Bad Idea Of The Day: Cruelest Prank Convinces Actress She Has Been Kidnapped By ISIS

Remember that MTV show Punk’d? That was fun when Ashton Kutcher played elaborate pranks on his celebrity friends. Some dude would attack Wilmer Valderrama for banging his girlfriend or Justin Timberlake was told he had unpaid income taxes so government agents were seizing his home and valuables or Elijah Wood thought he caused an explosion. Then Ashton would come out at the last possible second before someone had a heart attack or started beating the snot out of an actor and yell, “You just got punk’d!” Ashton would hug the celebrity and they would look angry for a second, but then hug and the celeb would say, “Oh you! You got me good. I’m going to get you back!” Then nothing ever happened because Elijah Wood doesn’t have his own prank TV show. Well this is like that, but in Egypt, with no charming Ashton Kutcher and they staged a fake kidnapping by ISIS terrorists. Here come the laughs.

In what could possibly be the cruelest prank (Besides my mom and dad telling me that I was adopted when I turned 14-years-old in a clever ruse to get me to leave the house forever to go searching for my fictional family), an Egyptian television show convinced actress Heba Magdy that she was kidnapped by ISIS. LOLZ! Yeah, ISIS as in Islamic State, as in the bloodthirsty terrorists who will attach bombs to people’s heads and detonate them, drown prisoners by submerging them in a cage in a pool and who kidnap women and make them sex slaves. LOLZ! So you see all of the wealth of humorous content these pranksters got to work with.

Wielding machine guns and suicide vest, the faux jihadists pretend to capture the actress and make her beg for her life. LOLZ! LOLZ! LOLZ!

Ashton Kutcher’s shenanigans were cheeky and fun! But these shenanigans are cruel and tragic. Which… makes them not really shenanigans at all. Evil shenanigans.

Rule of thumb, if your prank causes the individual to have PTSD or get triggered from watching the nightly news and run under their bed crying profusely, then maybe your prank is a smidge too harsh and you should probably not do it. Unless it’s this vegan prank, then go crazy with the prank.

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