Okay, so first of all, I am totally assuming that the person responsible for this “prank” isn’t friends with the prankee. I mean, no friend could possibly do this to another friend. Let’s just say that I don’t think the pranker will be receiving any friendship bracelets anytime soon. Second of all, is this guy CRAZY?!?
Christopher Shell probably didn’t think that when the pilot announced an emergency landing (due to “technical difficulties”) that the real reason for landing would actually be himself. Posting on his Facebook page that he was disappointed with his experience with US Airways, he hadn’t seen anything yet.
As soon as the plane landed, the plane was flooded with armed federal agents running straight for him.
The airport had received an anonymous tip that Shell would be boarding the plane with liquid explosives. A tip that the Feds would later find out to be totally untrue. Turns out, someone had called in order to prank Shell for his birthday. Really?
“He was obviously very alarmed as I would be if heavily armed police officers entered a plane to take me off, he was certainly stunned,” Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan told NBC10.
Sullivan said Shell would not be charged in connection with the security scare, but his buddy, who cost the airline tens of thousands of dollars, definitely will be. And it’s possible that Shell’s ex-girlfriend could have also been involved in this totally cray prank. Yikes.
Well, hopefully none of you have ever pulled something even close to this magnitude of stupid, but have you ever pulled a prank on a friend that backfired?
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Dude, that is taking a “prank” WAY too far, especially since passengers carrying weapons on airplanes is a very real situation that happens and not something to joke about. And to put not just his friend but ALL of those people on that airplane into a state of utter terror thinking that they may die, and then to hold up their flight even longer by causing a forced emergency landing, only to find out “Haha, sorry guys, it was a prank..”? He deserves every person who was on that flight an apology. And god, the poor guy who was his “friend.” I can’t even imagine. That is the absolute worst way to spend your birthday, holding up hundreds of people and making them think they were in danger and then being confronted by FBI who thought you were the danger. If his ex-girlfriend really was a part of this prank along with the friend, then that is so unbelievably immature. They’re both psychotic.
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Poor guy! That’s terrible >:(
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Sorry, that’s not prank. Whoever called the Feds is NOT alright in the head and probably needs some serious psychiatric treatment.
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They aren’t friends. Story here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/07/christopher-shell-explosives-hoax-arrest_n_1864154.html
orchid / 105 posts
@books8137@xanga - whoa… those people are all crazy. when i first heard and posted about this story, everyone was still confused as to this person’s relationship with the guy on the plane. and i had also heard that his ex-girlfriend may have been involved. this girl obviously has really good taste in men.
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@misswheeler - I love that the guy who was supposed to be the “victim” also ended up being arrested later on. Only in ‘merica? lol
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I think maybe they thought he would be stopped before he got on the plane.
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When I treeplanted I was planting in a line and I came to a hornets nest and as a prank to the guy behind me I left a “dropped tree” there. The prank worked excellent, the guy behind me went to pick up the dropped tree and was like “hey you dropped- ahhhhhhh” as he was surrounded by hornets. That was about the meanest prank I’ve ever pulled.
orchid / 105 posts
@books8137@xanga - omg yes. these are a group of people who think the law just doesn’t apply to them… i mean, did that dude really think that no one would find out it was him that called?
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i can see someone who hated the guy doing this to him, but not a true friend. that’s a lot of effort to be putting into a prank in the first place. shit.
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What a moron.