Modified On June 8, 2008
Agence France Presse is reportng that Chris Rock, “was the victim of a practical joke while on tour in South Africa, after being pranked with accusations he had sex with a British minor.”
Ha ha! That’s a good one! We bet Rock is still laughing!
“This one went far, it must have been organised quite carefully,” said Tlali, who said when prosecutors discovered the following day it was a prank there were mixed reactions with some slamming it as a waste of time, while others saw the funny side.
It was not known which television show was behind the prank.
For a brief period, Rock thought “he was about to be arrested for sexually assaulting a minor in Britain,” in a foreign country, halfway around the world. It’s “practical jokes” like this one that give practical jokes a bad name. And for every 10 people who heard that Chris Rock was fooled into believing that he was about to be arrested for assaulting a minor, there’ll be 1.5 people who heard that Chris Rock assaulted a minor. (We smell lawsuit!)