David Thorne - The Art of the Prank

Serial prankster admits to Kate’s party hoax
Yahoo!7
April 27, 2010

The serial online prankster David Thorne is at it again, this time creating the party of the century on social networking site, Facebook.

Thorne, known for his hilarious attempt to pay a bill with a spider drawing, has created a new viral phenomenon with his hoax Facebook event, Kate”s Party.

The event, which appeared to be a birthday party on May 1st for Adelaide woman Kate Miller, attracted 60,000 attendees after Thorne posted the link on his Twitter page, 27b/6. A day later there were a further 180,000 people who had been invited waiting to be confirmed. Continue reading “So, Are You Going to Kate’s Party?”

Prankster David Thorne behind McDonald’s hoax
by Andrew Ramadge
News.com.au
October 14, 2009

0,,7063996,00-200 A FAKE memo claiming McDonald’s stores deliberately rip off customers has been revealed to be the work of the same prankster behind an infamous email about a seven-legged spider.

The document, mocked-up with an official McDonald’s Australia letterhead and signed by fictitious managing director “Robert Trugabe”, outlines a secret plan to save money by leaving items out of drive-through orders.

“If the girls leave one item out of every second or third order, this adds up to several thousand dollars per week revenue,” it says.

“We need to work out if there is a way of making this a procedure without making it documented.”

The memo became a viral hit, making its way to email boxes and consumer blogs around the world and prompting an official response from the fast food company.

The front page of McDonald’s Australia’s website currently features a customer alert denouncing the fake memo as an “email scam”. Continue reading “McDonald’s Hoax Hoaxer Revealed”