'Put 'em in a coffin' prank damages Houston BMW 
 
 The latest bizarre internet "meme" to take off has made a splash on the web – and a giant dent in the hood of a Houston man's BMW. 
 
 According to KPRC-TV, teens trying to emulate the popular "Put 'Em in a Coffin" videos left a crater in the hood of Houston resident James McHugh's white BMW, as well as his wife's car. The damage has left McHugh with a $4,000 repair bill. 
 
 "Put 'Em in a Coffin" videos started popping up online in May after a member of the rap group ThotBoyz posted a video of himself flopping back first across the hood of a car with his arms crossed in front of him like a body in a coffin. 
 
 The original Vine video was viewed more than 3 million times (see above). Soon, copycat videos started making their way around the internet, with teens flopping on cars, fast food counters, cafeteria tables, classroom desks and elsewhere. 
 
 For more stupid games kids play, check out the slideshow above. ||||| KIDS DO? [NO AUDIO] PUT THEM IN THE COFFIN. PUT HIM IN THE KEVIN. PUT HIM IN A KOCH. PUT HIM IN A COFFIN. Reporter: IT'S THE VERY LATEST SOCIAL MEDIA-DRIVEN DEINSTRUCTIVE ATTENTION-GETTING PRANK TO HIT THE INTERNET. YOU CAN FIND IT ALL OVER YOUTUBE. IT'S CALLED PUT 'EM IN A COFFIN. PUT THEM IN A KEVIN. Reporter: AND IT'S ALL ABOUT -- COFFIN. Reporter: AND IT'S ALL ABOUT DANGEROUS TEENAGERS FILMING THEMSELVES DOING A BACKWARD DIVE. WHAT KIND OF DAMAGE DID THEY DO? SOMEBODY ELSE OBVIOUSLY JUMPED ON TO THE HOOD AND SO THE WHOLE HOOD IS NOW CAVED IN. Reporter: 28-YEAR-OLD JAMES McCUE HAD BOTH THE HOOD OF HIS WHITE BMW AND THE HOOD OF HIS WIFE'S CAR SMASHED IN. HE SAYS BY ONE OF THESE COFFIN CREWS. HIS HOME SECURITY SYSTEM HE SAYS CAPTURED THIS VIDEO OF A GROUP OF SEVEN YOUNG MEN WALKING UP TO HIS CAR LAST FRIDAY NIGHT ON PLAZA DEL SOL PARK. ANY IDEA WHAT ALL THIS IS GOING TO COST KNEW DAMAGES? THEY SAID ABOUT $4,000 FOR BOTH OF THEM, JUST BASED ON PICTURES. PUT THEM IN A COFFIN. ? Reporter: YES, KIDS ARE CALLING IT A GAME. JAMES CALLS IT A RIDICULOUS SENSELESS, INFURIATING CRIME. IT'S GOING TO COST HIM THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. THAT'S PRETTY FRUSTRATING, YOU KNOW. YOU WORK HARD AND TO HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY WASHED AWAY IN -- YOU KNOW, FOR 10 SECONDS OF LAUGHS, THAT'S PRETTY FRUSTRATING. Reporter: NOW, YOU SAW FROM THE VIDEO, THIS DOESN'T INVOLVE JUST TEENAGERS JUMPING ON THE CARS. THEY'RE JUMPING ON TO STORE DISPLAYS, THEY'RE JUMPING ON TO TRASH BINS OR EVEN JUMPING ON EACH OTHER. THIS IS ALL PART OF THIS NEW GAME. AGAIN, JAMES SAYS ALL OF THIS SHOULD COST HIM AROUND $4,000. 
 
 HOUSTON - 
 
 Teenagers are throwing themselves on cars and property and recording it in a new trend spreading around the web. 
 
 One Houston man was left with a big bill after several teens damaged his car. 
 
 James McHugh's BMW has part of its hood smashed in as the result of teenagers engaging in a practical joke popping up on YouTube and social media. 
 
 "Put 'em in a coffin" is the latest social media-driven attention-getting prank where teens basically do a backward dive onto the hood of a car. 
 
 "They jumped on the hood and now the whole hood is caved in," McHugh said. 
 
 McHugh, 28, had both the hood of his white BMW and the hood his wife's car dented. He says his home security camera captured video of a group of seven young men walking up to his car last Friday on Plaza del Sol Park. 
 
 McHugh says the damage is going to cost him about $4,000. 
 
 "You work hard, and then to have that much money washed away for 10 seconds of laughter," he said. "It's very frustrating." ||||| A Smart car lies tipped on side on Whyte Ave. in Edmonton, Aug. 11, 2009. ( Andrea McDonald / THE CANADIAN PRESS ) 
 
 EDMONTON–Owners of pint-sized Smart cars aren't laughing about reports that vandals may be targeting the tiny vehicles in a 21st-century take on tipping cows over. The Internet and blogosphere are abuzz with media reports that pranksters may have pushed several of the tiny vehicles into canals in Amsterdam. And now a man in his 40s is charged with mischief for allegedly tipping a Smart car onto its side along Edmonton's Whyte Avenue, a trendy bar-and-boutique strip that sometimes attracts rowdy drinkers. Windows, exterior mirrors and panelling on the car were damaged, and despite the outrage of owner Kevin Spaans, amused bystanders posed with the flipped car and snapped photos with their cellphone cameras. Police are seeking other suspects, but one official said it appears to have been an isolated occurrence. 
 
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 Ken Lust, sales manager at David Morris Fine Cars, which sells the popular car, says goofing around with it isn't a harmless prank but rather a brazen act of property damage. Lust has himself been a victim. Three years ago, he went outside one morning on a property he owns northeast of Edmonton to find that somebody had tipped his Smart car over during the night. "The first reaction is shock and disbelief. The second reaction is anger because your car has been vandalized. It's the same feeling, I guess, if you walked out and saw your paint all scratched up or your windows smashed in," he said. 
 
 No one was ever arrested. Lust believes it was the work of several fellows who probably had too much to drink that night. The sales manager spent several hundred dollars repairing smashed windows and a bent gas cap. "It's an act of vandalism, pure and simple, and I think if caught, they should be punished severely." Smart cars, which have become popular with commuters for superior gas mileage and cute looks, weigh about 725 kilograms. The average cow tips the scales at about 600 kilograms. Some zoologists suggest stories of hooligans butting over bovines are ``udder" nonsense because the animals would resist, making it next to impossible, but cyberspace is filled with such reports. Back to Smart cars, some customers shell out up to $20,000 for a loaded model and use the vehicle's unique look to gain attention for their business. "We sell a lot of Smart cars (to businesses) who want to use it as an advertising vehicle so they put their company name on it because it attracts attention," says Lust. All that attention could also make the vehicle a target for vandals, he suggests. Photos and grainy videos have popped up on the Internet and YouTube of people using brute strength and long poles to tip small cars and outraged owners have vented their anger on blogs. The Alberta owner of a so-called "Smartie", who found it tipped on its side, was so furious he posted photos on the Internet and offered a reward of $1,000 for information leading to an arrest. Another man whose three-year-old Smart car was reportedly flipped outside a home in west Seattle in June, causing thousands of dollars in damage, attracted digs from sport utility owners and sympathy from others when he wrote about it on a blog. "I'm sorry, too, but it's funny. They'll be able to laugh about it in a day or so. SUV hybrids are looking better all the time, ya think?" wrote someone using the name Looniebomber. "To all that found humour in this story/picture, I can't help but to hope that karma comes a knockin' when you're three shades of furious, because someone else damages your property and you have to foot the bill," wrote Bruce W. Some may think tipping over cars is harmless fun, but under the Criminal Code of Canada, mischief is a potentially serious offence, said Sanjeev Anand, a law professor at the University of Alberta. "I think it's important for the public to understand that when you interfere with someone's property and you damage someone's property, it's not a simple prank. It is a criminal offence," he said. A conviction carries a variety of potential punishments, including a maximum sentence of between two and 10 years in jail, although such sentences are rare, the law professor said.
– The latest prank that all the kids are into is a little more destructive than the toilet paper of yesteryear: Called "Put 'em in a coffin" and based on a Vine video from May that's gone viral, it involves throwing yourself back-first onto the tops of cars (and grocery displays, and classroom desks, and one another, etc.). And for at least one Houston man and his wife, the damage is into the thousands. Last Friday, James McHugh, 28, found both his BMW and his wife's car seriously dented across the hoods, reports KPRC-TV, and a home security camera caught grainy footage of seven young men approaching his property. He says it'll cost about $4,000 for the repairs. "You work hard, and then to have that much money washed away for 10 seconds of laughter—it's very frustrating," McHugh says. People have been posting videos on YouTube, Vine, and other social media sites since rapper VonMar of the group ThotBoyz posted the original back in May, reports the Houston Chronicle. Since then, his video has been viewed more than 3 million times on Vine. As for McHugh, there's no word yet on whether his own security footage will help identify the vandals. (This high school prank resulted in 62 arrests.)