Punk'd! Local pranks go national thanks to YouTube

April 15 2009, 10:35pm

Pranking your friends and neighbors used to involve nothing more than a bit of toilet paper and some tall trees, but the Internet has changed pranking just as surely as it has changed everything else. Thanks to sites like YouTube, even local pranks can now generate national news—especially if you happen to be a Domino's Pizza employee who shoots a video about farting on the salami. (No, that's not a euphemism for something else; the video really does feature farting onto a salami.) But YouTube is just as "real world" as the rest of the real world, and humorous videos can have serious consequences.

North Carolina residents "Kristy" and "Michael" have been fired from their jobs after posting the video, which they say was simply a prank—no salami was actually farted upon. The video was uploaded to YouTube, where it promptly gained 750,000 views and forced Domino's to issue an official statement saying that it is "appalled by the actions of these individuals."

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