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America has its fair share of hidden camera shows where people are humiliated or get scared silly (Scare Tactics, Room 401, Punk’d) but Japan’s reality show Panic Face King, takes the cake for being the most realistic and terrifying.

A segment from this hidden camera show has been circulating around the internet and has been causing some controversy about its contents. The segment shows a man (the victim) chatting peacefully with 3 other people until they are shot down, leaving the victim completely confused and terrified. The rest of the video just shows the man in a state of panic as he realizes he can’t leave the room and a man with a gun runs in and grabs him. You can view the prank below.

As you can see the man is scared out of his wits and probably thought he was going to die. There are many people who think this is a sick prank and that the producers of the show are sadistic. Others are arguing that it’s all just for fun and nobody was harmed during the prank (at least not physically). My take on it? I’m a little bit in between.

I know that the scene is fake and no one was actually shot, and I’ll admit that the guy’s reaction was priceless but the situation the producers of the show put him in was too extreme. Can you imagine yourself chatting with your friends and then suddenly have them shot to death by an unseen assailant? Some serious psychological damage can be done to a person. At the end of the video the guy seemed relieved that it was all a joke but who knows how he was effected by the event. He could be living his life with paranoia.

Overall, I think that the producers should have toned it down a couple of notches. Maybe cutting out the part where the three guys got shot and letting them be “hostages” with the victim. It would have been a lot more comforting if the guy wasn’t alone in that kind of situation.

Anyways, I think Japan should do more of these kinds of pranks that are hilarious but no emotional damage is inflicted.

Now that’s some funny stuff (my personal favorite being the random boulder and snowball).

Source:Telegraph



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21 Comments »

that poor guy. that wasnt funny at all =( making him think he was probably going to die. thats horrible


oh mi gosh, i dont know what i would do if someone pranked me like that


omg thats soo mean!


Haha! My brother showed this to me before. Funny stuff man. Horrible, yes. But funny.


aww thats not cool


Japan has all the seriously not cool comedy shows ><” ehhhh ~


That’s when you take something just a bit too far.


But you’d expect this to come from Japan XD


OMG Yo that’s so mean =[
I think I would be psychologically messed up after a prank like that.


i2ayumi - 10/22/09 11:59 am

But you’d expect this to come from Japan XD

yeah definitely


I would’ve thought Japan had limits, well guess they went over them. lol


Has anyone seen the one where they were placing fish tanks on the streets filled with paranas? And they had like a rolex watch or something expensive in the fish tank and if you could get it out you get the prize? They broadcast that on TV… it was so gross >< blood ew ew


^ No, but that does sound gross. Did they honestly show all the blood, were peoples arms eaten? That’s really wrong.


^ People were laughing and yeah just bitten not eaten. They dipped it in and BAM blood D:


^ I would most definitely not be laughing over something like that.


Just type in Japanese Game Show on Youtube and you get a bunch of ‘entertaining’ stuff XD


woah that fish tank one is crazy. don’t think i want to watch that…

i like some of their games shows like:
human tetris- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll2kajMH2u0

matrix-like scenes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dcmDscwEcI&feature=related


i LOVED that tetris one, also the silent library one

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I606ovtavSQ[/youtube]


wow that old guy was so scard


OMG SILENT LIBRARY! HAHAHAH XD I watched it a while ago and HAHAHA LOVEEE


yesh, silent alright xD



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