Lana Clay-Monaghan, a 35-year-old other of infant twins, was doing what a lot of moms do earlier this spring when the unthinkable occurred: she was innocently looking at baby wipes at Target. And although that is the most relatable thing ever for most moms, what happened next is not: when Lana was leaning over to get a closer look at the baby wipes, someone placed a bucket over her head! In an instant, her world went black. The bucket prank, a stunt that is going viral on TikTok, took Lana by surprise, and the shock had devastating consequences.
“All of a sudden my vision, my hearing was obstructed,” she told the Los Angeles Times. She screamed and struggled to get the bucket off of her while the perpetrators just watched and laughed. When she could see again, she says, “I turned to my left and when I turned around it was a group of males filming me.”
Four teen boys were filming the terrified mom and laughing. But the pranksters surely were not prepared for what happened next: Lana blacked out and fell to the floor.
“I started to say, ‘Help me,’ when I fell to the ground,” she said. “My last memory is people laughing at me.”
The teens took off, and Lana was taken to the hospital, where she was told an “acute heart issue” had caused her to pass out. Clay-Monaghan also has epilepsy, and her health is nothing to mess around with. If only those teenage boys had known that, or cared.
She says that although she was upset that she was attacked with the prank, she’s even more upset that the teens took off when she was clearly in medical distress.