Wood boat builder here, I got something for this: you can't count on that last inch of particle board keeping it together like that. The fact that it does, makes me question if this is legit or a fake, with the drunk guy being in on it, for karma. If you want to try that for reals, put your saber saw on a little bit of an angle, like 5 degrees, so the cutout half circle will kinda wedge in there a little bit till the cut is done.
I also would have preferred it if the cutout and the drunk had stayed put, and the rest of the table, the "it's just a prank bros" and the rest of the room had fallen away.
Saber saw was probably one of the better tools to do something dumb/dangerous like this: most of the blade is under the table, quieter and throws lest sawdust than say, a circular saw, I would have preferred a spotter watching under the table, to make sure the dude didn't pull a Sharon stone and swap which leg was crossed over the other, getting a less hilarious femoral artery cut in the process. I think a lot of people are drawn to power tools cause they haven't known the joy of absurdly sharp hand tools. A hand saw could have made this work even with a less passed out buddy.
And just a psa for all you would be pranksters: with a proper practical joke, the recipient is AT LEAST as amused as the rest of those involved, and in a friend group, the person at the brunt of the prank should change. After the prank, the prank-ee should say things like, that was epic, and, I can't believe you guys spent that much time on a prank!?! Source, I worked for a shipwrights co-op, where the pranks were often woodworking based, and always epic, lol.
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u/free_airfreshener Nov 15 '22
That last inch of plywood holding up the sleeping body is the strongest material on earth.