COLUMBUS, Ohio — Police say two teens are being charged with involuntary manslaughter after a prank they pulled resulted in a fatal car crash. Derek W. Greenlee, 18, and Seth R. Stonerock, 19, are accused of concealing a stop sign with several layers of plastic wrap and petroleum jelly, rendering it invisible to motorists. Afterwards, they both went on Facebook and posted about how funny their prank was until they got exactly what they wanted, and two elderly women breezed through the stop sign and into the path of an SUV pulling a boat. Mary Spangler, 85, died in the crash while her 80-year-old sister, Jeanne Shea, remains in critical condition at the hospital where one of her legs was amputated above the knee. Although the boys tried to hide what they had done by deleting their Facebook posts, others had already scene them and contacted police after news of the crash began to spread. Neither of the high school graduates have a criminal record and Greenlee was considered the best high-school golfer in the county, but if convicted they’re looking at a possible five year prison sentence. Me and my friends were no angels growing up and pulled our fair share of pranks as bored teens, although we were a few years younger than these two. But whether we were playing the rope trick, or even the admittedly stupid act of hitting slow-moving cars with tennis balls, we never intended on anyone crashing. That’s not to say our pranks may not have lead to someone crashing, but it would have been an unforeseen consequence. What these two did had no other intended result but to cause some sort of accident. What they did is no different than the people who drop large rocks from overpasses. I feel for all the families involved with this, but I hope the judge makes examples out of them.
This article is from The Dreamin' Demon, the Internet's self-appointed buzzkill.


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