What Allen Funt Hath Wrought

It’s been over 50 years since Candid Camera first aired and we’re still dealing with the ramifications:

A Queens man who apparently wanted to become the next “Jackass” is now facing up a year in jail after posting a video on YouTube showing him and some pals posing as cops and randomly searching people on the street.

Gazi Abura, 21, of Astoria, and two other camera-toting pranksters allegedly accosted a 31-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy in July 2005 by donning fake badges and pulling phony “stop-and-frisk”-style police searches. They recorded the encounters and then put the video on the popular YouTube site under the name “Crack DVD . . . The Re-Up//Crack Cops.”

“Amigo, you’re getting thugged right now,” one of the video police fakers told their first victim, Alexis Montoya, 31, of Elmhurst, after stopping him on a sidewalk and “scanning” his driver’s license by putting it into to their car’s CD player.

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The prank video went up on the Web site in mid-August. One of Trivino’s classmates saw it and told him. The teen went to authorities, who later charged Abura with second-degree criminal impersonation, second-degree coercion and second-degree unlawful imprisonment. The charges could get Abura up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

He was ordered held on $3,500 bail at his arraignment last night.