OT - More Japanese pranks.

Neville · June 28, 2006, 05:27:55 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrJSMxRPzPU

Scott · June 28, 2006, 09:50:31 PM

Another great one from Japan.

American TV isn't to bad, but Japan really knows how to do stuff.

Inyarear · June 29, 2006, 01:03:19 AM

Ha ha ha! The only thing that would stop people from doing this in America is the physical risk and the nudity. I do remember an episode of Totally Hidden Video in which they came pretty close to exposing naked people, though: in that episode, they pranked one guy by paying him to try out (supposedly) a new shampoo in the tub before it was put on the market. Then the researcher announced that someone else needed the room they were using and they were going to be moving the subject to another floor. He had two workmen push the tub with the guy in it on to an elevator, but not get on themselves! The hidden camera then followed the fellow's reactions as the lather from the shampoo began to get low and various people from other floors (all accomplices to the prank, of course) got on the elevator with him for a ride, including some comely young ladies(!) and a nun(!!!).

Another prank from the same episode was a "teleport" in which various guys stripped down for a massage were put face-down on a table and given a blinder to wear during the massage. Then the masseuse would tell the guy to relax, that she'd be back in a few minutes, that she was going to go get some equipment, etc. As soon as the mark was properly relaxed, some people would very quietly slip in some chairs and a bunch of people in nice suits and a lectern and Sunday School books and such and even move a few walls, and then these accomplices pretended it was Sunday and the place was a church and they were holding a Sunday School class and that they didn't know how this guy wearing nothing but a towel over his butt got into the room. (That was if the subject made known that he was there. One guy was so freaked out by what he saw that he just pulled the blinder back on again and pretended he hadn't seen what he'd seen.)

Dr. Whom · June 29, 2006, 07:42:49 AM

Check out the toilet variation. These guys really stop at nothing.

Neville · June 29, 2006, 07:55:44 AM

LOL These people are the bomb! To create a rocket-propelled massage armchair is cool enough, but to use it THAT way...

Dr. Whom · June 30, 2006, 02:08:39 AM

Are you sure these are genuine? In most countries it would be against the law to shoot unsuspecting naked people across a skiing slope in a rocket propelled armchair.

Shadowphile · June 30, 2006, 02:51:27 AM

They aren't naked. They have towels....

Scott · June 30, 2006, 06:06:33 AM

No AlexB ! ! ! They have no such silly laws in Japan. : )

Shooting unsuspecting naked people across a skiing slope in a rocket propelled armchair is perfectly acceptable in Japan.

Neville · June 30, 2006, 06:16:57 AM

The we'd better be careful if we visit Japan, because if with Japanese people it's funny, with gaijin it must be even better for them.