Man With Megaphone Shouts Drive-By Compliments in Viral Video
Unsuspecting civilians didn't see this coming.
— -- That's one way to make friends.
A Chicago man shouting compliments through a megaphone at random people on the sidewalk is out to prove that sometimes it's OK to talk to strangers.
"It was a social experiment in the sense that people don't do it as often as they should, and we wanted to see how people would handle it," comedian Blake Grigsby told ABC News. "I feel like people are nervous to talk to strangers because they feel like they'll be judged, or people will dislike what they say."
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But that's not what happened when Grigsby, a 20-year-old student studying digital cinema at DePaul University, began yelling compliments like "You have beautiful hair!" and "Love the shirt!" from a car to strangers in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago.
"The reactions were just as positive as we hoped," he said. "A lot of people were really confused at first, as you'd probably expect. But then they listen and they hear the words, and they're like, 'Oh, thanks!'"
A video of his antics, a sequel to a similar clip posted a year ago, went viral this week.
Grigsby has a popular YouTube page featuring other comedy videos -- like one of the funnyman holding a "Kiss me I'm Desperate" sign, which has been viewed more than 12 million times.
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