It’s a sick prank that sent some commuters off the rails.
Two teens dressed in full-body hazmat suits pretended to spill a vat of COVID-19 on a packed Big Apple subway — leaving straphangers screaming as they fled in terror.
The pair, identified by Insider as Queens pranksters David Flores, 17, and Morris Cordewell, 19, initially sat calmly in their protective get-ups while holding a clear container with red liquid.
“I hope that’s Kool-Aid,” one passenger on the L train in Brooklyn correctly guessed — while another asked, “Is that coronavirus?”
The teens both gave thumbs-up signals while telling straphangers they were “good” — soon eliciting screams as they removed the lid of the box plastered with “WARNING” stickers.
They then pretended to fall to the floor, spilling the liquid that quickly spread down the subway carriage.
“Oh s–t!” someone shouted, while others could be heard screaming as most commuters ran away from the spill, some jumping on seats to avoid the spreading liquid in the Jan. 31 hoax.
“It’s a prank! It’s a prank!” the teens quickly reassured the screaming straphangers who feared the virus that has killed 1,113 and sickened more than 44,000 around the world.
“The first half [of the prank], people were kinda scared,” Cordewell told Insider. “After we were like, ‘Yo, it’s a prank,’ people were laughing.”
He said many on the train — including a mom and her kids next to him — “knew it was a joke the whole time,” with his sidekick, Flores, adding, “They kinda figured it out themselves.”
Still, it seemed to divide the commuters — just as it did commentators to their social media post.
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