NATIONWIDE -- A prankster's clown impersonation lands him at the end of a gun barrel. Now, he's ditched his clown act in an effort to stay safe.
20-year-old Sadiq Mohammad is a professional prankster whose entertainment videos are viewed daily by 6.7 million people through his Instagram and website page: Hoodclips.
"The numbers don't lie, people love comedy. That's why I have a lot of followers," Sadiq comments.
But his latest stunt could have been his last.
Sadiq had been pranking people all over Stockton last Monday. At a taco bell drive thru, running after a few men with a saw and a young boy playing basketball.
But when Sadiq jumped out of the bushes to scare a man walking he was the one that was surprised.
"When that (gun) hit me, I was literally like oh dang, it's a prank it's a joke, it's a camera right there. I seen the gun and if I didn't tell him it was a prank, if I wouldn't have run, I felt like he would have shot me."
We sat down with Sacramento attorney, Kresta Daly, who says people have self-defense rights.
"So, a person has the right to defend themselves using reasonable force. It's probably not reasonable to pull a gun," Daly explains.
That's because in the video, the man starts telling Sadiq that the prank is not funny and then pulls out his gun.
"By the time the clown is saying it's a prank and you know, trying to get away and visibly being very scared, the threat has ended and the right to self-defense ends when the threat ends."
Sadiq and his camera man took off running, they never looked back.
This lucky clown is now hanging up his costume for good.