Prankster
William Smiley loves practical jokes. Billie was a class clown, a joker. As he grew older his jokes became more physical. He conceived elaborate pranks designed to humble classmates he disliked. Practical jokes that pointed out a person’s weakness or vulnerability. Like the plastic snake that fell out a locker onto the football quarterback who Billie filmed running and screaming out of the locker room as Billie put it like girl. Billie didn’t expect the quarterback to punch him in the nose when he posted his joke on YouTube and Tic Tok. He also didn’t expect ten thousand views.
Billie’s fame as a prankster grew with each new film “PJ
Video.” Local sports figures and celebrities became his favorite victims. His business motto was pay or play. Billie would spend weeks studying a person
and then setting up the joke, which he filmed using three different remote
cameras. After, he shows the person the video and give the victim the option of
buying the video or seeing it on YouTube.
All this should have changed when Billie’s Black Widow
gag didn’t just scare Carla Bombarito, a popular local female athlete with
Olympic dreams. It sent her to the emergency room with a broken arm from the
fall she suffered jumping backwards from the plastic spider springing out of a gift box.
Billie went out of his way to apologize anonymously to
Carla, sending flowers and paying her hospital bills, and promising to never
post the video. What Smiley didn’t realize was Carla and her brother Vince
believed revenge is a dish best served cold.
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