Dedication to quality funny

I've always admired people who are able to pull off elaborate practical jokes. I could never pull one off because, frankly, I'm a lazy bastard. These guys, on the other hand...

A practical joker got a taste of revenge when friends turned part of his apartment into a human-sized hamster cage, complete with shredded newspaper bedding, a six-foot exercise wheel and a giant water bottle.

"It was a lot of work, but it was one of those cases where you do it because you have to," said Keith Jewell, a longtime friend and neighbor who engineered Monday's hamster-cage prank on Luke Trerice.

And why did they do this? As revenge for another practical joke, of course.

Trerice, 28, had it coming: In 2004, he enlisted others to help him encase another friend's apartment and most of his belongings in aluminum foil.

The victim of that prank, Chris Kirk, spent nearly two years cleaning up the meticulous coating of foil, which was wrapped around everything from his toilet and CD collection to the individual coins in his spare change. [emphases mine]

Me, I'd be too tired after cleaning up for two fucking years to plot an elaborate revenge scheme. My hat is off to these guys for their dedication, however misplaced it may be.

Oh, and as for Trerice, he's already saving money for his revenge plot, of course.