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July 25, 2014December 15, 2023

You Shouldn’t Buy This Boat

You get a text message obviously not meant for you. Do you politely correct the sender, sympathizing with the inconvenience? Or do you spring into action?

Redditor /u/beccascott1 brings us a tale of a boat deal that’s all wet.

You shouldn't buy this boat

The prospective buyer seems oddly intent on going through with the purchase, even after the product is revealed to be less than seaworthy.

According to the screen capture, the wiseacre’s phone is at a nearly full charge, sidestepping a standard rebuke from the Redditorati.

Fellow posters /u/bpaq3 and /u/MustardIcecream weigh in, forecasting a dark aftermath for the ruse, making the whole thing just sad enough to be funny.

[via Reddit’s /r/pranks]

July 14, 2014December 15, 2023

Alligator Attack Prank

From ÄŒenÄ›k Stà½blo:

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January 8, 2014December 15, 2023

Washing Machine Prank Goes Wrong

man-washing-machine-200 An Australian man, attempting to prank his girlfriend, jumped into his washing machine. He intended to scare her when she came into the room. But he got stuck and couldn’t get out. Rescue workers freed him, but only after pouring olive oil on him. He then popped right out.

He was disappointed they had used his good olive oil.

A naked man becomes stuck in a washing machine after a risky game of hide and seek, news.com.au

January 3, 2014December 15, 2023

Lighten up?

From Joe King: Unfortunately the gravity shift is a hoax:

Jan. 4, 2014: “˜Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity” Allowing People to Float is an Old Hoax
by Jack Phillips
Epoch Times
December 30, 2013

hoax_screenshot-200 A rumor from the News-Hound.net blog is claiming there”s a “zero-G day” at 9:47 a.m. on January 4, 2014, that will decrease gravity allowing people to float for five minutes due to an “extraordinary astronomical event.” But it”s not real as it was a hoax perpetrated by astronomer Sir Patrick Moore four decades ago.

“At exactly 9:47 am, the planet Pluto will pass directly behind Jupiter, in relation to the Earth. This rare alignment will mean that the combined gravitational force of the two planets would exert a stronger tidal pull, temporarily counteracting the Earth”s own gravity and making people weigh less. Moore calls this the Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect,” reads the blog that has hundreds of thousands of “likes” and shares on Facebook, saying that the “theory” was attributed to astronomer Sir Patrick Moore.

However, the whole thing was a hoax created several decades ago by Moore but websites and blogs kept passing it along every year, saying it will happen a few days after New Year”s Day.

Moore, who was the BBC Radio 2 astronomer, said the event would happen as part of an April Fools Day prank in 1976.

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