A TikToker who posted videos of himself confronting police outside Buckingham Palace has been arrested after putting his microphone under the nose of a king’s guard and his horse in London.
The prankster, known by the TikTok name ymusa18, was handcuffed and led away after he began confronting people who criticized him for harassing the guard and his mount while tourists tried to take photos on Thursday.
Like Mizzy, the law-breaking prankster who has since vowed to change his ways, the prankster films himself harassing the public and was searched outside Downing Street for appearing to be carrying a bomb.
But his most recent stunt outside the Household Cavalry Museum in Whitehall saw him confront members of the public who didn’t like his jokes, and then be grabbed and pinned against a fence by armed police officers as he pleaded with them for calm.
Multiple angles of the incident, including the fame-hungry prankster himself, have been shared online after it happened earlier this week.
The prankster was filmed harassing members of the Royal Guard outside the Royal Cavalry Museum in Whitehall in London.
He then confronts a YouTuber who tells him to “fuck you”, labeling him a “rude bitch” as the situation escalates.
The police then arrest the TikToker on suspicion of having committed a public order offence.
The prankster didn’t seem amused as police held him against the fence (left), but smiled at the camera as he was led inside (right).
Labeling it as “interviewing the Royal Guard and their horses” in his own version of the clip, the prankster holds a microphone to the horse’s snout and asks its name, cutting directly to a bewildered tourist posing for a photograph.
A friend films it all the time and records the footage of the TikTok video from a distance.
The Royal Guard maintains a professional façade at all times, even when the prankster hits him with silly questions about horseback riding, but eventually the audience members tire of his antics and criticize him.
‘Stop being so damn rude. Fuck you, you rude bastard,” says one man, who MailOnline has identified as a YouTuber who regularly records videos of tourists outside the museum.
Another member of the public, upon realizing that ymusa18 is filming the video for an online prank, then moves to cover the lens and interrupt the video, upsetting the young TikToker, who walks up and says: “That’s my phone, Man, you can’t touch it.” that.’
“Come on, fuck off,” says the former YouTuber, to which the young man responds: “Say it to my face.”
“Fuck you,” the cameraman says again, shoving the prankster back when he gets too close for comfort.
The angry TikToker then goes into a rant, yelling over and over: ‘Who the fuck are you touching?’
As he yells at the cameraman, two armed police officers, a man and a woman, run out of the museum doors wielding submachine guns.
The officer places his hand on the prankster’s chest and pushes him back, announcing sternly, “Back off.”
His pranks are similar to those committed by Mizzy (above), who has since given up his antics after being convicted of several crimes.
Mizzy’s pranks saw him sneak into strangers’ houses (left) and ride electric bikes through supermarkets (right).
She has since stated that she is done with the pranks and hopes to go to college after having a child.
The prankster quickly protests: ‘I didn’t do shit, I didn’t do shit, didn’t you see what happened, buddy? I’m calm, I’m calm, there’s no need to grab my neck brother, there’s no need to grab my neck. I didn’t threaten anyone, you know?
When he is told that he is being arrested on suspicion of a public order crime, he stops talking and remains silent as he is ushered inside the museum doors.
In his own clip, as he is being taken inside the facility, he flashes a smile at the camera.
Like other parts of Whitehall and maximum national security locations across the country, the Royal Cavalry Museum is protected by the Ministry of Defense Police and not the Metropolitan Police.
MailOnline has contacted the Ministry of Defense for comment.
Ymusa18’s TikTok shows him harassing the public on trains where he pretends to fall asleep on passengers.
He also pulls what he calls “Uber pranks,” in which he climbs into the back of police vehicles as if they were taxis, much to the chagrin of the officers inside.
But his other “pranks” put him at much greater risk, including outside Downing Street, where he said, in full view of armed police: “Rishi Sunak, I have a message for you.” If I see you on the street, there will be problems, you understand?’
He adds, “Your little minions aren’t going to do anything about it,” immediately before an armed police officer opens the door and tells him to behave.
Some time later, he is taken away by police further down Whitehall after apparently suggesting that he had an explosive in his bag.
“You tried to say you had something in your bag,” a police officer is heard saying. “You mentioned C4 (a plastic explosive).”
The video ends with him leaving Charing Cross police station boldly proclaiming: “Yes lads, I’m free now.” The police can’t stop me. What have I done? I’m innocent, right?
He also challenged police to arrest him after crossing the threshold of Buckingham Palace gates in front of armed police, who told him: “Don’t tempt fate.”
In a later video, he promised to scale the gates of Buckingham Palace if the clip got 5,000 likes, a figure he later revised to 15,000. Now it has 36,000.
“Take me to 10k and I’ll post more serious (videos),” he says in his bio.
