VIDEO: Funny Elevator Pranks

Elevators can be… weird.

Being in one with a stranger for seven or more floors is awkward enough on its own, but when they start acting stupid or weird, it becomes unbearable.

That elevator ride will seem endless!

The video below brings together the funniest elevator pranks!

The world is divided in two major categories of people – the pranksters and the ones that absolutely hate practical jokes.

Whichever category you are a part of, the truth is we all need a good laughter for time to time.

According to Your Viral Blog, standing in an elevator can be both boring and awkward. You are waiting to get to your floor, while forced to share an extremely small space with a complete stranger.

This prankster decided to eliminate the boring aspect and increase the awkward part by about a thousand percent. The results are pretty darn funny. This guy totally improvises different actions inside an elevator in the company of total strangers. Everything from passing out to hitting on a guy’s girlfriend to singing songs in the small, crowded space.

The reactions are priceless, especially the woman who becomes shocked when he starts madly making out with another woman right in front of her. Imagine being in an elevator with this guy as he does totally random stuff, totally freaking everyone out!

According to Wikipedia, practical jokes differ from confidence tricks or hoaxes in that the victim finds out, or is let in on the joke, rather than being talked into handing over money or other valuables. Practical jokes are generally lighthearted and without lasting impact; their purpose is to make the victim feel humbled or foolish, but not victimized or humiliated.

In this fashion, most practical jokes are affectionate gestures of humour and designed to encourage laughter. However, practical jokes performed with cruelty can constitute bullying, whose intent is to harass or exclude rather than reinforce social bonds through ritual humbling.

A practical joke is “practical” because it consists of someone doing something physical, in contrast to a verbal or written joke. For example, the joker who is setting up and conducting the practical joke might hang a bucket of water above a doorway and rig the bucket using pulleys so when the door opens the bucket dumps the water.

The joker would then wait for the victim to walk through the doorway and be drenched by the bucket of water. Objects can also be used in practical jokes, like fake vomit, chewing gum bugs, exploding cigars, stink bombs, costumes and whoopee cushions.

Practical jokes often occur inside offices, usually to surprise co-workers. Covering the computer accessories with Jell-O, wrapping the desk with Christmas paper or aluminium foil or filling it with balloons are just some examples of office pranks.

American humorist H. Allen Smith wrote a 320-page book in 1953 called The Compleat Practical Joker that contains numerous examples of practical jokes. The book became a best seller not only in the United States but also in Japan.

Moira Marsh has written an entire volume about practical jokes. One of her findings is that in the USA they are more often done by males than females.