Pranksters behind ‘googly eye’ stunts in Adelaide unmasked

Pranksters who have been putting ‘googly eyes’ on KFC buckets, Dan Murphy’s billboards and Jim’s Mowing vans in Adelaide are finally unmasked

By Jesse Hyland For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 06:01 GMT, 25 January 2022 | Updated: 06:06 GMT, 25 January 2022

Earlier this month, googly eyes popped up on KFC buckets, Dan Murphy’s billboards and Jim’s Mowing vans across Adelaide.

Now the culprits have finally been identified as none other than Nova FM’s Ben Harvey and Liam Stapleton. 

In a post shared to Instagram, the radio hosts shared a series of photos of themselves trying to stick the cartoon eyes on ‘The Scotsman’ – a statue belonging to Scotty’s Motel in Medindie, a northern suburb of Adelaide.

Unmasked! Pranksters who have been putting ‘googly eyes’ on KFC buckets, Dan Murphy’s billboards and Jim’s Mowing vans in Adelaide have finally unmasked as none other than Nova FM’s Ben Harvey and Liam Stapleton

They then addressed the prank on their radio show on Monday, with Liam saying: ‘On Friday Ben, you and I revealed that it was actually us that put the eyes on Scotty.’ 

‘Yeah we stuck some googly eyes on Scotty,’ Ben agreed. 

Liam went on to say that the incident has been ‘blown way out of proportion since then’ and the motel owner has ‘come out and said we damaged Scotty’.

Yes, it is us! The pair confessed they were the culprit on their radio show on Monday 

Manager Greg Hobson told The Advertiser that the statue’s sporran had been damaged as a result of the prank. 

‘His sporran was quite freely moving in the wind and there’s damage to one of the side panels of the statue (on Thursday) as well,’ he said.

‘I thought it was quite sweet actually until I saw the damage and it’s quite problematic.’

‘Yeah we stuck some googly eyes on Scotty’: In a post shared to Instagram, the radio hosts shared a series of photos of themselves trying to stick the cartoon eyes on ‘The Scotsman’ – a statue belonging to Scotty’s Motel in Medindie, a northern suburb of Adelaide

Ben and Liam denied they touched the sporran let alone damage it, stating that they couldn’t reach the top of the statue to put the eyes on and decided to photoshop the eyes instead.  

‘In no way did we damage the Scotsman,’ Ben responded, arguing that if the pair had damaged the statue they wouldn’t have admitted to attempting the prank in the first place.

‘To be fair, if we gouged out a chunk of an Adelaide icon would we give it 24 hours to mull it over, then come on air and go, ‘Over here guys, it was us!’ Liam joked. 

The pair got up at 3:30 in the morning and hired a scissor lift to try and get to the top of the structure to put the eyes on but gave up when they came a metre short from the top.

In their defence: On Monday, Ben and Liam admitted they actually photoshopped the pics of The Scotsman with the googly eyes after being accused of damaging the statue

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