Category: Practical Jokes and Mischief

Art lover? Lunatic? Misguided prankster?

Woman Faces Charges for Kissing Painting
July 21, 2007

Marseille, France (AP) — A woman has been arrested on suspicion of kissing a painting by American artist Cy Twombly and smudging the bone-white canvas with her lipstick, French judicial officials said Saturday.

Police said they arrested the woman after she kissed the work on Thursday. She is to be tried in a court in the southern city of Avignon on Aug. 16 for “damage to a work of art,” judicial officials said.

The painting, which is worth an estimated $2 million, was on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon. Continue reading “Make-out Artist”

A Real Stink at Sorvino Farm
New York Post, Page Six
July 19, 2007

Acclaimed Goodfellas actor Paul Sorvino and his playwright daughter, Amanda, are up to their necks in deep doo-doo, now that a waste-hauling company has dumped a messy mountain of horse manure in the driveway of their Pennsylvania farm after they refused to pay their bill.

The entrance to the Sorvinos’ picturesque, 56-acre estate in rural Gilbert is blocked by 60 cubic yards of fly-covered, foul-smelling animal waste.

“I’m just amazed at this. I think this is a really scary, criminal act,” Amanda, the kid sister of Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino, fumed to the Pocono Record.

But Tina Daly, office manager of JBD Waste Hauling, told Page Six: “They screwed up. They didn’t pay us, so I brought their horse[bleep] back to them.” Continue reading “Revenge that’s sweet but smelly”

From a Japanese TV prank show called Wake You Up.

Via lostateminor