Pepsi Max and NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon are back with
another disguised video, and the "target of this elaborate prank was Travis Okulski," the deputy editor of the Gawker-owned website Jalopnik, according to Justin Hyde of YAHOO. The "new mission began with a new costume for Gordon, a more hard-bitten look featuring stubble and fake neck tattoos." Okulski "thought he was flying to North Carolina to get a sneak early drive of the Chevy Corvette Z06." He said, "I had no reason to believe anything was amiss. Everything made sense." Gordon "showed up disguised as a taxi driver to take Okulski to the track, and when confronted by a fake state patrol, Gordon begins throwing off lines about being an ex-con who doesn't want to go back -- leading to a '70s cop-show quality chase through an abandoned warehouse." Okulski: "I only figured out it was a setup when we drove into the warehouse. I was freaking out too much to have that be on my radar that someone would take that much time to put one over on me like this" (
NEWS.YAHOO.com, 2/27). More Okulski: "I continually called him 'sir' and said 'please' because I figured if I showed that man some respect, maybe he'd either let me out or he wouldn't kill me" (
"GMA," ABC, 2/27).
