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Bait bike prank (image taken from YouTube).jpgVideo: Bike thieves get a literal shock
It’s a simple premise. Take a bike, wire up the seat and handlebars so that they can deliver an electric shock and then leave it unattended. When a thief is tempted, shock them – and of course film the incident and upload the footage to YouTube.
The video is by twin brothers Jeremy and Jason Holden who operate under the name Twinz TV. It is one of several of theirs which revolve around a ‘bait bike’.
Another prank trailed at the end of the video is basically the same thing but with disconnected brakes instead of the shock. A third involves the bike being attached to some kind of cord which stops the thief dead (but not until they’ve first got up to speed).
As you can probably guess, Twinz TV have found themselves in trouble from time to time, most notably when they staged a hoax kidnapping in a public playground. The Telegraph reports that the pair faced gross misdemeanour charges after publishing the clip in 2014.
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How anyone could possibly think this was anything other than fake is beyond me. We are truly degenerating as a species - shit like this fills my inbox and feeds every day and it doesn't take more than 10 seconds for anyone with a functional central nervous system to spot the bullshit.
Trying too hard to be the next Jackass.
That smell, that smelly smell. I smell bullshit. It's a video, but it's fake. People are not reacting to camera. On the other hand I can imagine them being sued if it was for real.
Yep sounds great summary justice to me
Eventually these two will kill someone. But who cares?