Teenagers are mean, mean people. Especially teenage girls. They tend to be particularly nasty, at least in terms of behavior to other members of their social strata. But despite the cruelties of high school, you never really expect to hear about a high school girls' cheerleading team hazing other young ladies by duct taping their hands and throwing them in swimming pool. But, if that did happen, you would expect them to get in trouble. And they are.
So yeah, the lesson, as always, is that you shouldn't ever haze anyone until you get to college and your fraternity or sorority is off campus. But seriously -- there's "hazing" and then there's "attempted murder", which is what duct taping someone's hands, blindfolding them and pushing them in a pool qualifies as. I never like seeing high schoolers go to jail, but this might be a decent time to teach someone a lesson.











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11-20-2008 @ 1:55PM
Maveness said...
For all of the stupid hazing rituals I've heard of, this one takes the cake. Hazing is bad enough when it's about humiliation and inflicts pain. Pins to the chest are horribly painful. Binding someone's hands with duct tape and throwing them in a pool? Blindfolded??
No doubt they never thought anyone could be seriously harmed (because many teenagers fail to think of consequences), and I'm surprised no one was harmed. Criminal prosecution is very much what they deserve.
I thought my sister's cheerleading experience was bad (well, it was), but at least we never had to worry about possible death. Just malicious, soul crushing gossip.
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11-20-2008 @ 5:56PM
Matt said...
Thanks for the auto-start movie. Good times at work.
Looks like I'll have to be more careful when coming to the site.
Or God forbid....actually will do my work.
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11-24-2008 @ 8:09PM
KAY said...
They should have their hands taped and thrown into the pool !
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