"pranks" news and stories

Police in Murfreesboro, Tenn. are calling the recent explosion of a ketchup bottle at a local waffle joint the latest manifestation of a worrisome national trend.

Spokesman Kyle Evans says there's been a proliferation of "video Web sites describing the prank," which entails adding baking soda to a half-emptied bottle of ketchup.

"This could be a class C felony," Evans adds, citing a statute that forbids tampering with food.

According to the police report, the victim's wife called 911 after ketchup ended up "all in his face and hands, even his clothing."

"We were having breakfast, and my husband opened up a ketchup bottle and it exploded everywhere," Bonnie Brewer told the dispatcher. "(The staff) said, 'Don't tell me the ketchup bottle exploded.' It was almost like it had happened before."

Kids will be kids, right? Well, in the town of Caister-on-Sea, near Great Yarmouth (about three hours from London), police have asked local grocers to help out in preventing kids from being quite so kid-like. Area residents were reporting having ketchup squirted at their cars and, while that's not a criminal act on its own, if the ketchup were to cause damage to the paint, the perpetrators would be liable.

So the police went to the grocery stores and asked them to stop selling ketchup (and eggs) to young people in bulk amounts, in order to prevent this "anti-social behavior." Apparently the action is making a difference, as without easy access to their chosen mischief media, the teens are settling back into their law-abiding behavior.

[via Foobooz]

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Now, I know that there are people somewhere that like those Cadbury Cream Eggs. I'll be some are even friends of mine, probably the same ones that like the marshmallow "peeps." Well, here's a site that's out to teach those egg-lovers a lesson. What we have here is a detailed guide to replacing that bizarre cream filling with common condiments that are, in the context of a Cadbury egg, possibly even more repulsive than the original filling. Ok, maybe not. At least site's host, who goes by the name Clintonime, rules out mayo. The choice of filling in the demonstration is barbecue sauce. Basically, you carefully unwrap the egg, split the shell as best you can, scoop out some filling, replace it with your sauce of choice (mustard, whipped broccoli, etc.) and then re-seal it. It's suggested that you heat a knife and use it like a soldering iron to seal the egg. This is some serious egg sabotage.