Urban Prankster » news http://urbanprankster.com Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:20:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 CNN Background Prank http://urbanprankster.com/2008/10/cnn-background-prank/ http://urbanprankster.com/2008/10/cnn-background-prank/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:01:11 +0000 Charlie Todd http://urbanprankster.com/?p=219

Sal Governale and Richard Christie from Howard Stern prank CNN, making out in the background of a Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy report.

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Gabriele Paolini in action

From the BBC News:

Prolific Italian TV prankster and condom advocate Gabriele Paolini faces a prison sentence unless he behaves.

Mr Paolini has made a career of popping up uninvited behind unwitting on-air TV reporters promoting condom use.

Guinness World Records says Mr Paolini is the world’s most successful TV hijacker, interrupting 20,000 link-ups.

But now Italy’s Supreme Court has upheld a three-month suspended sentence on him for interrupting a report on the state broadcaster RAI in June 2001.

The court has also ruled that anyone who deliberately gets onto TV while standing in a public place can commit an offense even if they are silent and immobile.

Reminds us of the US group Newsbreakers:

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