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Tom Cruise gets pranked

Roger1 said:
IMO, the prank wasn't even imaginative. Come on, squirting a person in the face with water? That's the best they could come up with? Prettly lame "comedy" team.


Or maybe I'm just grumpy this morning.
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I agree - what's the prank? I don't see where "playing a joke" comes into this at all or why it would be funny, which even if it were wouldn't justify it. Let's say you are on your way to a job interview - it's really important and you've cleared several hurdles to that point. Someone comes by and sprays you with water right before you enter the building or a stranger does this to your toddler while you're out for a walk. We want the law to protect you from that sort of behavior - whether in the examples I gave or any other. Cruise is of course entitled to the same protections.

State law aside, this is battery in the common law legal sense - assault requires only a reasonable fear of contact (e.g. threaten to squirt someone with water, or hit them with a stick); battery is actual contact. There are both civil and criminal versions of both. I'd like to see the "pranksters" at least charged by the local authorities.

EDIT: See that this was in London and not CA. At least we have common law in commmon.
 
law guy said:
State law aside, this is battery in the common law legal sense - assault requires only a reasonable fear of contact (e.g. threaten to squirt someone with water, or hit them with a stick); battery is actual contact. There are both civil and criminal versions of both. I'd like to see the "pranksters" at least charged by the local authorities.
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Yeah.

I think if someone tried something like this with me they would need surgery to remove said prop.

The phrase, pulling back a bloody stump also comes to mind.
 
Certainly no way for a professional interviewer to act. Probably shouldn't be charged, but should be banned and prevented from having a press pass in the future.
 
It looked to me that Cruise grabbed the guy's arm and held it to keep him from leaving. Could that be called "assault" too? It also seemed that Cruise called the man a jerk and then repeated it over and over when he got no reaction. Was he trying to get an explanation, trying to get an apology, trying to help the man see that his actions were wrong, or trying to provoke a fistfight?
 
Doctor Q said:
It looked to me that Cruise grabbed the guy's arm and held it to keep him from leaving. Could that be called "assault" too? It also seemed that Cruise called the man a jerk and then repeated it over and over when he got no reaction. Was he trying to get an explanation, trying to get an apology, trying to help the man see that his actions were wrong, or trying to provoke a fistfight?
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I have no idea what the law says about whether Cruise's response (i.e. grabbing the guy's arm) consistutes assault or not, but I have been wondering what his (Cruise's) response should have been.

My gut reaction was something along the lines of efoto's (i.e. something involving injury to the "prankster") but that clearly would have constituted assault and wouldn't have been in Cruise's best interests. After some reflection, though, I think the best response -- if he could have somehow maintained his composure enough to do so -- would have been to say nothing and just walk away.

As it stands, the fake interviewers probably got exactly what they wanted out of the situation -- some publicity for their crappy show, or whoever it is that they work for. If Cruise had just ignored them and moved on, I'm not so sure that we'd even know about the story.
 
He's lucky that water is all he got hit with. It could just as easily have been hydrochloric acid. (Note: I am NOT suggesting that anyone do this... just pointing out the obvious here.)

That said, it really wasn't that funny, even though I think Tom Cruise's ego could certainly use deflating.
 
clayj said:
He's lucky that water is all he got hit with. It could just as easily have been hydrochloric acid. (Note: I am NOT suggesting that anyone do this... just pointing out the obvious here.)

That said, it really wasn't that funny, even though I think Tom Cruise's ego could certainly use deflating.
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Thats on the low end... Sodium Hydroxide would be far more disfiguring.

Then there are always the biohazard possibilities and of course the actual toxins.

The people should be taken away hooded and prepped to be sent to cuba until the analysis is done on the contents of microphone. Let them sweat for a few hours.

Also of course seize their tapes as evidence for the next couple of months at least until after the trial, and they sue to get them back...
 
wow what a bunch of fools. It wasn't even funny. Tom Cruise came up as the funnier person and made that "comedy" team look like fools. i am glad that it happened this way.. seriously it is sad when people do sad things like this because they are jealous of other peoples success.
good on you Tom.
 
m-dogg said:
I'm sooooo sick of hearing about TC all the time! Pleae make it go away!

Arrrggghhhhhh!!!!!!
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So why did you chose to read a thread with the words 'Tom Cruise' in the title ???

Back on the farm, the effort pretty sums up the channel's desperate attempts to rejuvinate it's yoof audience share ... now had they done it to Russell Crowe, that would have taken borlls ..... still not funny, just bigger borlls.
 
Sheesh, I would've probably gone all Russel Crowe on that guy. How does Cruise know it's just water? It could have been anything...

At the very least I would have held on to the guy until I was sure it was just water. I've met people who thought it was funny to spray liquid LSD into the air at a Dead show.
 
There's a joke here about Cruise being a hypocrite... it would involve the virgin Katie Holmes and fluids... but ahh... anyways.

Funny.
 
At this point in time, it would probably do TC some good to be brought back to earth a little. Up until recently I had always respected his ability to act in an adult fashion, but since he hit his midlife crisis he has been acting more and more weirdly.

This is no different from an episode of punk'd, it just happens to involve the biggest movie star in the world. Even if it was not the most creative joke in the world, it served its purpose. He's not a deity or anything.

And let's face it, chances are Katie is just beard number three. I wonder about anyone who is still a virgin at 26, that may work well with TC though, a low sex drive that is.
 
Wow...you could feel the parental heat coming from Tom's eyes.

That was the lamest gag I've ever seen though...ever. Ashton Kutcher wipes his arse with gags like that. Don't mess with the star at their premier, that's just lame, at least on Punk'D Halle Barry wasn't allowed to enter the building at the Gothika premier because security was in on the gag too...
 
I was actually surprised how well Tom handled that situation. He was in a pretty good mood having fun with fans and suddenly, water in the face. I would have probably call this guy all the seven dirty words, grab his mic (water battle) and hit him with it and let security take of the rest, hey that is just me; I have a short temper. :D
 
Doctor Q said:
It looked to me that Cruise grabbed the guy's arm and held it to keep him from leaving. Could that be called "assault" too? It also seemed that Cruise called the man a jerk and then repeated it over and over when he got no reaction. Was he trying to get an explanation, trying to get an apology, trying to help the man see that his actions were wrong, or trying to provoke a fistfight?
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All of the above :D

IMHO Tom should consider himself lucky that it was only water splashed by a mild mannered guy and not some woman built like those Women Of Wrestling with the temperament of Lorena Bobbitt who was having a bad case of post partum depression.

I think that Tom would apologize pronto to Brooke Shields if that ever happened.
 
That interviewer really is a jerk, how immature and unthoughtful, a prank is meant to be funny that just wasn't.
I think Tom Cruise is genuinely much nicer and more grounded than a lot of actors now-a-days and he has achieved a huge lot more in the number of great films he has made and i thought he reacted well considering what the guy did.
 
absolut_mac said:
All of the above :D

IMHO Tom should consider himself lucky that it was only water splashed by a mild mannered guy and not some woman built like those Women Of Wrestling with the temperament of Lorena Bobbitt who was having a bad case of post partum depression.

I think that Tom would apologize pronto to Brooke Shields if that ever happened.
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The major difference being that Brooke Shields would never do that, therefore not requiring TC to apologize.

The point is not whether there was an assault or whether rights were violated, the point I think is that it was an immature stunt that was not remotely funny, and all it did is serve to humilate TC on television when he was attempting to be a decent actor and actually talk to press and meet fans. If retards continue to piss off the only remotely nice actors we have left in Hollywood, give it another few months and we won't be having nice ones at all. There go autograph signings and premiere showings, kind faces and willingness for interviews.
 
Would have definitely been mildly humorous if they had sprayed him in the face with holy water -- after filming the requisite scence with the priest to get the water blessed.

You never know how how a scientologist will react to holy water, especially if the person tossing the holy water is a board certified doctor that works with the disabled.
 
I have to agree with everyone who said that TC was remarkably restrained. He should be respected for keeping his cool after that pathetic prank. I'm willing to bet that a large percentage of people would just punch the reporter if it happened to them.
 
If someone did that to me I'd slap them around for sure. Tom as a celebrity doesn't have that option. He doesn't know if it's water or piss hitting him in the face. And at the premiere of a movie he worked on. Now he has to sit through it all wet. Fukers.
 
The guy who threw the water in his face was probably the same guy who Oprah Winfrey mentioned was his waiter and Cruised asked him if he enjoyed his job.

Cruise is a looser. He did an interview here in Australia on 60 Minutes and refused to answer questions and was really quite rude to the reporter. A few days later he's fooling around on Oprah and answering the exact same questions.

Pity he is in the War of the Worlds because otherwise it would have been a good movie, of course I'll never know because I refuse to see it and add to his inflated bank account and bloated ego.
 
trust Channel 4 :rolleyes: i swear its a competition now to see who can scoop the lowest. ITV, Channel 4 and Five all head to head for lameness.

War of the Worlds looks a bit... hmmm... the acting in the trailer (namely the "the wind is blowing t-wards the storm) is just ham. its terrible! but the effects look nice and i love the 1950/1980 film. scared me senseless as a child! but its quite sad in that if you've seen the old one you know how [pathetically] it ends. unless they change the ending.

as for Mr.Cruise himself. i like him. saw him in an interview on Parkinson and he seemed to be a brilliant happy guy. as for the prank, he reacted perfectly. you could tell that guy wanted to just escape but Tom was having none of it!
 
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