Most people think it’s their lucky day when they find a dollar bill lying on the sidewalk. But when your victims reach for this trick bill, they’ll wish they had kept walking. The dollar seems to move under its own power—but it’s really you, at the other end of a piece of fishing line.
what you need
* Clear (not colored) fishing line (sold at sporting goods stores)
* Scissors
* A dollar bill
* Tape
what you do
THE SETUP
1 Cut a piece of fishing line about 8 feet long.
2 Tape one end of the fishing line to the back of the dollar bill.
3 Find a good place to pull the prank. A sidewalk where you can hide behind some bushes or a fence is good, or a hallway where you can hide around a corner or in a doorway.
PULL THE PRANK
1 Place the dollar bill where people will walk by, then grab the other end of the line and go to your hiding place.
2 When someone reaches for the dollar, yank it away just before they touch it. If you yank just a little, you can get them to grab for it again before they realize they’ve taken your bait.
VERY IMPORTANT PRANKS
V.I.P.
The Driverless Car
More than 50 years ago, a creative young man named Quent Beecham reportedly rigged his family’s car so that it appeared to operate without a driver. Beecham was actually driving from the backseat. He attached reins to the steering wheel and used a long pole with a loop of wire on the end to work the gears. People in Yonkers, New York, where Beecham lived, were shocked to see the car pass by with no one at the wheel. Needless to say, this prank falls into the “Do Not Try This at Home” (or anywhere else, for that matter) category.
An amazingly fake self-driving car.