Curses! Foiled again!

[Dogmudgeon]

Talk about your tinfoil helmet alert! Read the whole sordid story here.

Last Thursday, a headline skittered across the Associated Press newswire, boasting to the world: "Man's apartment encased in aluminum foil." The dateline was Olympia, Washington and the story concerned a man who spent New Year's Eve covering his best friend's apartment entirely in tin foil.

Inital reaction: Amazing.

But was this another lame exercise in the new and already tiring "Punk'd" era? As our exclusive photographs show, the madness went much deeper. The prank took five days to complete and foil was used to cover everything in the apartment -- down to the quarters in the coin jar, the casings of each CD -- and suddenly, an innocuous joke is magnified into speed freak Warhol Factory-like proportions.

Meet Lucas Trerice, the earnest Smurf-loving geek and aspiring dentist behind the biggest foil-covered prank of 2004.

The bolded text was my idea.

--bkl
Just don't bite it!