There is a limit to tension too: Four members of the group that operated the popular YouTube page Trollstation were sent to prison in Britain yesterday (Monday) after 'violating good taste' in humor, the BBC website reports.
The YouTube page, which has close to a million subscribers, in addition to tens of millions of views from visitors, deals with thrillers, the most prominent of which are robberies and kidnappings in Britain, all of which are of course fake.
In two of the most famous pranks, the group managed to trick crowds visiting the National Portrait Gallery in London into thinking a robbery was taking place, and the audience fled screaming.
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In another famous prank, the group staged a kidnapping from the Pilot Museum, where the crowd also fled in fear of the "terrorists" who had infiltrated the place.
In another case, the group also managed to make passersby think that a bomb was about to explode at any moment. The stunts are all done with the utmost precision and are characterized by a high level of believability.
The British prosecution explained that although no actual damage was caused, the group caused 'real distress' among the crowd, and the fear is that they may even escalate their actions in the future.
A senior officer in the London police force added: "We are currently in a real war against the threat of terrorism, and the tensions could lead us to accidentally shoot an innocent person.".
The Trollstation channel describes itself as "specializing in bizarre and often surreal pranks performed on unwitting members.".
In the attached video, you can see one of the pranks: a police officer who is supposedly smoking illegal substances, and even asks for 'light' from passersby who are shocked by the law enforcement officer's behavior.
One of the channel members told the BBC website that they never intended to break the law, and that the police were only trying to "make an example of them.".
