Seasoned prankster Joey Skaggs chides rookie Zaida Pugh for unleashing crickets on packed D train: ‘You gotta realize there are consequences’
by Graham Rayman
New York Daily News
Sunday, September 4, 2016
For the past 40 years, Joey Skaggs, 70, a New Yorker who now lives “somewhere in the south,” has conned the media into reporting fake stories as fact. (JOEY SKAGGS ARCHIVE)
As a prankster, Zaida Pugh — who terrified straphangers in August when she released live crickets on a packed subway train — is no more than a misguided rookie.
And Joey Skaggs should know.
For the past 40 years, Skaggs, 70, a New Yorker who now lives “somewhere in the south,” has conned the media into reporting fake stories as fact.