Falling down prank gets Aussie man banned from shops for one year

A Brisbane man has been banned from a slew of Australian retailers over a video showing him pretending to fall over in their stores.

For over three days Adrian Van Oyen, 20, visited a number of Woolworths, Big W, BI-LO, Target and Coles stores and was filmed pretending to fall over after reaching for an item on the shelf.

The video was uploaded to Mr Van Oyen's Facebook last night and has already been shared more than 7000 times.

Mr Van Oyen told ninemsn the idea for the video came from watching other pranksters on YouTube.

"This isn't the first video I've done," he said. "I've been doing these for about two years now."

Mr Van Oyen explained the prank is carried out with the help of his friend - whom he was reluctant to name.

"He usually films me while I do the prank," he said.

"We were really lucky with this video because most people didn't know we were filming."

Mr Van Oyen said he's only mission behind the prank was to garner people's reactions to him falling down.

"Usually they just have a laugh and come to help me - everyone is really nice though," he said.

Everyone that is except for the big-chain supermarkets he targeted.

"I was taken to court by Coles and got charged with being a public nuisance," Mr Van Oyen said. "Then Woolies came along and took me to court. Now I'm basically banned from any Coles and Woolies-run store."

Despite the ban, Mr Van Oyen doesn't regret his prank: "I'll be right, I'll manage."