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I think it was a damn cool prank.

Posted by Providence | April 24, 2008 9:31 AM
2

Yeah, fuck pillow fights, this is way better.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | April 24, 2008 9:36 AM
3

Even if some idiot flipped out and killed his family over the idea of aliens invading, this would still be funny.

Posted by Mr. Poe | April 24, 2008 9:38 AM
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Somewhere, Jeff Foxworthy is updating his "You might be a redneck..." list.

Posted by Mike of Renton | April 24, 2008 9:40 AM
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Idiots everywhere.......

Posted by minndog6 | April 24, 2008 9:45 AM
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Is the guy also claiming responsibility for the Phoenix Lights flap ten years ago...?

Posted by kid icarus | April 24, 2008 9:46 AM
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Darwin Award!

Posted by elenchos | April 24, 2008 9:49 AM
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Naw, elenchos, it's only a Darwin Award if he kills himself. But yes, I understand the context of that comment.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | April 24, 2008 10:04 AM
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Dude, that's the definition of a cool prank. I mean HG Wells did it to the entire fucking country, and we regard him as a genius.

Posted by Gitai | April 24, 2008 10:08 AM
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Road flares attached to uncontrollable balloons out over the desert? That sounds like a great idea. Building a bunch of campfires and then leaving them unattended is so much work...

Posted by matthew e | April 24, 2008 10:33 AM
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@9 - I think that was Orson Welles, not HG Wells.

Posted by Queen Vidor | April 24, 2008 10:36 AM
12

Predictable. Government is now planting a cover story after the truth was discovered.

Posted by Medina | April 24, 2008 10:48 AM
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Sorry, that's hilarious. The credulous deserve a good pranking.

Posted by Colin | April 24, 2008 11:12 AM
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@11 - It was Orson Welles adapting H.G. Wells.

Posted by thelyamhound | April 24, 2008 12:05 PM
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Agree, pretty damn funny.

Balloons + road flares + flight paths, maybe not so much.

Posted by Dougsf | April 24, 2008 1:28 PM
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You say local idiot, I say local awesome idiot.

I like this prank.

Posted by Ryan | April 24, 2008 1:39 PM
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Shit. Seriously, I've been thinking of how to pull this off for years, and this guy beat me to it. I was always stumped on how to get a "linear" wing-like shape-- never thought it would be that easy.

Posted by eclexia | April 24, 2008 1:49 PM

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