{"id":1108,"date":"2008-07-09T02:20:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T07:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/07\/09\/crosswalk-pranks\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:59:48","slug":"crosswalk-pranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/07\/09\/crosswalk-pranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosswalk pranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/dailymotion.alice.it\/swf\/x31umd\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/dailymotion.alice.it\/swf\/x31umd\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"420\" height=\"339\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fagstein.com\/2008\/07\/09\/strange-crosswalk\/\">Thanks to Fagstein<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been introduced to Improv Everywhere&#8217;s new Urban Prankster blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanprankster.com\/2008\/06\/crosswalk-characters\/\">including its latest post<\/a>, with video footage of some creative sidewalk pranks in France and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t imagine any Montreal driver having such patience. Or, for that matter, stopping at the crosswalk in the first place,&#8221; he writes, and I would have to agree. How would you pull stunts like these in a city where drivers don&#8217;t even stop for pedestrians in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bvsYl-MX1HI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Fagstein, I&#8217;ve been introduced to Improv Everywhere&#8217;s new Urban Prankster blog, including its latest post, with video footage of some creative sidewalk pranks in France and Israel. &#8220;I can\u2019t imagine any Montreal driver having such patience. Or, for that matter, stopping at the crosswalk in the first place,&#8221; he writes, and I would<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/07\/09\/crosswalk-pranks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Crosswalk pranks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7831,103],"tags":[7,268,510,2075,125,18,20],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-walking","tag-behaviour","tag-driver","tag-france","tag-israel","tag-montreal","tag-other-cities","tag-pedestrian"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crosswalk pranks - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/07\/09\/crosswalk-pranks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crosswalk pranks - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thanks to Fagstein, I&#8217;ve been introduced to Improv Everywhere&#8217;s new Urban Prankster blog, including its latest post, with video footage of some creative sidewalk pranks in France and Israel. &#8220;I can\u2019t imagine any Montreal driver having such patience. 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