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Friends Repay Joker With Human-Cage Prank
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| May. 19, 2006
Posted on 05/22/2006 6:37:43 AM PDT by Andy from Beaverton
Friends Repay Joker With Human-Cage Prank
Friends get revenge on prankster by turning his apartment into a human-sized hamster cage
OLYMPIA, Wash., May. 19, 2006
(AP) A practical joker got a taste of revenge when friends turned part of his apartment into a human-sized hamster cage, complete with shredded newspaper bedding, a six-foot exercise wheel and a giant water bottle.
"It was a lot of work, but it was one of those cases where you do it because you have to," said Keith Jewell, a longtime friend and neighbor who engineered Monday's hamster-cage prank on Luke Trerice.
Trerice, 28, had it coming: In 2004, he enlisted others to help him encase another friend's apartment and most of his belongings in aluminum foil.
The victim of that prank, Chris Kirk, spent nearly two years cleaning up the meticulous coating of foil, which was wrapped around everything from his toilet and CD collection to the individual coins in his spare change.
A giant ball of foil still sits in the basement of Kirk's former apartment building.
The revenge plotting began immediately, and even though Kirk has since moved to Colombia, Jewell and others finished the job for him.
Trerice, who once said he would be insulted if there was no attempt at payback, also was waiting to see what his friends would come up with.
He even helped them out, making sure they knew it would be a month before he could move in to his Olympia apartment after graduating from dental school in Las Vegas.
"I knew that something was happening. They made no effort to hide it," Trerice told The Olympian newspaper.
Eight people put in more than 100 hours assembling the room, and supplies cost about $300.
Jewell, 26, a theater set designer and computer networker, came up with the concept and got a machinist's help in building the giant hamster wheel from metal pipes.
Jewell said he suffered some injuries when testing the ring. "If you spin upside down, you're not gripping the bars with your feet. So of course I went head first on the concrete," he said.
The group worked through the night before Trerice's arrival, shredding newspaper, blowing up a beach ball, installing the water bottle in a window and filling a metal feed bucket with Cheetos. There wasn't time to finish a few details, such as lining the walls with wire fencing.
Trerice has started cleaning up, but trips to the recycling bin still haven't made much of a dent in the two-foot pool of paper shreds on the floor.
The wheel, however, has proven popular and will become a permanent fixture in the room, Trerice said. After all, it took four people to bend it into an oval shape that would fit up the stairwell and through the door.
Trerice also said he's going to start saving now for his own revenge plans.
"They claim they did this on (Kirk's) behalf. If they think that's going to mitigate any of the revenge that's coming, well that's even funnier than the wheel," he said.
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To: Andy from Beaverton
These idiots must be Dimocrats, with too much time on their hands!
To: Andy from Beaverton
Can't ya just feel the love. Friends.
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posted on
05/22/2006 6:46:31 AM PDT
by
wizr
(wiz - Sound on prairie, made by buffalo.)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
To much time and money, thanks to Mom and Dad.
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posted on
05/22/2006 6:48:58 AM PDT
by
conservativewasp
(Liberals lie for sport and hate our country.)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
In the early 50s one of the hot rodders in the club got married and when he was on his honeymoon we moved his second floor bedroom furnature to the garage and disassembled his 32 roadster and reassembled it in his bedroom.
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posted on
05/22/2006 6:49:01 AM PDT
by
dalereed
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To: alice_in_bubbaland
I don't think they are democrats. They are creative, willing to work, and have a sense of humor (not characteristic of your whiny liberal who thinks things should be handed to them). Since when does being a conservative mean you can't have some fun? If thats what it means, then what a waste.
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posted on
05/22/2006 6:53:19 AM PDT
by
3dognight
To: dalereed
OK, now that's funny!
To: alice_in_bubbaland
These idiots must be DimocratsOh I don't know...well developed sense of humor, creative engineering...sounds conservative to me!
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posted on
05/22/2006 6:56:21 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
To: Andy from Beaverton
"It was a lot of work, but it was one of those cases where you do it because you have to," said Keith Jewell, a longtime friend and neighbor who engineered Monday's hamster-cage prank on Luke Trerice. Taht's the spirit! I admire this guy.
I love a good practical joke and this one is commendable.
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posted on
05/22/2006 6:58:53 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(My Tagline is Humblegunner Approved)
To: alice_in_bubbaland
These idiots must be Dimocrats
________________
LOL. So now we politicize practical jokers?
I realize it's a surprise to some, but not everything has a political component to it.
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posted on
05/22/2006 6:59:43 AM PDT
by
dmz
To: Drawsing
I can think of many ways to have fun, this prank is just a stupid waste of time and money.
To: dalereed
We did the same with our dorm's RA's VW bug back in '77.
To: Andy from Beaverton
Steve Bloom/The Olympian
Luke Trerice came home to find a room of his Olympia apartment transformed into a human-size hamster cage, with newspaper scraps, a working 6-foot wheel and a water bottle in the window. The stunt was payback for Trerices January 2004 foiling of a friends apartment.
To: alice_in_bubbaland
just a stupid waste of time
thats exactly what my wife says about freepin', but I keep doing it.
To: 3dognight
LOL! Yes, but we are an informed bunch of "time wasters"! :0)
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