Sentence examples for this was a prank from inspiring English sources
When I called my health-insurance company to ask what implants they pay for, and they said none, this was a prank.
"You dropped your wallet!" The man looked down, realized this was a prank, and looked up at Tyler, registering the face and the famous tube socks.
Robert J. Del Col, Mr. Slavin's lawyer, said in an interview tonight that the jury would hear inconsistencies in the witnesses' accounts and a different story about what happened Sept. 17, "like maybe that this was a prank that escalated".
She told the hearing: "If she answered any of these calls – and there were four of them – then it can only have added to the stress she was under when she realised this was a prank call by a radio station".
Was he going to ask if this was a prank?
Then she wonders if this is a prank.
There are two dozen articles online, thousands of comments suggesting that this is a prank video and I'm responsible for it".
The Watson threat bears all the hallmarks of the latter, and the general consensus among commenters is that this is a prank.
"If this is a prank that's gone wrong, he's jumped into the river and he's embarrassed by the fact he's caused all this commotion and all this activity, his friends' involvement and his family's distress – if he's just hiding low somewhere, then I would appeal for him to come forward.
Robert A. Mintz, a criminal defense lawyer in Newark and a former federal prosecutor, said, "What prosecutors will be looking at is whether this is a prank that had gone horribly wrong, or whether this was an orchestrated scheme to intimidate the victim based on his sexual orientation".
