A Grand Canyon photo prank gone viral is either hilarious or cruel, depending on whether you are a flippant college kid or mom of ungrateful brats.
The Grand Canyon photo prank calls to mind the recent Onion article in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, “ Mom Just Called To Make Sure You’re Not Under That Dangling Crane .” In it, the fake news source lampooned a mom’s tendency to fear that whenever a massive and perilous danger arises, you will decide to waltz right into the epicenter and needlessly place yourself in harm’s way.
In the Grand Canyon photo prank, 22-year-old Samantha Busch — a young lady who is clearly not a mother herself yet — dangles over the precipice of the gorge with a panicked look upon her face. The twentysomething had posted the pic to r/funny, titled “ Mom was worried about my trip to the Grand Canyon, I sent her this picture .”
Within hours, the image had skyrocketed across the web, and Busch was a meme sensation. Speaking to ABC about the Grand Canyon photo prank, the young woman explains:
“For five days up to when we left, my mom had warned me about falling off the cliff or being blown off … So when we were hiking around the corner, I found a good spot where I could stand on the ledge. He angled the camera just right and he took a great picture.”
But Busch wasn’t content to make her mom lose sleep alone over the Grand Canyon photo prank, and she decided to torment the woman’s co-workers as well:
“I messaged it to her first and she works for a medical auditing company and there are women who have known me since day one, and they freaked out over it also. I emailed it to them, too, and they were all freaking out over it saying I gave them a heart attack.”
Whether or not you think the Grand Canyon photo prank is funny or cruel, rest assured that one day, Busch is likely to have a daughter of her own that will decide to put her mother through worrying hell simply to get karma on Reddit.
