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In April, a construction worker named Gino Castignoli showed his true fan hood and devotion to the Boston Red Sox by putting a piece of David Ortiz into the building of the new Yankees stadium . . . well, not literally. Castignoli placed a Ortiz jersey under nearly 2 feet of concrete hoping to curse the stadium for its duration.
The question is, would you tell someone that you pulled a prank such as this? There have been many pranks that actually worked just because the pranksters didn’t tell a sole before it was done.
Take for instance the Yale students who made the entire Harvard sideline spell out “We Suck”. This prank worked because they didn’t let a soul know about it.
Or perhaps the Harvard students in 1986 pulling this stunt on MIT:
“Using a vacuum, a 1967 Mustang, a weather balloon, a handful of marbles and some talcum powder, a group of students lampooned the 1982 Yale-Harvard football game by inflating a latex bubble at the 46-yard line. The balloon erupted from beneath the turf and grew to about a six-foot diameter before it exploded. The startled crowd of bulldog-haters and anti-Harvardites united in confusion for just a moment, until they realized that the atypical balloon was not donned with “Happy Birthday” or the Easter Bunny — it was covered in the letters: MIT. After the game, MIT school president Paul Gray wrote the Harvard president asking for the contraband techno-lark that caused pandemonium at the rivalry football game. He wanted to put it on display.
The point is, if you are going to pull a prank then don’t tell a soul until you have successfully pulled it off. In the case of Castignoli, I think he would have been much happier if he would have just taken this one to the grave.
