Pranks Gone Wrong

There's nothing I love more than a good prank. However, when do pranks go too far? On September 6th a Longmont CO teen was killed in a prank gone wrong. 18-year-old Premila Lal was shot and killed after scaring a family friend. 

The shooter, Nerrek Galley was staying at Lal's home while Lal and her family were in the process of moving. While Galley and Lal's 15-year-old brother Pranil were playing video games, Lal and her cousin snuck into the house and hid in a closet. They began to make little noises hoping to make Galley and Pranil investigate. Instead of Galley and Pranil finding an intruder like they had expected, they found Premila who jumped out of the closet. 

Premila screamed and then Galley pulled the trigger. Premila was admitted to the hospital but was pronounced dead an hour later. Now, Galley is being held on charges of reckless endangerment, child abuse, and providing a gun to a juvenile because Pranil had access to the gun. 

What happened in Longmont Colorado was a tragedy and just a horrible accident. However, are pranks starting to become too violent? 

Vine is a social media app that allows you to take a 6 second video and share it with the rest of the world. You have the ability to follow certain people, look at their accounts and see what their videos are all about. I do have a vine account and I do follow quite a few people. Lately, every time I get on Vine I see a new prank. Most are violent. A couple weeks ago there was a Vine where a young girl snuck up on her father doing dishes. After screaming and grabbing at his shoulders the father grabbed a cookie sheet and smacked her across the face with it knocking the poor girl onto the ground. 

Something that's been trending on vine lately is called Smack Cam. Its basically videos of people walking up the their friends smacking them across the face without the friend's knowledge. Some Smack Cam vines included shaving cream across the face and even the poor smackees getting a giant exercise ball thrown at their head. 

Yes, things like this are amusing and I will be the first to say that I did chuckle at quite a few of them. However, we can't forget that when we catch a person off guard, we deal with their instincts. It may not be what they intended and the outcome of the prank may not have been what you intended, but pranks like these are not to be taken likely. 

Sometimes, pranks are not so fun.