Death is too high a price for most endeavors, but if he didn't factor the chance of dying into his idiotic plan, he clearly didn't think this through very well.
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Prankster killed after prank goes wrong
- Thread starter nilbog
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Pointing out that what this guy did was stupid is not cruel, DO NOT issue threats of harm/violence as a prank. There's a reason why a lot of these pranksters on youtube just stage their shit.
jumping out of bushes to jump scare people is one thing but the minute you take out actual knives you go into a fucked up territory. i feel bad he got himself killed but jeez man why not just pay some actors or get some friends to pretend to be scared from these pranks like many of these shitty prank youtube channels do. youtube needs to better police these channels because these idiots keep trying to one up each other and its gonna get people killed. this isn't even the first story i've heard of a youtuber getting killed for dumb pranks.
"Play stupid games" isn't wishing bad to the person in question, it is literally saying that there are consequences to your every act, and a stupid act can have hash consequences. No one here is saying that he deserved to die, but that should should know that it was a very real possibility doing that.
Agreed, sad someone lost a life over this but what a way to go. Not a prank at all
very macabre but then again it's the whole point of the 'darwin' awards. rip.
These prank YouTube channels are the absolute dumbest things to come from YouTube by far. Every single so called "good" prank video has at least one person who rightfully trys to intervene and these fucking children go "bro, bro it's for YouTube it's a prank relax!" It's harsh but I have absolutely zero sympathy for them. I remember seeing one once where a guy would back up from around a corner begging like he was about to be shot, they would light a fire cracker off and he would pretend he got shot. Play stupid games win stupid prizes
This would be fucking stupid anywhere, but in the US, land of more guns than people? A shoe-in for a Darwin award
...so the place that it happened is a amusement park place like Chuck E Cheese. So that was extra stupid, since there are kids and parents there as well.
It would be like doing a "No Russian" prank at disney land.
It would be like doing a "No Russian" prank at disney land.
Can't imagine how the guy who shot is feeling after knowing the person he killed was pulling a prank. What a fucking terrible situation all around.
This isn't even a prank... It's quite literally committing a crime (assault with a deadly weapon) and filming people's reactions. If you want to be generous, I suppose you can say the "prank" is that he didn't actually intend to commit an additional crime (robbery), but I don't know how much that would change people's reactions compared to just being assaulted with a knife.
your mind is wrong and that's not the issue. You're not taking a different stance from anyone else, even. You're just trying to change the topic, but in a rude way lol
In a general sense, you are technically correct. Nobody should have a gun...yay. but in the meantime, everybody should live their lives like other people could have a gun instead of living like they don't. Most people in the USA learn that by 20, particularly in the south.
Eh? I was talking more about how some folks don't get the whole "subvert reality" elements of comedy, followed by laughter. Being assaulted by idiots with knives isn't subversion or absurd.
Now if a gang of street thugs angrily tried to give you their wallets, that'd be good. Or if one person walking past you got mugged, and then their mugger immediately got mugged, and so on, that would also work. Or have a massive terrifying bloke come up to them, then cheerfully ask them what kinda cake makes the perfect Sunday.
Being mugged with knives only works if it's contrary to expected reality. Like seeing an astronaut on the moon suddenly get mugged by an astronaut in thief stripes, or seeing someone with a knife angrily threatening a snowman for its money.
I have honestly wondered how long it would take before someone tried to pull an aggressive and violent prank on someone armed with a gun and get shot.
Not my place to say if someone deserves it. But it is the inevitable outcome.
The prankster engineered a scenario in which the target believed they had a genuine reason to kill the prankster and that their life might be forfeit if they didnt.
Not my place to say if someone deserves it. But it is the inevitable outcome.
The prankster engineered a scenario in which the target believed they had a genuine reason to kill the prankster and that their life might be forfeit if they didnt.
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That's one of those things that's just like, why wouldn't you just test that out on a mannequin first before you put yourself in that
Exactly. What an absolute moron. He just threw his life away on some so-called "prank" & the other person is dead as a result. Unbelievable.
Well, I guess you can say we won't get fooled again. *cues We Won't Get Fooled Again at the 7:44 mark*
I guess a contributing factor may be that this dude was operating in a mindset of someone who'd never been threatened and had people around him who'd never been threatened (to his knowledge). People who were like that might well just freeze or not react to a situation like this, which is probably why this guy thought he could run up on people like they had no survival instinct.
Bad move.
Bad move.
Threatening people with butcher knives isnt a prank, that type of shit can traumatize people. Someone went into flight or fight and they chose fight. Now the gunman has to live knowing he killed someone over a "prank" that's what's unfortunate about this.
I have no sympathy for stupidity.
I have no sympathy for stupidity.
Guess I have a different idea of pranks. My kind pranks are , something like replacing the tire valve stems p my bosses car caps shaped like penises, or leaving a can of roasted eels in his office.
they claimed that it worked before and the fatal attempt was their second one, if I remember correctly
I was responding to a specific post. Not sure why you replied to me at all, then. I think we all need to step back some times, though!
This is the exact literal definition of "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes," next to playing Russian Roulette for reals and playing chicken with a freight train.
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I do. He didn't have to shoot. Pull out the gun, tell knife guy to stop or I'll shoot or say "make my day", or whatever it is cool gun guys say these days. if he keeps coming, then shoot. It's what we expect from the cops and we should expect it from civilians too.
"But it's fight or flight, his adrenaline was going and he went on instinct". If he can't calmly use his gun he shouldn't have one.
People here are saying "now he's going to feel guilty the rest of his life for shooting that guy". Well, that's what he did, so he should feel guilty.
To be clear, I think pranks are dumb and I want youtube pranks to go away, but people walking around with guns is dumb too. They can both be dumb.
And this is especially insane because most pranktubers pay people to pretend they're being pranked. You know, to prevent situations like this from happening.