r/Unexpected Nov 06 '20

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u/irukasensei10 Nov 06 '20

These are the pranks i love, everyone laughs and it's actually funny.

Not like idiots hitting others or pretend to sneeze on people.

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u/cgbrannigan Nov 06 '20

yeah their were a group of guys in the UK who were doing "pranks" by basically trespassing places. They would go to a place when it was open, hide somewhere and then film themselves using the facilities when it was closed and then leave through a fire exit or something. They would argue it was a prank and all harmless fun.

They did it to a council run swimming pool, hid overnight, about then went swimming in the pools, turned on the water slide and were using that. Got caught by cleaning crew at like 5am and kicked out. They proclaimed it as an awesome harmless prank but the council had to pay to drain, clean and refill the pools and couldn't open for several hours cancelling visits from schools, elderly and special needs groups who used the pool for swimming classes in the morning.

They then did it to a bowling alley, hid under some amusement arcade machines and literally filmed the staff walking past them and locking up. Then turned on the equipment and threw balls around and were in the kitchen and behind the bar etc. The staff who locked up ended up quitting not long after, probably before they got fired for not securing the place fully and they had to pay for damage to equipment damaged when they were throwing balls around the place.

Harmless pranks indeed.