A young man from Adelaide has been confronted by a stranger in a Kmart after a prank went horribly wrong.
The prankster teen filmed himself approaching an older man with dreadlocks in the underwear section of the store before asking him for the time on his phone.
When the man pulls out his phone to check the time, the teen reaches over and pretends to tap the man’s phone while playing a recording of the distinct Apple Pay sound.
Apple Pay is a mobile payment service that allows users to make purchases by hovering their Apple device over a payment terminal.
It is not possible to take someone’s funds by simply tapping one phone against another.
Despite this, the confused man quickly becomes fired up, demanding to know what had happened.
“What are you doing there,” he says angrily as he charges towards the teen.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” says the prankster as he panics and tries to back away.
“Nah, give me that phone right now,” he demands.
“Can we just talk,” says the person behind the camera, trying to diffuse the situation.
The dreadlocked man demands the phone as he continues trying to snatch it away from the teen.
“Chill, chill, you’re going to break my phone,” the prankster can be heard saying.
“What the f–k did you do to my phone,” the older man continues, eventually snatching the teen’s phone out of his hands.
The clip, which has been viewed over 900,000 times, then abruptly cuts off before any resolution is made.
The prank, coined the ‘Apple Pay’ prank, has been circulating TikTok over the last few days. The goal is to elicit some kind of extreme response from the target for the sake of a viral video.
Viewers were quick to label the prank as “dangerous and embarrassing.”
“This is a dangerous thing to do in Australia,” said one person.
“Prank your mates, not strangers who are just trying to live their lives in peace,” criticized another.
“Serves you right to be honest, these pranks go way too far,” said a third.
In a separate clip posted just over a week earlier, the teen prankster can be seen approaching another man in Woolworths and once again pretends to tap his phone.
“I just took $20, thank you,” he tells the confused shopper.
“Are you serious?,” he asks the prankster.
“Yeah but I just needed it. I need to go to the pokies,” he replies.
The shopper can be seen walking towards the teen as he stares him up and down while the prankster says “I’m sorry” repeatedly.
“Why are you pressing me,” he asks the man as he continues to back away from the aisle.
Suddenly, the scared teen begins to run as he dodges Woolworths shoppers with the man in close pursuit.
He laughs as he reaches a dead end where the man catches up to him before the clip abruptly ends.
The video received mixed response, with one person commenting: “Stupid prank, you’re risking meeting someone who doesn’t give a f*ck and smack you on sight (sic).”
Another weighed in, posting: “ngl if I thought someone stole something from me, I’d be the same.”
In a similar prank posted to the teen’s TikTok, called “moaning in ears”, he approaches strangers in various stores, including Bunnings, and makes a moaning sound in people’s ears, filming their confused reactions.
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