Rose Cottage Humour

A video has appeared on TikTok from the user @Jalals which appears to depict a hospital prank. Some might say it's in very poor taste and even possibly dangerous. It consists of two scenes. In the first a porter wheels a bed into a lift in which a patient's visitor or relative is standing. The porter then says: "I forgot my pass. Could you mind this for two secs?" "Watch him?" asks the visitor. "Just for two seconds; I'll be back." replies the porter. The visitor asks: "Who is this? Are they dead? What the fuck!?... Jesus!" The lift door slides shut. On the bed is a human body on a bare mattress with a sheet draped over them. We actually never transport deceased patients like that. We wrap them up in a sheet like a mummy and use a special vehicle in which they are concealed called a "box". A cosmetic mattress and pillow is placed on top of it so that it looks like a stretcher. Also we use the service lifts to move between levels to "Rose Cottage", what we call the mortuary, never those in the public areas. But suspend your disbelief if you will. The shrouded "corpse" comes back to life and sits up on the bed like a Romeroesque zombie. The man screams in terror and flees from the lift in a panic. In the second scene, the bed with the body is left alone in a main street; again this would never happen in real life, in fact it would be gross malpractice. A young man and women walk down some nearby stairs and stare at the vehicle with curiosity. The body reanimates again and they bolt back up the stairs. The man stumbles and falls down the stairs and has to climb them again. Source: https://www.tiktok.com/@jalals/video/7079709096772914433. This is almost certainly staged. It would be reckless and possibly illegal to do this for real. Shocking and scaring people that badly could warrant a charge of assault. The victims might suffer mental or physical injury. People have died of heart attacks in such situations. The perpetrators would certainly be dismissed. The acting is very good though; the people look genuinely scared and the man in the second scene probably has some experience as a stuntman because his tumble on the stairs looks authentic. Is it possible somebody in a hospital might pull a prank like that for real? I know a few who might. As I've said before, we HP's and hospital civilians do develop a rather extreme sense of humour. This is not because we're sadistic people; it is just a psychological defence mechanism. Without it we would lose our minds; for example see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2020/05/sick-hospital-video.html. This kind of thing is predictably one of the jokes in the TV series Porters, see: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2018/11/porters-first-series.html.