PRANKING PARENTS LOSE CUSTODY OF CHILDREN
A father and stepmother, who posted controversial online prank videos involving their children, have lost custody of two of them to their biological mother. Mike and Heather Martin had been under fire for the extreme videos posted to their DaddyOFive YouTube channel. Videos with names like “PSYCHO CLOWN ATTACKS FAMILY” and “DAD PUNCHES KID IN THE FACE” show extreme pranks involving the family. Last month, many members of the online community who viewed the videos claimed the children featured were being abused and that child protective services should step in. They did. Rose Hall, the biological mother of two of the children, said that she was granted emergency custody of 9-year-old Cody and 12-year-old Emma, who were often the focus of the pranks posted online. In one video, titled “INVISIBLE INK PRANK,” the Martins pranked Cody in a profanity-filled tirade that left him hysterically in tears. The Martins claimed all of the pranks were staged.
* So we’re taking away your kids. Just kidding! Pranked!!!! Not really, we’re taking them, you jerks.
* Jeeze, some child welfare agencies just can’t take a joke.
* You know the scary part? This would be the perfect time for a real psycho clown to attack the family.
* Actually, Mike and Heather ARE a couple of psycho clowns.
* Wow, here’s a family with a hobby they all do together and it still goes bad.
* The family that pranks together, tanks together.
* It sounds like one of those skits on Jimmy Kimmel where they make the kids cry.
* I believe that one was called, “I Told My Kids I Ate All the Halloween Candy” and these sound like the same parents.
* They’re just going to have to go back to dogfighting.
* PHONE TOPIC: Do you prank your kids? Isn’t that cruel?
CLIP: A bit of the hi-larious “Dad Punches Kid In The Face”. The punches are faked, of course, with somebody off camera clapping to make the hitting noise.
