Coronavirus pranks: Pranksters spark panic by pretending to spill ‘coronavirus’ on NY subway train

INSTAGRAM comedians sparked panic when they pretended to spill coronavirus on a New York subway train.<br /><br />The jokers got on an L train in Brooklyn dressed in hazmat suits and carrying a plastic container filled with red liquid and covered in warning labels.<br />They then tipped the contents on the floor and told passengers it was coronavirus - which experts have warned could kill 45million people worldwide.<br /><br />Some passengers screamed and jumped on seats as the liquid ran down the subway car.<br /><br />One woman can be heard saying "Oh no!" in a video of the bad taste stunt posted on Instagram.<br /><br />Another passenger says sternly: "That better be Kool-Aid."<br />It was the work of Instagram jokers David Flores, 17, and Morris Cordewell, 19, both from Queens.<br /><br />They told Insider the liquid was in fact Kool-Aid, but only one woman knew immediately it was a prank.<br /><br />Morris said: "The first half, people were kinda scared.<br /><br />"After we were like 'Yo it's a prank,' people were laughing.<br /><br />"There was one lady with her kids sitting next to me just laughing the whole time.<br /><br />"I don't know how she knew it was a joke, but she knew it was a joke the whole time."<br /><br />David added: "They kinda figured it out themselves, though."<br />The video received a hostile reaction online, where one user said: “Wow stupidity at its best.”<br /><br />Another said: “I know that is a prank but they should punch their faces.”<br /><br />The video emerged after a Russian prankster pretended to collapse from a "coronavirus attack" on a packed underground train in Moscow.<br /><br />Karomatullo Dzhaborov was charged with "criminal hooliganism" and faces up to five years in jail.<br /><br />Another joker, Marlon de Vera, lay motionless face down after faking a virus collapse at a shopping mall in Legazpi in the Philippines.<br /><br />He was forced to apologise after a fierce backlash online.<br /><br />The Philippines and Hong Kong are the only places outside mainland China to have suffered a coronavirus death.<br />Last week Canadian Instagrammer Potok Philippe, 28, was thrown off a plane after yelling he had just come back from China and was "not feeling too well".<br /><br />His stunt forced the the WestJet flight from Toronto to Jamaica to turn back.<br /><br />Potok was checked by medical staff, and is due in court next month charged with causing mischief.<br />

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