Posted on July 21, 2011 at 10:50am by Jonathon M. Seidl

Jack Vale has pretended to pass gas in public before. Usually it leads others to weird looks and chuckles. But recently, it led one elderly man to punch Vale in the face — several times.

While pulling off one of his stunts at a local Target store recently, Vale chose two unsuspecting elderly shoppers as, well, targets. Using an electronic fart machine, Vale meandered over to the shoppers and made several unbecoming noises. After walking away, the elderly man took exception to the stunt (thinking it was real), got up out of his electronic scooter, and started looking for Vale. He eventually found him, and it didn’t end well: