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Dec. 23, 2012 8:00pm Mytheos Holt

December 21 came and went without so much as a whiff of a storm or a meteor or any sort of world-ending event, thus proving any media hysteria over the supposed “end of the world” completely false.

However, at least one prankster thought it might be fun to give people the impression that the world actually was ending, and got a surprising number of people to believe him, while capturing the whole thing on-camera. MSN Now has linked the video, which shows multiple people being taken in by completely false secondhand accounts of Tsunamis hitting New York and Georgia:

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Bookster
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:26am
Stupid prank. I did notice one thing however, he changed it from “A tsunami hit New York” to “A tsunami hit Georgia”. I wonder if he got too many people responding with “GOOD!” when he was saying NY so he had to change to a state that people actually don’t want to fall off into the ocean?

Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Progressives are a virus, a plague.
Democrats are Godless.
MSNBC=Hells Webcam.
Obama=Enemy of America.

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- American_Christian_Capitalist
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:48am
  Love it!
  
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- John.Galt
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:00pm
  ROTFL! Good one!
  
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toomuchgovt
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 6:04am
I found this sad. The first man in the video was so trusting, I love this. Shame on them. I love the other guy, his first reaction was to pray. No I don’t find this funny, death and destruction is not funny. Ask families who have lived through 911, Katrina, Joplin, Tornado Summer, or Sandy. When these things happens you only wish you had warnings.

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- Carboy
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:10am
  Well then, why don’t you go start a white house petition over it there Mr. Sensitive?
  
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- LIBSALWAYSLIE
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 7:28am
  Cruel prank. Personally, I don’t find it entertaining to cause people to fear for their lives.
  
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- Quagmir
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:28pm
  “No I don’t find this funny, death and destruction is not funny.”
  
  If people laugh, they are not laughing at death and destruction. If you are watching this then you know there was none… They are laughing at people who believe that others predicted the end of the world. This is laughing at the reactions, not the event.
  
  I found it dull myself but it could have been funny in a better form. The guy who didnt say anything, just crossed his heart and prayed was kinda touching.
  
  Abit stupid to compare a prank to other events that have happened. Its not like he was talking about a tsunami heading to Japan while in Japan. You have moved one step to the left towards being a Dem for being so PC.
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:56am
  C@rboy. When’s the last time you had someone close tragically killed? Jokes about people dying are not funny. Scaring people with the threat of death is even less humorous. Being sensitive has nothing to do with it. Being a decent human being does. You obviously do not fall into the later category.
  
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RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 5:56am
‘War Of The Worlds’ 2012. P.T. Barnum is my hero… for now, that is…

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shorelineliz
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:21am
Just wanted to know did this guy get beat up for Christmas or what?

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- Warphead
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 8:59am
  Not yet, But hey the day has just started.
  
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Enuff Zenuff
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:03am
The article said, “December 21 came and went without so much as a whiff of a storm or a meteor or any sort of world-ending event,”

Ummm – Didn’t a volcano erupt between Chile and Argentina? – Not that I’m making it mean anything about the end of the world, but I thought it might give someone in the vicinity pause to wonder…

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- Rowgue
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:32pm
  It never ended up errupting actually. They issued an alert because their readings indicated a minor erruption was possible. The alert level was elevated purely on the basis of it being “end of the world day”.
  
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Rowgue
Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:05am
Another really stupid prank that isn’t actually funny. Nobody believed the world was ending. They were just reacting to him being completely hysterical and acting like he was insane. I feel sort of sorry for the young people these days. They’ll go through their entire lives thinking nonsense like this passes for real humor.

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go2gym
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:43pm
Not good, and not funny. People naturally WOULD believe him the way he’s acting. And to use something serious like that, not funny.

Now, the interesting thing is, most if not all of the people who believed that, don’t believe we’re on the edge economically though it’s right in front of our faces.

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KingCanon
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:40pm
What?
No warning of filthy language?
No content warning at all?
Are we that far gone here in America?

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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:09am
  Excellent point.
  
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- Diane TX
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:33am
  Sadly, the “F” word seems to be used by everyone but me in my little part of the world. People used to have “conservations” in the past. Now everyone converses in expletives.
  
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- burnteye86
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 6:42am
  QUALITYRKC, ‘scuse me, but it’s hard not to look down on you when your wallowing in the mud.
  
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Kaoscontrol
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:07pm
Sorry…. I’m not laughing. Apparently these losers aren’t familiar with the story about the boy who cried wolf. believe “free speech” doesn’t give someone permission to yell “Fire” in a crowded theater… How is this any different? .

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- caveman74
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:16am
  @rayblu good book I have read it many ties. Another good one if you havnt read it yet is lucifers hammer
  
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Rayblue
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:03pm
But the earth abides forever; The earth, which was made for man, of which he is the inhabitant and proprietor, is more stable than he himself; he soon passes off from it, but it continues; he returns to the earth, from whence he came, but it remains as it did. He passes to his long home, as it was appointed from the beginning and is the way of all living.
But the earth abides… forever.

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- Warphead
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:08am
  Yeah, I read that book too. The Earth may abide forever but I would like to abide for as long as I can thank you. Remember, If you don’t answer the question you get pinched and the reds are for small game and the silver are for the big game.
  
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Hausmaus
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:03pm
In this great country of ours with three hundred million plus people we have a great portion of this population that doesn’t know their rear-ends from a hole on the ground. Half educated, or not educated at all live among us, vote, drive cars, perhaps perform highly critical tasks at work, but yet have not been able to get their heads out of their rectums. The prankster made a point in that we do have morons, and jackasses among us that can be taken for a ride any time. Education plays a very important part in all of this remember, what you don’t know can hurt you.

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dealer@678
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:42pm
Only an Obama foot washer would fall for such a thing. Wonder who that black guy was praying to when he dropped to his knees

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nesmond
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:28pm
I’m ashamed to say I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. The movie clips between each prank was the icing on the cake.

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G.E.R
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:27pm
If 73% of the U.S. believes an imaginary being created everything. Then they’ll be dumb enough to believe this.

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- Obamazombies
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:43pm
  Another commie Richard Dawkins lover atheist.
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:46pm
  Happy Holidays
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 11:56pm
  G.E.R. believes in evolution. Which means he believes it’s possible for an F-5 tornado to sweep thru a junkyard and leave behind a perfectly constructed space shuttle. Evolution is a fairy tale.
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:07am
  Thinking the first members of our species were fashioned out of dirt and divine breath in a garden with a talking snake is a fairy tale
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:12am
  @ Goodstuff: “Evolution is a fairy tale.” Why can’t it simply be a Creator’s method?
  
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- nesmond
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 12:53am
  Apparently, we have a Hahhhhhvahhhd graduate in our midst. Yessuh boss. we fink awmighty Gawd made everthin’ that was ever made. He even made you, but you way smarter than yer maker. Aintcha?
  
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- nesmond
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:02am
  I believe what G.E.R. is trying to tell all of us ignorant bible-clingers is this:
  
  Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
  Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait…
  The Earth began to cool,
  The autotrophs began to drool,
  Neanderthals developed tools,
  We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
  Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
  That all started with the big bang!
  
  BANG!!!!
  
  Isn’t that what you were trying to say, G.E.R.?
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 2:24am
  Yep you got it. You’re all a bunch of ignorant bible clingers who’ll believe anything.
  
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- RIGHT_WHERE_IT_HURTS
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 5:54am
  If I ever get the chance, I’ll cling to your neck. Merry Christmas.
  
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- qualityrkc
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 6:29am
  Obamazombies doesn’t seem to realize that according to creationism god also came fcrom nothing. Who created god obamazombie?
  
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- caveman74
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:30am
  So it is dumb to believe that an advanced being intelligently designed the universe but it is completely within the realm of reason to just know (with no actual scientific proof to back it up) that one day matter floating around in a void of nothing had energy applied to it (by nothing) and with an infinate number of possible directions it could travel it all flies towards each other and the resulting collision created a blast so random and chaotic that it actually created the perfect conditions for a perfectly balanced universe that could produce a solar system that has a single planet that can not only sustain life but a life form that developes self awareness…And Christians are the ones believing in fairy tales? To believe that garbage my friend you have to have more faith than me. No wonder we are seeing the horrific crimes we see these days. Now that I understand what passes as logic. I guess you can just say anything and because it was spoken it must be true at some level. And if anything can be true, then any action is justifiable at some level
  
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- G.E.R
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 11:41am
  21st century christians believe the word of god is a book edited in the 17th century from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th century scrolls that claim to be copies of lost letters written in the 1st century. That’s not faith. That’s insanity.
  
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- Warphead
  Posted on December 25, 2012 at 9:01am
  And a big fat whopping MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU.
  
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Dodsfall
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:21pm
That was a very mean-spirited prank, which I didn’t find funny at all.

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- nesmond
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 3:28am
  Not true G.E.R. For instance, we don’t believe you.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:06pm
Not funny at all. Just sick and evil.
This is like yelling “fire”, in a theater full of people.

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jp2feminist
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:57pm
What a despicable jerk.

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Brents Torts
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:35pm
That’s some good stuff.

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The-Monk
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:29pm
Didn’t a guy named Orson Wells do something like this a while back using an AM radio transmitter?

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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:48pm
  Funny you should say that Monk,,,I just realized why the Gov’t may want to put a kill switch on the internet,. remember that topic ? and whatever happened with that idea
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 9:04pm
  Hi Polarized America,
  
  I know they tested shutting down the radio and TV communications.
  
  I don’t know how far they are with shutting down the Internet.Probably close or already there. : (
  
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chips1
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:28pm
Flobama’s trick. Create a crisis and scare Americans. Works every time. Sure wish we had an honest politician to file Impeachment Charges. Yeah!! I know!! I’m a dreamer!!!

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AmericanLass
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:17pm
Not funny.

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hatchetjob
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:15pm
This was very entertaining, but not very nice for the people who might have a weak heart.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:10pm
Hmmmm, I recall Alan Funt used to do stuff like this.

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progressiveslayers
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:07pm
The kids too late because the apocalypse started in November 08.

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- hatchetjob
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:16pm
  Very true.
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:02pm
A large segment of our population have lost their minds.

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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:17pm
  It just goes to show you that people know instinctively that this is now so possible, they know something is coming but what, their not sure. They know danger lurks just around the corner so this is why they can so easily be convinced the end is at the door. Which it actually is!
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 8:30pm
  I agree.
  
  This is what happens when you have a population of people who “believe” in “miracles” and “end times” nonsense that they will accept almost anything no matter how unlikely it is to occur.
  
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- jungle J
  Posted on December 23, 2012 at 10:09pm
  ModerationIsBest…hate and mean spritedness is your defining factor.
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on December 24, 2012 at 1:12am
  @JUNGLE J
  
  I don’t hate you, nor anyone else on this board.
  
  I am not the one who says that they are going to receive an eternal torture for disagreeing with me.
  
  I am not the one who looks at the end of humanity with a silver lining.
  
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