Prankster leaves more than 20 copies of his friend’s front door key dotted around Sunshine Coast tourist hotspots – as ‘victim’ asks people to stop calling him to return them
- Rigan Wallis’ had key sets with his name and phone number scattered around
- The Queensland man shared photos of the labelled keys onto Facebook
- He also shared a screenshot of people who had gotten in touch to return them
- Mr Wallis requested people throw them away as he didn’t lose his keys
An IT worker has been dealt the ultimate prank after more than 20 copies of his front door keys were scattered around the Sunshine Coast.
Rigan Wallis, 26, from Queensland, took to Facebook on Friday asking people to throw away any keys they find and to stop calling him as he didn’t lose his.
He shared photos of three keys labelled with his name and phone number on them along with a screenshot of the people who tried to get in contact about his lost keys.
‘Have you found a set of keys like this on your morning walk or daily commute?’ He asked the members of a Sunshine Coast Facebook group.
‘If you have please just dump them in a bin and have a great day.’
Rigan Wallis (pictured), 26, took to Facebook asking people to throw away any keys they find and to stop calling him as he didn’t lose his pair
Mr Wallis shared photos of three keys labelled with his name and phone number that were found
Mr Wallis claims that it is an ‘unknown assailant’ who placed the keys with his name and number on them around the popular tourist destination.
‘I’ve received about 20 calls in the past 12 hours, and as much as this has reinstalled my faith in the good people of the Sunshine Coast, I don’t actually own or need any of these keys.
‘So please just dump them in a bin or keep them as a collectible or something.
‘Who knows you might be the lucky finder of key 3 out of ?????’
Mr Wallis confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that he knows who pulled the fast prank on him but doesn’t want to publicly shame him ‘even though he deserves it’.
‘I definitely know who it is. We have been back and forth pranking each other but its fairly recent,’ he said.
‘Just started two weeks ago with an initial jest from myself and now its just exploded from there to the point that our entire office staff is invested in our new rivalry.’
‘I’ve received about 20 calls in the past 12 hours, and as much as this has reinstalled my faith in the good people of the Sunshine Coast, I don’t actually own or need any of these keys (pictured: the texts Mr Wallis received)
Social media commenters loved the prank and commended the jokester for their effort.
‘One of your mates is wetting themselves laughing right now,’ one person wrote.
‘Your mate is a legend, that’s a great prank,’ someone else commented.
‘I hope you don’t lose your actual keys in the next week,’ another joked.
Mr Wallis explained that he and the perpetrator work at a software development company and are the only two with the same role.
The pair became very close in the short time Mr Wallis was there and they found out they shared the same birthday.
Since then, Mr Wallis and his colleague took on a friendly rivalry to see ‘who is better at the job than the other’.
Mr Wallis (pictured) said it all began when he accidentally spilled soy sauce on a spare chair in his office which stunk up the place
Mr Wallis said it all began when he accidentally spilled soy sauce on a spare chair in his office.
He decided to swap it out with the chair in his friend’s office.
‘He then retaliated by plugging his wireless mouse receiver into my computer and shut down my computer while I was in the middle of working on something,’ Mr Wallis told Daily Mail Australia.
‘I responded to that by putting a fake update on his computer. It’s basically a website you can go to that you full screen and it makes the user think their computer is running an (extremely slow) update.
‘Once the update reaches 100 per cent it just keep going 101, 102, 103 and so on. Then if the user interacts the computer it tells them to manually restart the computer.
‘I also got him again by swapping two of his three monitors into reverse… which has led to the key prank.’
The cheeky jokester said his next prank is already in the making.