Reflection on why I mostly fell for this troll:
1. I wanted it to be true because lol
2. It was a suspiciously low res video (likely just because the original troll knew that would make it more believable)
3. I accepted the claim that the media surprised them and didn't think to seek evidence like whether there was footage beforehand. In fact, even the Alex Jones video showed a few seconds before where they were clearly at ease and didn't seem concerned about the table.
4. I did search the news to see if it was a story, but only really dodgey sites were pushing it. While I don't trust mainstream news I think something this blatant actually would have been a scoop too obvious to ignore (e.g. at the very least Fox news would have had something if true). They would have had easy access to high res footage and eye witnesses.