Stupid prank
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To press charges over a tack is a little ... tacky in my opinion. I think the other boy getting thrown off the team is fair enough. Charging him with battery strikes me as a vindictive move that has little to do with justice and a lot to do with revenge/pettiness. Could be wrong.
People are so uptight now and blow things completely out of proportion.
Back when I was in school, you'd kick him off the team and consider him a stupid 15 year old. Now the police get involved, there's an investigation, you ignore the fact that he's 15 and charge him as an adult, etc.
The country is becoming a pansy ass, limpwristed country.
Back when I was in school, you'd kick him off the team and consider him a stupid 15 year old. Now the police get involved, there's an investigation, you ignore the fact that he's 15 and charge him as an adult, etc.
The country is becoming a pansy ass, limpwristed country.
Personally, I think what he did was beyond the level of "prank" and more along the lines of an attempt to hurt others. So he should shut the hell up and take it like a man. I've been privy to lots of pranks but they never have involved trying to hurt others. What did he think would happen? Idiot.
JM Aggie08
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kicking the guy of the team was justified, but pressing charges is ridicoulus. while it was stupid what he did, expelling him from school is an exgateration.
moshquerade
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whatever happened to just putting a tack on the teacher's chair?
this kid took it to the next level.
this kid took it to the next level.
newParadigm
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moshquerade
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what's probably even more funny to you is if a kid had a bloodbourne disease and got poked with that tack and then you were the next guy to shake this kid's hand and got the same contaminated tack stuck in you.
newParadigm
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I was in a hurry when i posted that, and it really didn't come out right. With bloodborne illnesses so common now you're absolutley right.
So what? It's a fing tack for chirst sake, not a knife or a razorblade. OMG a prick, these kids play football.
Too many fing panzies in our country these days that can't wait to press charges or have their parents do so or sue because they aren't man enough to handle it themselves.
OMG blood diseases!!!! It's a tack, and I am sure the kid didn't think, "hmm let me see, how can I spread AIDS to the other team?" No he wanted to pull a prank and make the other team go ouch for a second, not get AIDS, not necessary for charges.
Too many fing panzies in our country these days that can't wait to press charges or have their parents do so or sue because they aren't man enough to handle it themselves.
OMG blood diseases!!!! It's a tack, and I am sure the kid didn't think, "hmm let me see, how can I spread AIDS to the other team?" No he wanted to pull a prank and make the other team go ouch for a second, not get AIDS, not necessary for charges.
moshquerade
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That kid was a total idiot. I think it's right for charges to be pressed. Stabbing someone in the hand with a tack isn't a prank, it's something that sucks pretty bad, and I'm sure you guys wouldn't just blow it off as a prank if it happened to you in that kind of situation.
DrPizza
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Did you ever think that it's maybe because people are pressing the issue on idiotic things like this that almost everyone over the age of 12 is aware of the possible repercussions of being poked by a needle that was previously poked into someone else? I seem to recall a thread recently where a teacher was pricking childrens hands for some science experiment - and using the same needle. People were calling for her head on a platter.
Actually considering when I played HS football some of the ****** that went on on the field was much worse than a pin prick, I would probably brush it off or knowing my mind set back then get a group together and go find the other team and beat the ****** out of them, not go whine to my parents and ask mommy and daddy to go call the police.
I don't think you can dismiss this as a prank for someone in this age group. He's probably a sophomore in high school and by that time kids today have been educated in the dangers of bloodborne pathogens from needlesticks, etc. If he hasn't learned by now that a prank like this isn't funny, then he needs to be taught a lesson that will get that point across to him. (No pun intended.)
I think he should be thrown off the team, and instead of being suspended from school, he should have a day of in-school-suspension that includes a lecture by the school nurse on the possible consequences of this sort of stunt. Better to educate him than to have him sitting at home.
As for getting the police involved and assault charges being filed, I agree that it sounds like an overreaction and pretty ridiculous at first, but I wouldn't call it being pansy assed. It could be that the parents are looking to protect their son from some of the possible consequences. They may just want the parents of the "prankster" to pay for blood testing and they may want to begin documentation in the courts in case their son does contract something like HIV or Hepatitis B or C. Treatment for those illnesses would be a huge financial burden for their son's future that they would want to try to protect him from incurring. I wouln't call them pansies for doing that.
I think he should be thrown off the team, and instead of being suspended from school, he should have a day of in-school-suspension that includes a lecture by the school nurse on the possible consequences of this sort of stunt. Better to educate him than to have him sitting at home.
As for getting the police involved and assault charges being filed, I agree that it sounds like an overreaction and pretty ridiculous at first, but I wouldn't call it being pansy assed. It could be that the parents are looking to protect their son from some of the possible consequences. They may just want the parents of the "prankster" to pay for blood testing and they may want to begin documentation in the courts in case their son does contract something like HIV or Hepatitis B or C. Treatment for those illnesses would be a huge financial burden for their son's future that they would want to try to protect him from incurring. I wouln't call them pansies for doing that.
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