{"id":31507,"date":"2012-11-26T21:14:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/scaring-folks-to-death.html"},"modified":"2012-11-26T21:14:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:14:41","slug":"scaring-folks-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/scaring-folks-to-death.html","title":{"rendered":"Scaring folks to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really, but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I used to be a huge fan of Alan Funt&#39;s &quot;Candid Camera&quot;. Over the years, in various incarnations, the pranks have gone from puzzling \/ mildly embarrassing, to &#8230; well &#8230; damned scary.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s funny &#8212; I am fascinated watching the reactions of people to something like this, but at the same time I&#39;m turned off by the idea of someone intentionally traumatizing folks (involuntarily) like this.<\/p>\n<p>Am I growing up, or becoming a stick in the mud?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101269616518480136760'>Dan Leveille<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Extremely Scary Ghost Elevator Prank<\/b><\/p>\n<p>WORST prank ever! I would die.<\/p>\n<p>via <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105714039375338797059\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"105714039375338797059\">Brian Anthony Hernandez<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<br \/>Original video: <a href=\"http:\/\/liveleak.com\/view?i=f47_1353943384\" class=\"ot-anchor\">liveleak.com\/view?i=f47_1353943384<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'><iframe type='text\/html' width='97.5%' height='385' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7N5OhNplEd4?version=3&#038;autohide=1' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/NLnEJyzGVPf' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really, but &#8230; I used to be a huge fan of Alan Funt&#39;s &quot;Candid Camera&quot;. Over the years, in various incarnations, the pranks have gone from puzzling \/ mildly embarrassing, to &#8230; well &#8230; damned scary. It&#39;s funny &#8212; I am fascinated watching the reactions of people to something like this, but at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/scaring-folks-to-death.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scaring folks to death&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33623,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/congrats-to-the-folks-at-fras.html","url_meta":{"origin":31507,"position":0},"title":"Congrats to the folks at @Fras&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-May-13 8:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Congrats to the folks at @FrascaFoodWine ! 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