Clever Prank

[Janos]

I thought this was pretty funny and relatively harmless for a teenage prank.

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/08/28/crosswalk-prank/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHT_ufv2iY8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eneatorama%2Ecom%2F2007%2F0 8%2F28%2Fcrosswalk%2Dprank%2F

High school students in Austin, Minnesota pulled this prank via an underground tunnel connecting the two school buildings. Keep your eye out for the chicken and the cow!

[Varaj]

Pretty funny.

[Cat of Ulthar]

I like that. :)

I swear, I sometimes feel that people on the train are pulling that prank on me, so many people getting out of one compartment I am half suspecting them of walking around me, getting back in in the other door and walking out again...

[Hastur T. Fannon]

Nice

[Ancalagon]

I liked how a few were costumed, it just added to the comedy.

[The Winslow]

I'm gonna be the thread's official mean old crankypants, then, because I didn't find it funny.

I think that, after seeing the same kid pass twice, I'd have simply driven on. Slowly, just on idle, to avoid putting any of them in danger, but onward nonetheless.

Wasting other people's time is all fair and good, but it's not that harmless if an ambulance can't reach the hospital in time, for example. And also the consequences might not be as dramatic, if you missed your train or plane because of some stupid kids' prank, you'd probably be kinda annoyed, wouldn't you?

I'm a bit biased because I hate driving in cities. Between the ill-conceived traffic plans (unsynchronized streetlights, labyrinthine one-way-road networks, unreliable signposts) and the many, many other drivers out there (a lot of them will, mathematically, drive in a dangerous or frustrating way), my stress level always goes up. Traffic jams are especially bad.

[Dawnstar]

Not being in that line of cars I find this sort of funny and think that the costumes would have made me laugh. but if I had been in that line of cars I would be pissed. They said they were planning on doing it for 15 minutes. I think before that time someone would have called the cops.