Professional skier Alex Hackel went incognito as a beginner and signed up for some ski lessons in Austria, all just to see how long he could go before the ski instructor realized he was very, very far from a beginner. To pull off the hilarious stunt, he claimed to be a sports journalist from Boston who was filming a YouTube series titled "First Turns", covering the process of learning how to ski.
"those who received these AI generated images and commentary sincerely believed that there was an actual intruder in their home and called 9-1-1 to report a burglary or breaking and entering in progress which necessitated an immediate police response."
Tesla's Boombox Megaphone functionality allows drivers to project their voices from their vehicle's speaker system. There's already been a slew of folks who've demonstrated the feature in action, which is available to cars manufactured from 2019 on. But a Tesla driver recently used the feature to mess with employees at a Chick-fil-A drive-through and troll another customer in the process.
Following reports over the summer that his SiriusXM program would be canceled at the end of his contract in 2025, Howard Stern addressed the speculation head-on with a spectacular troll job on Monday. In his first episode back from summer break, Stern pranked the media by handing the mic to his friend Andy Cohen, who pretended that Stern had parted ways with SiriusXM and taken over the show.
As the doctor emerged from the room, he glanced at the Urgency Map, previously filled with patients' names. One nurse blurted out, 'You’ve got a patient, and guess who it is? It's your mom!' The doctor froze, panic setting in as he processed the implications of what had been played off as a harmless prank. The absurdity intertwined with his growing anxiety created a moment of heightened synchronicity that felt both eerie and humorous at once.
The prank, coined the 'Apple Pay' prank, has been circulating TikTok over the last few days. The goal is to elicit some kind of extreme response from the target for the sake of a viral video.
