The Free iPhone Prank A video
by Luke McKinney 11,088 110 12/24/2009 11:06 PM 7655 views
Once again the iPhone is being used for something great -- and for once it isn't a stupid app. A team of wonderfully well-equipped pranksters placed an iPhone on the city streets of New York, and watched as everyone in the world tried to steal it.
Of course we're assuming they were stealing -- there's every chance that the average NYC citizen, on finding several hundred dollars worth of extremely sought-after equipment just lying there, would have dedicated their personal time to returning it to the rightful owner. Modern physics also tells us there's a non-zero chance of all the air spontaneously disappearing from our lungs, but we're not holding our breath for fear of quantum mechanical suffocation. Oh, and the whole reason these guys pulled the prank was a previous iPhone had been stolen out from under their noses at another event.
No, the real joy of this seven-minute social spectrum recording is the wealth of would-be phone snatchers recorded.
1:41: Screeching "HEY GUYZ LOOK WUT I FOUND!!" Harpy Genuinely believes free iPhones should happen to her, and that this event -- like every other thing in her life -- should be accompanied by glass-shattering screams.
2:04: Secret Agent Street Seller Masking a covert attempt at extracting the iPhone -- or as he would know it, several nights' worth of high-alcohol cough syrup -- by dropping the bundle of crappy roses he carried. This prank delayed him from annoying the hell out of couples in the street for several seconds, for which the pranksters have the thanks of the entire dating world.
4:28: Health And Safety If an iPhone resists early attempts to extract it, always bend from your knees instead of your back when pulling harder. This will protect your spine muscles. This will not protect you from looking stupid on camera.
4:35: The King Of New York Having watched another man tug hopelessly at the phone for several seconds, King Arthur steps up, secure in the knowledge that no-one else in the world deserves this phone. Like Excalibur before it, this iPhone will only allow itself to be taken by the true King Of New York.
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