coolest thing you'll see all week, buried somewhere in 100 sketchbooks that were all the memories of "gramps" life (I've told so many people to write their autobiography, here is why!) was this prank

so, when he wanted to play a prank on pedestrians, he'd roll up the cardboard silhouettes of the gangsters

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/opinion/family-grandfathers-memories.html