Girl Decides To Prank This Guy Who Gave Her His Number By Texting Him That He’d Just Adopted A Chimp
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There’s nothing like a good prank to lighten the mood and brighten up our day. And one prankster who recently pulled the wool over someone’s eyes in an original way is Emily Cain who lives in England.
Most of us have gotten someone’s number only to later wonder what we should do with it. It’s always difficult to know the best way to act. Should we be polite and text them? Should we ignore them completely? Should we realize our lifelong dream of moving to the Swiss Alps with a romantic stranger? Or should we do what Emily did and prank the heck out of them?
Em made the guy think that he adopted a chimp named Bubbles and that he was donating money every time he sent a message.
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A guy gave Emily his number and she made him believe he adopted a chimp named Bubbles
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But it wasn’t over just yet
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I’ve gotta say, I love Emily’s sense of humor. She knows what’s what. The guy she was pranking, though—he got way too angry when he found out it was all a joke. Instead of laughing at himself, he viciously insulted Em.
Those kinds of swearwords don’t belong anywhere in the context of Bubbles the chimp, don’t you agree? Also, how naive can you be, buddy? There’s no such thing as an automatic chimp adoption system. We’re not living in ‘Planet of the Apes.’ (Yet..!)
Jokes aside, you really can adopt a chimp. Well, symbolically at least. It’ll stay in a zoo or a reservation, not in your home. Think of it as crowd-sourced adoption or a living-breathing representation of the idiom “it takes a village to raise a child.”
There are various organizations that send you updates on how your chimp’s doing, usually for a weekly or monthly support fee. For example, Save the Chimps lets you support ‘retired’ apes and promises you regular video updates. While Born Free sends you an adoption pack which includes a soft toy, a certificate, and a glossy photo of your new pal.
Born Free explains that chimps (along with bonobos) are our closest living relatives, are very intelligent and live in “complex social groups.” The global chimp population has declined due to diseases, habitat loss, and hunting. Their greatest enemies are ebola, anthrax, and people who think their meat’s delicious.
The world of chimps is “a hidden and exclusive world within our human-dominated one”
Bored Panda reached out to Liz Greengrass, the Head of Conservation at Born Free, to hear about why every one of us should seriously consider financially supporting a chimp. Here’s what she had to say: “I spent seven years studying a wild group of chimpanzees in Tanzania and they are charismatic and amazing animals! Like all social and highly intelligent species, once you can identify individuals, learn who’s who, and their backstories, studying them is a soap opera.”
“They exhibit love and a strong sense of kinship and play and laugh and joke around. At the same time, just like humans, they exhibit a dark side: male rivalry, murder, infanticide, and war,” Greengrass noted. “Each is an individual with a complex personality and human-like emotions. As human’s closest living relative, it is their differences as much as their similarities that enthrall. And like all sentient species, they watch and they judge and sometimes try to interact with you.”
She continued: “Stepping into the world according to wild chimpanzees is like stepping into a parallel universe. It is a hidden and exclusive world within our human-dominated one.”
“Supporting the protection of chimpanzees does so much more; it helps protect their habitat, the abundance and diversity of species that co-occur with them, and the ecosystem services that local human populations rely upon, which contribute to livelihoods, health, and wellbeing. Chimpanzees are a flagship species highlighting our need to place our natural world at the forefront of our development.”
Some people got angry at Em for her prank
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While others loved her sense of humor
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Not sure what the guy did to deserve being pranked quite like this in the first place.
Mean girl pranks stranger to get laughs and validation from the internet. Not very funny at all.
Yeah, no. This isn't wholesome, just frustrating and a bit mean-spirited. What'd he do to deserve this? I understand that sometimes it's best to open with a joke, but this just went on and on and I imagine the panic he felt for a while wasn't fun at all. In fact, as one said, if the genders were reversed this would be classed as harassment or at the very least be more widely condemned as the bad move it is.
Threatening to take money out of your bank account is harassment. I recently had someone mail me a receipt for a purchase I didn't make. It is very scary. Boredpanda should not post stories of con artists and thieves threatening to withdraw money from someone's account,
It honestly isn't a very kind thing to do, as if it happened to me, I would freak out.
I don't really know whether to laugh or whether it's wrong to laugh
Humour is a funny thing - we all find different things funny. For me the acid test is this - would you find it funny if you'd been on the receiving end of texts that made you think you had money being taken out of your account and your attempts to stop it made things worse? If you'd find that funny, then laugh.
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If he only sent her his phone number, how did he think she got his bank account details?
I don't like his language, but her behavior was far, far worse. Her prank amused herself and pained him. Not funny; just mean.
he's justified-and she is many other unappealing things he could have said
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I think ifbi did this to my husband and maybe not have took it so far maybe if in good taste , good faith. But ... To a stranger ,to this extent ... Does seem a bit mean to someone who don't know you then if your at work and then have to call your bank it makes the guy panic taken it so far. O could see pranking my husband upto the first bubbles the baby monkey. Then laugh before it got scary. Idk. I like a good joke but not at others expense. I don't think she was trying to conn him out of his bank account , just a dumb joke taken way too far.
all those boys and their fragile little egos...i would have thought it was funny
Oh haha bet id the guy had done it it'd be an internet witch hunt to attempt to ruin every aspect of his life.
Oh please! If it was a guy, he’d be harassing her no end and when she finally responded with “I’ve got a boyfriend”, he’d accuse her of lying. With all the swear words. Maybe she was sick of being treated like that, and the d**k pics.
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WTH? When I was single I used to give my number to women I was interested in so that they wouldn't feel any pressure or feel unsafe. Why would she do this to a guy who's simply saying that he finds her interesting and leaves her with the opprtunity to follow up with him if she wants but assures her that he won't have any way to bother her if she's not interested? Is she messing with him simply because he finds her interesting? Wow.
Ah the screenshots of the dailyfail comments from misogynistic males aren’t surprising. The commenters on that site are vile.
Lol, I feel like all the haters without a pic were all the same guy 😂. I bet he sends out d**k pics too.
If a man did this to a woman, he would be condemned. In any event, if she had done 1 or 2 prank texts I wouldn't think so badly of her, but in my opinion she went WAY overboard
I can't with the guys overreacting lmao. To the average basement dweller sending women dickpics is no big deal, but a harmless prank is bullying/media terrorism.
A joke is something that is done to provoke laughter and if the recipient isn't laughing it isn't a joke. Onlookers laughing - they aren't the target and if they were I doubt they'd find it funny. If someone is made upset or scared by something it's a prank, not a joke, and it definitely wasn't meant to be fun for the guy on the receiving end. I don't think it's funny in any sense of the word but maybe I'm suffering from a sense of humour failure here. Though personally I'd rather not find things funny if it's at the detriment of someone else.
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Not sure what the guy did to deserve being pranked quite like this in the first place.
Mean girl pranks stranger to get laughs and validation from the internet. Not very funny at all.
Yeah, no. This isn't wholesome, just frustrating and a bit mean-spirited. What'd he do to deserve this? I understand that sometimes it's best to open with a joke, but this just went on and on and I imagine the panic he felt for a while wasn't fun at all. In fact, as one said, if the genders were reversed this would be classed as harassment or at the very least be more widely condemned as the bad move it is.
Threatening to take money out of your bank account is harassment. I recently had someone mail me a receipt for a purchase I didn't make. It is very scary. Boredpanda should not post stories of con artists and thieves threatening to withdraw money from someone's account,
It honestly isn't a very kind thing to do, as if it happened to me, I would freak out.
I don't really know whether to laugh or whether it's wrong to laugh
Humour is a funny thing - we all find different things funny. For me the acid test is this - would you find it funny if you'd been on the receiving end of texts that made you think you had money being taken out of your account and your attempts to stop it made things worse? If you'd find that funny, then laugh.
Load More Replies... If he only sent her his phone number, how did he think she got his bank account details?
I don't like his language, but her behavior was far, far worse. Her prank amused herself and pained him. Not funny; just mean.
he's justified-and she is many other unappealing things he could have said
Load More Replies... I think ifbi did this to my husband and maybe not have took it so far maybe if in good taste , good faith. But ... To a stranger ,to this extent ... Does seem a bit mean to someone who don't know you then if your at work and then have to call your bank it makes the guy panic taken it so far. O could see pranking my husband upto the first bubbles the baby monkey. Then laugh before it got scary. Idk. I like a good joke but not at others expense. I don't think she was trying to conn him out of his bank account , just a dumb joke taken way too far.
all those boys and their fragile little egos...i would have thought it was funny
Oh haha bet id the guy had done it it'd be an internet witch hunt to attempt to ruin every aspect of his life.
Oh please! If it was a guy, he’d be harassing her no end and when she finally responded with “I’ve got a boyfriend”, he’d accuse her of lying. With all the swear words. Maybe she was sick of being treated like that, and the d**k pics.
Load More Replies... WTH? When I was single I used to give my number to women I was interested in so that they wouldn't feel any pressure or feel unsafe. Why would she do this to a guy who's simply saying that he finds her interesting and leaves her with the opprtunity to follow up with him if she wants but assures her that he won't have any way to bother her if she's not interested? Is she messing with him simply because he finds her interesting? Wow.
Ah the screenshots of the dailyfail comments from misogynistic males aren’t surprising. The commenters on that site are vile.
Lol, I feel like all the haters without a pic were all the same guy 😂. I bet he sends out d**k pics too.
If a man did this to a woman, he would be condemned. In any event, if she had done 1 or 2 prank texts I wouldn't think so badly of her, but in my opinion she went WAY overboard
I can't with the guys overreacting lmao. To the average basement dweller sending women dickpics is no big deal, but a harmless prank is bullying/media terrorism.
A joke is something that is done to provoke laughter and if the recipient isn't laughing it isn't a joke. Onlookers laughing - they aren't the target and if they were I doubt they'd find it funny. If someone is made upset or scared by something it's a prank, not a joke, and it definitely wasn't meant to be fun for the guy on the receiving end. I don't think it's funny in any sense of the word but maybe I'm suffering from a sense of humour failure here. Though personally I'd rather not find things funny if it's at the detriment of someone else.
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