Couples Caught On Hidden Camera

Ben Jack takes a humorous look at honesty

A few years ago I co-hosted a place after hours at Soul Survivor. My friend Tom and I decided it would be fun to shoot some hidden camera skits, jokes around various site and capturing people's reactions to the film, which we then show in the hall every night.

As the days passed, and Tom's ideas I came up with increasingly bizarre, including an unfortunate incident involving the theft of skateboarding, a van of some speed and youth self-defense, which almost ended badly. If I described to you what actually happened it wouldn't be half as much fun, so I'll leave your imagination to conjure up all sorts of anarchy.

Speaking of skateboards, for one of the pranks I walked over to a couple of lads who were skateboarding and asked if I could have a go on one of their boards. Being nice Christian lads, they obliged and let me have a go. The plan was for me to skate down the site a little before deliberately wiping out in overly dramatic fashion and then lying still on the ground, (which, believe me, took some fabulous acting and stunt work).We would film by far the reactions of boys and everyone else around at that time. So we planned this, it seemed like a good idea. When we made for real, though, I guess I must have been a little too convincing.

After the execution of the accident the largest skate in the history wrong, I was lying on the floor and asked me how long I should wait before I got up. But in what appeared to be only a couple of seconds I was surrounded by the festival in question. Before I could admit the deception, I could already hear people pray for me! Caught in a dilemma, and making a split-second decision, I decided that I would act along for a few minutes, eventually sit up gingerly and then, thanking them for their help, walk off. The only problem was, when I tried to sit up a man who had kindly taken it upon himself to be my first aider wouldn't let me in case I had broken something! It was at this point that I heard someone utter the words that confirmed, like in a bad undercover cop movie, I was in too deep.

"We've called for the on-site ambulance".

At this point, any person of strong character would have blown instantly, all confessed and asked them to cancel the ambulance. It was probably at that time I was wheeled into the ambulance in a wheelchair that I realized that my strength of character that was going to need some work.

Upon arriving at the installation site medical staff was so nice to me I could not bring myself to admit the truth - I was really good and it was all a silly joke gone too far. I was eventually discharged about 45 minutes later with 'soft tissue damage', but not before being encouraged to take care and informed that the medical staff met every morning and prayed specifically for the skateboarders on site! Any person of strong character would have... well, you get the idea.

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