A New York City street prankster who likes to jump out of a traffic drum and scare unsuspecting Big Apple pedestrians got his just desserts in a video that went viral this week.<\/p>\n
The clip, which garnered over 1 million likes on Instagram, showed the man know only as \u201cConeman<\/a>\u201d getting served some karma when the one-trick pony executed the lowbrow gambit on the wrong guy.<\/p>\n Coneman sat in wait in his customized orange traffic drum and popped out of the hovel to yell in the face of a much larger, fit-looking man wearing workout clothes and walking down the street in the Financial District.<\/p>\n The prankster known as Coneman sits in wait for his unsuspecting victim in the Financial The pedestrian flinched and sneered at the cameraman saying, \u201cWhat the f\u2013k? What are you guys doing?\u201d<\/p>\n As Coneman set up to fool his next victim, the pranked man came up from behind and leveled the delinquent with a forceful stomp-kick that sent him bouncing off the asphalt.<\/p>\n Coneman then ran after the man down the street as the video cuts out.<\/p>\n Cone-watchers cheered at the street justice.<\/p>\n \u201cThat kick was well deserved everybody ain\u2019t playin,\u201d Instagram user chuckyblac_ wrote in a comment that received over 101,500 likes.<\/p>\n The angered pedestrian dropped a forceful kick onto the back of Coneman to the delight of \u201cGod that kick was nice,\u201d user samcahntent wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cFinally one of these ended the way I want,\u201d commenter bargainbintactician chimed.<\/p>\n Coneman claimed in a caption to have \u201chandled\u201d the situation off camera, which he has threatened to do before, other Instagram posts showed.<\/p>\n Coneman goes all over the city scaring folks and is known to get In one video<\/a>, posted in November 2024, Coneman scared an old man walking down a residential street in what appeared to be Brooklyn. When that man reacted negatively, Coneman pretended to punch him in the back of the head repeatedly as he walked away from the wild interaction.<\/p>\n In another clip, a pedestrian on the crosswalk of E13th Street and Broadway in Union Square broke out into flailing karate chops when Coneman launched at him, video from August 2024<\/a> showed.<\/p>\n Other targets of Coneman have included old ladies outside Brooklyn bodegas, Times Square tourists, and run of the mill downtown commuters \u2014 eliciting shrieks, headshaking, and sending some simply running for their lives.<\/p>\n Coneman could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t
District who gets his revenge just moments later. conemannyc\/Instagram<\/p>\n
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