Celebrity Pranks That Went Too Far

YouTuber Sam Pepper faced a great deal of backlash following his prank involving fellow social media creators Sam Golbach and Colby Brock. It's hard to believe that someone could even conceptualize and execute a stagged kidnapping and murder for a prank, but that's exactly what happened. Golbach was the target of the prank while his friend, Brock, was in on it.

The video (which has since been deleted and reuploaded by another YouTube account) starts out with the friends getting out of their vehicle to address car issues staged by Brock as part of the prank. They are then approached by a "kidnapper" who ties Golbach up and puts him in a trunk. In the following scene, Brock and Golbach sit beside each other as they're tied up. The fake kidnapper decides to shoot Brock, and Golbach is led to believe that he just watched his best friend die in front of him.

By now you can probably see why many fans didn't find the prank funny. One viewer took to Twitter to write, "I once thought Sam Pepper was alright, however, his recent video disgusts me. Nobody should ever exploit absolute desperation and terror ..." Pepper also chimed in on the conversation himself. "I had spoken to Colby about it to see what Sam's reaction was going to be,'" he told Metro. "It's not something that's going to affect him day in day out – it looks more dramatic in the video than it did in real life."

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7r7XCpKCsr5mbwW%2BvzqZmampgaIJ4gI6cnKWdkqe2tcWMqamappuoerW0wK1ksJ2eqXq1u85mnZqqXw%3D%3D