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New York City is a weird enough place, justifying daily the phrase "only in New York!" As the Geekosystem office is situated in the Big Apple -- which no one who lives here calls it, by the way -- we're happy whenever something positive livens up our town. In a prelude to April Fool's Day, more than 2,000 people moved backwards in Times Square for 5 minutes, confusing locals and tourists alike.

It's a well-known fact that when you turn your camera on a teenager, they are going to do something stupid. It's pretty much a law of physics, really. Case in point: This student at St. Joseph's, a Jesuit prep school in Pennsylvania, knew he was on live television and, being any high school student anywhere in the history of time, just couldn't restrain himself from taking probably the one opportunity he will ever get to give the dude in front of him a dreaded "wet willy" before an audience of millions. We know that feel, bro.  Thankfully, someone captured this moment of brilliance to share with the Internet at large, and we're delighted to bring it to you below.

We've brought you magician and YouTube Prankster Rahat Hussein's videos -- like the Invisible Driver prank -- before. He's added a new twist to the trick in his latest video, which features a Chucky doll (well, technically a Good Guy doll, but who are we to split hairs?) in the driver's seat of a car ordering fast food. If, like us, though, you were kind of wondering when fast food workers in Rahat's neighborhood would grow bored with his shenanigans -- wait no longer, as a car driven by a murderous doll is no longer enough to unnerve people working a drive-through window. They've seen things, man.

Whatever your Halloween costume this year is going to be, it can't possibly match this magician's, which involves him sneezing his head off his body in an alleyway. Alleyways make everything creepier.

Redditor Bierrr spotted these gift cards for The Pirate Bay at a local supermarket. Good prank, but this brings up a fairly important question. If something tangible at a store costs nothing, can you just take it, or do you have to ring it up regardless of its lack of cost? Deep, deep philosophy.

Waiting for elevators can be tedious, and down right depressing when you think of all the cummulative time wasted doing it. Perhaps we should just follow the lead of Rémi Gaillard, and start living in elevators. Looks cozy to me, but the idea of being trapped in an elevator gives me the heebie-jeebies -- even if it was an elevator that was also my home.

Reddit user Permabla had a problem: His roommate continually used the much-maligned Internet Explorer because he "couldn't find the Firefox button." Problem solved.

The Model Shop team at LEGOLAND California played a prank on General Manager Peter Ronchetti: They replaced his Volvo XC60 with a life-sized LEGO model of an XC90. The model was built with 201,076 LEGO bricks and weighs 2,934 pounds. The LEGO model was actually built in 2004, and Model Shop supervisor Tim Petsche noticed that the model greatly resembled Ronchetti's Volvo while it was being refurbished. So, like any good employee or friend would do, someone stole Ronchetti's car keys, moved his car, returned the keys, and then the team used a forklift to plop the LEGO model down in its spot. Head on past the break for a video of the prank in motion.

Peabody Energy, the world's largest coal energy company, has been the target of an ingenious prank called "Coal Cares." The site claims it is giving away free "cool" inhalers featuring the likenesses of Justin Bieber, My Little Pony, and others for kids who live within 200 miles of a coal-fire power plant. It also offers "fun" games and activities, likely chosen to help kids remain inside and asthma free. The site is actually the work of prankster activists Coal is Killing Kids, who aim to counteract the lobbying efforts they claim Peabody is making to gut the Clean Air Act. That specific agenda aside, the Coal Cares website is a spot-on parody of the recent efforts the coal industry has made to paint itself as a green company. The soulless, questionable copy and generic clipart is dead on; you can almost hear a vaccuous wind blowing through where the faux-author's heart used to be. Read on after the break for a few choice quotes, and images from the ersatz campaign.

Pictured above is a hilariously subtle (which makes it devilishly evil) prank where Oli downloads pictures of his friend James from Facebook, edits them to slightly change his face and other little details, then re-uploads them back to Facebook. As seen by the comments left by James, he's not too fond of the prank, even if he has a prime opportunity to claim he owns a bush baby. Head on past the break to see the full range of hilarious edits.

Biola University professor Matt Weathers pranked his class on Halloween by pretending his PC was haunted and ripping things out of it into real life. A little cheesy, but oddly mesmerizing.

Blizzard Entertainment is pretty infamous when it comes to pranking their fans, but their prank at this year's BlizzCon was so calculatedly evil that it can only be considered a hilarious epic troll. Hilarious if you aren't a huge Blizzard fan, I suppose.