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A passenger on a flight landing at London’s Gatwick Airport managed to remove the entire sign “Welcome to Luton Airport” made by a prankster
Passengers on flights landing at Britain’s Gatwick Airport, south of London, have been confused for days by a giant “welcome to Luton” sign. Luton is London’s other airport and is located about 96 km north of Gatwick.
Passenger Abby Desmond from the city of Great Dunmow in Essex managed to capture the entire inscription. Desmond says she “panicked” when she saw her.
YouTube prankster Max Foch admitted to the massive prank, apologizing to everyone he really misled.
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Max Foch hopes the sign will stay in place for a long time to come
Foch admitted he did the inscription himself on the BBC’s Justin Deely Show . Foch, who has 932,000 YouTube subscribers, said: “I’m the nasty prankster who posted the ‘Welcome to Luton’ sign.
He said that he actually managed to prank several people – one woman wrote to him that she was seriously worried, thinking that she was in Luton – and she parked the car in Gatwick.
Prank has generated quite a bit of feedback on Twitter.
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The inscription was posted at the airport last Wednesday
According to Foch, he was inspired by similar tricks from Australian and American bloggers.
“My job is to make videos, and my videos are about funny things that I do to make people smile. But it’s just tomfoolery. I’m glad this prank turned out well,” he said.
Abby Desmond’s post, with a photo of a caption and a caption that mentioned the fake account of RAF Luton Base (another popular aviation-themed joke), got more than 20,000 likes.
Luton Airport Building, almost a hundred kilometers from Gatwick
Foch told how he laid out the sign: “I started going around farms around Heathrow and Gatwick airports, and a very nice couple answered me:” Yes, we have free 80 meters of land with which we have nothing to do now. “I said:” Great, then I’ll go get the tarpaulin and start driving in the stakes.”
Installation of 14 letters measuring 8 by 3 meters cost him four thousand pounds. The inscription was made “for centuries,” said the prankster.
Foch now has all the necessary permits to keep the inscription in place for six weeks. “If you land at Gatwick, look out the windows on the left side and you will see it about a minute and a half before landing,” he says.
image copyrightMax Fosh
View of the sign at Gatwick Airport from the ground
Seven years ago, the press talked about a similar prank organized in the United States.
Joker Mark Gubin, who lives near the Milwaukee airport, wrote “Welcome to Cleveland” in huge letters on the roof of his house.
Cleveland is located 540 kilometers from Milwaukee.
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