Stupid prank

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: montanafan
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 do agree there, getting everything on record these days is very important.

 

[daveymark]

christ, if people are getting arrested for things like, this, consider me a career criminal

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

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.

My personal favorite (not) was when kids used to sharpen the metal buckles on their chin strap. Not so much that they would slice you up (then the refs could run their finger over it and pick it up), but enough so that it would gouge chunks out of you.

Of course, there were also the piles where people got more things grabbed, gouged, and twisted than most people would think were possible to do it to.

Then you have the elbow to the throat when getting up after the play was called dead, or a knee to the nuts when getting up.

And BTW, this post has nothing to do with the kid with the tack. Just letting people know that there is a bunch of dirty sh!t that goes on during a game that most people don't know about.

 

[KingGheedora]

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
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.

Doesn't matter if he didn't think about it, he could still potentially be responsible for spreading disease from one kid on the opposing team to others. If i were one of the kids who got stuck, I wouldn't really care about getting poked, after all I'm sure rougher injuries are gotten on the field during the game. I would be worried about what illnesses I may have gotten from the tack.

 

[KingGheedora]

Best thing to do would have been to poke him in the hands with the same tack right then and there, and call it a day.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

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.

My personal favorite (not) was when kids used to sharpen the metal buckles on their chin strap. Not so much that they would slice you up (then the refs could run their finger over it and pick it up), but enough so that it would gouge chunks out of you.

Of course, there were also the piles where people got more things grabbed, gouged, and twisted than most people would think were possible to do it to.

Then you have the elbow to the throat when getting up after the play was called dead, or a knee to the nuts when getting up.

And BTW, this post has nothing to do with the kid with the tack. Just letting people know that there is a bunch of dirty sh!t that goes on during a game that most people don't know about.

Cups FTW?

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

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.

My personal favorite (not) was when kids used to sharpen the metal buckles on their chin strap. Not so much that they would slice you up (then the refs could run their finger over it and pick it up), but enough so that it would gouge chunks out of you.

Of course, there were also the piles where people got more things grabbed, gouged, and twisted than most people would think were possible to do it to.

Then you have the elbow to the throat when getting up after the play was called dead, or a knee to the nuts when getting up.

And BTW, this post has nothing to do with the kid with the tack. Just letting people know that there is a bunch of dirty sh!t that goes on during a game that most people don't know about.

Cups FTW?

You have a 270-330lb guy put all his weight on you when you're on the ground, even with a cup, and tell me if that feels pleasant.

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
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.

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.

Something like this happened when I was in middle school, in our town's high school; a couple jocks took some needles and jabbed them into random people in the hallway. Their parents ended up paying for a lot of blood tests.

 

[JS80]

404 prank not found

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
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.

I blame it on the metrosexuals. We have run out of men.

I blame liberals

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Einstein Element

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
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.

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.

Something like this happened when I was in middle school, in our town's high school; a couple jocks took some needles and jabbed them into random people in the hallway. Their parents ended up paying for a lot of blood tests.

That's reasonable.

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

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.

My personal favorite (not) was when kids used to sharpen the metal buckles on their chin strap. Not so much that they would slice you up (then the refs could run their finger over it and pick it up), but enough so that it would gouge chunks out of you.

Of course, there were also the piles where people got more things grabbed, gouged, and twisted than most people would think were possible to do it to.

Then you have the elbow to the throat when getting up after the play was called dead, or a knee to the nuts when getting up.

And BTW, this post has nothing to do with the kid with the tack. Just letting people know that there is a bunch of dirty sh!t that goes on during a game that most people don't know about.

Cups FTW?

You can't run with em, I never wore one.

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

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.

My personal favorite (not) was when kids used to sharpen the metal buckles on their chin strap. Not so much that they would slice you up (then the refs could run their finger over it and pick it up), but enough so that it would gouge chunks out of you.

Of course, there were also the piles where people got more things grabbed, gouged, and twisted than most people would think were possible to do it to.

Then you have the elbow to the throat when getting up after the play was called dead, or a knee to the nuts when getting up.

And BTW, this post has nothing to do with the kid with the tack. Just letting people know that there is a bunch of dirty sh!t that goes on during a game that most people don't know about.

Cups FTW?

You can't run with em, I never wore one.

Aren't they required? I played baseball and they were even required for us. I never had any problem running, once you get used to it being there.

And BigJ, I'm never played football on a team/league, so I wouldn't really know. But you made it sound like someone would throw a knee real quick as you got up, you didn't say anything about him laying on top of you.

 

[Trikat]

What a dumbass, I don't know if he deserves those huge charges, but I kind of see how it is justified. I'd sue him if I had him prick my hand and also encourage any other victim to do the same.

 

[TheNinja]

This kid was not very sharp

I hope this prank got his point across

This kid is a little prick

 

[Kwaipie]

He had premeditation to hurt someone else. Kick him off the team and spend a couple of weeks at home. If this is a liberal pansy thing, consider him coming back to school with a box full of guns. Nothing more manly and republican than that. Go team!

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

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.

My personal favorite (not) was when kids used to sharpen the metal buckles on their chin strap. Not so much that they would slice you up (then the refs could run their finger over it and pick it up), but enough so that it would gouge chunks out of you.

Of course, there were also the piles where people got more things grabbed, gouged, and twisted than most people would think were possible to do it to.

Then you have the elbow to the throat when getting up after the play was called dead, or a knee to the nuts when getting up.

And BTW, this post has nothing to do with the kid with the tack. Just letting people know that there is a bunch of dirty sh!t that goes on during a game that most people don't know about.

Cups FTW?

You can't run with em, I never wore one.

Aren't they required? I played baseball and they were even required for us. I never had any problem running, once you get used to it being there.

And BigJ, I'm never played football on a team/league, so I wouldn't really know. But you made it sound like someone would throw a knee real quick as you got up, you didn't say anything about him laying on top of you.

No not in football, they still aren't. All the required was theigh pads, knee pads, hip pads and a tailbone pad, and a helmet, chinstrap (two buckles buckled) and a mouthpiece. Most of the time you could get away with not wearing your tailbone pad.

 

[ta8689]

Not as bad as what someone on my team did. Freshman year, someone got into the opposing team's lockers inthe locker room and stuck needles in their deoderant. Had I known this before we were riding home.. I would have made him remove them. We heard about it later, but im pretty sure they didnt know it was any of us. Jeez that woulda hurt.

 

[dxkj]

Man, lots of Greasy Thugs in this thread...


It is a ****** tack... these are football players, they do worse to each other on the field, a ****** tack prick will barely make you bleed unless it is jammed deep in... even so, wtf?

I think it was a good prank, and the kid shouldnt get punished..... this isnt even close to being a serious injury, its a joke, a little prick from a little prick, what is the big problem?

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: ch33zw1z
what an idiot that kid is...he should not be allowed to participate in sports again.

I do agree here. He did it particularly when a person is supposed to show sportsmanship. I think a sports ban on this little sh!t would be appropriate. As far as the police getting involved, I think that's definitley not necessary, but I bet he'll think twice next time.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Originally posted by: dxkj
Man, lots of Greasy Thugs in this thread...


It is a ****** tack... these are football players, they do worse to each other on the field, a ****** tack prick will barely make you bleed unless it is jammed deep in... even so, wtf?

I think it was a good prank, and the kid shouldnt get punished..... this isnt even close to being a serious injury, its a joke, a little prick from a little prick, what is the big problem?

BLOOD BOURNE DISEASES?? That's the problem.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: BobDaMenkey
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.

There was a kid in my school who used to prick people with the sharp end of a compass. Nobody ever pressed charges.

Then again, I didn't go to school with a bunch of pansy girlie-men.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: KingGheedora

Doesn't matter if he didn't think about it, he could still potentially be responsible for spreading disease from one kid on the opposing team to others. If i were one of the kids who got stuck, I wouldn't really care about getting poked, after all I'm sure rougher injuries are gotten on the field during the game. I would be worried about what illnesses I may have gotten from the tack.

How come when a kid pricks people with a tack, the school bans him and cites the health dangers of using the same tack to draw blood from numerous people, yet when a stupid teacher that's employed by the school uses the same pin to prick numerous students for an experiment, the school is quick to downplay the risk and makes it sound like a non-issue?

I think what you have here is a good demonstration of "he who controls the propaganda, controls public opinion."

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: KingGheedora

Doesn't matter if he didn't think about it, he could still potentially be responsible for spreading disease from one kid on the opposing team to others. If i were one of the kids who got stuck, I wouldn't really care about getting poked, after all I'm sure rougher injuries are gotten on the field during the game. I would be worried about what illnesses I may have gotten from the tack.

How come when a kid pricks people with a tack, the school bans him and cites the health dangers of using the same tack to draw blood from numerous people, yet when a stupid teacher that's employed by the school uses the same pin to prick numerous students for an experiment, the school is quick to downplay the risk and makes it sound like a non-issue?

I think what you have here is a good demonstration of "he who controls the propaganda, controls public opinion."

Agreed on this part. That teacher should have been booted out just as fast as the football player was.

 

[SolMiester]

Arhhhh, the different between a prank/joke and bodierly harm. Cant say I have ever laid down a prank where somebody gets harmed.