TheSmokingGun.com, claims to have evidence that proves he was the person who convinced an employee of an Arby's in Baytown that caused nearly $4,600 in damage to the restaurant. The editor and founder of TSG, Bill Bastone, said he would stake his reputation that he's tracked down and identified the right man, still it's nothing but speculation.

The Lufkin police consider the accused teen as a "person of interest" in their investigation of a recent similar "prank" at a McDonald's restaurant, the man has yet to be charged with any crime. The phone prank in Lufkin resulted in the firing of an employee. We would hope that an employer would understand that the employee had been just as cruelly abused as their property.

The intent was not just to destroy property, but to embarrass and humiliate that could take years, if not a lifetime, to overcome. While it's difficult to imagine how anyone derives pleasure from causing another person pain, it's even more difficult to comprehend how anyone could perpetuate such an act and then boast about it. We hope Lufkin police will soon be able to track down the individual who deserves the credit.

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Practical jokes are funny and hurtful

2009-08-09T20:29:00.000-07:00

Practical jokes are cruel excuses for jokes. They are careless jokes made for fun at the expense of others. If you happen to be the joker then you got the best seat in the house. The joker practically has the free VIP box section seat to the best show of the year, watching someone else's humiliation.

It's like being a secret agent when someone is planning a stupid stuff pranks ideas. All seems well when they're around their victim. Then when the time is right, it all falls into place perfectly. After they have succeeded on their mission, they will return to headquarters and celebrate their victory.

Although practical jokes are funny, they can also cross the line and go too far. Maybe for the joker it all seems fine but for the target of the joke, sometimes they may be very hurtful. If you happen to be the person being messed and joked with, then you have the worst seat in the house.

When someone is going to be pranked they don't see a thing coming. Whatever seat we're in we all must know when a joke's not funny. We must make sure we don't take it to far no matter how funny we think it may be.

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Surprisingly sad Sandler sells

2009-08-09T19:54:00.000-07:00

Director Judd Apatow seems to have found the necessary ingredients in order to have a successful film. His latest “Funny People” is more dramatic than Apatow’s previous movies. The movie even included a 20-year-old video footage of Adam Sandler making shocking pranks call when the two briefly lived together.

“Funny People” is a meeting of both worlds. George Simmons played by Adam Sandler is one of the biggest comedic stars in Hollywood and lives in a mansion on the beach, but he is alone, unhappy and dying. When George performs a last-minute stand-up gig, he meets Ira played by Seth Rogen, a comedic work-in-progress who has the balls to clown on the superstar.

George initially hires Ira to write jokes for him, but Ira soon becomes a confidant paid to hear George’s problems and talk him to sleep. Through their relationship, we see every side of George: a hopeless romantic who sleeps with random women, a jerk who gives the appearance of a nice guy but constantly belittles Ira, a phony trying to find meaning in his finite life.

For its comedic value, “Funny People” ambitiously tries to balance serious personal issues with raunchy laughs, which may seem like much, but the film would not work focusing on one or the other. Apatow understands that life is a bitch, but nothing cures the blues like a good anal hilarious jokes.

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Unmasking Dex the leader of Pranknet

2009-08-09T15:47:00.000-07:00

Tariq Malik, the 25-year-old founder and leader of Pranknet also known online as "Dex", is a sociopath, a mean-spirited sadist who spews a barrage of racial epithets, vulgarities, and threats, and clearly enjoys the panic, fear, and damage he causes with his stupid stuff pranks ideas.

He and his followers place their shocking pranks call via Skype, confident that the Internet phone service sufficiently cloaks their identities and whereabouts. His frauds and sinister manipulations resulted in millions of dollars in damages to hotel rooms, lobbies and assorted fast food restaurants.

On July 21, a pair of TSG reporters went to 1637 Assumption Street in Windsor, where he lives in the ground-floor 'B' apartment. The notorious internet tough guy, who has gleefully used the telephone to cause all kinds of havoc, came up with a plan and decided to call 911 to report "suspicious persons" outside his home. It was a move that would have chagrined his devoted followers which they knew "Dex" as a bombastic, sharp-tongued cop hater.

He had been found and as a result, was barricaded in Pranknet World Headquarters with his mom, while two reporters loitered outside his window. According to Windsor Police Service records, Malik asked not to be contacted by officers when they arrived at the Assumption Street address. Despite that request, Fouzia Malik, 51, eventually allowed a pair of Windsor patrolmen to enter the family's $600-a-month apartment. The officers spent about 30 minutes conferring with Tariq before emerging to report that he did not wish to speak with reporters. It will likely not be the last time law enforcement finds itself inside Tariq Malik's bedroom.

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Pranknet pranksters breaks out loose

2009-08-05T17:24:00.000-07:00

PrankNET, a group often imitated and deviously duplicated appears to be at the center of a growing shocking pranks trend that has harried hoteliers and restaurateurs for months and is now being investigated by the FBI. The head of PrankNET, who goes by the online name "dex" and has been behaving badly since 2000.

Members of PrankNET chat online, stream their calls live on an Internet radio show and post their greatest hits to a YouTube page, a popular breeding ground for more stupid stuff pranks ideas. During their calls they often drop the name of a security corporation or say they are phoning from a hotel's front desk to lend themselves an air of credibility and to get their victims to do surprising things.

The sheer difficulty of tracing prank calls placed online, and the social-networking programs used by pranksters, has increased their visibility and daring. A small community of prank callers have long enjoyed Dex's work, but some are growing concerned over his increasingly destructive ends.

Despite this string of incidents, an FBI official in Washington said the pranks do not represent a trend. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has received just one complaint stemming from the incidents. Cybersecurity experts say such attacks are dangerous and may be on the rise.

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Ex-inmate for doing a prank turned life around

2009-08-05T16:38:00.000-07:00

Edwin Faulkner, now 28, who had been a free man for about six months after spending nearly eight years in prison for a stupid stuff pranks ideas that destroyed two apartments and damaged a third when he was 18 years old.

It was during his time in prison that Faulkner decided turn his life around. In the fall of 2006, He enrolled at Alamance Community College as a graphics programmer. During last summer he spoke with the Times-News, He said he wanted people to know that he was not the same kid who did the dumb things that eventually landed him in jail in 1998. He now values education more than anything else and not life on the streets.

On July 17 he solidified his claimed goal by marching and receiving his diploma with high honors with an associate in science degree from Alamance Community College. He said his experience at ACC has prepared him for the next step by transferring to a four-year college to pursue a degree in computer science.

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Defcon's hack proofing the hackers

2009-08-03T20:24:00.000-07:00

This year the Defcon organizers employed a top-down "dispatch" model similar to the one a taxi cab company might use. The Defcon's organizational topology made a small change allowing the event to go off without a hitch to avoid bizarre hacker pranks ideas this year.

Instead of using a matrix-like communication structure that let everybody have access to everyone else, Each group had their own communications system, and only the dispatch had access to all of them. That way, all they had to do was secure one node in the organizational tree and allow dispatch to pass messages from one channel to the other.

In years past, all 200-plus Defcon staff members ranging from security to telecommunications specialists to storage guys used the same system to communicate across the conference. As a result, Defcon attendees who found their way onto the security network could prank the entire staff.

Defcon's structural tweak is a lesson for anyone looking to streamline mass-communications in a secure way and prevent unwanted incidents.

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Morristown deadly playground prank still searching blades

2009-08-02T16:14:00.000-07:00

Cleanup crews are still finding blades on the grounds five days after the Morristown shocking pranks ideas of a teen accused for placing blades on a school playground. Officials from Morristown Central School District and the village said maintenance crews have uncovered about five more razor blades since Monday by raking the grounds with metal detectors and magnetic sweepers.

Mr. Glover said the school will decide within the next few days whether to replace the gravel play-area surface where blades were found. Additional signs have gone up around the closed playground to help ensure children will not use the equipment before it is deemed safe.

David B. Mandigo, 19, of Morristown, was later charged by the Ogdensburg state police for being connected with the 14 year old dangerous prank attempt at about 4 p.m. Monday. He is charged for endangering the welfare of a child. Mr. Mandigo did not participate in placing the razors, but watched the incident and failed to notify police about it.

Police did not know the specific relationship between the two, and speculated the crime was a grisly attempt at stupid stuff pranks ideas. The State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Investigator Jared W. Duffy said police were tipped off by a Morristown resident who claimed to have overheard Mr. Mandigo and the 14-year-old discussing the incident.

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14-year-old affixed knife blades to playground

2009-08-02T15:31:00.000-07:00

A 14-year-old boy from Morristown whom the indentity wasn't revealed by the Morristown state police was arrested Sunday. He was arrested for allegedly attempting to pull off a stupid stuff pranks ideas by affixing more than 30 blades in the slide, steps, benches and tire swing in a school playground.

The blades were intentionally placed in such a manner as to cause injury, and they achieved that end when 19-year-old Julian Marcellus, of Rossie (west of Gouverneur), was injured by a blade that had been placed on the steps of a slide at the Morristown Central School playground, state police said.

An inquiry led police to charge the 14-year-old with one count to each second-degree assault, second-degree criminal nuisance and endangering the welfare of a child. They issued him an appearance ticket ordering him to appear before the St. Lawrence County Family Court.

This case is ongoing, and additional arrests are possible, police said.

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Fake mizzou web address leads to rival school web

2009-07-29T17:19:00.000-07:00

Officials in University of Missouri found out a website that uses their trademark nickname "Mizzou" in a web address last week. The website is thought of as a hilarious jokes pranks ideas which leads web visitors to the rival territory. The web address www.mizzou.us takes unaware users to the official University of Kansas Web site.

Christian Basi, University of Missouri Spokesman, said that they've already asked the individual who owns the www.mizzou.us site to change or remove the domain name, since it infringes University of Missouri trademark. A spokeswoman at Collegiate Licensing Co. confirmed that a letter has been sent, but could not disclose details since it’s against federal regulation to disclose information about mailboxes.

A search of the domain name leads to an “L. Jeffries” of 501 E. Nifong Blvd., Suite 311, in Columbia, a UPS Store location. It’s against federal regulation to disclose information about mailboxes, so owner John Kadlec could not verify whether the 311 mailbox exists. On forums, some have attempted to track down the site owner. Some have pointed to Owl Software, a Columbia business with a mailbox at the UPS store. Owner Ann Roland said there’s no connection between the site and her company, which writes software for the food industry.

KU just became aware of the fake address and is not responsible for it, spokeswoman Jill Jess said. But the university hasn’t taken steps to ask the owner to remove it. “We can’t control what the greater Jayhawk nation does on the Internet,” Jess said. “Sometimes they can get a bit overzealous.”

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Pranksters fight against AT&T for blocking 4chan

2009-07-28T17:13:00.001-07:00

AT&T was reportedly charged for blocking broadband I.P. access to the notorious internet forum site 4chan where participants in the forum are well-known for issuing large-scale of stupid stuff pranks ideas for both online and offline. The charge were later on confirmed by the telecom company Monday.

Last October 2008, 4chan was traced as the source of a submitted hoax story about Apple's CEO Steve Jobs died on a heart attack to a CNN's user-generated news site iReport which
resulted for Apple Inc. stock price to fell significantly.

Recently, a similar hoax story surfaced on CNN's iReport site alleging that AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson had been "found dead in his multimillion dollar beachfront mansion" after a cocaine overdose. An idea that some thought as the reason behind AT&T's action against 4chan.

Michael Coe, an AT&T spokesman, e-mailed a statement that a denial-of-service attack was the reason for temporary block of 4chan traffic and that it has since been restored. This was to prevent attack from disrupting service for the impacted AT&T customer and the action was in no way related to the content of 4chan. Their focus was to protect their customers from malicious traffic.

Six people cited for injuring fishing line prank victim

2009-07-28T15:33:00.000-07:00

Matt Sevy, a victim of a stupid stuff pranks ideas, was nearly decapitated after a group of people leaving near-by had set-up a fishing line on the trees across 2nd Street of Monroe Boulevard. He had just finished playing card games with his friends and was on his way home riding his motorcycle when he ran through it.

Sevy's friend, who was riding just behind him, was confronted by a man in dark clothes whom he saw was hiding in the trees after the incident. Sevy called the police and showed the gash scar on his throat that he received from the fishing line that was pulled so tight from the trees. By the time they arrived five other friends had come out of the house across the street

The people involved told police that the prank was not originally planned that way and a sheet was supposed to be placed on the fishing line so it would look like a ghost. They thought of it as great idea prank to scare people away and not to drive across the set-up fishing lines.

Citations for reckless endangerment were issued to the number of people living nearby by Ogden Police,a small price to pay for a stupid stuff pranks ideas in Sevy's eyes. Since the incident, Sevy's done research online and says the prank is more common than you think.

Three men arrested for stealing doughnuts

2009-07-26T17:28:00.000-07:00

Three 20-year-old men, Josh Maloyed, Brad Reno and Shannon Mullins are facing charges for pulling off an intended shocking pranks to their friend by stealing doughnuts in Henry County, New Castle.

Every morning drivers for Jack's Donuts in New Castle roll up to local stores to drop off their doughnuts. If the store isn't open, they just leave them outside. But lately, police say before stores could get around to opening, the three men steals the dropped donuts from three stores several times.

The theft disappointed customers and left store owners like Eric Counsellar in a hole. Counsellar sat in his car and watched the store for several mornings until a theft went down. Counsellar called 911 as he followed the stolen doughnuts and police arrested the suspects.

The men were just bored and that they wanted to play a stupid stuff pranks ideas on a friend who worked at the doughnut shop. They didn't mean to get in no trouble. According to a friend of the two of the suspects. But the doughnut store owner doesn't think the prank was very funny.

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Britney Spears' conservatorship may end in November

2009-07-26T16:07:00.001-07:00

It's been nine months since Britney Spears was part of the headlines and other negative output of media. Funny thing is the last time she had a buzz was about a stupid stuff of her faked announced death.

The pop star had managed to stay out of trouble and largely out of the headlines for quite awhile. According to TMZ report, Britney's father Jamie Spears is asking a judge to review the terms of her conservatorship in November. If the judge decides Brit's been a good girl, she'll regain control of her personal and business affairs.

Jamie has been basically in charge of Britney's life since last Oct. 28. That came after a spate of high-profile bad behavior from the singer, most notably her bizarre self-haircut. That led to a short hospitalization and the judge's ruling.

Britney is currently in the midst of a world tour, the end of which would coincide with her father's request. She is one of the many celebrities being the subject of Twitter shocking pranks that broke out late in June that supposedly announced multiple fake deaths of many different celebrities.

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Prank report of abduction at Grand Canyon leads criminal charges

2009-07-21T17:55:00.000-07:00

The Grand Canyon investigation about a reported abduction has ended after investigators found no one was kidnapped and considered that it could have been just another stupid stuff pranks ideas.

The National Park Service investigators said Monday that a vehicle had been driving through an apartment complex Wednesday when a person in the trunk opened it several times to try to startle a female friend. They say it was more likely that the action was interpreted as someone trying to escape, and it was reported to authorities.

Investigators responded by setting up check points, canvassing the area and establishing a tip line. A few days later, residents of the apartment complex told the investigators that they were the cause of the misinterpreted judgment that led to an abduction report to them, but didn't come forward for fear of getting in trouble. Investigators say criminal charges may be pending.

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Twittering Ashton gives wife Demi a mohican prank

2009-07-21T17:47:00.001-07:00

Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher, who became the first Twitterer to rack up one million followers back in April, started doing a funny stuff pranks ideas by posting a picture of Demi Moore's derriere on his Twitter page.

The 31-year-old Ashton has gone one step further by 'photoshopping' a Mohican haircut onto a snap of his wife. The snap was accompanied with the comment: "Wifey just got a new haircut, what do you guys think? I love it."

Cheeky Ashton stepped the conversation up a gear with a posting that read: "You could shave them somewhere other than your head…" but the wife actress quickly cooled the situation down by tweeting back: "Like my armpit?"

Ashton and mum-of-three Demi are Twitter's most high profile fans, and have huge numbers of followers on the site.

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Teen's skunk prank goes bad led him to pull out a gun

2009-07-21T15:26:00.000-07:00

Jack Lee Johnson, 19, was sentenced to three years probation for what started out as a stinky smelly pranks stunt. Though he said he was sincerely remorseful for his actions, but that wasn't enough to save him from punishment. His action involving threatening everyone with a shotgun went straight to a dumb car prank ideas gone wrong.

He thought that it would be funny to place a dead skunk on his 20-year-old sister's car while parked at a gas station. When her sister found out, the sister and one of her two friends threw the skunk back at his car. This got him extremely upset and whip out a 12.-gauge shotgun and pointed it at his sister and her two teenage friends.

The officers that responded took the matter seriously from the start. Everyone on the parking lot were ordered to face down on the ground until it could be determined whether anyone was carrying a firearm. Johnson was located, and the weapon was in his vehicle.

The defendant pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorist threats. As part of the plea agreement, the other charges were dismissed. Also conditions of probation required Johnson to complete an anger-management therapy, remain employed full time or in school and to have no contact with firearms during the three years of probation and also was fined for $385.

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Frustrated Senior Prank

2009-07-20T21:33:00.000-07:00

A group of senior high school students were caught in the act of doing a senior shocking pranks in San Diego, California.

Police said, the group was able to make a copy of the San Ysidro High School's master key, reason why they were able to get in the campus premises.

Students were in the act of stacking chairs and desks in the hallway, trying to shape in the numbers “09” symbolizing their graduating year, when suddenly their activity triggered the school's alarm company to call the police.

And before they completed the whole stupid stuff pranks ideas, police arrived making everything else dwindle. The authorities told that students who were 18 will be charged of trespassing and guys under 18 will only be apprehended for curfew violation.

Students were also ordered to return the furniture to their original location.

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Internet prankster indicted for bomb threat charges

2009-07-15T15:32:00.000-07:00

Notorious internet prankster, Ashton Lundeby, and other unnamed co-conspirators are facing three-count indictment for allegedly allowing web gamers to pay fees to watch and witness how the police responded to bomb threats at Purdue University and other schools as part of their pranks online.

Lundeby, who went by the name Tyrone, and other conspirators would place calls to locations covered by webcams and then broadcast the video live to as many as 300 subscribers. According to authorities, because he used the Internet to make fake bomb threats to schools nationwide, including Indiana. The federal judge said, the teen would be charged as an adult.

The case had been sealed because Lundeby is a juvenile and will be arraigned Friday. He is still and currently being detained in St. Joseph County's Juvenile Justice Center since the FBI agents and local law enforcement arrested him at his home on March 5.

Annette Lundeby, his mother, maintains that her son was at church the night of Feb. 15 when several threats were called into Purdue University. She believes he was framed after he refused a stupid stuff pranks ideas to call in a bomb threat to a high school in Australia.

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Borat's bro Brüno is fully sick

2009-07-12T18:29:00.000-07:00

Sacha Baron Cohen employs this standard-issue of shocking pranks ideas tactic in Brüno his latest in-your-face, prank-based comedy adventure. In the film, his an outrageously gay Austrian fashion celebrity that travels across the US on a quest to find fame after being sacked from his TV show.

As with his previous smash-hit film, Borat, Cohen's real game is to sucker people into elaborate set-ups and outrage them, capturing their reactions on camera. Cohen's comedy is based on cruelty and embarrassment. He has no interest in observing human behaviour or in his victims sharing the joke afterwards. Cohen relies so heavily on deception to get people to sign releases demonstrates that he is untroubled by ethics.

Cohen set up 30 fake companies on the internet to trick people into participating in what they thought was a straight documentary. And while Brüno's stint as a misbehaving extra on the set of Medium is supposedly real, it's too obviously staged. It seems he will even stop to lying to his fans and search hard for his laughs.

The 83 minutes of Borat was culled from an astonishing 400 hours of footage. It's highly likely the 81 minutes of Brüno was distilled from a similar pool of raw video. Such an astronomical shooting ratio suggests that Cohen's laughs are due more to luck than any real skill.

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Whizkid broker commit suicide over web prank

2009-07-12T17:47:00.000-07:00

Anjool 'Jools' Malde, an Oxford graduate and a stockbroker, leapt 80ft to his death after fearing that he would lose his job after playing an intended office humor and pranks at work.

Posing as one of his clients, he left a silly message that read: "I am hot, I am hot" on a financial website. Investigators think this was probably a reference to his client being on a successful investment run. Mr Malde's client, who works for Brevan Howard, a leading hedge fund management firm, did not see the funny side and made a formal complaint to the company which runs the discussion forum.

The resulting investigation suggested that Mr Malde had impersonated the client from his office computer at Deutsche Bank which prompted the bank's bosses to send Mr Malde home on Friday pending a full investigation.

Two days later, as he prepared to celebrate his 25th birthday, Mr Malde jumped from an eighth-floor restaurant near the Bank of England. Colleagues believe he was convinced he would lose his job.

Mr Malde was working long hours at the bank's London headquarters and was often at his desk by 6am. In recent times three of his colleagues had been let go by the bank and Jools seemed very worried he might be the next to leave one friend said.

Police have found no evidence that Mr Malde had downloaded any inappropriate material on his computer or was involved in any criminal behaviour. Yesterday his distraught parents released a statement in which they spoke of their 'devastation' after losing their only child.

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Police search for Collinsville man charged in 2008 bulldozer prank

2009-07-12T16:23:00.000-07:00

Nathan W. Bailey, a Collinsville man, who was accused of purposely parking a reported stolen bulldozer on the railroad tracks at Lebanon Road in the area behind the historic water tower near the Catsup Bottle in Collinsville causing a train from the CSX railroad to hit it in January 2008. Police called it a prank that wasn't funny and are now looking for him.

Though no one got injured in the collision and that the train was incapacitated for a while but did not derail. The criminal damage to property over $100,000 was charged on him in connection to this stupid stuff and pranks ideas bulldozer stunt.

"The Collinsville Police Department continued to follow up on leads and was able to gather enough evidence to charge Bailey," Collinsville Det. Eric Herman stated in a news release. Bailey was charged July 1 with the felony. He is not in custody and police continue to search for him. His bail is set at $200,000.

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Soldiers fined for drunken prank

2009-07-12T15:29:00.001-07:00

Corporal Paul Kingswood, Lance Corporal Mark Foster and Lance Corporal Matthew Stenton who were serving with a cavalry regiment based in Germany injured an officer after a party at their barracks as part of their drunken stupid stuff and funny pranks ideas. They tied him up, ripped off his boxer shorts and carried him naked from his bedroom which caused him to suffer carpet burns to his torso, elbow and knee.

The three defendants were invited by a captain to continue drinking in the officers mess. The captain, who was second in command in the squadron, took the defendants to the complainants room and left them while he went to find another officer. It was then that the incident took place.

The prosecuting officer, Lieutenant Colonel David Frend, said a large amount of alcohol had been consumed by both officers and soldiers during a barbecue at the barracks. The court heard the incident happened on May 22 last year just three days after the regiment returned from Iraq. The three soldiers pleaded guilty to conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline at a court martial at Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire. Kingswood, 25, was fined £1,000, while Foster, 24, and Stenton, 22, were fined £700 each.

"This may have seemed funny to you in drink, but didn't seem funny to the victim. By then, this ceased to be a prank, it had become a nasty incident. It was a nasty incident in which he suffered nasty carpet burns. It showed a lack of respect to an officer, to behave in this way undermines discipline and respect for the British Army." Assistant Judge Advocate General Paul Camp said.

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Hotel prank call triggers flood

2009-07-05T18:48:00.000-07:00

A San Luis Obispo hotel, The Comfort Inn & Suites Lamplighter hotel, suffered more than $20,000 in damage after falling victim to yet another stupid stuff pranks ideas earlier this month that caused it to flood. This adds another one on the growing list to be targeted across the nation by similar prank calls that result in extensive damage.

At 2:00 a.m. on June 5, the night auditor who was managing the desk had received a call from a stranger impersonating a fireman. When the night auditor requested to speak to his supervisors before taking action, the caller insisted he had little time before the flood would occur. Pressured, the employee followed the caller’s instructions to step on a chair and tap the closest fire sprinkler.

15 minutes later, Sunil Patel, a lamplighter general manager and part-owner, received a call about the flooded hotel which is located on upper Monterey Street. Monterey Street was closed and fire trucks were parked outside. The lobby, front desk area and breakfast room were flooded and water was streaming out the front and back doors. The sprinklers activated had soaked the lobby’s computers, fax machines and printers. Approximately 50 guests evacuated when the fire alarm triggered and police arrived.

Four other hotels within the Choice Hotels chain in Southern California received similar prank calls the same day. Since then, hotels in other states have also been targeted. To avoid such vandalism, business people should use caution when dealing with callers. The prank caller may be charged with a misdemeanor for tampering with fire protection or alarm equipment if identified.

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Shaker Heights HS yearbook cover contains hidden F-word

2009-07-05T18:16:00.000-07:00

Shaker Heights High School yearbook cover this year is drawn by an artistically gifted student with a creative interpretation of a crowd of "Red Raider" mascots. But to the surprise of the administrators, they discovered a hidden farewell message containing the F-word in the artwork sprawled across yearbook’s front cover.

A letter was written last week by Principal Michael Griffith to students and their families explaining that distribution of the yearbook had been suspended because "an obscenity was cleverly concealed in the cover artwork." The school needed first to fix the yet-to-be-distributed yearbooks and also offered to fix any books that had already been distributed, though it's hard to imagine anyone would have noticed the offending word without someone pointing it out.

The note also contained an apology from the student artist who said, "I cannot begin to explain the miserable feeling I brought upon myself, when I betrayed the trust of all of you, I apologize for offending anyone and everyone. It is unfortunate that I did not recognize the big responsibility and honor given to me when asked to design the cover of the Shaker Heights yearbook. I offer my sincere apologies.”

The sincere apology worked. At the Shaker graduation ceremony Thursday, the student artist received the loudest, most sustained applause of any fellow student as he accepted his diploma. It seems that yearbooks won’t hear the end of hidden obscenities, sexually-themed shocking pranks this year.

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Gig Harbor High School seniors accused of tagging vehicles

2009-07-05T17:28:00.000-07:00

Since it was the first day of school without the 2009 class, juniors of Gig Harbor HS rolled into school Thursday with self-administered window paint reading “2010” as their graduating year identification. But by the time they got out of class, “2010” had been crossed out with window paint and replaced by “2009” along with vulgar words and symbols.

Students said they saw members of the senior class pulled off car pranks by tagging cars about 11:30 a.m. Seniors were on campus for a brief period for their graduation practice. Though the paint came off with each swipe of a finger or a shirt some juniors called the tagging immature, others just laughed and talked about going to the car wash.

Gage Young, a GHHS junior, found his SUV tagged with vulgar slang and phallic symbols, but he laughed it off. Young said because of his involvement in a similar prank aimed at graduating seniors his vehicle likely was tagged more aggressively. He said this sort of tagging is an annual event between the juniors and seniors.

Although pranks were being taken lightly by Gig Harbor High students, the school’s administration is having a hard time against end-of-the-year antics. Greg Schellenberg, an Outgoing GHHS Principal, expressed frustration over the incident. The school plans to review security cameras in the parking lot and will not rule out individual punishment.

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Howie do it TV prank show

2009-07-05T16:53:00.000-07:00

The Canadian funnyman, Howie Mandel is back with a new television show called "Howie Do It", a Candid Camera meets Punk’d kind of T.V. show except that no one is famous and everyone is fooled.

The show also has the same concept like with the late night shows, it has live audience going crazy to the energetic music courtesy of the show’s live band. Mandel takes on a double role on the show. Mainly being the host and secondly being part of the crew where he wears costumes and props gag to prank unsuspecting “victims” where he’s an absolute genius at it.

The funny pranks ideas may be a tad juvenile but the reactions they incite are absolutely classic. Its amazing how the audience responds to Mandel, his light banter with the audience keeps things fresh. It seems as if Mandel has hit the jackpot again with another sure-win television show and hopefully as long as Mandel can keep delivering fresh and entertaining tricks it’ll stay on air for a long time.

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Corona del Mar HS senior prank may lead to suspensions or expulsion

2009-07-05T16:32:00.000-07:00

20 Corona del Mar High School senior class students pulled off an intended hilarious Jokes and funny pranks that caused nearly $8,000 worth of damage and could lead to a number of suspensions or expulsions.

The students dumped bleachers and soccer goals into the swimming pool, spray-painted the school walls and doors with some benign and some profane expressions, glued pennies to locks and covered trees with toilet paper last week according to school administrators.

District spokeswoman Laura Boss said the spray paint had to be cleaned or painted over, some locks were broken, and maintenance workers had to fish the goals and bleachers out of the swimming pool. The district hopes to have the campus back to normal before graduation Thursday noting much of the damage has already been repaired.

The 2009 prank’s reception has not been nearly as warm, especially given the recent cuts and the state’s threatened trims to educational funding. School officials believe they have caught all of the kids involved in this year’s prank, and the incident is being investigated before disciplinary action is taken, according to Boss.

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CPD investigating serial prank caller

2009-06-28T17:55:00.000-07:00

Hotels across the country have been hit with prank calls in recent days, all following a consistent theme. The caller claims to be a representative from SimplexGrinnell, a company that installs and maintains fire alarm systems, and convinces an employee that there is a problem with the alarm and it needs to be "reset" by pulling on an activation handle. When the alarm goes off, the caller is told that every overhead fire sprinkler in the building will activate unless they "disable" the sprinkler system by striking an automatic sprinkler head, which triggers the sprinkler. In the case of the local hotel, the caller also said that smashing windows would deactivate the alarm.

The prank is similar to one found on pranknet.org in which the caller identifies himself as "dex". Conway Police Department was contacted by a Tennessee woman, Jericho Batsford of Knoxville, claiming that she knows the identity of the prankster "dex" and could confirm that "dex" was responsible for the call and was willing to cooperate with authorities in bringing criminal charges against him.

Batsford said she had been a fan of "dex," and has participated in prank calls with him under the alias "jericoNtn." When the nature of the calls changed from harmless to harmful, she doesn't think of it as a funny pranks and practical jokes anymore. Batsford said "dex" is a man in his mid-20s that has no job and makes some money selling CDs of his prank calls. She knows his identity because she once wired him money through Western Union.

Her information has been received by the FBI, according to Special Agent Jason Pack of the bureau's National Press Office. Though he couldn't confirm that the FBI was considering the calls a federal crime. Local law enforcement is pursing the leads also and actual representatives from SimplexGrinnell have spoken with 20th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Marcus Vaden about pursuing charges against the caller also. There are difficulties in prosecuting someone from another country, Vaden said, but whether or not "dex" can be caught remains to be seen.

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Serial prank caller target hotels

2009-06-28T17:26:00.000-07:00

A frantic man urges hotel desk workers or guests to set off a fire sprinkler, sound an alarm or bust windows. The calls have all been similar pranks. Eight cases have been reported in four states in recent days and authorities say felony charges could be filed against whoever is making the calls. Fire Marshal Ed Paulk of Alabama said four hotels have been targeted by the calls since last week, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage.

"It's happening all over," said Fire Marshal Ed Paulk of Alabama, where four hotels have been targeted by the calls since last week, resulting in thousands of dollars in damage. "We're actively trying to track this and find out who is doing this."

Rupesh Desai, General Manager of a Comfort Suites in Daphne, said a prank call about a fire alarm resulted in $10,000 in water damage last Friday. Around the same time, a caller convinced guests to bust windows at a sister hotel in Saraland, about 25 miles away because of a natural gas leak that didn't exist. A man was even convinced to drive his truck through a door of a hotel lobby in Nebraska, supposedly to turn off a fire alarm. And in California, a duped worker activated a sprinkler at the front desk, dousing computers, phones and other electrical equipment.

Trying to prevent more people from being fooled by this shocking pranks, trade groups are telling member companies and hotels to remind workers about basic emergency procedures like calling managers or security companies before doing anything drastic. Paulk said investigators suspect more than one person is behind the calls, and some could be inspired by Internet sites about phone pranks.

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Hotel prank brings police investigation in York

2009-06-28T16:58:00.000-07:00

A shocking pranks that led damage to a hotel is being investigated by the York Police. It involves a phone call, a porn site and the fire alarm. The fire department was dispatched to Hampton Inn Hotel for a fire alarm activation but there was no fire.

It was the end of May when someone pulled this prank at York Hotel. The clerk told authorities she pulled the alarm because she got a call from somebody posing as an employee of the alarm company that the hotel's using and told her to set it off. The prankster directed her to go to a company site to know on how to disable alarm system which ended up being a porno site.

The clerk was told she would get a $20,000 fine if she called the fire department for the false alarm. The caller then convinced both the clerk and a guest to break a window to stop the alarm. One of the guests even agreed to help break out the front window using his truck to do so.

The alarm still did not shut off. Finally, somebody called the fire department. Police said the prank is not funny. They are trying to figure out who is responsible. It is a call that could land somebody behind bars. There are reports of similar pranks being pulled in other states with some causing as much as $50,000 in damage. Damage to the Hampton Inn was around $300. Police said the person responsible could be charged with a misdemeanor and spend up to 1 year in jail.

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Evacuation on "I Love You, Man" movie house prank

2009-06-28T16:33:00.000-07:00

Newington Firefighters were called at 9:09 p.m Sunday after a smoking device in Regal Cinemas was set off by someone forcing the fire system to kicked in. The entire building was evacuated as a precaution.

Fire Lt. Tom McQuade said that a device similar to a smoke bomb was set off in a theater playing "I Love You, Man". It seems someone was trying to pull of a stupid stuff prank. He said it was fortunate there were no injuries involved in the incident and that the smoke did not cause moviegoers to panic. Firefighters in the theater discovered thick smoke that hung in the air like fog, according to McQuade.

After most of the smoke was cleared from the theater, firefighters cleared the cinema at about 10 p.m. and turned control back over to Regal Cinemas staff. The staff elected to close that particular theater down for the night and open up the rest.

Some evidence was recovered at the scene, and that Newington police are investigating the incident. An employee at the cinema said questions about the incident would have to be directed to the corporate offices of Regal Cinemas.

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Solid skimble-skamble skit for sick children

2009-06-28T16:32:00.000-07:00

Last night after a week of outrage, ABC finally announced that it had demoted the senior manager who approved "Chaser skit about sick children" going to air. The Chaser lads were brainstorming potential skits when the unfathomable idea of ridiculing the last wishes of dying children floated and eventually was not dismissed immediately.

The first basis of a comedic value is whether it could make people laugh. You don’t need to have children to realize that there are unlikely to be any circumstances where making a mockery of sick children would be considered funny.

The satirical TV show was evidently suspended by ABC for two weeks which is good because it provided an opportunity to review why no red flag was raised before it screened.

On Monday night, the ABC’s Media Watch confirmed that the head of arts, entertainment and comedy at ABC television, Amanda Duthie, was the person who saw and approved it before it aired. She accepted responsibility for the decision to air the piece.

Hopefully this saga will make the Chaser lads reflect on the relevance of their work and what they are trying to achieve through it. Their intended funny pranks and stupid stuff stunts should stick to beating up more worthy targets people who are prominent in public life, including politicians and celebrities.

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Shocking chewing gum review

2009-06-24T20:51:00.000-07:00

Are you a gum junkie that loves to pull pranks? or do you know someone that can't get their hands off a gum when they see one?

Try this Shocking Chewing Gum, a gag gift pack of gum that looks like a real pack of gum, but when your unsuspecting victim tries to take a piece, ZAAAAAP!!! It's perfect on a situation when someone or a fellow peer of yours asks for a gum after smoking a cigarette during smoke breaks.

Comes with a starter battery for millions of laughs and shocking pranks. Order extra batteries now and get 10% off.

Funny pranks ideas on pc

2009-06-21T17:00:00.000-07:00

The simplicity is the real secret of successful pranking. Funny pranks should be quick to implement and even quicker to reverse, especially if you’re working for a company that doesn’t look kindly on time wasting.

Pranks that take an age to set up usually aren’t worth it. So, while it’s possible to grow grass in someone’s keyboard or go crazy with the toolbar buttons in Office 97, that’s an awful lot of effort for relatively little reward.

Keyboard Swap

The example on how to pull-off an office humor and pranks is to unplug your co-workers' mouse or keyboard from their CPU and plug-in your own to have complete control over the computer without him/her ever knowing. So now, whenever they move the mouse or type something. So do you..but of course it’s your input that controls what happens on-screen.

Add a wireless adaptor

Wireless mice are full of pranks potential. Install a wireless mouse adaptor on your target victim’s computer when nobody’s looking. Leaving their existing mouse connected. Windows can and would accept input from both devices, so wait until your victim’s doing something and then send their mouse pointer on an adventure.

Take (remote) control

Remote access software such as TightVNC enables you to control one PC from another. If installed on target victim's machine, you can take control of their PC from anywhere with an internet connection.

Edit AutoCorrect

Automatic text correction is a godsend text and it isn’t long before people start to rely on it. A few well- chosen edits of the AutoCorrect and AutoText options in Word can cause chaos. Either by turning correctly spelled words into typos or by triggering unwanted and inappropriate text whenever the user tries to type something.

Tape up the mouse

Today’s mice tend to be optical rather than mechanical. Placing a bit of tape will screw up its modern rodent’s sensor just as efficiently.

Make the mouse sleepy

Changing the mouse speed to its slowest setting turns even the simplest movement into an ordeal, while swapping the left and right buttons or reprogramming extra buttons can make the most Ghandi-esque gentle soul want to scream like a wounded gorilla.

Freeze the desktop

This trick is as old as computers themselves, but people still fall for it hook. All you need to do is take a screenshot of your victim’s desktop, hide all of their icons and then replace their wallpaper with the screenshot.

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Southern Lehigh HS senior prank of camping inside school walls

2009-06-21T15:19:00.000-07:00

17 Southern Lehigh High School students suspended for five days for camping inside an enclosed courtyard and scaling the school walls. Unamused school officials by the seniors latest prank called for police involvement. Three of them may lose their National Honor Society membership.

Senior students leave their senior pranks mark before graduation since it's been a tradition for decades. Nowadays, security measures have been tough and officials have changed on how to react to pranks since the post-Columbine era.

''No question we live in the context of the times, breaking into schools and letting animals loose was a prank in the '70s and '80s. Today, that could be considered a terrorist act.'' Director of the National Association of Secondary Schools, Mel Riddile said.

There has been a long history of pranks at the school, a trend that has progressively become more dangerous.

Friday, Southern Lehigh Superintendent Joseph P. Liberati sat down with a few students and shared the school's perspective. It was followed then by a gathering of about 75 students protesting the punishment resulting from Monday's camping prank.

Riddile said educators are doing more to make expectations and boundaries clear as prank season approaches. A growing number of principals get students involved in school-wide decisions. Liability is another concern. While a prank may be conceived as harmless, things go wrong. Indeed, Southern Lehigh's solicitor, James Bartholomew, said students crossed the line from intended harmless funny pranks ideas and practical jokes to potentially dangerous trespassing when they entered the secured grounds.

Brett Ryan, one of the suspended campers who lost his National Honor Society membership, said the 17 seniors involved planned the overnight camping prank to be ''as harmless as possible.''

Liberati said he hopes to work with students to eliminate year-end pranks and, instead, create events that celebrate the camaraderie of students without risking injury.Despite the controversy, students don't predict the end of senior pranks.

The Big Bang Theory

2009-06-17T19:18:00.000-07:00

An American comedy show full of practical jokes and funny tees, concerns two male Caltech prodigies in their twenties, one an experimental physicist and the other a theoretical physicist, who live across the hall from an attractive blonde waitress with show-biz aspirations.

It was first developed for the 2006-2007 television season, was fundamentally different to the show we see today. Only Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki were part of the original pilot, and the character now played by Kaley Cuoco was much meaner to the geeks. CBS did not pick the show up but gave creator and executive producer Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre a second chance. They brought in Kaley Cuoco, along with Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar, and retooled the show.

The second pilot of The Big Bang Theory was directed by award-winning television directing veteran James Burrows, who decided not to stay with the show. This reworked pilot led to a 13-episode order by CBS on May 14, 2007. Prior to its airing on CBS, the pilot episode was distributed on iTunes free of charge. The show premiered September 24, 2007, and was picked-up for a full 22-episode season order on October 19, 2007.

However, production was halted on November 6, 2007 by the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. As the strike ended, the show returned on March 17, 2008 with an earlier time slot and nine new episodes.

The second season premiered, in the same slot, on September 22, 2008. During the course of this season, the show bucked the trend of many other returning shows and saw its ratings grow, leading to a two-year renewal through what would be the 2010-11 season.

David Saltzberg, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, checks scripts and provides dialogue, math equations and diagrams used as props. He says he's more consultant than contributor. Executive producer/co-creator Bill Prady said, "In fact, we're working on giving Sheldon an actual problem that he's going to be working on throughout the [first] season so there's actual progress to the boards ... We worked hard to get all the science right."

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Criminal prosecution waived for senior students vandalism prank

2009-06-17T18:08:00.000-07:00

Taking the matter into his own hands, school district Superintendent Wayne Alexander, waived the criminal prosecution for at least 18 students who burglarized and vandalized Hernando High School. Thereby, shielding the students from law enforcement, prosecution and the accountability of the criminal justice system.

He simply called it a "mistake" as he referred to the planned criminal acts carried out by the underclassmen and graduating seniors.

Perpetrators that usually carried out such illegal deeds would have been arrested, fingerprinted, booked into the Hernando County Jail and subjected to the rigors of the court system. The perpetrators likely would have been sentenced to probation, assessed heavy fines, made to pay restitution and issued a large number of community service hours.

When the superintendent waived criminal prosecution, he told those responsible for the break-in and vandalism, as well as the other 17,000 students in Hernando County public schools, that it's just not that big of a deal when students burglarize and vandalize public property. After all, it was just an intended funny tees. A very expensive and shocking pranks to remember.

14 of those involved graduating senior students that perpetrated lesser vandalism will be allowed to walk across the stage at graduation. Though the graduating seniors won't be getting their diplomas until they complete 40 hours of community service at the schools. Still, Alexander has sent the wrong message and set a horrible precedent.

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Rocks rain down at I-90 for the second time

2009-06-14T17:49:00.000-07:00

The Washington State Patrol said three vehicles were hit with rocks from an overpass on westbound Interstate 90 as they were heading toward southbound Interstate 5 at about 3:45 a.m Friday. One of the vehicles hit was a United States Postal Service semi truck. The windshield was shattered by a grapefruit-sized rock, spraying glass inside the cab. The uninjured driver was able to drive the truck off the freeway and was towed.

Police said the rock could have killed the driver if it would have gone all the way through the windshield About the same time, Irwin Buenaventura was driving home from work in the same area when he heard something hit his car. He thought he'd run over something, until he got home and saw the damage, a rock hit the front of Buenaventura's car, scraping and denting the hood.

“I heard something on the hood and I thought it was kind of scary, It almost hit my windshield. If it hit the windshield, I don't know what's going to happen to me,” said Irwin Buenaventura.

A third car was also hit. Though all the drivers were shaken by the experience, no one was injured. Authorities don't know where the rocks were coming from, but they speculate someone threw them from an overpass. It could have been a totally unheard of, if this was to be considered as a funny pranks ideas. Troopers said throwing rocks from an overpass is a criminal offense.

State troopers are investigating, but said it’s unlikely they'll be able to figure out who's responsible. However, troopers are keeping a closer eye on overpasses and bridges. This incident is the second in which rocks were thrown from an overpass onto cars this week.

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Cooper high school trampoline seniors 2009 prank

2009-06-14T17:18:00.000-07:00

Blaine Walls, a senior at Cooper High School, pulled off his senior prank based on his basic mantra of mischief. That's why he conspired with his friends to buy a trampoline and arrange for someone to leave the school door unlocked after a choir concert late Monday night. They sneaked in and assembled the giant frame in the cafeteria with a calling card a bold "SENIORS 2009" spray-painted on the bounce mat in Cooper red and blue.

Students arrived the next day snickering. Even some staff admitted they found it a tad funny. But some had a different reaction last Friday morning when they found a scoreboard on the roof of the science building, a goal post uprooted and the ramp to a portable building torn away.

Principal Gail Gregg, who has allowed some senior pranks in the past, called that one more serious. "Sometimes pranks cross the line to become vandalism," he said, noting the trampoline incident that involved different students was just senior high jinks. After news reports aired about the vandalism and Crime Stoppers tipsters turned in information, four students went to Gregg and confessed.

Typically, such vandalism at a school can be considered a felony and carry a fine and possible jail time. Gregg said senior pranks don't have to be destructive, which is perhaps why he has allowed sanctioned funny pranks ideas in the past.

Gregg said he had to turn down one prank suggestion when this year's seniors wanted to drive trucks into the hallways. "The fire marshal wouldn't allow it," he said.

But some seniors, such as Walls, say asking for permission defeats the purpose of a prank. That's why Blake Holder and his friends didn't bother to let anybody know when they planned a midnight cookout on campus with hot dogs and a 40-foot Slip 'n Slide. About 1 a.m., he said, an administrator came and told them to leave, but they didn't get in trouble.

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The ghost of senior pranks gone wrong

2009-06-14T16:41:00.000-07:00

Bruce Clarke, Old Rochester Regional High School Principal, has enjoyed his tenure at ORR and savoring the last few days before he retires late May of 2007. He is looking forward for delivering his last commencement speech. But about a week before graduation five or six boys, several of them among the school’s top athletes who’d never gotten into any trouble to speak of, thought it would be funny to leave their imprint, via spray paint can, on the back of their shiny, new $49 million school complex.

The pranksters used what ever artistic and poetic skills they possessed and proceeded to spray unkind words about their principal as well as some drawings of male anatomy to accompany their words on the back side of the school building. Thinking that they are under cover in the dark, they were unaware that their identities were being picked up by the surveillance cameras placed around their modern school, recording their deeds and every stupid stuff move they're doing.

They, and unfortunately their respective families, were about to be Punk’d. None of those boys was allowed to attend there high school graduation, which was pain likely felt by the families, as well. The boys also had to clean all their graffiti off a brick wall, which is no easy task. There was likely more involved with the punishment end of it, but school administrators and local police closed ranks to further protect the boys from their foolish misdeeds.

The following year at ORR High, some cleaver kid found out how to access the school’s public announcement system remotely and started to make various announcements from different locations within the school as an end-of-the-year prank.

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4chan website has a darker side

2009-06-14T15:46:00.000-07:00

4chan.com is a powerful microcosm of all the charm, possibility, chaos and destructiveness of the Internet. It's also a cultural force that has been hailed for its comedic genius, criticized for its cruel shocking pranks and online harassment, and named a center of counterculture by Time, which described it as “raw, sarcastic, bare of any social or political agenda but frequently funny as hell.”

Their idea of a good time is pretty much what you might expect from teenagers, especially bored, sexually frustrated ones. Postings full of swear words and pornography are common. But so are racist slurs, as well as rape jokes, homophobic curses, and toilet humor. The aim is to get a rise out of the audience to create “lulz,” a corruption of “lol” (short for “laugh out loud”) that relies on the joy of upsetting someone.

From pranks and practical jokes to almost anything, no matter how depraved or cruel, can make it onto the message boards since unlike most web forums, 4chan does not filter salacious or vulgar material. Although there is a ban on child pornography. Most people are automatically given the name “Anonymous” since it doesn’t require user names or registration. Humor is intensified by anonymity, which several studies show can shift behavior and even morality, says Shaheen Shariff, a professor of education at McGill University. Consequences in the real world seem remote, and some people become less empathetic, more aggressive.

But prosecuting online harassers is extremely difficult. Most harassment cases aren’t serious enough to involve the police, so it’s up to the victim to track down those responsible. Legally, the websites are protected. In the U.S., section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, virtually immunizes them from liability for anything individuals post. This gives sites like 4chan "carte blanche" - having free rein to choose whatever course of action you want. Sometimes channers work for society, rooting out predators and cat torturers. At others, they engage in cyber-terrorism and harassment. The choice is entirely theirs. A range of behaviours that wouldn’t otherwise occur enables anonymity and our laws haven’t yet evolved to keep up.

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Prank made officials rescind license plate design

2009-06-10T16:49:00.000-07:00

The original winning license plate design was rescinded Friday by the Omaha Nebraska State officials and hoped to get the last laugh at the expense of a New York-based humor Web site.

The Department of Motor Vehicles and the Nebraska.gov was forced to decide and illuminate the embarrassing communicative deficiencies of the CollegeHumor.com pulled-off practical jokes and pranks ideas.

Though the humor site's attempt to sabotage the voting process by having its visitors vote for the "ugliest" design". Officials at Nebraska.gov originally told DMV officials that it only had a minimal impact on the overall tally.

A black and white design with Nebraska.gov in red letters got the most votes and was declared the winner earlier this week at an event featuring Gov. Dave Heineman and his staff.

CollegeHumor.com then declared a victory on its site, saying essentially, "We won." So the Nebraska Interactive, the company managing the state's Web site, and State officials then took a closer look at the numbers. They found that about 14,000 votes came from the New York site and 12,000 were cast for the black and white plate, which was deemed by the site to be the most boring design. "This is clear evidence the voting was compromised by the mischievous intentions of a third-party site," said DMV spokeswoman Beverly Neth.

DMV officials tossed out all votes that had come from the humor site and took full responsibility for the gaffe, and they weren't laughing despite those effort CollegeHumor.com editor who devised the prank offered no apologies. . The remaining votes tallied favored the plate featuring the state bird and the state flower, which will be the plate design adorning Nebraska vehicles in 2011.

"I think it was all in good fun. In the end it turned out OK. Maybe they had to work a little extra to discount those votes but the one that deserved to win ended up winning," said Kevin Corrigan.

The final, true tally included 32,727 votes for the Meadowlark and flower design and 28,302 votes for the black and white design. Officials now said they'll now think twice about using an online poll in the future.

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Remote control fart machine review

2009-06-08T20:09:00.000-07:00

This remote control fart machine could be a funny office humor gag gifts idea that is worth hours of laughter and practical jokes. Play a trick on a co-worker or better yet, to your boss. Or give to a brother-in-law as a gag gift compliment.

This Brand New Remote Control Fart Machine has “BoomBox” Technology, which allows more vibrant, natural sounding Farts! Embarrass your boss, friends, and family! Press the button on the remote control and set off one of 15 different fart sounds!

Take it to a movie house and put under someone's seat. Use it at work or school and hide this under a chair or behind a desk and take the remote control with you. The remote control has a long range (100 ft!), so you will be far out of sight and clearly will be on stealth status.

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Dying kid's sick joke hits a dead end

2009-06-07T19:21:00.000-07:00

An American equivalent of the now defunct Chaser website, The Onion website, wrote a spoof story about a dead teenager having his last wish denied a few years ago.

All the boy had wanted, his father said, was an intimate encounter with actor Cameron Diaz. The father was outraged. Not only Diaz, but Jennifer Lopez, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Salma Hayek had refused.

"We wrote, we rang, we faxed, and every time it was the same answer: 'Sorry, Ms Diaz is currently unable to comply with your request.' I mean, how unsympathetic can you get? We're talking about a dying kid here!" the father said.

The spoof was obviously undergraduate. The dying boy was not a sympathetic figure. He didn't need help, he needed a cold shower. Many readers, given its graphic content, would blanch. But some might chortle at the tweaking of assumed stereotypes. Contrast this with the comedic premise of the already notorious Chaser skit the other night.

What did it amount to? Being mean to dying kids.

The punchline "Why go to any trouble when they're only going to die anyway?" exposes Chaser to several accusations. Comedy offers cover to tackle almost any topic, but the flimsy protection dissolves when the act lacks a clever hook to justify its attack on sensitivities. The skit survived through production processes before being aired speaks of a lack of taste. But it also implies a scorn for the art of humor, which Chaser has so stridently extolled in defense of its bolder pursuits. Nor does it allow Chaser to claim a humorous pretext to explain an ill-judged tilt at a touchy issue.

Norman Gunston, more controversial and funny, shone for plonking himself in the wrong place at the right time. Unlike Chaser, once he had done so, he usually iced the moment with a surprising line or twist.

Chaser's stupid stuff pranks ideas appear to have become more and more extreme in inverse proportion to their comedic value. Being controversial may happen to also be funny, but being more controversial doesn't automatically make it more funny.

A comedian could depict a child, say, whose only wish is to see Melbourne win a football match or a child's parent who plainly wants to cash in on their child's illness must be treated sensibly. Dying kids, treacherous as it is, is no different to other issues, such as terrorism and cancer, in that it offers entry points for a light touch. This was a recorded piece, and it was aired despite an obvious flaw by every reasonable measure, it was doomed to produce more offense than applause.

Its airing showed that on Chaser is prepared notly to trawl for cheap targets but also to ignore, if not urinate on, the craft of comedy. Cynics might identify deliberate intent in Chaser's excursions into the tasteless.

Is being controversial somehow easier than being funny? After all, the hype generated by Chaser antics is more engaging than the behavior itself.

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Tour de Century senior pranks at Rochester's Century High School

2009-06-07T18:42:00.001-07:00

It was all captured in a video they posted on Facebook, a video that helped their principal find and then suspend them from the last week of classes.

A senior prank called the Tour de Century where 70 kids rode bikes and scooters and skateboards through the halls of their high school.

Joann Knuth knows kids want to leave their mark. But as the head the Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals, she says end of the year practical jokes and pranks ideas often go too far, sometimes risking student safety and causing damage to school property.

"They impact the entire school, they may at the moment seem like harmless fun or play, but really in reality it gets to be serious." Knuth said. Especially when police are called, like they were in Portage, Wisconsin when Ryan Hayes and four other students had a food fight in the high school lunch room.

"I think it's pretty funny, I think what we got out of it was way more than we should have." said Hayes. Though, it was no joke when they were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, and fined 172 dollars.

"I was upset he was in a food fight, but I was more upset he got handcuffed and taken away in a police car." said Lee Ann Vesley, Hayes' mother.

But police and the principal say they had to do it, that while even they appreciate the humor, they have to put student safety first. "Schools determine their rules and regulations, and they have the expectation they will be followed until the end of the very last day of school." Knuth said.

In another similar case in Brookfield, Wisconsin, six seniors in the middle of the night built a swing set on the roof of their high school, among them were the valedictorian and salutatorian, and neither of them are being allowed to attend their graduation.

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Killer of Shop-N-Save store owner gets 40 years

2009-06-07T17:48:00.000-07:00

Joshua Bond had been 18 just a few months before he walked into the Shop-N-Save with a grudge and a gun, executing Shop-N-Save store owner Gene Kim with a single bullet nearly 2 years ago.

An hour earlier, Gene Kim with a pointed a knife confronted them over the beers Bond had tried to shoplift . Bond promised he’d be back. When Bond returned, Kim was passing the time like he often did sitting at the counter, reading his Bible just before shooting him.

Gene Kim's family moved to the United States from Korea in 1979 primarily to see his children get a better life and education. His family moved to Nashville just three years before Kim’s death and opened the convenience store in Bordeaux.

He likes to pull pranks ideas and funny tees. He was proud of her and her brother and encouraged them to study hard, Yena Kim remembered.

Yena Kim and her family wanted Bond, now 20, to go away for a very long time.

“I believe in God, and I believe he will take care of it much better than any justice system that exists now today, He sacrificed a lot, he and my mother both did, Pretty much everything he did was for me and my brother.” said Yena Kim.

Bond, who had a long juvenile record according to court testimony, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday in Davidson County Criminal Court in exchange for the 40-year sentence for killing store owner Gene Kim but the victim’s daughter is not sure that’s justice.

Though it’s not the life sentence Yena Kim would have liked to see, her family didn’t think they could withstand the trial scheduled to begin on Monday. Her mother couldn’t come to the hearing, she said, because she’s still traumatized from seeing the surveillance video of her husband being shot.

Now that the case is finished, the family plans to move to California. And Yena Kim will continue her studies at Vanderbilt. The 22-year-old plans to major in public policy.

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The Chaser's War on Everything Make-A-Realistic-Wish Foundation controversy

2009-06-07T16:31:00.000-07:00

An episode of the The Chaser's War on Everything that aired on the ABC last night (Wednesday 3 June, 2009) contained a one-minute sketch that spoofed the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the respected non-profit charitable organization that works to fulfill the dreams of terminally ill children. It looks as though the Chaser comedy crew's stupid stuff pranks and practical jokes may have gone too far for the final time.

The Chaser skit parodied the concept with the Make-A-Realistic-Wish Foundation, which Chaser team member Chris Taylor said was dedicated to "helping thousands of kids to lower their extravagance and selfishness in the face of death". In the skit, a terminally ill child whose final wish is to visit Disneyland is offered a pencil case by Taylor. Another who wants to meet teen actor Zac Efron is instead given a stick by fellow Chaser member Andrew Hansen, dressed as a doctor.

"Why go to any trouble when they're only going to die anyway?" Taylor said as a skit's tag line. Groans from the audience are clearly audible.

This caused widespread offense and was a hot topic of discussion on talk back radio at 3AW on Thursday morning. Neil Mitchell of 3AW who took many distressed calls from parents who had lost children to disease called the ABC and the Chaser team to apologize and questioned whether the show should remain on air. His program's attempts to get Chaser team member and executive producer Julian Morrow on the phone proved fruitless.

Shortly before noon, an apology was issued by Morrow and Director of ABC TV Kim Dalton saying:

"The Chaser's War on Everything is a satirical program aimed at provoking debate and providing social commentary on topical issues, current affairs and public life in general. The sketch in last night's show called 'Making A Realistic Wish Foundation' was a satirical sketch and black comedy. The ABC and The Chaser did not intend to hurt those who have been affected by the terminal illness of a child. We acknowledge the distress this segment has caused and we apologise to anyone we have upset. As a result, ABC TV will edit the segment out of tonight's repeat screening on ABC2 and online."

This latest incident again calls into question the nature of what they are doing, whether it qualifies as satire and whether the ABC is serious about respecting community standards in the programs it screens. A key issue at the center of this is the distinction between genuinely provocative comedy that pushes boundaries to make a statement and the causing of offense for its own sake. This latest skit controversy is a clear example of the latter. This, of course, is not the first time the "Chaser boys" have caused controversy with their stunts and pranks.

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A second student arrested for bomb threat at P.J. Jacobs Junior High School

2009-06-07T15:30:00.000-07:00

A 14-year-old girl student at P.J. Jacobs Junior High School is at at Portage County Juvenile Detention Center custody for writing a bomb threat on a desk Friday for scrawling "12:30, Tuesday, Ka-boom," Stevens Point Police Department community resource officer Paul Piotrowski said.

This is the second threat found at the school in a four-day period, something she later said she did out of stupidity. A 15-year-old student was first arrested Friday for writing on a bathroom wall that a bomb would go off at school in June. The school then increased its surveillance, all lockers and backpacks were searched after the threats, formed a building emergency team and reviewed its safety measures with staff members, Superintendent Steven Johnson said.

At first Principal Dan Dobratz addressed the student body and accented how well the students handled the situation. But after the second, he spoke about long-term consequences.

"Students think in very short-term, and I don't think they understand the long-term consequences of this type of behavior," Dobratz said. "Overall, I'm very proud of our students. (The) kids were super cooperative on both days (of the locker and backpack searches). We never had one negative comment from anybody."

The school and police knew who wrote the second threat based on the unique handwriting and that fact that only a small number of students use that desk. The girl later admitted to the intended exploding and noisy pranks writing.

"This is just taking it to another level that is not acceptable by any stretch of the imagination, This one was definitely her just trying to be funny. She knew about the previous threat and she thought it would be funny to write something like that on the desk," he said. "After the first one, it tends to occur again, because it plants the idea. We're hoping the fact that we've made a couple arrests very quickly on these that the message will get out that this isn't something to laugh and joke about." Piotrowski said.

The police department typically gets several calls from schools about fights and end-of-the-year pranks and practical jokes stunts during spring time.

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The tonight show with Conan O' Briens aims to be funny everynight

2009-06-04T15:11:00.000-07:00

Conan O’Brien, grew up in a Boston suburb. His father, Thomas, was a Harvard Medical School professor who specialized in infectious diseases. His mother, Ruth, was a partner at a Boston law firm.

Thinking of becoming a novelist he went to Harvard University, his graduate thesis was on Southern novelist Flannery O'Connor. He later became editor of the Harvard Lampoon and after college he wrote skits for improv groups, funny pranks ideas and practical jokes for "Not Necessarily The News," also scripts for "The Simpsons" and gags for "Saturday Night Live."

The gangly red-haired prankster first stumbled into the spotlight in 1993, when he had the unenviable task of replacing the popular David Letterman on NBC's "Late Night." Letterman had split for CBS after NBC passed him over and picked Jay Leno to replace Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show."

He used to joke that he wasn’t “relatively unknown,“ he was a “complete unknown.“ The old geezers from the mail room at NBC thought of him as a goof plucked who thought just because he wrote scripts for “The Simpsons,“ he must be cool.

He was knocked by critics from New York to Los Angeles. At first, he went under probationary contract that had to be renewed monthly because NBC executives had doubts on him

O'Brien received some lukewarm reviews after his 1993 debut and it took more than a year before he got any respect in the media.

"There were times when I thought we weren't going to make it," he said during a visit to Tampa in February. "I wasn't new to show business, but I was new to being a talk-show host. Our biggest Achilles' heel in the beginning was me. I had to learn how to go from being this funny guy who cracked jokes with writers in a back room to doing it in front of an audience."

Eventually, O'Brien found his way on "Late Night." He and sidekick Andy Richter were like a couple of frat boy cutups having fun after the adults went to bed.

Tonight, O'Brien begins a new era for "Tonight," and the pressure is on not to mess it up.

"I'm not the 30-year-old who took over 'Late Night,'" he said in a recent interview. "I was willing to try anything. I don't regret any of that, but I'm 16 years older now, and I have a wife and two kids. I am keeping some things but I want to try new bits we haven't done before. I really want this show to be funny every night."

Richter, who left to pursue prime-time sitcom roles, is coming back. And drummer Max Weinberg and his band have also made the trip to new digs in Los Angeles.

"But in Los Angeles, if you're not in a car, something's very wrong with you," he said in a recent telephone interview.

"If you walk on the sidewalk, people think that you're off your medication. Police cars pull over and they handcuff you and take you away."

O'Brien says just being in Los Angeles will give him new material for Office Humor Pranks Stuff. He notes, for example, that in New York, where his "Late Night" originated, you encounter life on every corner.

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Pac-Man senior prank in final days at Thurston High School

2009-06-03T15:23:00.000-07:00

The four Thurston High School seniors, Garrett Cogburn, Ben Carlisle, Matt Galceran and Jeff Forrest, all Advanced Placement students headed for college in the fall, were all dressed in their homemade 1980's iconic video game Pac-Man costumes and run through the cafeteria, the school courtyard, past classrooms. Most students had no idea who was inside the costumes made of PVC pipe and colored butcher paper.

All classic senior pranks could have dragged a cow into the school gym, or filled the fountain (if the school had one) with detergent, or let rats loose in the cafeteria. None of those funny pranks and practical jokes were likely to please Principal Ed Mendelssohn, though, who thought the Pac-Man prank last Thursday was “very clever” even if he was caught unaware much better than many senior pranks that often involve vandalism or “just making a mess,” Mendelssohn said Monday.

And who would think they’d do it again on Monday? Once more, though, it was a hit.

“Every time I see them running through our school, I laugh really hard, They should run around every day.” said senior Mara McCornack.

Pac-Man began as a video arcade game, and involves a yellow circle with a mouth (Pac-Man) working its way through a maze, scoring points by eating dots and prizes. Pac-Man is chased by “ghosts” with crazy eyes and names like Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, who try and terminate him. It became a worldwide phenomenon.

But why would four high school seniors born in the early 1990s want to emulate the game for a high school prank during the final two weeks of classes?

“I really don’t know, We just thought it would be something really cool and funny to do.”
They spent about two months making the costumes Cogburn said, as he and Carlisle prepared for another run through the Thurston campus.

Carlisle said they all watched some YouTube videos of senior pranks, and saw the Pac-Man one with high school students elsewhere in the country running through their school’s library.

“It’s hilarious,” said Carlisle, who plans to attend and play soccer at Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, this fall, of the experience of running through campus, chasing Cogburn in the yellow Pac-Man costume.

“I thought it was awesome, They put a lot of work into that. It was really fun and everyone really enjoyed it. I don’t think the teachers really enjoyed it, but …” senior Logan Lewis said.

The response from staff and administration has been nothing but positive. One teacher even gave a lecture last week, pointing out that “that’s how you do a senior prank,” Cogburn said, who will study chemical engineering at Oregon State University this fall.

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Keys to a good school prank

2009-06-01T22:06:00.000-07:00

Andrew Leinonen, a senior last year at Zion-Benton Township High School and also the mastermind who dressed up as a gorilla and chased 10 of his banana-clad friends through the building as a senior prank were suspended because of the prank.

Students planned protests, and groups such as "Saving the Banana Boys" popped up on MySpace. Media outlets across the country picked up his stupid stuff and funny pranks story as an applauded genius.

"You can't forget a day like that," said Leinonen, now a 19-year-old freshman studying criminal justice at College of Lake County, still basking in the glory.

But the 15-year-old Lockport boy prankster who thought it would be funny to set off a makeshift chemical bomb Monday in a crowded school hallway broke the cardinal rule of pranks.

"That's not a prank,It's a bomb. You don't joke around with that." said Leinonen, expert prankster.

According to Leinonen, the perfect prank meets three standards:

• Nobody gets hurt

• Property isn't damaged

• It makes people laugh

Police said that the 15-year old boy freshman at Lockport Township High School's Central campus, confessed to creating the bomb. The pop bottle filled with household chemicals injured or sickened more than a dozen people.

He will be in juvenile court June 10. He faces up to six years at a state juvenile facility and up to a two-year expulsion from school.

Students need to understand the difference between a prank and a crime said Ken Trump, who trained Lockport Township High School authorities in emergency preparedness after the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado and president of National School Safety and Security Service, a Cleveland, Ohio-based school security consulting group.

"Anyone, including even the most notorious prankster teen, needs to be able to make that distinction, They're not putting a lollipop in the middle of the floor. They're putting an explosive device."

And feigning ignorance isn't an option said Trump.

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15-year-old charged in Lockport chemical bomb case

2009-06-01T21:00:00.000-07:00

A 15-year-old boy, whom they would not identify was charged by the police for setting off an exploding and noisy pranks chemical bomb Monday at Lockport Township High School's Central campus.

The boy is charged as a juvenile with the case of unlawful use of a weapon, misdemeanor reckless conduct and possession of an explosive device said Charles Pelkie, a Will County state's attorney spokesman.

Though Pelkie would not provide any other details about the suspect. Lockport police will provide additional details regarding the case at Lockport Township High School's East campus tonight prior to an emergency school board meeting.

The defendant is scheduled to appear at a 9 a.m. detention hearing Thursday at the River Valley Justice Center in Joliet, Pelkie said. If convicted, the suspect could be sentenced to a state juvenile facility until his 21st birthday, Pelkie added.

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High-tech senior pranks at high school

2009-05-31T18:14:00.000-07:00

It was considered by one of the prank organizers as a "perfect prank" since compared this to some funny tees and pranks ideas, its not like those stupid stuff and shocking pranks that could hurt anyone. It was just simply funny. Though school officials weren't laughing.

Menlo-Atherton High School was delayed for two school hours Friday after senior class prank students arranged to auto-dial 1,700 families at 6:40 a.m. to tell them not to come in until 9:50 a.m. because of a power failure.

The school found it quite alarming since at first they thought that the students had hacked into the computer system to use the school's auto-dial system - a serious behavior code offense if not an illegal one.

But to there surprise it was much easier than that. In short, the students typed "auto dialer" into Google. They learned that there are companies that did that kind of thing.

Students spent some time keying in the phone numbers off the school directory. Which is made available to all students. They filed it into an electronic file and then gave it to the company which collected $150 from classmates to pay for it and waited.

The 45 or so students who participated in the planning and execution did, to be fair, run it by a couple of parents who gave them the green light, according to the graduating senior.

"It was better than Christmas morning," the prankster said. "I was up at 6:30 counting down the seconds to 6:40."

Teachers and administrators then waited for two hours after the first bell for students to show up.

District officials said the school was investigating the incident, which occurred on the last regular day of school before finals start Monday.

"At this time, it is believed that there has been no breach of the school's telecommunications or student information system," said Sequoia Union High School District spokeswoman Bettylu Smith.

The incident followed what the student said was a decoy prank earlier this month that included putting more than 30 plastic traffic signs on the roof of the school to lull administrators into false security. It apparently worked.

"We're pretty happy with the outcome," said the student, who plans to attend community college with the hope of attending Stanford University someday. "Teachers were calling it the best prank at M-A. It's another win for the students."

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History of Candid Camera

2009-05-28T18:49:00.000-07:00

Officially started out and began airing on radio as "Candid Microphone" June 28, 1947 by creator and producer Allen Funt. It was followed by a series of theatrical film shorts before it's concept came to television as a hidden camera television series on August 10, 1948.

On each succeeding decade the format has appeared on network, syndicated or cable television as either a regular show or a series of specials. Funt himself hosted or co-hosted almost all of the TV versions until a 1993 stroke from which he never recovered. Peter Funt, Allen Funt's son , who had co-hosted the specials with his father since 1987, is now the head producer/host of the format.

The premise of the funny pranks and practical jokes humor show is based on putting real people in fabricated or unusual situations by filming through a concealed hidden camera. Sometimes ranging from office humor and pranks to april fools pranks such as using trick props, a desk with drawers that pop open when one is closed or a car with a hidden extra gas tank. Victims would be told the show's catch phrase, "Smile, you're on Candid Camera." after the joke is revealed.

The show was precursor and pioneer to the more recent wave of prank shows such as Punk'd, Girls Behaving Badly, Just For Laughs Gags, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, Boiling Points, Trigger Happy TV, and Howie Do It.

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Sexy Love Meter Funny Shaking Game for iPhone

2009-05-27T17:08:00.000-07:00

Sexy Love Meter Funny Shaking Game is a new release application game for the Apple iPhone and if you love valentines, romance, funny tees pranks and practical jokes, we know you will love this awesome game.

One of the sexiest and funniest ever branded game to date that you can play with your friends, this game will allow you to test out your love and of course sex appeal with this love meter, it uses a very funny way of measuring.

If you ever catch a group of hot women at the bar, mall, or out on a dinner date and are looking for a fun drinking game, mad celebration game, sleepover party game, sync with some music game, or I'm bored game stop right in your tracks and turn on the love meter and the girls while you're at it too.

Just shake the iPhone to increase the love baby, the faster you shake the much bigger the dump of love energy you’ll fill your sexy love meter up with and feel your iPhone vibrate in your hand.

This application is also a perfect ice breaker and get ideas for pick-up lines. Perfect for sizzling up the mood and excitement to an all out party with your friends.

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12 year old girl counterfeited Tim Horton's Contest

2009-05-26T20:07:00.000-07:00

Matthew de Jong, an 18-year-old house painter from Parksville, claimed he won a 2009 Toyota Venza as part of the chain's popular "Roll up the Rim to Win" contest, with a coffee cup he bought in Parksville in April. People across the country calling on the coffee-shop chain to do the right thing.

Tim Hortons officials said on Thursday revealed it as a fake and that the cup was a counterfeit. That claim was verfied on Friday when Nanaimo resident Pam Geddes Skelding revealed the cup was fabricated by her 12 year-old daughter, Chloe, as an April Fool's Day joke. The forgery that had the country abuzz was created by a 12-year-old girl as one of the April Fools pranks she pulled off on her mother.

She said the cup disappeared after being left on her kitchen counter while de Jong was painting in the house.

Skelding said she "thought nothing" of the cup's disappearance until she read about de Jong's claim to the car in the Friday edition of the Nanaimo Daily News.

De Jong acknowledged Friday that he did buy a coffee from Tim Hortons while on his way to Skelding's house to paint her kitchen and he said it may have gotten "mixed up" with other Tim Hortons cups that were in the kitchen at the time.

"I guess I accidently picked up the wrong cup while I was at work, assumed it was mine and that it was a winner," de Jong said after hearing of Skelding's claim. "I guess it's game over for me getting the car."

Tim Hortons' spokesman David Morelli told the Daily News on Thursday that two "outside firms" verified that the cup was lacking a number of security features the company uses to guard against forgeries and the matter was under investigation. He said at the time that the case may be handed over to the police. Morelli couldn't be reached for comment on Friday.

Skelding said her daughter used her computer to type the winning phrase on a thin strip of grey paper that she attached to an old Tim Hortons cup in an effort to pull a practical joke.

"It really wasn't that elaborate a job and Chloe's computer lacks a 'c' key so she put a star symbol where the copyright symbol would have been," she said.

"We didn't think about it again until we saw the newspaper article and the television coverage and Chloe recognized the sticker. She didn't want to get in any trouble for creating the sticker and wanted the matter cleared up as soon as possible."

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CCSU athletes arrested for popcorn fire prank in dorm

2009-05-25T17:31:00.000-07:00

Two Central Connecticut State University athletes and a former school football player were arrested early Monday after pulling an alleged stupid stuff and funny pranks stunt that drew police and firefighters to a dormitory.

Matthew Dortch, 18, a wide receiver for the school’s football team, Patrick Robinson, 18, a pitcher for the baseball team that is still playing games for this 2009 season, and Christopher Scifo, 19, a former football player who transferred to a Florida university, are accused of setting off a fire alarm with burning popcorn after they tied the doors shut to several dorm rooms reported by the CCSU police department.

A CCSU officer responded to a fire alarm on the third floor of Vance Hall at around 3:14 a.m. to discover a “quad” of dorm rooms was full of smoke. He went to the kitchen and found two full bags of burnt and charred popcorn in the microwave that was still on.

While checking the rest of the six floor building for fire, a residential assistant alerted them that two dorm rooms on the fifth floor had been tied shut with heavy fishing string. Police also found several others on the fourth floor had also been tied shut.

The residents of those rooms squeezed through a small opening in the doors to get to exit for the fire alarm, a police report indicates. Though during the incident no one was injured, school officials said they had offered counseling services to the students at Vance Hall where the incident occurred.

“A dean did meet with all the students in Vance Hall and they are handling it well, We did offer them any services if they felt they needed to talk but things appear to be going well.” said university spokesman Mark McLaughlin.

Police connected the three to the incident through several student and staff statements. Scifo allegedly admitted that he tied the doors shut while Dortch and Robinson purposely burnt the popcorn to set the fire alarm off.

“I didn’t intend to hurt anyone just get a few laughs,” Scifo told police.

McLaughlin said federal student privacy laws barred him from discussing whether Dortch and Robinson had received scholarships to play sports at the school. Also, he couldn’t comment on their status with the sports teams after their arrest. He said the Dortch and Robinson were put on “interim suspension” while the university conducts its investigation into the case.

Judge Joan K. Alexander of the New Britain Superior Court stipulated that the three were barred from campus unless they were attending academic or disciplinary hearings and they were to have no contact with each other. They are charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, reckless burning, first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree breach of peace. All three were released after posting bond and were due back in court June 5.

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Baldwin apologizes for mail-order bride war

2009-05-24T19:56:00.000-07:00

Usually talk shows are used as bridge for celebrities to make public apologies and not apologize after they go on talk shows. On Alec Baldwin, it wasn't the case. He had just undertaken a very unusual convention.

What was intentionally meant for just one of Alec Baldwin's practical jokes and funny pranks turned into a catastrophic event during a live interview at "David Letterman's Show".

The 30 Rock star had issued a mea culpa to the people of the Philippines and just like any other viewer who took offense to an offhand he delivered during his appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman last Tuesday.

"I'd like to offer an apology and a clarification to remarks I made recently," he writes on the Huffington Post.

"While on the David Letterman program, I joked that I might need a 'mail-order bride' to achieve the goal of having more children in my life. I believe that most people understood that this was a joke and took it as such. (A dated reference, no doubt, and another sign of my advancing age.)

"However, I do apologize to anyone who took offense."

When asked by the host if he ever thought about expanding his brood, he now regrettably quipped, "I'm thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point…or a Russian one."

The comment resulted in a backlash from foreign ministry officials, protests and Baldwin's blacklisting from the Philippines as a result of his new found status as an "undesirable alien."

To stop the budding international incident from getting even more worst and out of hand, Baldwin yesterday issued a written apology for the remark.

Despite his apology and acknowledgment that "such anger and frustration about the issue of sex trafficking is understandable," Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan today released a statement banning the actor from his shores.

"By being in the bureau's blacklist, Baldwin is forbidden from entering the country as he is deemed an undesirable alien," Libanan said.

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Booze belly flask review

2009-05-21T21:37:00.000-07:00

The booze belly flask consists of a pouch that holds up to 25 oz. With a waistband that fits all adults that would really come in handy for slipping alcohol comfortably having a tight security. There won't be any spills or drips with this flask either.

Though it gives you a big beer belly look. Still, it won't matter to people that already have beer belly such as yours truly since it would make it more natural when worn. Don't you think?

Plus any adult drinker would have fun using it. I mean to show it to your peers/friends by surprising everyone while you're all watching live sports game would really give them some laughter and appreciation that money can't buy. Just the bizarre idea is quite amazing and a little bit silly yet fun.

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Janitor injured in vaseline prank

2009-05-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

A janitor working for Galashiels Academy, Linda Gillie had slipped on school stairs suffering a head knock and some bruises to her body. It is thought that a Vaseline had been smeared out on the banister as a prank.

She was treated overnight at Borders General Hospital last Wednesday and is now recovering at home.

Head teacher Kathleen Angus described it as an "unfortunate accident" which would be investigated thoroughly.

Practical jokes and funny pranks like these are not tolerated and being taken seriously by the Council. An investigation is ongoing at a secondary school after the mentioned janitor was injured.

Senior pupils on the verge of leaving the secondary are thought to have been responsible as part of what has now become known as "muck-up" day.

Councillor Catriona Bhatia, a spokeswoman and education convener for Scottish Borders Council, said an investigation was under way and it was possible that some form of action might be taken.

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City parks department raises fine to dog poop

2009-05-19T20:12:00.000-07:00

All dog lovers wants to spent time with their man's best friend every now and then. Most of us stroll our mutt at the city parks and other public places.
We love to show our pets the freedom of being able to go out in the public and enjoy the city grounds especially the city parks, where it seemed dog owner's chill out spot with their pet dogs.

But we all know there are risks we take when we let our lovely pets outside. Even though we shower them unconditional love, they're still animals that have no control or whatsoever to their natural being like taking a dump anywhere they feel like doing when it's coming. Especially in public places where they consider it a huge toilet place.

The Parks Department had just given dog owners $150 more reasons to pick up dog dirt. They've just officially raised its pooper-scooper fine to $250, from the current $100. To think of the fine hike during these economic crisis that's hitting us badly, it sounded more like one of the city council's hilarious jokes. Nevertheless, pet owners now should think twice of strolling their dogs on public parks from now on.

Though its noteffective until June according to Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe which was approved by the City Council during the budget hearing this Tuesday. The higher fine will bring parks up to the same $250 fine that the Sanitation Department began imposing in November for doggy-doo violations on the streets.

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History of S. S. Adams Company

2009-05-18T19:54:00.000-07:00

S. S. Adams Company is the largest manufacturer and purveyor of exploding cigars in the United States during the middle of the last century. Made more exploding cigars and other gag novelty items as of 1946 than its next eleven competitors combined according to The Saturday Evening Post.

Soren Sorensen Adams is the founder of the million dollar company and evidently where he got the nickname "king of the professional pranksters". He invented and patented many common gag novelties such as sneezing powder, itching powder, the dribble glass and the joy buzzer.

According to Adams the chemical explosive variety had fallen out of favor to non-chemical device since the 1915 aftermath on which a death caused by a homemade exploding cigar rigged with dynamite. Over the history prank exploding cigars have caused many injuries.

In 1906, a cigar shop was sued by Edward Weinschreider for an exploding cigar which badly burned his hand and three of his fingers were amputated.

The intended purpose of exploding cigars is not to cause physical harm as to the butt of the joke but as a form of hostile practical joke. But eventually it did caused a decline in their manufacture and sale due to the high risk of unintended injuries from their use.

Although there have been claims that exploding cigars were used as a means to kill or attempt to kill targets in real life it is still well represented as a fictional plot device.

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Egg throwing teens face felony charges

2009-05-17T19:42:00.000-07:00

Four Shawnee teens between 18 and 19-years-old, were taken to the Pottowatomie County jail after they were caught throwing eggs at cars and they now face serious felony charges for what they thought was just one their typical funny pranks.

It's certainly not the first time, or last Shawnee police will deal with teenage pranks. They are lucky they didn't pull that prank in Oklahoma since throwing or dropping an object, even an egg, at or from a moving vehicle is against the law and punishable.

Each of the four teens are now facing two felony charges. Robert Butler is representing the teens and thinks the charges are excessive. Butler said his clients are trying to get into the Army and this incident could hamper their plans.

"It's youthful behavior. It's immature and that's what caused this and I'm certain we will try and get this reduced to a misdemeanor, And you know with felonies pending, you can't get into the military," Robert Butler said.

One of the teen's victims said he had no idea they would face felony charges, and feels bad about that, but still he said it doesn't excuse their actions.

The teens could face up to 10 years in prison or fines of up to $10,000 if not acquitted.

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Senior pranks gone bad at Cardinal Spellman

2009-05-14T21:13:00.000-07:00

Some senior students at the Cardinal Spellman High School, a private Catholic school in Brockton, placed condoms on classroom doorknobs, bound school lockers with plastic ties, moved furniture from classrooms into the hallways, and threw papers about. Someone also urinated on the floor. It's all part of the misunderstood tradition of school senior's practical jokes and funny pranks before their farewell at school.

A group of students were let into the building by fellow students at drama rehearsal last Wednesday night. Non-involved students said between 15 and 20 students were involved in the incident.

At Cardinal Spellman, police were called last Wednesday after the drama director and an assistant discovered what appeared to be a senior prank gone too far.

“Teenagers have a hard time with stopping each other and walking away,” Brockton High School Principal Susan Szachowicz said.

Szachowicz barred the senior class president from graduation last year after a prank turned into vandalism.

“When they are in the moment, they are not thinking, ‘This leads to this.’ They know this is a dumb thing to do and still get drawn in,” she said.

As high schools across the region prepare for graduation exercises, principals are also bracing for senior hi-jinks — and hoping teens don’t cross the line from funny to felonious.

“There are certain students that think they rule the school basically,” said Armenta Pierre, 18, a senior from Stoughton. “They think they can do what they want.”

Parents also were not amused.

Last year, a group of Brockton seniors sprayed Silly String and washable paint in the school’s Green cafeteria, squirted ketchup, overturned tables and tore down a bulletin board listing to which colleges seniors had been accepted. The seniors were ordered to pay $594 in cleanup costs, perform five days of community service and were banned from the prom and other senior activities. One student, the class president, was banned from graduation because she became belligerent while serving the second day of her five days of community service.

That, Szachowicz said, should serve as a warning to seniors this year.

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Snob celebrities prank ideas

2009-05-13T18:34:00.000-07:00

We all have our personal favorite celebrities, some may be involved in the showbiz industry, sports industry, music industry, politics and etc. We all patronize them on their work and contribution. As a fan there's always a factor why we become attach or attracted to a celebrity. Most of the time its because of admiration to their physical charismatic appearance. But there are also some fans who admire because mainly on pure talent alone. Sometimes both.

We always hear the stereotype reactions of celebrities giving back their gratitude to their fans, by acknowledging them publicly during interviews, press conference, and etc. Showing up on autograph sessions, volunteering on some charity work or giving out big paycheck for donations.

Some of them are really sincere and reaches out to their fans. They share their blessings to the needy people. But there are also some celebrities who doesn't know how to show or return the favor when fans approach them during their off-career days.

So it made me wonder how we can give them a wake up call. What if we asked for an autograph and we let the celebrity use a exploding cap pen ? That would at least get us even to those nasty celebrity snobs, don't you think?

I know it's sound more of a vendetta towards their snob actions. But it's just a little way of showing that you are who you are because of the fans. Anyways it's just one of my stupid stuff ideas to get even with them. Will justice be served? I don't know. You tell me.

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Camera modified into a stun gun found at school

2009-05-12T19:55:00.000-07:00

A stun gun converted device that looks like nothing more than a disposable camera was demonstrated by Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel. He sure can attest that the jolt it could release is far more sinister than how it looks. One of the shocking pranks that you won't consider to apply on anyone.

"It hurts, I can tell you that," Hackel said today.

The only signs that the camera had been altered were black electrical tape wrapped around part of the body and two small metal prongs, which emitted the shock when pressed against something.

The makeshift stun gun was found Monday at Dakota High School in Macomb Township, where an 18-year-old student zapped willing friends as a joke. Word got to school administrators, who confronted the student and confiscated the device.

Macomb County deputies tracked the device back to a 13-year-old who learned how to make it on YouTube.com. The 13-year-old had made several of the devices by the time he was tracked down, Hackel said. The teen's parents didn't know he'd been making them and "weren't very happy," he said.

Though neither student meant to cause real harm. Both teens could face felony and misdemeanor charges first for having an electronic weapon, then for bringing it near school property, the sheriff said.

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