Word: pranks
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...count," Nishimura says. Police are starting to take notice, though. Last month, after someone left a message identifying a schoolgirl and threatening to rape her, anonymous callers tipped off police, who immediately surrounded the girl's school in Ibaraki prefecture. Fortunately, this one turned out to be a sick prank. Most prefectures have high-tech departments dealing with Internet and related crimes. But it's difficult to catch the author of an anonymous message if the bulletin board is accessed through a public computer. "Sometimes all we can do is advise the callers about how to protect themselves," says Masao...
...story you're reading is an account of actual events submitted to Poe -- is reflected in several of his own short stories, including the marvellously titled "Heavy Put-Away, or a Hustle Not Wholly Devoid of a Certain Grossness, Granted," found in this collection. An account of a mean prank worthy of Flannery O'Connor at her darkest, "Heavy" is one of Southern's most pointed comments about human nature, and a perfect example of his crisp, succinct approach to writing (one can think of several crime novelists - e.g.think Donald Westlake - who would have spun "Heavy" into a full-length...
Crisis was averted when the network clarified that Ma, the world’s most famous cellist, was just helping out with its April Fool’s Day prank...
...Clay and Lee and ended up in Turno. Eureka! Mary K. Letourneau, the elementary school teacher who seduced her 13-year-old former student and later had two children by him, one while she was serving time for her misdeeds. Washington's state superintendent of public education called the prank sophomoric and has begun an investigation. Unfortunately for those who answered correctly, the question will no longer be counted in the final score...
...officials said Johnson and a group of friends were attempting to pull a prank at the time of his death. The exact nature of the prank is still unknown, but the Anti-Defamation League released a statement yesterday charging the group with trying to plant a flag with a swastika on top of the building, according to the Daily Free Press, Boston University's student newspaper...