Shammi Prasad, known simply as Shammi (born February 1, 1993) is an influencer well known for his social experiments and pranks.^[1]

The first video Shammi ever posted to his Facebook account was from February of 2014 and titled "That feeling the Day before Pay Day !" As of October 2019, he has 7 million followers on Facebook. His Instagram account featuring his lifestyle and daily experiences has 772,000 followers.^{[1][[666666]](/wiki/lang_en//wiki/lang_en//wiki/lang_en/Shammi on Facebook)[3]}

In 2018, Shammi started his Youtube channel, Shammi Vlogs. As of October 2019, there are 171,000 subscribers.^[4]

In April 2018, Shammi uploaded a video of someone leaping from the balcony of a 50-storey hotel.

Shammi Prasad, known online as Shammi, shared footage of the stunt at The Meriton in Southport, Queensland, on the Gold Coast, to Instagram. The video showed a male figure plummeting at high speed towards the ground, before their fall was broken at the last minute by a parachute. ^[12]

According to The Daily Mail, the stunt could land an offender in jail for up to a year or leave them facing thousands of dollars in fines. ^[12]

In November 2018, he crashed a live screening of the Melbourne Cup, Australia's most famous horse race. Shammi Prasad crashed a live screening at Parkwood Tavern in the Gold Coast in a video uploaded to YouTube. ^[11]

The video stars with Prasad sitting in the venue scoping out the area as he worked to hatch his master plan.

"As you can see behind me, we've got the projector on the roof and the screen to my right.

There's security right behind me.

The only real option is to grab a seat, head over to the projector, stand on the seat and turn it off and just claim the victory and casually walk out."

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With punters fully engrossed in the race, an audacious Mr Prasad capitalised on the crowd's concentration to enact his plan.

The serial prankster placed a chair under the projector before he stood on top of it to turn off the machine.

Prasad raised his arms in triumph to a stunned crowd before he slowly made his way for the exit.

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Though a furious punter pulled Mr Prasad back and with the help of a venue staffer led Mr Prasad back towards the projector.

Prasad then escaped while the staffer tried to turn the projector back on.His

cameraman stayed behind to video the aftermath. ^[11]

Queensland Police Service attended the venue, but a spokeswoman told The Courier Mail no incident had been reported. ^[11]

Shammi has a brother named Jayden Prasad.^[1]