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Topic: Prankster uses plastic wrap as road trap
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Mark Gulbrandsen
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From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 07-18-2004 09:38 PM
The link is here Joe! http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/07/18/plastic.trap.ap/index.html
TOWN OF WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) -- A prankster tightly wound plastic wrap around traffic poles across a two-lane road, causing a motorcycle accident that injured two people.
Daniel Buckel, and his girlfriend, Theresa Brzykcy, were riding south of Waukesha on Tuesday when their motorcycle crashed into the plastic wrap set up 3 to 4 feet above the road -- wound thickly from traffic poles on opposite sides.
Buckel, 22, was within 10 feet when he saw the makeshift barricade, and hit the brakes.
"It's appalling, and it's really frightening," Brzykcy, 19, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "What was their intention? This should make people more aware that pranks like that are not as harmless as they seem."
Buckel was cut above his eye and broke his finger. Brzykcy also suffered scrapes and bruises.
Buckel is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.
Last year, several parked cars were found bound in plastic wrap to prevent drivers from getting inside, Detective Steve Pederson said. ____________________________________________________________
That sure is a good way to get the attention of the local police!
Mark
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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 07-19-2004 02:02 PM
When the Belt Parkway connection between Grand Central Parkway and Shore Parkway in Queen County opened in the early 1940's, the neighborhood kids and I played pranks the first and second day.
Until then we used the roadway for roller skating, but when cars began to appear, one at a time, at intervals, we would form tug-o'-war lines on either side of the single-direction lane, pretending we had a rope. By day the motorists would go on through, but at night, by the yellow-orange light of the newly installed sodium vapor lights, they would slow down, and when they became aware of our ruse, speed up again, sometimes yelling at us to go home. Nobody was hurt, but we were young enough to feel our egos bruised being yelled at by grownups.
After two days we tired of the prank, and the traffic increased to a point where the joke became pointless.
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 07-19-2004 05:09 PM
This "prankster" story pissed me off a little when I heard about it, but I am thankful the two people on the motorcycle were not killed from the incident. I'm sure they're angry about it and justifiably so. The Saran-wrap boy definitely needs a good ass kicking to gain some perspective.
Overall, this story seems mild to the other outrageously insane shit I've been reading in the news just over the last couple days.
In Milwaukee, a 14 year old boy is on life-support machines after being severely beaten by more than 10 grown men. He was having an argument with some girls at his school and one of the girls decided to get older brother and/or his friends involved. The reason the 14 year old boy is on life support: a 31 year old grown man hit him in the head with a piece of lumber. This was while the boy was trying in vain to cover protect his face and body from fists and kicking feet.
Another example of extreme cruelty: in San Antonio, a 24 year old man is being held on capital murder charges. On Saturday, he and two other accomplises invaded a home and severly beat all the occupants, including a quadriplegic. One woman was sexually assualted and barely escaped before the assailants could get her into a vehicle. Police found the quadriplegic dead. He had been beaten to death. He was found in a bed with a pillow over his bloodied face.
And right here in Lawton, a 14 year old boy is in the city jail awaiting arraignment on murder charges. For reasons unknown, he shot a 31 year old man to death right in the front yard in broad daylight. Early guesses are the kid shot the man just to find out what it was like to kill someone.
We have this kind of fetid shit happening all the time here in America, yet our leaders are more worried about sexual content on TV or things like gay marriage. Our nation's overall murder rate may be down, but it only seems the cruelty level in the crimes that do happen is being amped up to new extremes. I think our culture rewards cruelty with sexual appeal and popularity. The culture promotes cruelty and violence as tools to solve problems. I think it is high time we become a lot more offended by acts of cruelty than harmless things like a pair of exposed breasts.
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