YouTube Punishment Fits YouTube Crime

Footage of fast-food prank gets teens suitable sentence

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 9, 2008 3:35 PM CDT

(Newser) – A judge has ordered two teens to create and post an apology video on YouTube as punishment for a vicious prank, Florida Today reports. The boys were convicted of battery and criminal mischief after posting video of one of them throwing a soda back at a drive-thru fast-food server after yelling, “Fire in the hole.”

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Two teens were required to make a video as punishment for an earlier video glorifying a vicious prank. (Shutterstock)

A server at a Taco Bell in Florida was the victim of a prank whose perpetrators learned their punishment today. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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YouTube Punishment Fits YouTube Crime