Fire in the Hole

We have been asked to discuss our feelings regarding the “Fire in the Hole,” prank that seems to be sweeping the country at the moment. The prank involves pulling up to a drive-thru window and tossing either the ordered beverage or a pre-made mixture of pepper sauce and alcohol at the worker in the window. The lack of ethics involved here is disturbing. This may have started as a harmless prank, but it seems to have escalated into something that is legitimately dangerous. Police consider this an act of harassment. In addition, the pranks are often recorded and posted on the internet which only serves to garner attention and further humiliate the worker involved.
Things like this are only giving the media a tool to disrepute our generation and posting these pranks on sites like YouTube is really about the immaturity of the pranksters. But, when we look for a bad guy we needn’t look farther than the media that spreads the word on “pop” pranks like this. If there was no coverage of this then it would be far less widespread. Stories like this should be shown once with a clear warning and never again. However I think that it is not right for the media to associate our entire generation with something like this prank.