Saturday, September 19, 2009

One Cardboard Box = One Crazy Night?

My friends and I love pulling pranks. I think there is nothing funnier than seeing one happen, unless it is happening to you. We use to go a little over the top with some of the pranks, but they were all in good fun. That was before the robbery.
My friends Tyler and Kevin were over one night and we were board so we decided to head down to a strip mall that is just through the woods from my house. Maybe a 5 minute walk. We got down there not really knowing what we were going to do at 10:30p.m.. It was then when we found the box. There was a cardboard box in perfect condition right outside one of the stores. Tyler's face lit up, "lets stage a robbery!" For some reason we got so excited when he said that and the planning began.
Kevin was wearing a sweatshirt with his name on it from basketball season but it looked exactly like a delivery man's uniform. We decided that to look more professional we would need a receipt book for our delivery...so we picked one up at CVS. Now equipped with the box and the receipt, we were ready to go. West Coast Video (similar to Blockbuster) was still open so that was were the prank would happen.
Kevin walked in with the "box of DVDs", asking for the manager to sign off on the delivery. As he was talking to the clerk, Tyler (who was dressed in all black) busted in the door, yelling "Where is he" in a strong voice. He then ran full speed at Kevin, picked him up and tackled him into a rack of DVDs, grabbed the box and took off out the door. The clerk hurdled over the desk and ran after Tyler, which was silly due to the fact that Tyler runs a 4.5 40 yard dash and quickly disappeared into the darkness. Kevin got up and ran out in the opposite direction. We met up in the back parking lot about five minutes after, laughing hysterically about the craziness of the prank and its success. Shortly after sirens could be heard and 3 police SUVs screamed into to the parking lot. Quickly we regretted the prank and ran with all we had to the safety of the woods coverage, and decided that heading back home would be a good idea.