Footage from California of a Christmas prank gone badly wrong when a father accidentally hits his son with a present.<br /><br />The video, captured at a home in Temecula on Boxing Day last year, shows the man throwing a box from close range at his friend's head. <br /><br />His friend is wearing a motorcycle helmet.<br /><br />"I had the bright idea for my friend to put my motorcycle helmet on so I could hit him in the face with a box," he later wrote online.<br /><br />But things go badly wrong when the prankster repeats the daft stunt but the box ricochets and hits the man's young son in the face, who starts crying uncontrollably. <br /><br />"It took me a second to realize what had happened.<br /><br />''My son was fine, just a little bruised right above his eye but definitely a Christmas I will never forget,'' he added.
