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A woman uses a smartphone while standing on a street in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 23, 2019. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)
January 26, 2022, 4:17 pm
Iran arrests 17 people over ‘panic spreading’ prank videos
Tehran police chief says clips ‘play with people’s nerves, security and peace’; prankster defends actions, says he ‘only wanted to make people happy and gain more followers’
By Amir Vahdat
A group of men from the Israeli Arab town of Kafr Qasim pretending to be a delegation from the United Arab Emirates visiting Tel Aviv, December 4, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)
December 6, 2020, 9:04 am
Arab Israeli pranksters fool Tel Aviv with fake Emirati delegation
Footage of gag goes viral with bamboozled residents of Israel’s second city queuing up to take photos with group from Kafr Qasim
By ToI Staff
Incumbent President Andrzej Duda, left, and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda wave to supporters in Pultusk, Poland, July 12, 2020 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 15, 2020, 6:41 pm
Russian prankster poses as UN chief, reaches Polish president
State security investigating how Vladimir Kuznetsov got through to Andrzej Duda and whether Russia’s secret services were involved
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
A doctored picture of Hollywood actors Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson from "Back to the Future," which a Facebook prankster claimed was of an unidentified couple from 1950s Tel Aviv. (Courtesy/Ariel Plavnik via JTA)
June 26, 2020, 3:55 am
In prank gone awry, many believe ‘Back to Future’ photo is 1950s Israeli couple
Joke gets out of hand when Facebook user posts picture from film, asks for help identifying subjects, but recalls efforts to reunite Jews separated by Holocaust, other tragedies
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Screen capture from video showing people running for cover as eggplants rain from the sky in a prank clip made in Iran. (YouTube)
March 17, 2020, 8:16 am
Iran arrests five over prank eggplant-rain video
Police official says culprits claimed clip accidentally released online; Iranian who lives in Canada but was visiting country believed to have created footage
By AFP
The coffin of Shay Bradley during his funeral at Bohernabreena Cemetery in Dublin, Ireland on October 12, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)
October 15, 2019, 8:34 am
‘Let me out!’ Irishman pranks mourners at his own funeral
Dubliner Shay Bradley, who died of cancer, lightens the mood by having his son play a recording appearing to come from inside the coffin
By ToI Staff
Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (r) disguises himself for new series, 'Who Is America?' in July 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)
July 15, 2018, 7:34 pm
Republicans back guns for kids in Sacha Baron Cohen’s new show
Promo for Jewish prankster’s Showtime series shows him luring politicians into advocating for arming kindergarteners
By ToI Staff
Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen attending ‘The Brothers Grimsby’ fan screening at Regal Union Square in New York, March 8, 2016. (Roy Rochlin/FilmMagic)
July 14, 2018, 4:22 am
Sacha Baron Cohen used fake pro-Israel award to lure politician for prank show
Defeated Senate candidate Roy Moore says he went to Washington to accept an award for supporting Israel; threatens to sue the comedian
By AP
Wichita police investigate a call of a possible hostage situation near the corner of McCormick and Seneca in Wichita, Kansas on December 28, 2017. (Fernando Salazar/The Wichita Eagle via AP)
December 30, 2017, 5:58 pm
Kansas police say prank led to killing of unarmed man
Authorities say hoax call was case of ‘swatting,’ in which a person makes up a false report to get a SWAT team to descend on an address
By Heather Hollingsworth and JIM SALTER
Simon Brodkin dressed as a haredi Orthodox rabbi for an audition for 'Britain’s Got Talent.' (Screenshot from YouTube/via JTA)
March 10, 2017, 8:02 am
The Jewish prankster who rang in the new year with ‘crappy’ routine on Britain’s Got Talent
In his longest undercover con yet, Simon Brodkin drew on his roots to prove that the popular TV show doesn’t live up to its name
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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