Iraqi Reality Show Plants Car Bombs on Celebrities
File under “S” for stupid.
Move over Punk’d, a new show on Iraq television makes unwitting contestants think they are going to jail after they are pulled over at a security checkpoint and a explosive device is found in their vehicle.
The show “Put Him in [Camp] Bucca” has received numerous protests but continues to air.
Popular public figures are tricked by being invited to the headquarters of TV station Al Baghdadia to be interviewed, while en route a fake bomb gets planted in their car while they were being searched by Iraqi soldiers — who amazingly are in on the prank.
The unwitting celebrities are then secretly filmed, Candid-Camera-style, as they reacted with shock, disbelief and anger as fake checkpoint guards shout abuses at them: “Why do you want to blow us up?” “You are a terrorist.” “How much did they pay you to do it? You will be executed.” Quality television indeed.
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And just in case you think “how dumb is it that Iraqi soldiers are doing pranks like this in a war where untold lives are being lost“? Meet a member of the US Military who while on active duty in Iraq, decided to film his own version of Punk’d by planting a explosive device in a car during a traffic checkpoint and filming the drivers reaction. Nice. Click HERE for the video.
I can’t even fathom how in the world they thought this is some sort of valid “entertainment.” I know it’s a chaotic country to be in, but this is just a dismally ill thought attempt at “humor.”