--- title: Power Outlet Sticker Prank At Airport Goes Viral description: People are freaking out over this diabolical fake power outlet sticker prank happening at airports. canonical: https://time.com/5362602/power-outlet-sticker-airport-prank/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-09T15:10:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:14.952Z og:title: People Are Stressing About This Airport Power Outlet Prank og:description: "So triggered" og:url: https://time.com/5362602/power-outlet-sticker-airport-prank/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43243c38fa4dabbd/6989375cfb4eacf145897528/power-outlet-sticker.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Power-Outlet-Sticker og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Are Stressing About This Airport Power Outlet Prank twitter:description: "So triggered" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43243c38fa4dabbd/6989375cfb4eacf145897528/power-outlet-sticker.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are Understandably Distressed About This Diabolical Airport Power Outlet Prank  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 9, 2018 3:10 PM UTC  Laptop computer charging at airport. Laptop computer charging at airport.Eyecandy Images/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 9, 2018 3:10 PM UTC Basically anyone who has ever been to an [airport](http://time.com/5290713/how-early-get-to-airport/) knows that finding an open power outlet can be one of the most stress-inducing aspects of [flying](http://time.com/money/5138931/airport-what-food-to-never-buy/). So it should come as no surprise that people are freaking out over this power outlet sticker prank. Thanks to one beleaguered traveler’s commitment to exposing this diabolical trick to the world, a photo of one of the fake sockets has gone viral. “Whoever put up this fake sticker of an open outlet at the airport, you are now my enemy for life,” Twitter user Brandon Ewing captioned a photoset of himself discovering the ruse. > [](https://twitter.com/Atrioc/status/1026327505072869376) Of course, Ewing hasn’t been the only one to fall for this prank. Several others have also recently shared their experience with fake airport outlets. “Why!!!! It looks so real!! Why put a sticker of an outlet on the wall in the terminal!!” questioned another victim. “So triggered.” > [](https://twitter.com/KyleKerouac/status/1012060110523334656) See some more instances of the horrifying joke below. > [](https://twitter.com/worldwise001/status/1026290988640133121) > [](https://twitter.com/darmani/status/1019787984583847936) > [](https://twitter.com/JustBasicDave/status/875069988050284546) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5362602/power-outlet-sticker-airport-prank/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5362602/power-outlet-sticker-airport-prank/"},"headline":"People Are Understandably Distressed About This Diabolical Airport Power Outlet Prank","datePublished":"2018-08-09T15:10:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:14.952Z","description":"\"So triggered\"","url":"https://time.com/5362602/power-outlet-sticker-airport-prank/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Pranks"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43243c38fa4dabbd/6989375cfb4eacf145897528/power-outlet-sticker.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43243c38fa4dabbd/6989375cfb4eacf145897528/power-outlet-sticker.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Power-Outlet-Sticker","caption":"124823744","creditText":"Eyecandy Images/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5362602/power-outlet-sticker-airport-prank/","name":"People Are Understandably Distressed About This Diabolical Airport Power Outlet Prank"}}]}] ```