Deliberately going to the inner city, snatching someone's phone or harassing people is a prank? Actually going up to gang members to even say a word to one is a smart idea?

Good! These "hood prank" videos are disgusting. Ignorant white kids going to inner city neighborhoods, which have high minority populations and a long history of crime/violence (the people who live there live every day knowing it could be their last), messing with the wrong people knowing they'll get beat up for it, and posting the clips to YouTube to reinforce racial stereotypes. Some of these kids have had knives, guns, and tasers pulled on them, and eventually someone is going to get killed in the name of a prank. It would be horrible if that happened, but it would be a huge wake-up call to these punks to knock it off.

"You got a problem?" = "I'll **** you up" in the hood

Wow. Didn't know it's already happened. Truly a tragedy, but the kid clearly had it coming. You don't say that to people - in the ghetto or anywhere else.

That's the only site that reported this and it has a history of not being reliable. I think that's fake.

Real or not, the kid was asking for it. You just don't walk up to anybody and tell them "are you ready to die?", especially not a gang member. It's a tragedy that he died if it's real, but he might still be alive if he hadn't threatened someone else's life.

You could step on someone's front yard in the suburbs saying that and you're getting shot. Goosey of all people should know about that.

No, why risk being punched in the face?

I was unaware being a douche was a capital offence.

He's a little nerdy Palestinian kid like 5 feet tall with glasses holding a calculator these people are way too quick to violence.

You know Goosey is the guy sitting on his front porch with a rifle in his lap just waitin for somebody to step on his lawn

sooo they want people to get mad and then when those people get too mad they think they can say "It's a prank" as if it's the magic phrase to talk yourself out of your **** and put the fault on the pranked person if they hit you.

Whoooooooo. Go to the hood and try this mess. Come back and tell us how it goes.