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Comedy Stunt Places a Dwarf in a Suitcase, Swedish Officials Not Laughing
STOCKHOLM — The staff at a Swedish airport was not amused when a team from a TV comedy show tried to check in a suitcase with a dwarf inside.
Employees at Bromma airport called police when the dwarf hopped out of the suitcase at the check-in counter.
Police soon found that it was a stunt being filmed by a hidden camera for a program on private TV network Kanal 5.
Police spokesman Mats Eriksson says airport staff decided against filing charges even though they were "shocked and humiliated" by Wednesday's stunt.
Kanal 5 spokesman Dan Panas told Swedish news agency TT that the show was meant to be "provocative and entertaining."
He said the stunt was not meant to make fun of little people, but to make entertainment out of "extreme situations."
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Revealed after 50 years: The secret of the greatest-ever student prank
It was probably the most ingenious student prank of all time.
In June 1958, Cambridge awoke to see a car perched at the apex of an inaccessible rooftop, looking as if it were driving across the skyline.
The spectacle made headlines around the world and left police, firefighters and civil defence units battling for nearly a week to hoist the vehicle back down before giving in and taking it to pieces with blowtorches.
The shadowy group of engineering students who executed the stunt were never identified and the mystery of how they did it has baffled successive undergraduates and provided fodder for countless tourist guides.
Now, 50 years on, the group have reunited to disclose their identities and reveal how they winched an Austin Seven to the top of the university's 70ft-high Senate House.
At an anniversary dinner this month, ringleader Peter Davey revealed he had hatched the plan while staying in rooms at Gonville and Caius College overlooking the Senate House roof.
He felt the expanse of roof 'cried out' to be made more interesting and decided a car would do the trick, recruiting 11 others to help realise his plan.
The group chose the May Bumps week, when any passers-by were likely to be drunken rowers celebrating after their races.
After finding a clapped-out Austin Seven, the group had to tow it through Cambridge to a parking space near Senate House but hit on the idea of sticking signs on it advertising a May ball to explain its presence.
Mr Davey, now 72, said a ground party manoeuvred the car into position while a lifting party on the Senate House roof hoisted it up using an A-shaped crane constructed from scaffolding poles and steel rope.
A third group, the bridge party, passed a plank across the notorious Senate House Leap - an 8ft gap between the roof and a turret window at Caius - and helped the lifters ferry across lifting gear comprising three types of rope, hooks and pulleys.
Policemen who heard a commotion as the equipment passed above them questioned some of the ground party but were distracted by careless drivers nearby and left them alone. It was probably the most ingenious student prank of all time. ... more -
Facebook group sparks carrot 'panic buy'?
After getting 230,000 people to sign up to her Facebook group that urges its members to "go out and buy a load of carrots,' Freya Valentine has got British supermarkets a little worried about their carrot outgoings.
Apparently she thought up the idea on a 'night out,' and said she was shocked that it got 60,000 members within weeks.
But fear not, a little bit of fame hasn't gone to the girl's head, she told the BBC: "To be honest, I wish I could say something really good, like I'm trying to make a political point but I'm not ."
No, but you're making carrot farmers a little happier. After getting 230,000 people to sign up to her Facebook group that urges its members to "go out and buy a load of carrots,' Freya Vale... more -
How to steal old people
Watch this woman walk into a nursing home an steal an old person in broad daylight. Fantastic.
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The Most Disturbing Thing I Have Ever Seen!
I'm so mad at this kid's parents!
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Entire team, media, and even agent prank Phillies rookie Kyle Kendrick into Japan ...
So Philadelphia Phillies management, teammates, and media put together a grand hoax to make rookie Kyle Kendrick believe he's been traded to Japan... So Philadelphia Phillies management, teammates, and media put together a grand hoax to make rookie Kyle Kendrick believe he's been tra... more
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Gordon Freeman Calls Coast to Coast
Self-explanatory. Good work, fella.
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Pig Latin for dummies.
Now I can finely email my friends goofy Pig Latin messages. I'm sure they'll be ecstatic, not!
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St. Louis Cardinals sued by girl for posting the girl (her name) has an STD on sta...
Apparantly, the girl was there with all her classmates, one of whom may have been the spiteful type to put that girl through shame in a stadium of 48,000 fans in attendance. Apparantly, the girl was there with all her classmates, one of whom may have been the spiteful type to put that girl through shame in ... more
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Japanese Prank Taken To a Whole New Level
I think I would have soiled myself somewhere through that process.
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Trick or treat? Here's a great trick from Europe...
This guy has a bunch of TV remote controls while a big soccer match is on!
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guy turns off soccer games during exciting parts
I'd like to do this sometime, if I could get away with it without being killed.
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Awesome bathroom prank!
Twin Sisters, twin rooms, glass instead of a mirror...
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