CHICAGO — A mouse trap tied to an alarm clock caused a plastic bucket full of ping pong balls to release early during the filming of a new music video for rock band OK Go, causing multiple injuries and fatal wounds, confirmed sources being rushed to the emergency room.
“I’ve never seen a man with so many Hot Wheels embedded in his skull before,” said paramedic Roger Dinghoofer as he heaved another body onto a stretcher. “And the sheer amount of glitter we found in those dog anuses goes beyond anything I’ve seen since the Kermit balloon exploded at the 1986 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough hospital beds for everyone, so we had no choice but to open a temporary shelter at the Chicago Bears stadium. What we need most now are blood donations and assistance from the American Red Cross.”
The band was perplexed after the incident.
“We’re still not sure exactly what went wrong,” said bassist Tim Norwind, who still had his big toes stuck in two cracked bowling balls. “Everything seemed fine when all 500 Pop-Tarts launched off the car roof and landed on the gongs, but somewhere between the typewriter wagons and the slinky bikes, I guess the roller skates must have left the merry-go-round. When the eels had no place to mate their resulting electric rage must have caused a small fire in Andy’s keyboard amp. I mean either that or one of the assistants might have stepped in gum.”
Dr. Sarah Huggins, a top physicist at MIT, explained that OK Go videos are one of the world’s most delicately balanced events, and even the slightest miscalculation can lead to major repercussions.
“I’m honestly surprised this hasn’t happened before,” said Huggins. “We’ve warned those boys several times that they were meddling in god’s territory, but they would just laugh and ask if they could borrow our large proton collider. Serves them right honestly. Plus, the healthcare system is flooded with OK Go-related insurance claims. Soon they will add OK Go music video injuries to their list of pre-existing conditions.”
At press time, members of OK Go revealed that their next music video would just be a couple of cameras while they played their instruments, with maybe only 50,000 delicately arranged dominoes.