See, I disagree with 'jerf and agree with you: it was a prank.
Which makes it worse.
Tens of thousands of people, many of them parents, are currently serving time in prison because they were at random selected to be among the 1% of American drug users arbitrarily selected for prosecution, and inhabited the (large) subset of those drug users who lacked the means to defend themselves once charged.
THIS nitwit went out of his way to harm somebody else for his own amusement.
Which makes it worse.
Tens of thousands of people, many of them parents, are currently serving time in prison because they were at random selected to be among the 1% of American drug users arbitrarily selected for prosecution, and inhabited the (large) subset of those drug users who lacked the means to defend themselves once charged.
THIS nitwit went out of his way to harm somebody else for his own amusement.