Famous Prankster Arrested, Video Confiscated for EvidenceAmanda Warren Columbus, Ohio police arrested pro-prankster Roman Atwood on Tuesday for inducing panic and disorderly conduct. The question remains what law was broken to force the man to appear in court next week? Atwoods viral pranks include anything from attaching rubber snakes to girls in public, helping the homeless with pizza parties or staging kidnappings. The young father and his team average tens of millions of views on his award-winningYouTubechannel. Someare elaborate like the drive-by shooting prank, and some involve police threats while pretending to urinate in public. His most well-known Internet favorite garnered 43+ million views and featured a surprise twist when he told his girlfriend of 5 years that he had cheated. This time he faked breaking into a bought and gutted ATM with play money. We bought the ATM here in Ohio. Its a gutted out ATM and it looks completely real. On North High Street near OSU campus he and his film mates opened their ATM and threw money into a duffel bag. Of course, someone upon glancing at the incident called the police. They explained the whole thing to the bystander but the person still called 9-1-1. Police could clearly see the play money and that the whole thing was a staged, recorded prank. This did not matter to them. Not only was the team placed in police cruisers but they also spotted a police helicopter flying overhead. Police left a stern warning with the local news station that pulling pranks like this diverts their resources away from stopping real criminals. Oh really? What of the resources of helicopters, arrest, confiscation and court hearings? Also, his other videos show the departments familiarity with him and their amused reactions to his antics. They were not taken into jail but have a summons to appear in court next week. Atwood, all smiles, said hes ready. In this prank, once its released, youll see everybody laughing. And [police] say they have witnesses that were panicked. I cant wait to see that, because we have everything captured on camera. His footage and equipment, however, have all been confiscated by police and kept as evidence. Well, not all the cameras; there was one the cops couldnt find, so the guys uploaded their personal reaction on this video including behind-the-scenes interview with a news anchor: Here is the in-front-of-the-scenes interview: Romans credo is Smile More. His calling is to create happiness. Following his social media, you can see he is all laughs like they are all completely thrilled with the whole incident. With the power of humor, you cant keep good men down. Atwoods Sites: Recent other articles by Amanda Warren The shooting prank should have got him in more trouble than this. Wow. this site seems totally over-run by humourless people who think everyone should act in accordance with their version of normality. How sad! He actually is a buisnessman that has a Smile More Store which along with his Youtube channel makes him millions a year. I dont think that is a childs mentality. You dont need permission to film someone if they are on public property. Irregardless, I think this guy deserves jail time for some of the pranks hes done. I cant even begin to imagine how many times the police have had to respond to one of his harmless pranks when they could have been actually catching criminals. I stumbled across this page and wow just wow. This is probably the biggest collection of dumb comments I have ever come across. What if scaring a person makes them fall and the fall causes head trauma?? All this battery and assault talk over a fake snake. I dont know what kind of world these people want to live in, but they can have it to themselves. Way too much fear, paranoia, and up-tightness for me. I disagree with you, you whoever you are may not have what is called sense of humor; but, others may know what its like to be humorous. Therefore, what you saying with them being a child is pointless and pathetic That has nothing to do with being childish. You dont like it, thats you just dont watch, and thats it. the feeding the homeless is a copy cat of what tom mabe did and he did it for a good reason to really feed them and showed others how to help feed them. your right this guy gose to fair Roman Atwood is probably one of the best human beings on the Planet, atm. Feeding homeless people, giving away a lot of stuff to a childcare facility, you name it. Gotta love this homie. Peace, brother. 