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While I started working here only a month ago, what you see above is technically my Game Informer debut in the October 2003 issue. I flew up here from Kansas City when I was 18 to shoot an in-store advertisement, and my friend and I stumbled upon this shark suit at the Mall of America. Naturally, we had to buy it and run around GI's offices like a couple of high school morons. Wait...how did I get this job again?
Anyways, the suit got its share of use throughout my college years, with the most memorable being our attacks on the university's biggest lecture hall. We'd get prepared in the bathroom, then time the attack perfectly, sprinting through the room mid-lecture. He was generally being chased by someone (in this video, a wizard and a scientist) or chasing something (typically a guy in a giant cheeseburger suit). My favorite moment involved us sprinting through the classroom and then being chased by TA's. The shark and the cheeseburger had to hide in the elevator for an awkward 30 minutes before they felt safe enough to leave.
Below are a few occasions that we caught on tape. There's some major shaky-cam stuff going on considering that we had to keep it hidden, plus we were cracking up while holding the camera.You'll notice a grey-haired teacher in the second attack, and we hit his class so much that he started barricading the doors with tables while he would do his lectures.
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"Go to a boring lecture"- 3 hours of your life spent
"Go to lecture to see shark man disrupt it."- priceless.
Lol, great article Dan. Loving the shark suit!
I want to hear the story behind you getting into the GI offices. Or did you just walk up in a shark suit and they let you in?
Wow. just 3 more years, and soon i will be able to experience college for myself. I can't wait.
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To be fair, he had the juevos to run threw a giant lecture hall in a shark costume being chased by a wizard...I doubt you'll get very many of these. Unless you are the one that is doing the disrupting, then by all means. More power to you!
And dan, that was amazing, I wish I had your bravery.
They made you play Aquaman in your shark suit. Niiiice.
We're going to need a bigger lecture hall.
Redfuzzy, I guess I didn't elaborate on that much in the story. I was shooting an in-store advertisement for Gamestop, so that's why I was at GI in the first place.
HAHAHAHA! This made it on to my list of things I have to do before i graduate. Absolute gold!
Oh, that makes sense now. You kind of left out what you were shooting an advertisement for.
Anyway, this video is priceless. I wish you had more of them. I'd like to see how you dealt with the barricades he put up.
We dealt with it by having a friend inside the class with a cell phone. He'd text us updates, and if the barricades were up we'd go to a different hall in the building.
How I wish I had someone like you willing to do that in my classes. Sigh...college.
That literally made my day.
I wish my college classes were that exciting. Maybe I should try something like that >_>. Hmmmmmm.
You've inspired me to pick up a weiner dog suit someday and do something similar to what you did X-D
So funny. I love the fact that the person wearing the shark suit was usually chased by a wizard and a scientist. That's hilarious.
HAhahahahaha thanks for the idea i think can use this!!!
Thats hilarious by the way that must have been some good times!!!!
That's pure gold.
I sooo have to try something like this before i graduate...or put one of my friend's up to it.
LOL, wow you've got some guts. xp
I don't think I would have enough guts to do that. I would be afraid of getting caught. lol
That's just random enough to make my day.
Just goes to show that you can find some funny things by clicking on the what's happening links.