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YouTube pranksters receive punishment that fits the crime

Jackson West · 06/10/08 11:20AM

A Flordia judge has ordered a pair of teens to post an apology video on YouTube after they were caught by a Taco Bell employee they pranked by shouting "fire in the hole" and throwing a soda at her through the drive-through window. Besides assuming the position in this screenshot here (embedding has been disabled on the video), they two were ordered to perform 100 hours of community service and pay a nominal cleaning fee. And apparently it's not an isolated incident.

Teenage Punks Must Apologize On YouTube For Being Dumb

Hamilton Nolan · 06/09/08 10:01AM

Teenagers have always been complete jerks, but in the YouTube age, they have an unprecedented ability to share their jerky ways with the entire world. And then to get arrested for it. When two teenage jerks in (naturally) Florida videotaped themselves pulling a "Fire in the hole" prank—tossing a huge cup of soda through the window at a drive-through worker—and put it up on YouTube, the enterprising victim did some online detective work of her own and caught them. Now, a judge has sentenced the young punks to post another video of themselves on YouTube: "an apology that shows them facedown and handcuffed on the hood of a car." That's nice and everything, but even better would be an apology that shows them facedown after being beat up by angry fast food workers. (Florida McDonald's veteran here, thank you). Sometimes, too, teenage jerks get their comeuppance right when they try their stupid soda-tossing. Like this:

Drive-Thru Pranks Flooding YouTube

Choire · 08/09/07 02:40PM



NBC News blows the lid off the depravity on YouTube. No, not swinger housewives gone wild: There's a rash of videos being uploaded of kids tossing drinks back at the faces of drive-thru workers. Aren't you glad you live in New York, instead of America? Still kind of wish we had drive-thru fast food though, for late night gypsy cab snacks and stuff.