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Radar · 05-25-2004, 01:35 PM

No, I'm saying the people who pulled the prank had no way of knowing the condition of the person they were pulling the prank on and I'd be willing to bet that the target of the prank didn't tell them. If you throw a surprise birthday party for your great grandfather and he walks into a room and you shout "SURPRISE!" and he keels over dead of a heart attack. Should you go to jail? Of course not. You had no intention of harming him. The same is true of the guys taping thier teacher to a chair. Everything suggests they had no intention of harming the teacher, and were only performing a totally and completely harmless prank that they expected the teacher to go along with as most people would.

At my school we'd contact the parents of certain kids and let them know we were going to "kidnap" them, and the parents wouldn't let them know about it. The parents would let us sneak in at night put a pillow case over their head, tie them up, put them in the trunk of the car, and take them with us somewhere to do silly things to them. It was all in fun, and the person who was kidnapped always went along with the prank. The cops weren't notified, and all had fun. Is it frightening to be woken up in the middle of the night, have a bad thrown over your head, then to be tied up, put into the trunk of a car and taken somewhere without knowing who is doing it or where you're going? Yes. But when the hood comes off and they see it's just the people they know, they are ok with it and cooperate with the prank as any well-adjusted non-psycho would do. For instance there was a hardware place with a toilet on thier sign and we made one girl sit on the toilet seat and wave to passing traffic.

What if some kid did have a heart condition? Normally something like this would be well known, and if it wasn't and someone happened to have a problem, those who tied them up would set them free and get them help as I'm sure the kids would do with the teacher.

I'm astounded by the utter ignorance, and lack of common sense among many of you. I've seen some pretty stupid people out there, but a blithering idiot like jaguar is very rare.

05-25-2004, 01:35 PM	#97
Radar Constitutional Scholar Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 4,006	No, I'm saying the people who pulled the prank had no way of knowing the condition of the person they were pulling the prank on and I'd be willing to bet that the target of the prank didn't tell them. If you throw a surprise birthday party for your great grandfather and he walks into a room and you shout "SURPRISE!" and he keels over dead of a heart attack. Should you go to jail? Of course not. You had no intention of harming him. The same is true of the guys taping thier teacher to a chair. Everything suggests they had no intention of harming the teacher, and were only performing a totally and completely harmless prank that they expected the teacher to go along with as most people would. At my school we'd contact the parents of certain kids and let them know we were going to "kidnap" them, and the parents wouldn't let them know about it. The parents would let us sneak in at night put a pillow case over their head, tie them up, put them in the trunk of the car, and take them with us somewhere to do silly things to them. It was all in fun, and the person who was kidnapped always went along with the prank. The cops weren't notified, and all had fun. Is it frightening to be woken up in the middle of the night, have a bad thrown over your head, then to be tied up, put into the trunk of a car and taken somewhere without knowing who is doing it or where you're going? Yes. But when the hood comes off and they see it's just the people they know, they are ok with it and cooperate with the prank as any well-adjusted non-psycho would do. For instance there was a hardware place with a toilet on thier sign and we made one girl sit on the toilet seat and wave to passing traffic. What if some kid did have a heart condition? Normally something like this would be well known, and if it wasn't and someone happened to have a problem, those who tied them up would set them free and get them help as I'm sure the kids would do with the teacher. I'm astounded by the utter ignorance, and lack of common sense among many of you. I've seen some pretty stupid people out there, but a blithering idiot like jaguar is very rare. __________________ "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." - George Carlin Last edited by Radar; 05-25-2004 at 01:37 PM.