Its something a retarded Fourth Grader might do,not something a trained Airman should lower himself to do.
Just a stupid guy is all. Believe me, having been in the military, I have seen young guys do some dumb things, most of the time because they just don't think past stage one, sometimes because they are bored.
Once, when I was on the USS JFK, a couple of guys went down at 0200 to visit a buddy standing a watch on the port quarter. When they got there, they saw their buddy was bundled up, sitting in a chair, looking out over the water with his sound-powered phones on...asleep. (I know...asleep on watch...very bad juju...)
They snuck up, tied his shoelaces together, backed through the hatch and said in a voice just loud enough to hear: "Man Overboard! Man Overboard!"
Well, it had the desired effect. The sleeping seaman awoke with a start, leapt to his feet, and promptly fell flat on his face.
The problem was, someone in a catwalk above heard it, raised the alarm, and all ten ships in the task force came alive, every man awoke and all Ten Thousand of them went to Man Overboard Stations, and all the ships executed a big sweeping turn.
Needless to say...the two pranksters were courtmartialed.
ROFL Have you ever been an E4? Let me tell you about the time, er no, well how about the er not that one either. Our military is great in a fight, but when not busy they are still 18, 19, 20 years old.