Is a fair punishment for making prank 911 calls to be fined $25,000 and/or three years in prison?
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I realize there may be a few people that did not harm, that actually prank call 911, however, that one prank call, tying up the phone line or having police and paramedics rushing to that house may cost someone who IS in trouble their life.
If the police and paramedics were not going to that false alarm, perhaps they would have gotten to the real emergency in time to save a life.
If you do not put harsh consequences on this behavior, it is likely to happen more often.
This question is good. It is hard to answer.
I can see the pros and cons of both sides.
On the other hand, if it was a loved one of mine who decided to prank 911, I would probably have second thoughts.
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M$If someone is intentionally misleading emergency services, in order to waste time and dispatch responders to fake calls, I can see wanting to be aggressive with them. For your typical "joke" prank calls, where it's apparent it's some dumb kid (or overgrown kid), there's a much easier solution: hang up.
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For minors, the punishment would have to be community service. After consideration I don't think we should fine parents for their kids' prank 911 calls. This is tempting, but unrealistic when it comes down to it. The kid who did the prank needs to learn the lesson more than the parent who left a small kid unsupervised or raised a jerk of a kid.
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From the idiots point of view it's just a prank, but said idiot doesn't have the brains to realize what the consequences could be if some one else could not get emergency help because of their call. Or would they even care?
I think a stiff sentence is appropriate in case like this, other lives can be put at risk because of the mindless morons who do this sort of thing, but I think there should be a large amount of publicity give to the consequences so that there can be no whingeing that "it was just a prank and why am I getting such a tough deal?"
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