From Tom Mabe and MabeinAmerica: Tom and Jim teach an alcoholic a lesson after his fifth DUI. When he wakes up from having passed out, they convince him he’s been in a coma for 10 years.
Louis Vuitton Told By Russians to Bag It
Sacha Baron Cohen Pranks Awards Ceremony
As Sacha Baron Cohen was being honored November 9, 2013, at the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award For Excellence In Comedy, he, channeling Chaplin, slipped and pushed Grace Collington, 87, an actress who appeared with Charlie Chaplin in 1931″²s City Lights at the age of five, off the stage.
Sacha Baron Cohen “Kills” Award Presenter at Britannia Awards:
via BBC America
Cicirelli Fake “Walk-about” Plays Out On Facebook
Crazy Facebook Hoax starts with unemployment, ends stranded in mexico
by Cody Permenter
The Daily Dot
August 21, 2013
Dave Cicirelli, an art director from New York City, posted on his Facebook profile in late 2009 that his life was at a standstill and something desperately needed to change. He announced his decision to quit his job and hitchhike across country, taking his laptop and cellphone to document his journey. Along the way, he fell in love with an Amish woman, joined a doomsday cult, got stranded in Mexico, and got inked up with a bowtie tattoo.
Sounds like a pretty crazy adventure, right?
As with most things that sound too good to be true are, Cicirelli”s story was completely fake””an elaborate scheme played out on Facebook with the help of Photoshop. In his new book Fakebook
Another Winning Lottery Ticket Hoax
Submitted by Emerson Dameron. Editor’s note: This is reminiscent of Alan Abel’s 1990 Lottery Ticket Hoax.
Man Fools More Than 500,000 Facebook Users Pretending To Be Lottery Winner
by Justin Lafferty
allfacebook.com
November 30, 2012
As we learned earlier with the ubiquitous “In response to the new Facebook guidelines” posts, Facebook users will share just about anything “” especially if they”ve got a shot at $1 million. Recently, a Facebook user named Nolan Daniels posted a photo of himself with the $587.5 million-winning Powerball ticket, with the caption, “Looks like I won”t be going to work EVER!!!! Share this photo and I will give a random person 1 million dollars!” More than 500,000 people have shared the photo. One problem, though: the ticket isn”t real.
Gawker pointed out that the numbers on the ticket would be in order, citing the Powerball FAQ:
The tickets print the white ball numbers (the first five numbers) in numerical order.
It”s plain to see that the numbers on Daniels” faked ticket appear to read: 4, 22, 29, 23, 46, 5.
Other than that, the real winners have already come forward.