A YouTube prankster’s attempt to pull a fast one at a Virginia mall literally backfired after the intended target got mad and shot him in the stomach.
“I was playing a prank, a simple practical joke, and this guy didn’t take it very well and shot me,” Tanner Cook, 21, told WUSA9 from his hospital bed in the intensive care unit.
Cook runs the YouTube channel Classified Goons, which features him performing “Jackass”-style pranks on unsuspecting people.
Some of these harebrained gags have included pretending to urinate in stores and asking strangers to play “naked Twister.”
Authorities didn’t specify the nature of the youngster’s latest stunt, which he filmed with friends near a Cheesecake Factory at the Dulles Town Center in Dulles.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/04/04/youtube-prankster-tanner-cooks-stunt-fails-shot-by-target/
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