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I should illustrate this with a similar incident.
My old high school had a tradition of sorts of tieing the `goose`, an unfortunate member of a lower year level that rotated daily whose job it was to bring round the role to a pole in one of the rooms with industrial strength glad wrap one the last day of their last term. One year they left the guy for a couple of hours and he had a chest problem, he came close to dieing, yea, great fucking joke that was.
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I always thought that a teacher is a person of respect and authority. I think it's dangerous to mine the authority of a teacher by taping him to a chair...
But it also depends on the relationship between the teacher and these students, the fact that this act is maybe a tradition and what was behind the whole think. If it's only a joke, it shouldn't be build up to a big story but otherwise I think it should be punished but maybe an internal punishment of the school. but that's only my opinion
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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.
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It is possible it's not even the teacher's decision on whether or not press charges. Given that battery on a teacher is alleged, other statutes in place to protect teachers may have fired to force an arrest. edit : correction further correction : It may not be assault, but it is definately battery. Last edited by BryanD; 05-25-2004 at 02:08 PM. |
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By your definition bumping into someone on a crowded sidewalk is also battery. So what. Is calling it battery somehow supposed to make this harmless prank any more scary or evil? Because it doesn't.
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Uppps... sorry maybe I have to check in more often... Thanks perth, that part was unknown to me.
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Hrm...parents actually ALLOWING kids to come into their home and fake kidnap their child...sounds pretty sick.
I would ask "but why", but somehow, I already know.
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