This Velociraptor Chasing A Japanese Office Worker Is The Most Terrifying Office Prank Ever

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Julia La Roche Aug. 28, 2013, 3 PM:00 17

Wall Streeters have a penchant for pulling pranks on each other and they're usually pretty funny. But this Velociraptor chase from a game show in a Japanese office takes the prize for the best prank ever. [via i09.com
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[TwilightGardener]

1. Fake/staged. He stumbled too many times. But still funny.

[shebornik]

3. You're right

There are also to many different camera angles and cuts, but still funny.

[kestrel91316]

6. And he didn't notice all the guys with cameras running around?? LOL

[TlalocW]

2. Japan must not be a litigious as America

Some of their pranks (if truly not scripted) are crazy. I've seen ones where they break into a person's apartment in the middle of the night to have a sumo wrestler go into the bedroom, scream to wake them up and then jump on them; one where a section of a sauna at a ski resort opens up and expels a chair (where the prankee is sitting) out of it and down the hill it's situated on, etc.

TlalocW

[JoeyT]

4. We're just as bad.

Jackass being a good example. Or about a third of Youtube, for that matter. Half the pranks on Youtube are things that could easily go wrong and injure or kill someone. Some of them don't look like pranks as much as a half-assed attempt to collect on an accidental death policy.

Edited to add: What you describe sounds like what Bam Margera did to his dad in...pretty much every episode of Jackass. If Phil had snapped and killed the little bastard not a jury in the world would have convicted him.

[yesphan]

5. The raptor

is wearing jeans.

[GreenStormCloud]

7. Where's Godzilla? N/T

[Jerry442]

8. LOL. The velociraptor waddled. If it had been real, this guy would have been an hors d'oeurve. nt

[backscatter712]

9. Well, you could see the guy's legs next to the velociraptor's "legs". n/t

[KansDem]

10. That wasn't a Velociraptor! That was Bill O'Reilly chasing down a staffer...

...who actually gave him facts for a story.

Sure glad I don't work at FOX News!

[Nobunaga73]

11. Probably not entirely staged

It's not an office worker -- it's a Japanese "talento", one of scores of paid performers who sit on talk and game shows and try to be "entertaining". He's entering the studio, and it's a well-known tactic for variety shows to stage pranks on the tarento as they arrive - so, while it's probably not staged (to the extent that he didn't know a velociraptor was going to chase him) unless he's a complete idiot he knows what's happening almost immediately and he's just playing along.

Sometimes these scenarios involve false floors and pools of ice water -- now those are unexpected!