Tag: PRANKS

If you're a prankster with a modicum of Photoshop skills, you'll probably want to get in on this one. Oli and Alex are charmers who use their innate artistic abilities to seriously piss off their hapless friend James. As Oli puts it: "I like going onto my friend's Facebook page, taking photos of him, changing them slightly, then putting them back up on Facebook. He doesn't like me doing this." ...

A guy in Idaho has been arrested for pretending to be a police officer -- with his smartphone. On Saturday night, Alexander A. Welch allegedly used an app that flashes blue and red lights to trick another driver into thinking he was a police officer. It worked. The motorist pulled over, and Welch sped away. Understandably annoyed, the driver followed Welch's car, and called the real police. ...

Whenever you choose to block or report a person on Facebook, the social network prompts you to choose from an automatically generated list of reasons for your action. On the English version of the site, you'll see options like "Inappropriate profile picture," or "Inappropriate Wall post." On the French site, however, recent visitors may have noticed an additional option, concerning not fake ...

Before Street View launched this month in Germany, Google allowed wary residents to refuse the service, if they so wished, by blurring images of their homes. While that decision appeased privacy advocates, it apparently didn't appease everybody. According to Deutsche Welle, Street View-blurred homes in the Bergerhauser area of Essen were recently splattered with eggs. (The pro-Google pranksters ...

If we were unlucky enough to run a major airline company and had to choose some celebrity to promote our new boarding pass system, Osama bin Laden probably wouldn't be our first choice. For British Airways, though, the world's most wanted (and hated) man is apparently just the kind of star power the company needs to promote its new mobile-boarding pass service. As Yahoo! News reports, a ...

We would never advocate the making of a phony bomb threat, even to get out of a wedding or other dire situation. But potential pranksters (and inmates) have a new, more visceral way to terrorize in the Quanum RTR Bomb System. The bomb is a 1:6 scale replica that attaches itself to a radio-controlled model airplane, and is released via remote trigger by the user. Upon "detonation," the bomb ...

4chan.org's /b/ message board is filled with pranksters who have nothing better to do with their time but make life difficult for everyone else. The notorious mischief-makers' most recent stunt -- Porn Day -- sent employees at YouTube scrambling as the site was flooded with XXX-rated content. The videos were uploaded and attached to seemingly innocent search terms, like "Jonas Brothers." In ...

After beating the cable news channel in a race to one-million Twitter followers last month, celebrity tweeter-extraordinaire Ashton Kutcher harkened back to his 'Punk'd' days on Wednesday, making good on his promise to prank the losing CNN. Kutcher unfurled a banner with his Twitter name, "@aplusk" across the CNN logo at the company's downtown Atlanta headquarters. Accompanied by a film crew that ...

A 16-year-old North Carolina boy, known by his Internet handle "Tyrone," made the rounds of Digg, Drudge, and the rest of the blogosphere after he was arrested for calling in a series of bomb threats to schools. A fury erupted over allegations that Tyrone was being held without charges under the Patriot Act, which of course turned out to be completely false. ...

We've seen all sorts of strange and interesting things on Google StreetView, from X to Y. But when the Telegraph reported that StreetView spied this unexplained, ghostly pedestrian decked out in Victorian-era clothing, people began to wonder if there was something paranormal afoot. After all, the Cardiff, Wales docklands where the woman was spotted has a long history of murders and other ...

Well, a couple of hacker, pranksters have gotten themselves in some legal trouble... that is, if law enforcement in Missouri can find them. Someone managed to hack into the radio frequency for a Taco Bell drive-through and started shouting obscenities at the customers. Officials believe that the culprits must have been nearby to interfere with radio, and Taco Bell plans to press charges if the ...

If President Obama's face appears in the lower-right corner of your screen, you may be infected with what's called the "Obama worm." Likely a variant of the MAL_OTORUN code that spreads via USB drives and network shares, this worm is essentially harmless -- except for the fact that Obama's mug appears on your screen every Monday. Jamz Yaneza, a senior threat analyst and researcher at Trend ...

digg_url ='http://digg.com/celebrity/How_World_Leaders_Call_Each_Other'; Some seemed to think it was embarrassing when Sarah Palin was fooled into believing that a Canadian radio shock jock was French president Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before election day. Many people (including some commenters on this site) defended Palin, asking how she could have known (ignoring the obvious clues such as ...

Those political pranksters, The Yes Men, are at it again in a stunt that, regardless of your ideology, you must admit is impressive. The "operation," six months in the planning, involved six printing presses and thousands of volunteers across the nation who handed out 1.2 million copies of a 14-page mock issue of the New York Times. Commuters exiting trains in New York and in other cities were ...

There are certain people and institutions you should never really mess with: 911 operators, your government's computer systems, and T.S.A. security personnel. Apparently, nobody informed designer Evan Roth of the latter. Probably the kind of guy that wonders, "Just what would that cop do if I reached out for his pistol all of a sudden?," Roth has laser-cut "hilarious" messages and images into ...