WARNING -Don't try this at home!!! 
Several years ago, our pastor was away, and asked the associate pastor to make plans to do something interesting while taking up the offering when he got back. They came up with a plan, and asked my husband to help with it.
When the offering takers were taking the offering, my husband was supposed to come in a back door and jump one of the guys and take off with the offering basket. He was dressed in dark clothing and a ski mask. At least, that was the 'interpretation' of the plan according to him, the assoc. pastor, and the offering taker.
He came in so stealthily and violently that it literally scared the congregation to death!
The offering taker didn't inform his VERY pregnant wife what was going to happen, and she just about had her baby right then and there seeing her husband get jumped like that. We were very fortunate that I was standing nearby to her as she just about collapsed with her other baby in her arms, and I caught him just in time, and was able to let her know it was my husband, and it wasn't real.
To make matters worse, my husband ran out the back door, and straight down into the downstairs, where all the children were for Sunday school. The cry rang out in the sanctuary, 'He went down where the children are!!!'
The whole idea behind this was to show the congregation how you are 'robbing God' by not giving your tithes and offerings. Somehow it was turned into something MUCH MORE dramatic and sinister than the pastor had intended, and he just stood there in SHOCK!
Boy, did those guys get in BIG TROUBLE!!!!
We can laugh about it now, but there were so many upset for a looooooong time over that! One lady was soooo thankful she hadn't put her pistol in her purse that morning...she probably would have shot him!
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