Popular YouTube prankster given 9 months jail for bomb hoax

YouTube pranksters be warned – if you take it too far, then you’re very likely to get yourself thrown in jail.

Only weeks after the notorious Jalal Brothers were arrested after their series of bomb pranks in Australia, one of the co-founders of pranking group TrollStation – Danh Van Le, known as DigiDan, has been sentenced to prison for 9 months after a prank that involved panicking members of the public in London with a ticking suitcase.

The prank – that was filmed in September 2015 – involved Van Le filming another member of the prank group (who was then only 15 years old) approaching members of the public with a ticking suitcase, dropping it and running away.

The prank was clearly designed to induce panic upon its targets, and ultimately one person ended up calling the police who later arrested Van Le.

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The YouTube channel TrollStation have managed to accrue an impressive 700,000 subscribers since they launched, and specialize in public pranks that focus on the reactions of the people that they target. While many of the videos are innocent enough to be considered harmless fun, many have attracted controversy with critics claiming that they go too far.

Despite the Jalal Brothers in Australia managing to avoid a prison sentence for their online pranks, Van Le has not proven so lucky. He was charged with staging a bomb hoax. It seems that in the UK at least, hiding behind the justification of YouTube pranks is not enough to spare you some jail time.