night and covered it with plastic wrap. Granite Hills High Senior Alyssa Canoff told 10News she had zero to do with the practical joke but related, “That is, like, awe-inspiring.

It’s, like, the coolest practical joke ever. ” She further said she knew of more than one individual who was concerned. “There’s been plenty of history with some of those children and teachers pulling practical jokes on just teachers, but I believe it’s amazing that they took it to a higher level to the whole administration office I really wish I might have thought of something similar to that, ” recounted Canoff.

The practical joke was not an occasion for humor to college directors, who had a meeting with El Cajon police early Monday morning. Though police asserted it is up to the college to press charges, college directors didn’t say what they are going to do if the scholars are caught.

Folk were shocked that aliens would attack them. He asserted he may sue the daily for its large lie, and asked an apology.

Al Ghad’s handling editor declared, We intended to entertain, not shock people. Orson Welles caused similar hysteria in the US with his infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

many of us doubtless do not have the hacking abilities mandatory to do that, nor would we wish to, considering it is a crime and could land you in jail. This essentially occurred latterly to a particularly non-pregnant lady in Fairfax County, Virginia. You could get out the paints, rig up your own, and leave it on the rest room sink, except for an authentic gag that may surely give your SO or mom a coronary, order the one above from eBay. It’s like the real thing you take at a doctor’s office, and is meant to test “positive ” whatever what is in your piss. So you can tinkle right there in front of them and show the strip as the line turns blue. It might even work with guy piss now would not that be funny.

say it in the middle of a talk, absolutely non-sequitur, and then walk off. Initially they are going to be confused, then they will start freaking, then they will be confused again.

Refer to these instructions for a DIY fake pregnancy belly. Craft a smaller version so it is not certain whether you actually are or just ate an especially large lunch. Get 4 or 5 of your female employees to act in cahoots. Each hour, one of you goes into the chief and asserts you have fallen pregnant, every one asking him for confidentiality to not tell anyone.

By the end of the 5th employee, the supervisor will suspect but he will be too scared of risking a human resources violation on the slight chance it’s truly a wicked coincidence.

Pranking and stunting also has to follow the U of S student behavior code, a document that rules non-academic campus life. This would restrict scholars from consuming alcoholic drinks while committing a practical joke.

The school is condoning instead of condemning pranking to guarantee student safety, announced David Hannah, associate VP of student and enrolment services. “If we ban these things, there is a risk they are going to be driven further underground,” he revealed. “If we were to police a total ban on these activities, they might continue in any case and most likely without the preparations that we think make sense.”.

In the 1990s, that is precisely what occurred with practical jokes, declared Hannah. The threatening, public pranking perhaps came to a close in 2002 when a student society — nobody has ever confessed — hung an auto off the Broadway Bridge. The fire dep. and town engineers spent the day taking down the vehicle, using resources that would have been used more sensibly somewhere else, asserted town officers at the time. Last month in B.C, 5 engineering scholars from the School of Brit Columbia were caught attempting an analogous practical joke and now face legal charges. In 2003, the varsity cancelled E-Plant, a fall custom that pits engineers against rural scholars in a public riot that started with an abduction and climaxed in a fight to save the missing student, who was taped to a steel pole. Just after, participation of kinesiology and commerce student societies decreased away, leaving engineering and rural scholars to resume the collegiate quarrel.

The 4chan community of 7,000,000 users, which Poole called a “meme factory,” has been blamed ( or credited ) with beginning the LOLcats and Rickrolling crazes. LOLcats are those nerdy photos of pussies with random phrases pasted on them. Rickrolling makes reference to the practice of sending a Rick Astley song to a buddy, or posting his promo vid for “Never Going to Give You Up” on a Web site in a surprising place. The image-based bulletin board also is famous for spreading porn and for hacking into conventional sites and social networks. Some seven thousand 4chaners rallied to protest Scientology, some wearing masks to save the anonymity they have online, Poole asserted. Poole conversed with CNN after a rare public appearance this month at the TED Meeting in Long Beach, California.

TED, which stands for “technology, entertainment, design,” is a non-profit group that announces it’s devoted to “ideas worth spreading.”. In the interview, Poole expounded anonymity online is beginning to become a declining species. “We’ve just moved more toward insistent user identity,” he revealed. You have got a Twitter, you have a Facebook. Poole asserted he reveals the quantity of info folk post about themselves online nowadays to be scary. All posts on 4chan are incognito, and many are deleted straight after they are posted. Poole recounted that allows for open and truthful conversation, though he admits it is getting a bit explicit at certain times. “With the nameless system, you have a place where folks are ungoverned. And you judge someone by the content of what they are announcing and not their user name, not their registration date,” he revealed. For a long time he went only by “moot” online. Now twenty-two, Poole still guards many details about his life. As an example, he told CNN he’s a university student in NY but would not say where.

his ma and pa did not know about the site until fairly recently either, he revealed, and they only found out because a reports correspondent called them. He claimed they continue to do not get the full reach of 4chan. They know it enough to understand it’s a big score, although not enough to be scared of it, he claimed.

The school asked the 2 student societies to scribble a group of suggestions that rule pranking, sometimes called “morale boosting.” Future practical jokes need to be entered to the campus safety dept, which should note any concerns and sign off on the practical joke before it’s executed. Pranking and stunting also has to follow the U of S student behavior code, a document that rules non-academic campus life.

This would restrict scholars from consuming alcohol while committing a practical joke. The school is condoning instead of condemning pranking to guarantee student safety, related David Hannah, associate vice-president of student and enrolment services. “If we ban these things, there is a risk they will be driven further underground,” he announced. “If we were to police a total ban on these activities, they might continue anyway and most likely without the provisions that we think make sense.” In the 1990s, that is precisely what occurred with practical jokes, claimed Hannah.

The threatening, public pranking maybe came to a close in 2002 when a student society — nobody has ever confessed — hung an automobile off the Broadway Bridge. The fire office and town engineers spent the day taking down the automobile, using resources that would have been better used somewhere else, claimed town officers at the time. Last month in B.C, 5 engineering scholars from the University of UK Columbia were caught attempting an analogous practical joke and now face criminal charges. In 2003, the school cancelled E-Plant, a fall convention that pits engineers against rural scholars in a public riot that started with an abduction and climaxed in a fight to save the missing student, who was taped to a steel pole. Right after, collusion of kinesiology and commerce student societies diminshed away, leaving engineering and rural scholars to keep on the collegiate quarrel.

The practical jokes became less public and less brazen.

“It’s gone on for years and during the past it was far more than it is now,” recounted Pam Aube, president of the agricultural scholars’ organisation. “We’ve been working ( with campus safety ) the whole year to keep this going. Our morale boosting is what sets farming and engineering aside from other colleges.” Both Farthing and Aube are fast to indicate that pranking isn’t the sole ‘morale boosting’ they are doing. Both student societies hold regular fundraisers for local and world causes. The 2 student societies limit their activities to scholars’ lounges. The rural scholars once dismantled a square baler and rebuilt it in the engineering scholars’ lounge. In the rural scholars’ lounge, engineers built a copy of Saskatoon’s downtown : Bridges spanned huge banks of dust that held water.

They once constructed an enormous beaver dam. In the autumn, the engineers dumped a pile of dust in the lounge and stuck a metal E in the mound, which led on to the complaint that postponed pranking on campus.

The U of S has a long list of pranking. “Students have been pulling practical jokes at the Varsity of Saskatchewan since classes commenced in 1909, when scholars dropped water balloons onto the heads of pedestrians from the roof of the Drinkle Building,” asserts the U of S archives’ site. There is a new, more wary time approaching for schools. U of S officers are not banning practical jokes, but they do not make school support official. The college will not be a party to the official pranking policy — which should be finished this spring — due to responsibility issues.

“If we were to be a signatory to a contract, then we’ve sort of caught ourselves in the middle,” asserted Hannah.

The U of S Scholars ‘ Union is working with school officers and the college student societies to build “an pleasant agreement,” claimed scholars’ union president Warren Kirkland.

Dunfermline Athletic’s bear Sammy the Tammy slid down the Norrie McCathie stand at East End Park during the club’s 1-0 loss at home to Ayr United a fortnight ago, despite being warned by the club announcer not to do so.

Sammy is believed to have been trying to pay tribute to Amy Williams, who had just won Olympic Gold in the skeleton bob. However, he was less successful than his icon, banging to a halt halfway down the stand after veering into fans seats.

The Bear is known for his love of topical pre-match gags. However, while his gold medal tribute went down well with fans, bosses were less keen. The bear was warned his behaviour could have endangered fans walking on the stairs and he has been warned not to pull similar stunts in future.

A club spokesman told STV News: “He has been warned about it and told not to do it again. Obviously, we were a wee bit worried, health and safety wise, in case he’d hit somebody on the way down. But he’s not been given any official warning or anything.”

Sammy the Tammy’s love of topical displays has landed him in hot water before.

The week after Kris Boyd stopped playing for Scotland in October 2008, Sammy brought a pram onto the pitch and threw toy babies out of it in tribute to the player. Boyd stepped down from consideration for the national side, saying he would not play under then manager George Burley who had left him on the bench for a number of games.

Opposition fans have also complained that the bear loves to taunt them when Dunfermline score. However, on the Dunfermline website, Sammy dismisses his antics as merely those of a “boisterous prankster”.

The club said Sammy’s naughty nature had made him a hit with fans young and old. However, they admitted sometimes his behaviour can fray the nerves of his bosses.

The club’s spokesman said: “I think he’s a real icon for the club and for the kids. He’s a fun character that the kids can relate to. Sledging down the stand is certainly not something that we try to promote, but the vast majority of his pre-match entertainment is innocent fun, which is what we enjoy.”

He said Sammy’s sledge would definitely not be making a return to East End Park. However, he confirmed the club had no intention of showing their popular mascot the red card.

The 28-year-old Lion spoke of his shame over a ’stupid prank’ which stands to cost him a great deal more than £20,000 in match fees following his expulsion from the Wales squad for the remaining three matches of the tournament, starting against France in Cardiff on Friday night.

Powell admitted that the incident could finish his international career. He talked frankly about how the celebrations of his team’s sensational comeback against Scotland ended with his arrest at a motorway service station around 6am the following morning.

‘After beating Scotland the way we did, I had a few too many beers and enjoyed the night a bit too much,’ said Powell, who is to appear before Cardiff Magistrates next week charged with driving a mechanically-propelled vehicle while unfit through drink.

‘I should have been thinking more about what I was doing and, if I had, I would never have done it,’ he added.

‘It was a stupid prank which went badly wrong. I regret terribly what I did but what’s done is done.

‘I have let Wales down, my family, the fans and everyone involved with rugby, especially Warren Gatland, who gave me the chance to play for my country. I raised some serious issues. As an international sportsman, I have a responsibility, especially to the kids who look up to us. I feel particularly bad that I have failed them in that respect.

‘I’ve done stupid things before when I’ve had too many sherbets but nothing like this. I was on a high after the match and had a few beers to relax. I thought taking the buggy was a bit of fun but when you’ve had a few too many beers, everything goes.

‘I know it could cost me my international career and that tears me up inside every time I think about it. Gutted is not a strong enough word for how I feel. I’ve brought it all upon myself and I realise now that it could have a serious effect on my future.

‘There is a danger that I won’t get the chance to play for Wales again. It’s going to be tough but it’s up to me to rebuild my career and get it back on track.

‘I took the buggy because I wanted to get a bar of chocolate and a sandwich. I knew I could get that from the service station two and a half miles down the motorway from the team hotel. At five o’clock in the morning that seemed to be the best option and the golf buggies are always sitting outside the front.

‘I didn’t think it would do any harm to borrow one for the ride. I jumped in it with my mate and headed off for the service station. I picked up a cone and a flashing orange light from the side of the road before I got to the motorway which was even more stupid. It probably took me about half an hour to get there, travelling at a maximum speed of around 14 miles per hour.

‘We’d pulled into the services before the police arrived. Obviously someone had tipped them off about a golf cart travelling down the M4. As the police said when they questioned me: “Don’t worry, we’re not going to book you for speeding.”

‘Someone else made a joke by asking: “Is that Tiger Woods in the back seat?” There’s a golf course near that part of the M4 and one of the coppers asked: “Which hole were you playing?”

‘They took me to a police station in Cardiff and I was there for most of the day. I didn’t leave until five o’clock in the afternoon. They then dropped me back at the hotel.
Andy Powell

Calm before the storm: Powell in action against Scotland just hours before his drunken escapade

‘The word had got out about what I’d done by then and that’s when it began to hit me. I had to walk through the hotel foyer to get my belongings. There were a few people looking at me and I tried to keep my head down and walk as quickly as possible.

‘I felt I was doing the walk of shame, like they do after being voted off The Weakest Link. I’d done that for real on the television programme a few months back after appearing on the show with a number of other international rugby players – Phil Vickery, Josh Lewsey, Lee Mears, from England, Thomas Castaignede from France, Paul Wallace from Ireland and I was there with Jamie Roberts representing Wales.

‘I was the first to be voted off and Anne Robinson was a little harsh. She’s a scary woman and I didn’t bite back otherwise she’d have torn me apart. That was a bit of a laugh. The walk of shame through the hotel that afternoon was far worse. That was real shame.

‘The rest of the squad had all gone because we’d been given four days off. I got back home to Brecon at 7.30 that evening. Alan Phillips (Wales team manager) left a message on the answer phone saying: “You’ve been a bit of a bad boy. You’d better phone the hotel and apologise.” My agent, Mike Burton, sorted that out for me. I knew I was in trouble and that I had to speak to Warren Gatland (Wales head coach).

‘I tried to get hold of him on the Sunday but failed to make contact. I rang him Monday morning. I said: “I’ve let you down in a massive way. You gave me the chance to play Test rugby. You stuck by me.” ‘Warren’s a great coach and a top bloke. He didn’t tell me I was going to be dropped from the squad but I knew he had to make a tough call. I knew it was a serious matter and it was all my fault.

‘They had to make an example of me because you can’t do what I did and expect to carry on as though nothing’s happened.

‘Alan Phillips then rang me back and said: “You’re going to be put out of the squad.”

‘I’m absolutely gutted but I’ve got to put it behind me and move on. I’ve read about my nickname supposedly being ‘Braindead’ but that’s not true. I’m a pretty wild character in that I like having a few laughs and playing a few pranks but I’m not brain-dead or anything like it.

‘I understand those who say that I should never play for Wales again. But I’ve had about 120,000 messages of support on the internet from people saying they hope I get back in. I don’t think it would be right for me to be at the game on Friday. I’ll be rooting for the boys and I’ll watch it somewhere on television, hiding behind a balaclava!

‘I am truly sorry for what I’ve done. Now it’s down to me to get back playing for Cardiff. I have to make sure I don’t ever make the same mistake again.’

The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about the dangers of sharing precise location information on the internet.

The site scrutinises players of online game Foursquare, which is based on a person’s location in the real world.

PleaseRobMe extracts information from players who have chosen to post their whereabouts automatically onto Twitter.

“It started with me and a friend looking at our Twitter feeds and seeing more and more Foursquare posts,” said Boy Van Amstel, one of PleaseRobMe’s developers.

“People were checking in at their house, or their girlfriend’s or friend’s house, and sharing the address – I don’t think they were aware of how much they were sharing.”

Mr Van Amstel, Frank Groeneveld and Barry Borsboom realised that not only were people sharing detailed location information about themselves and their friends, they were also by default broadcasting when they were away from their own home.

Simple search

The website took just four hours to create.

“It’s basically a Twitter search – nothing new,” said Mr Van Amstel. “Anyone who can do HTML and Javascript can do this. You could almost laugh at how easy it is.”

He said that the site would remain live but stressed it was not created to encourage crime.

“The website is not a tool for burglary,” he said. “The point we’re getting at is that not long ago it was questionable to share your full name on the internet. We’ve gone past that point by 1,000 miles.”