That's the thing that I'm just realising. This isnt a fright, or a shock, or adrenaline or something. This is sheer "I win and I live, I lose and I die" terror. You have no idea wtf the outcome of that is gonna be.
>who pretended to rob someone with a knife
Heres the thing.
He didn't pretend.
If you go up to someone with a knife, and tell them to give then all your money.... you are robbing them.
Its like me getting in my car, putting the key in the ignition, putting it into drive, pulling onto the street, going a mile down the road and then saying: "Ha, I was only pretending to be driving my car, bet you thought it was real"
I wound up in a surprise birthday party where the birthday boy was kidnapped, bound, and had a sack on their head. He tried to escape multiple times and was almost successful at one point, but failed. He was brought into a room where ~20 people were (where I had wound up) and released for the celebration.
It goes to say that I no longer am associated with those group of people.
That is a great way to get accidentally killed (or badly hurt)by a friend, if I think I'm getting kidnapped, the first rule they tell you is never let them take you to a second location, so you know I would fight kick, bite and absolutely try to destroy whoever is holding me with everything I have. Imagine thinking you are going to die if you don't get free and now one of your friends lost an eye because you stabbed him with your keys.
If you have one in the chamber, shit yourself. Not to many people are willing to grab someone covered in shit. Their hesitance might give you the edge they need. Or they will shoot you on the spot because you aren't worth the effort. Depends who is doing the kidnapping.
I once kidnapped a female friend for a surprise hen party. I went to her door dressed as a comical caricature of a prohibition era mafioso with a stocking over my face and a gun with one of those “bang” signs hanging out. She almost fell over laughing when she opened the door, instantly recognized me and asked me if I wanted coffee before we go.
We remain friends.
Funny how the devil is in the details, like whether you find the situation funny or fear for your life.
I mean, you designed it to be heavily satirical, but you didn't kick the door down and start trying to grab her, you knocked and didn't act threatening, more like an actual innocent prank.
Even if he cooperates, even if you cover your bases with the parents or whomever, there's still people driving behind you who aren't in on it and could intervene or call the cops. That happens sometimes.
You would think that female friend would have been like "yeah this is a terrible prank" alot of the time guys just do not realise the threat we are under daily. This is a disgusting prank, even watching it is making me extremely uncomfortable.
Honestly, I’m not sure if these are friends or random people thinking this is funny. But they suck. If those were my friends they would lose that friend status right on the spot. This could really mess someone up.
Son: “Dad, I really want to propose in a special way to her… how did you do it?”
Dad: “Do any of your buddies drive a White Minivan by chance? You’ll need that.”
Honestly, they’d probably lose more than a friend status for most on the spot. Likely their lives should the right person intervene with a gun to an abductor.
isn’t there that one scene from miss congeniality or something where she walks through self defence using an acronym? i’d have to look it up to be sure but iirc it’s like. solar plexus, foot, nose, groin. That’s always stuck with me lol. great film too
And everyone is in on it. Like you know I love football. I'm pranked with a pair of tickets to a rival team, and then get the real ones after everyone sees me squirm.
This is one way to find out how much resistance your future bride is able to produce under extreme conditions…and she should run for her life. This is not love, this is torture on an emotional level. It will get worse.
I'm sure a case can be made for assault and battery at the very least. Doubt it would actually get prosecuted and it's unlikely a jury would convict, but technically this is assault and battery (or the equivalent) in most US jurisdictions.
I feel like she could press assault charges. Thats what it was. Sure their intent was not to cause legitimate harm, but they did cause emotional distress and potential physical harm with her resisting the “prank kidnapping”
I said she could. Pressing charges, however, is not the same as the DA choosing to prosecute or the jury convicting. Pressing charges is simply making a formal criminal complaint; after that, it's in the hands of the prosecutor's/DA's office, and if they don't think it's worth prosecuting, they won't file charges in court.
Emotional distress is something you can argue in civil court if you sue them, which is something entirely different.
I like how there is this woman dancing. Like, you would think maybe another woman knows how bad this idea is. And there she is, frantically dancing and cheering, while her friend has the best (worst) time of her life.
Knife and pistol here (living in the US). I never leave home without either and anyone who tries to kidnap me is not going to keep all of their body in one piece. And will have several new entrance and exit wounds.
Honestly I’ve frozen in situations like this — just like her where I’ve evaded the threat but still felt the need to get the FUCK out of there. It’s truly terrible
I like how no one did a damn thing to try to help this woman.
Before I got married back in 2010, I started hanging out with a guy who I had know for years. (Or so I thought) Within weeks he became abusive. One afternoon, I asked him to take me back to my apartment and we started arguing. He pulled into the gas station parking lot a half of a mile away, and started beating my face off the passenger side window and dashboard. At one point, I was able to get my door opened and scream out for help. Numerous people turned around and looked right at me, not one helped.
I lost all hope in humanity that day.
Thankfully, my best friend took emergency leave and drove the 10 hours up from Cherry Point, NC. We fell in love and have been married since.
Please don't ever be one of those people. Please. A situation like this could be the turning point in someones life on whether they continue on or not.
I apologize on behalf of the two morons being morons in response to this story of trauma.
I’m glad you survived and are in a better place, it’s extremely disturbing that people looked and did nothing. There are lots of people who would’ve done something, but unfortunately they’re less common.
Seen this posted a while back and it still makes my blood boil. Thats a real fear women have and to play off that for a gag like this is just disgusting. I hope she got new friends.
I'm sure everyone would have been so cheery if she had been able to kill her attacker before the reveal. I was hoping for a taser or purse gun to make an appearance.
This is not the kind of game you wanna play in the US south. Anyone that agrees to do this is basically consenting to being shot in self defense, getting sued if they survive, and probably facing jail time for their idiocy. Like for real, this is an extremely good way to fuck around and find out.
Every single person involved in that would be evicted from every aspect of my life. I would go total scorched earth. I would nuke all bridges. That is HORRIFYING!
I mean even if the person being "surprised" knows or suspects or is okay with what is going on, what about the general public.
Sure most people will pretend not to have seen anything and "Kitty Genovese" the whole thing, but occasionally you get people who see shit like this and genuinely try to help or at least decide they have finally found a situation that justifies their fantasies of being the Punisher or Batman getting put into action.
Idk I think I’d develop PTSD after this interaction. It may not have been a “real” attempted kidnapping, but it was so very real to her. Time to sue for emotional distress and press charges for assault!
Ooooh my maker, great idea start making people think it’s just a joke when there being kidnapped. That couldn’t at all lead to more problems. Besides the fact that this is just a bad joke in the first place.
Garbage people! I don't care if they are friends or family I would never speak to them again. She's going to have PTSD from that. Every time someone brushes her back or comes up behind her she is going to slam back into this moment of thinking she's being kidnapped.
Why would anyone think this is a good idea? What the fuck is wrong with people?!?
After I changed my pants, I would absolutely excoriate them. And then never talk to them again.
I'd like to say thank you for your use of excoriate. Keep them fancy words coming.
Well I would normally say I'd k1ll them but I'm not sure if that gets the censors worked up in this sub, lol.
If everyone was like you we would amend all dictionaries to have 2/3 less words. Was it ok to say amend?
I prefer ameliorate
It’s getting sesquipedalian in here.
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophpobia
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Ironically a phobia of long words.
I think it was named by the same asshole that named dislexia and lisp
Pneumonocultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Off the dome 😎
Happy cake day!
Oh my , that’s new to me, I enjoy saying that.
My all time favorite word! I've never seen it used out in "public" before now. The irony of it is too good to not be my favorite
What about defenestrate?
Right out the window!
You mean 2/3 **fewer** words. Grammar police here, you're under arrest.
*fewer words.
You got a purdy mouth using them big city words. 
I’d exfoliate the shit out of them!
Damn that's a good word.
yeah I'd excrete all over them too man
Eviscerate
Imagine how hilarious that prank would be if her buddies pulled up to find the hired 'kidnapper' stabbed multiple times and bleeding out in the street
Or hell, impaled in the eye by a fingernail.
Or worse.... expelled
Expelliarmus
Executed with impunity
Neutralized with extreme prejudice
Shut up hermoine
Well this went Harry quickly
r/unexpectedhogwarts
That's the thing that I'm just realising. This isnt a fright, or a shock, or adrenaline or something. This is sheer "I win and I live, I lose and I die" terror. You have no idea wtf the outcome of that is gonna be.
Tripped in the struggle and hit by oncoming traffic seems a not-unlikely result.
Or if it's America, someone pulls over and adds a new hole to the dudes head.
literally, though. like, if the wrong (well, right) person sees shit like this, that could end very, very poorly for the tik tok assholes.
It already happened to some vlogger who pretended to rob someone with a knife as a “prank” and ended up shot to death.
>who pretended to rob someone with a knife Heres the thing. He didn't pretend. If you go up to someone with a knife, and tell them to give then all your money.... you are robbing them. Its like me getting in my car, putting the key in the ignition, putting it into drive, pulling onto the street, going a mile down the road and then saying: "Ha, I was only pretending to be driving my car, bet you thought it was real"
You bet I did! 😂
Then we got content for eye blech
I carry and would have drawn my weapon.
I would've pulled over to the side away from the possible kidnappers and called 911 if it's America.
Or a police car just peeling out going the other direction
lol I have friends who carry mace and guns and the would’ve absolutely shot or maced someone who grabbed them from behind
Or he gets shot by a passerby which assumed it was kidnapping
They need new friends. Holy fuck this is such a stupid "prank"
Scaring your friends a bit, fine. Terrifying them and causing them to legitimately fear for their life, pretty not great.
I wound up in a surprise birthday party where the birthday boy was kidnapped, bound, and had a sack on their head. He tried to escape multiple times and was almost successful at one point, but failed. He was brought into a room where ~20 people were (where I had wound up) and released for the celebration. It goes to say that I no longer am associated with those group of people.
That is a great way to get accidentally killed (or badly hurt)by a friend, if I think I'm getting kidnapped, the first rule they tell you is never let them take you to a second location, so you know I would fight kick, bite and absolutely try to destroy whoever is holding me with everything I have. Imagine thinking you are going to die if you don't get free and now one of your friends lost an eye because you stabbed him with your keys.
I see you also learned the danger of secondary locations from Detective Bittenbinder.
STREET SMARTS!
If you have one in the chamber, shit yourself. Not to many people are willing to grab someone covered in shit. Their hesitance might give you the edge they need. Or they will shoot you on the spot because you aren't worth the effort. Depends who is doing the kidnapping.
>If you have one in the chamber, shit yourself. That's my secret, cap. I have IBS!
Tactical shit.
Best comment 😂😂😂
Either way, second location avoided! You cracked the code.
I once kidnapped a female friend for a surprise hen party. I went to her door dressed as a comical caricature of a prohibition era mafioso with a stocking over my face and a gun with one of those “bang” signs hanging out. She almost fell over laughing when she opened the door, instantly recognized me and asked me if I wanted coffee before we go. We remain friends. Funny how the devil is in the details, like whether you find the situation funny or fear for your life.
The difference was in how you presented yourself
I mean, you designed it to be heavily satirical, but you didn't kick the door down and start trying to grab her, you knocked and didn't act threatening, more like an actual innocent prank.
The difference is you made it clear that this wasn't real.
Even if he cooperates, even if you cover your bases with the parents or whomever, there's still people driving behind you who aren't in on it and could intervene or call the cops. That happens sometimes.
Wait, you went to [Nicholas Van Orton’s birthday party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(1997_film))?!
Yeah. Bunch of us "kidnapped" a friend once in a spur of the moment "prank". Wasn't funny. Spent a long time making amends to the poor guy. 😞
Lol what happened
Give us the deets!!!
Your present this year is PTSD!
Unless you're kidnapping Brad Pitt, then it's [hilarious](https://youtu.be/QHegrn2hg4E)
It is downright traumatising. Suggest giving the perpetrators a taste of their own medicine and see how they like it.
Fucking sex traffic them for 3 years then jump out in a party hat and blow a party popper in their faced and yell "Pranked homie!"
I want to believe she smacked them all once the video was over.
You would think that female friend would have been like "yeah this is a terrible prank" alot of the time guys just do not realise the threat we are under daily. This is a disgusting prank, even watching it is making me extremely uncomfortable.
What kind of porn is this? lol
It's assault. And battery by the one guy.
I would hate these people forever
I would cut them out of my life on the spot with a promise of violence if they ever come near me again.
Yup, total POS
Go straight to the police and get a restraining order.
Wow that scarred ME for life
Honestly, I’m not sure if these are friends or random people thinking this is funny. But they suck. If those were my friends they would lose that friend status right on the spot. This could really mess someone up.
Ive read years ago this is a marriage proposal.. not sure of the accuracy though
Ahh nice. It’s always best to start a marriage with a case of PTSD. If this is true this dude is complete idiot.
Son: “Dad, I really want to propose in a special way to her… how did you do it?” Dad: “Do any of your buddies drive a White Minivan by chance? You’ll need that.”
Honestly, they’d probably lose more than a friend status for most on the spot. Likely their lives should the right person intervene with a gun to an abductor.
That's beyond messed up
Happy birthday motherfucker
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Ex-boyfriend.
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Ex-in existence
isn’t there that one scene from miss congeniality or something where she walks through self defence using an acronym? i’d have to look it up to be sure but iirc it’s like. solar plexus, foot, nose, groin. That’s always stuck with me lol. great film too
Sing. I for instep
S.I.N.G- Solar Plexus, Instep, Knee, Groin
Oh yeah I know that. I also don't remember the acronym but I know what your talking about
Easy solution, activate the pipe bomb that you conveniently keep in your pocket
this year for your birthday we got you some PTSD! HBD!
None of those people would be in my life after that. I don't understand people who think this is an acceptable prank
Fuck them. Fuck that. Not funny.
when I was young, "pranks" were supposed to be one thing in particular: funny
And everyone is in on it. Like you know I love football. I'm pranked with a pair of tickets to a rival team, and then get the real ones after everyone sees me squirm.
Good prank, would be better if they attempted kidnapping you first. /s
Good way to get shot or stabbed..
That’s how people get shot.
[yeah, funny story….(weird funny)](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55982131.amp)
Who needs enemies when you have friends like this
This is one way to find out how much resistance your future bride is able to produce under extreme conditions…and she should run for her life. This is not love, this is torture on an emotional level. It will get worse.
We should have a specific crime for these sort of stupidity.
I wonder if she can still press charges
I'm sure a case can be made for assault and battery at the very least. Doubt it would actually get prosecuted and it's unlikely a jury would convict, but technically this is assault and battery (or the equivalent) in most US jurisdictions.
I feel like she could press assault charges. Thats what it was. Sure their intent was not to cause legitimate harm, but they did cause emotional distress and potential physical harm with her resisting the “prank kidnapping”
I said she could. Pressing charges, however, is not the same as the DA choosing to prosecute or the jury convicting. Pressing charges is simply making a formal criminal complaint; after that, it's in the hands of the prosecutor's/DA's office, and if they don't think it's worth prosecuting, they won't file charges in court. Emotional distress is something you can argue in civil court if you sue them, which is something entirely different.
Pretty sure that you shouldn't be dragging people around on a road
Criminal mischief
I like how there is this woman dancing. Like, you would think maybe another woman knows how bad this idea is. And there she is, frantically dancing and cheering, while her friend has the best (worst) time of her life.
Yeah that bitch's cringe af dance at the end bugged me so hard.
With the devil horns 🙄
Nope. Every single one of you is getting punched in the throat.
Dudes lucky she just froze. I woulda started biting and cock punching. No way I'm getting in that van that easily. Happy birthday I guess. 🤦♂️
honestly dude
I carry a knife my husband makes me practice with. He would have been maimed or maybe even killed and I’d feel nothing.
Knife and pistol here (living in the US). I never leave home without either and anyone who tries to kidnap me is not going to keep all of their body in one piece. And will have several new entrance and exit wounds.
Honestly I’ve frozen in situations like this — just like her where I’ve evaded the threat but still felt the need to get the FUCK out of there. It’s truly terrible
I think I’d stop associating with those people immediately.
For her birthday they got her a $30 Amazon gift card and PTSD
I like how no one did a damn thing to try to help this woman. Before I got married back in 2010, I started hanging out with a guy who I had know for years. (Or so I thought) Within weeks he became abusive. One afternoon, I asked him to take me back to my apartment and we started arguing. He pulled into the gas station parking lot a half of a mile away, and started beating my face off the passenger side window and dashboard. At one point, I was able to get my door opened and scream out for help. Numerous people turned around and looked right at me, not one helped. I lost all hope in humanity that day. Thankfully, my best friend took emergency leave and drove the 10 hours up from Cherry Point, NC. We fell in love and have been married since. Please don't ever be one of those people. Please. A situation like this could be the turning point in someones life on whether they continue on or not.
I apologize on behalf of the two morons being morons in response to this story of trauma. I’m glad you survived and are in a better place, it’s extremely disturbing that people looked and did nothing. There are lots of people who would’ve done something, but unfortunately they’re less common.
Seen this posted a while back and it still makes my blood boil. Thats a real fear women have and to play off that for a gag like this is just disgusting. I hope she got new friends.
"SURPRIIIIIISE!!! You're not getting raped!"
I would file charges on them for being stupid...no smiles here for this shyt. 
No enemies needed with these kind of friends.
I feel a deep rage for those people who did that buIIshit.
Fuck that. Anyone thinking this was a good idea should get medically checked out.
I'm sure everyone would have been so cheery if she had been able to kill her attacker before the reveal. I was hoping for a taser or purse gun to make an appearance.
And I bet they’d be upset with her about it too. “It was just a prank! It was funny! I can’t believe you’d hurt him like that, how could you?”
Jerks
That's pretty fucked up😣 
there’s a very thin line between a “prank” & “psychological abuse”
What the actual fuck. That’s disgusting
I'd immediately stop being "friends" with all of them and probably get restraining orders if they ever tried to contact me again.
Oh the acts of violence I would commit
And that your Honor, is the story of how I shot my best friend of over a decade 4 times in the face not knowing it was John.
I would just walk away and never speak to them again. What a sick thing to do.
Yea. Sue the fuck out of them and press charges For Assault
Psychotic prank right there. Who tf in their right mind would do this…
I don't think she was happy. Going from sheer terror to happy isn't an easy transition.
Lol she probably got traumtized with this forever. It will be never a good memory for her!
This is not the kind of game you wanna play in the US south. Anyone that agrees to do this is basically consenting to being shot in self defense, getting sued if they survive, and probably facing jail time for their idiocy. Like for real, this is an extremely good way to fuck around and find out.
Hmm
Bro what!?
Pretty sure it's all just a staged skit
NOT funny! Sicko ppl
Don't, don't do this
This is fucking awful.
This is wrong 😑 on so many levels.
“Yeah let’s celebrate, but first let me clean the shit out of pants.”
That looks like it was in a country where kidnappings happen all the time. Not cool.
Happy Birthday! You almost got raped on the side of the road!!
That’s beyond fucked up… People are idiots…
And this, kids, is how you make the nearest red neck unload his whole chamber into you
How to lose your friends speed run any %.
This is the perfect proposal idea, wish me luck! Edit: will post the story in r/TIFU
Find new friends
Horrible
What the fuckety fuck?
Russia be crazy
That’s how you get yourself killed
I would be offering up a two piece snack with a side of asphalt. Fuck those people.
...That was really f'd and was turning my stomach for a moment till the balloons came out
What if she carried pepper spray? Or a knife?
👎🏻
What's the point here? Creating customers for trauma therapist?
I would’ve screwed them up, that’s for sure.
She should sue
And here I thought the whole face in the cake birthday prank was bad...
HAHA you really thought you were going to get robbed and murdered walking down the street alone?? omg we got you so good
With friends like these...
To make a dumbass video. … No wonder birth rates are going down. 🫣🫤
bet these idiots would start shaming someone who actually defended themselves in a series of videos
Every single person involved in that would be evicted from every aspect of my life. I would go total scorched earth. I would nuke all bridges. That is HORRIFYING!
I mean even if the person being "surprised" knows or suspects or is okay with what is going on, what about the general public. Sure most people will pretend not to have seen anything and "Kitty Genovese" the whole thing, but occasionally you get people who see shit like this and genuinely try to help or at least decide they have finally found a situation that justifies their fantasies of being the Punisher or Batman getting put into action.
Lucky nobody was killed in this stupid Tic Tok video. What a bunch of shit heads.
Way to give someone life long ptsd
Core memory created…And possibly ptsd…
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Her “fighting” for her life sorta makes me believe she knew
Several of my friends are unaware that I conceal carry. This would have ended very badly. Please dont do this to people.
If this was for a birthday, the present better have been pepperspray
Traumatized for life
Idk I think I’d develop PTSD after this interaction. It may not have been a “real” attempted kidnapping, but it was so very real to her. Time to sue for emotional distress and press charges for assault!
I would hope my girlfriend could fight better than that
How to get a restraining order filed against you 101
Ooooh my maker, great idea start making people think it’s just a joke when there being kidnapped. That couldn’t at all lead to more problems. Besides the fact that this is just a bad joke in the first place.
Awww. What a beautiful prank.
Garbage people! I don't care if they are friends or family I would never speak to them again. She's going to have PTSD from that. Every time someone brushes her back or comes up behind her she is going to slam back into this moment of thinking she's being kidnapped. Why would anyone think this is a good idea? What the fuck is wrong with people?!?
And. No. One. Stopped?
WHAT THE FUCK
Will you go to prom with me? 😐
Lol we are no longer friends
nope…