Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that were the case, Schlup would have little or no hope. He was never an angel. After stealing a neighbor's truck on a prank, Schlup, high on insecticide spray, beat up and raped a fellow inmate at the county jail. "I can't tell you why it happened. There's no excuse for what I did," he said. Sentenced to 14 years' hard labor at Jefferson City, the state's maximum- security prison, Schlup slashed a predatory cellmate in a fight over sex and was sentenced to life in prison...
...small, hushed crowd outside Preston Crown Court watched as the two white police vans drove away. "It's hard to believe they did it," remarked James Livesey, 69. "It could have been a prank that went wrong," said Colette Smalley, mother of an eight-month-old, "but maybe we want to believe that -- it's too horrific to think otherwise." The vans' two occupants, 11-year- old boys with tidy haircuts, had just left the ornate, oak-paneled Court 1, where the floor of the dock had been raised a foot to allow them to see over the brass rail...
...this some kind of a prank? Bruno...
...These are everywhere," Dave told me. "This means war." I told him to calm down, that it was a harmless prank, that no one would come...
...would be found guilty of sexual harassment in this case? The men, of course! Regardless of whether it was a prank, the men should have stopped when they saw how upset she was. That is merely showing respect for another human being's feelings, which is essential in the workplace. The request for the president to remove her shirt was completely inappropriate and clearly sexual harassment; no woman should be subject to such humiliation by male co-workers...