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Fire trucks and ambulances reportedly rushed to the White House Monday morning around seven o’clock after a “prank caller” claimed the residence was on fire and someone was trapped inside. The incident represents the latest swatting event against political officials. Dangerous swatting events appear to have first been instigated by Democrat prank callers against political opponents.

Police in Treasure Island, Fla., attempted to wrangle a large alligator spotted on the beach, but soon discovered the reported reptile was a sand sculpture. Photo courtesy of the Treasure Island Police Department/Facebook May 16 (UPI) -- Police in Florida responded to a beach to round up what appeared to be a large alligator but was soon discovered to be a realistic sand sculpture. "Crikey! Look at the size of that gator one of our officers tried rounding up on Treasure Island Beach last night," the Treasure Island Police Department wrote in posting a photo of the faux gator to...

Anurag Chandra drove behind the teens and rammed their vehicle, killing three and injuring three others in Temescal Valley, California. The car went off the road and into a pole.A California man who rammed a car carrying a group of teenagers who had played a doorbell prank at his home in 2020 was convicted Friday of murder. Three teenage boys died and three others were injured when they were struck by a car driven by Anurag Chandra, and the vehicle they were in careened off the roadway and into a pole in Riverside County, authorities said. A jury convicted Chandra,...

A pair of pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees tricked multiple media outlets Friday as the public anxiously awaited news on whether Elon Musk had begun axing staffers. CNBC’s Deirdre Bosa interviewed two people who identified themselves as Twitter employees and were seen near the company’s San Francisco headquarters carrying cardboard boxes. Skepticism immediately emerged on social media. One of the pranksters said his name was “Rahul Ligma” — a reference to a popular internet meme — and held a copy of Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming” aloft while speaking to reporters. The other said his name was “Daniel Johnson.” CNBC,...

Recently, a team of individuals went after phone scam call centers in India in EPIC fashion. Mark Rober used his skills to fashion booby traps, Trilogy Media flew to India and had insiders plant them, and Jim Browning used his hacker skills to gain access to the scammers' internal systems. What follows is mind-blowing. Presented here are three separate videos from each of their channels detailing how it all went down and the aftermath.Mark Rober - Pranks Destroy Scam Callers- GlitterBomb PaybackTrilogy Media - GLITTERBOMBING a Scam Call Center w/ Mark RoberJim Browning - Pranking Scammers ft. Mark Rober Each...

The prop gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico movie set had been used by crew members offsite for fun, a new report claims. The gun, which was fired by Alec Baldwin on the set of the movie “Rust,” may have even been loaded with live rounds when it was used for what was essentially target practice, TMZ reported. Multiple sources connected to the production of the film told TMZ that the gun was fired at off-the-clock gatherings – which could explain how a live round found its way into the gun’s chamber. Another source who was...

A sushi enthusiast shared a photograph of his meal on Facebook, only to be pranked by netizens who ordered more food for him via the QR code in the image. On Saturday (Oct 2), a man in Hong Kong posted in a sushi and sashimi interest group on Facebook, showing him dining in at Genki Sushi at East Point City in Tseung Kwan O. The accompanying caption of the post wrote, "Eating at Genki again today". The picture showed a plate of sushi, some empty plates in the background, but more incriminatingly — the QR code used for ordering food...

Like many other San Francisco tech companies, Google has yet to return to its offices. With its campus on Embarcadero going largely unused, conceptual artist Danielle Baskin got to thinking about what type of business might swoop in on that kind of vacant real estate. Given that Oct. 31 is just a little over a month away, the answer was obvious: Spirit Halloween, the costume store that moves into strip malls every year in the months proceeding the holiday. Baskin, best known for her viral fake website Blue Check Homes or her app that connects strangers for phone conversations, happens...

After an eight-month absence following his on-screen masturbation in front of fellow employees during a Zoom meeting with New Yorker Magazine colleagues, CNN's longtime chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin his been restored to his cable news post. His first "gig" was to be interviewed by anchor Alisyn Camerota on CNN's "Newsroom" program. Camerota's first question was "what the hell were you thinking?" Toobin responded "well, as most people know, the New Yorker is a very pro-masturbation environment. Self pleasuring is the safest form of sex. Toward the tail end of a very boring Zoom meeting I thought why not have...

Aired 1/28/21 (How I wish the prankster had used Brokeback Mountain "I can't quit you"!!!!!)

I have no other words for this... https://twitter.com/rubinreport/status/1340099167964688386?s=21

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was recently duped by a pair of Russian pranksters, BBC News reports. Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov released the audio recording of the chat in which they masqueraded as Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. “Hello Greta!” Trudeau, 48, said at the start of the recording. One of the tricksters said, “I understand that you have a lot of work and not so much time to talk to a young girl, but I’m very concerned about the growing international crisis.” The fake Thunberg’s call came in the days following tensions between Iran and the U.S. that...

Finding a rusty treasure chest full of gold coins is the ultimate fantasy for fans of metal detecting, and it seemed to be happening Saturday to a woman vacationing in South Carolina. Angie Moore of Atlanta says she was out with her dad “experimenting” with a metal detector when it indicated something big in the sand outside the Marriott Grande Ocean in Hilton Head. “So, I started digging,” Moore told McClatchy News. “We finally cleared the top of it off and ... it was one of those moments where you can’t believe what you’re seeing. The wooden chest had really...

Over the course of history, comedians have shared their take on current events with biting commentary on everything from class and gender to fashion and politics, and the current presidential administration is definitely no exception. The current administration is attacked by lefties actors more than any other administration in our history! President Donald Trump is regularly lampooned on shows like “Saturday Night Live” and by late-night TV hosts. The anti-Trump actor Sacha Baron Cohen also turned his skill toward exposing highbrow politicians and hard-line conservatives with a coterie of new characters in Who Is America? He hit President Trump and...

Burger King is in full-on preparation mode, getting ready for the inevitable day when economies around the world begin to reopen in a post-coronavirus world. One of those preparations include the introduction of massive paper crowns, big enough that it forces customers in the restaurant to stay six feet apart – the new norm experts say is most effective in helping stamp out the further spread of COVID-19. Currently, Burger King is testing the paper crowns in Germany, a country where the chain has approximately 700 locations. According to one Burger King spokesperson, the company is working on coming up...

HANOVER TOWNSHIP- A grocery store lost over $35,000 after a woman pulls a sick prank. The manager said that a woman, who the police know to be a chronic problem in the community, came in to the store and purposely coughed on the store's fresh produce, and a small section of the bakery, meat case and grocery. "While there is little doubt this woman was doing it as a very twisted prank, we will not take any chances with the health and well-being of our customers," said Fasula. "We had no choice but to throw out all the product she...

A pair of Russian YouTubers claim that they have nabbed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in another prank call from a pair posing as Greta Thunberg and her father, according to their latest video. The video opens with an individual who sounds like and identifies himself as Sanders, one of the frontrunners in the Democrats’ presidential primary, asking to speak with Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist who was named TIME Person of the Year. “I just wanted to congratulate you on the extraordinary role you are playing in rallying young people and people throughout the world on this terrible, terrible...

Customer service lady at Walmart gets punked to make an announcment over the store intercom asking Clinton Kilt Epstein to come to the front of the store. Video here.

<p>A Florida man who shot and killed his son-in-law who jumped out of a bush to surprise him for his birthday will not face criminal charges, authorities said.</p> <p>Christopher Bergan, 37, had arrived in Florida from Norway on Tuesday night to surprise his wife's father, Richard Dennis, 61, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson said at a news conference Thursday.</p>

Authorities arrested a 14-year-old white male student at Naperville High School in Naperville, Illinois, and charged him with committing a hate crime. What the teen did was genuinely bad: He took a picture of a black classmate and posted a "slave for sale" ad on Craigslist. The school suspended him, and it was right to do so. But now the police are involved, and the teen faces two felony hate crime charges as well as a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge. ... For the authorities to charge someone with a hate crime, there must be an underling crime. Simply holding or...