http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/30/wisconsin.mail.prank/index.html?iref=allsearch
My post will consist of hoax's and pranks. The article above relates to a prank from some unknown person in ILL. The packaged was sent to a U.S. senator Russ Feingold in Wisconsin. The senator told police he was not expectin a package and the name on the package was Thomas Jefferson. Regarding the name and the unknown location it was sent from, police deemed it necessary to approach the package cautiously, especially with the recent explosives found on the flights to the U.S. from the Middle East.. That story has been on the news recently like crazy so do a search on it if you wish. After an investigation it was determined it was not a bomb and a board game was found inside.
I find this story relevant because it was a halloween joke and we must ask ourselves what is funny and how far is to far? Things may seem harmless but as we can see a simple prank can lead to disastrous outcomes. Not only in movies do they portray this, but in fact real life. Halloween is a day to prank people and try to scare them but some people don't know from real and fake and act differently then what the pranksters would of thought. I too was a victim of a prank gone wrong and I still regret doing it. But don't worry it wasn't anything bad just more of a embarrasing thing for myself lol.. Well anyways like anything else think before you act because the outcomes may be different then what u expected.
I wonder if the prank was intentionally trying to bring up attention or if it was just for fun. Sometimes pranks do go to far, as in destruction of property or sometimes people can get hurt or killed. I feel like this might have been a little much, but no harm was done other than the "what if" kind of factor brought in.
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