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Originally posted by eroswebmaster
These guys got exactly what they deserved for trying to perpetrate a "hoax."
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What troubles me is the word "hoax".
We haven't heard the whole story yet (at least, I haven't read it) but I wonder if a more appropriate term might be "stupid joke".
If it was a hoax, then these guys went out of their way to create a belief that a dangerous situation exisited, when in fact it did not. That can be exceedingly dangerous and probably deserves at least some punishment.
If it was a joke, then probably they were trying to have a little fun at the expense of a paranoid and/or ignorant individual. It blew up in their faces. Maybe "prank" would be a better term. It may have been a bad idea, but that doesn't necessarily make it criminal.
But again, I don't know all the details.