That looked like harmless playing around. When I had my last airborne CP alert, my female commo and intel officers wrapped and taped me in plastic and gave me the traditional cart-start, popping 4 cans of shaving cream inside my flight suit. It was part of the traditional send-off. Thank God they didn't do the other part of the send-off, hosing me down with a fire hose -- it was December and 20 below outside.
Heh. When I was in Afghanistan we had a little ritual where would take whoever was getting ready to leave to go back home, 'kidnap' them, and duct tape them to a post by COMPLETELY covering them from head to toe. We even did this to a colonel. He had absolutely no problem with it and was laughing just as hard as the rest of us.