Wow.  Just…wow. This is super-nerdy and everything, but the amount of energy expended on it was just staggering.

Basically, a couple of guys found someone at random on the Internet and then found out everything about him they could, including photos, cell phone number, information from instant messages, etc. Then they put together a scrapbook and showed up at his house, telling him they were from the future and he was going to save the world from robots ala Terminator, and giving him the scrapbook.

Now if they had ended it right there, it would have been an awesome prank. But it goes on and on from there, from sending him a plane ticket to another city and sending him on a scavenger hunt, to an art gallery exhibition all about him, and finally, after several years, culminating in an elaborate stage show in front of 300 people in which this random guy is the star.

As you can imagine, the whole thing is quite a long read, but it is amazing the meticulous attention to detail that went into planning the whole thing. In some cases, they set clues in place months before they knew if the guy was even going to show up, like the message written in black light sensitive ink on the picture in the art gallery. The storyline is kind of cheesy and everything, especially during the stage show, but the whole project was amazing in scope.

Link via UrbanPrankster.