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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by gcb0 on Sunday March 15, 2015 @07:52PM (#9208792)
regardless of calling this new, this is a plain case of two criminals. remove the freedom and computer related novelty of this and bring it down to obvious law breaking events:

person A shoots person B. person B recovers and shoots (also non-fataly) person A. Now person A goes to the police and tell on person B.

this is exactly what happened, if you call shooting someone a prank. but let's not focus on that. if the above happened, person B would be convicted for some 10 years, and then the DA would cut that to 2 years in exchange for the first crime, ending up with person A getting 10 years and person B 2 years.

...And that is why nobody starts the snitching chain.

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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by tomp on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:03PM (#9208828)
This is more like person A farting near person B, and then person B sticking a post-it note that says "kick me" on person A's back.

Not shooting. Not criminal.

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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by jarfil on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:40PM (#9208934)
The thing with a digital "prank/crime", is that a minor action similar to a prank, can have major consequences similar to a crime... or no consequence whatsoever, all of it with the same action.

I agree that in this case the consequences seem laughable, but I think that should be a matter for a judge and/or jury to decide.

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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by tomp on Sunday March 15, 2015 @08:43PM (#9208952)
Every action is like that. You can put your foot down and step on the floor and keep walking, or you can put your foot down and step on a baby and kill it.
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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by sitkack on Sunday March 15, 2015 @09:41PM (#9209231)
Waste of time. If I were a judge, I'd order $50 fine, no record, done. And then glare at the attorney for even considering this.
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Re:Petition Against Felony Charge for WiFi Prank by gcb0 on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @04:00PM (#9220929)
the FBI seems to disagree with you.

my point stands. both farts/kick me stickers can lead the person to jail if authorities want to. you can argee about reforming the laws that allow that retarded situation, but that is the situation we are in now.

both actions waranty a criminal response with the law as it is. while most people would not call the FBI, one did, so it is the same scenario as two criminals shooting each other.

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