I knew a brother and sister who had to go to juvenile court for making prank calls and writing a couple of mean pen-pal letters ... this was about 20 years ago.
The brother made most of the prank calls to a teacher at the school, some hang ups, then he got the ingenious idea of calling every exterminator in the yellow pages pretending he was the teacher and leaving his phone number, thus more phone calls.
The sister was prank calling a girl in her class in which her mother happened to be a teacher at the school as well. She was just hanging up.
Back then before e-mail, kids actually had pen-pals... so the sister looked in magazines, got penpals addresses and wrote some pretty insulting letters using the other girls address, so she in turn got "hate mail".
It got to the point that they took samples of the sister's handwriting at the school to incriminate her.
The brother got caught when a tap was placed on the phone.
Is this unfair? Would/Should it happen today?
2007-01-30 07:38:18 · 2 answers · asked by Yeeeeezzzzz 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
It is called harrasment and it is against the law. Once or twice may be considered a joke, but based on your description, this went well beyond that. The punishment should be based on the number of times, intent, previous legal problems etc. I am sure the justice system would be resonably fair. Unfortunately, too many parents are not dealing with their children so the courts have too!!!
2007-01-30 08:45:25 · answer #1 · answered by dstyr 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Too right they should they should put a lid on it before it escalates into a bigger problem.
2007-01-30 08:58:24 · answer #2 · answered by wildpalomino 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋