$99 'Useless Box' Makes it to Best Buy Shelves Thanks to Clever Prank

If you’ve ever had a printer break down on you mid-project, or watched helplessly as your ultra-expensive laptop crashed, effectively rendering all of your precious files nonexistent, you’ve likely felt as though you shelled out a ridiculous amount of cash for what, in the end, amounted to little more than a useless plastic box.

Playing upon this common frustration, street artist Plastic Jesus created a fake Best Buy product called “useless plastic box,” and stealthily sneaked it onto the shelves of five Los Angeles-area Best Buy stores.

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