What Would You Do If A Stranger Tried to Hold Your Hand?

Wouldn’t the world be a more peaceful place if we all held hands and sang kumbaya? Probably not, especially if it’s a stranger trying to hold your hand, as evident in this YouTube video.  

Local prankster and popular YouTube personality Yousef Erakat, who was featured on Ellen as a finalist in the talk show host’s “dare dance” challenge, has struck again with two new, ballsy pranks.  

In the first video, “Hold My Hand Prank,” uploaded May 21, Erakat walks through NewPark Mall and slyly tries to hold strangers' hands. An equal opportunity prankster, he goes after men and women, store clerks and customers, some who are already holding hands with their partners. In one prank, he sits next to a guy at a table, holds his hand and says, “Don’t fight it, just let it happen.”  

As you’d expect, folks aren’t too happy about having their intimacy invaded. And at the end of the clip, Erakat almost gets jumped by some middle schoolers.      

If you’re a big, bad and bulky dude thinking, “I’d like to see him try to pull a prank on me,” Erakat’s got you covered.  

In his May 28 “Gym Prank: That’s My Machine Bro!” clip, Erakat tries to steal guys’ machines and, in one case, is asked, "Wanna step outside?"  See what happens here.

How would you react if someone tried to pull this prank on you?