“The prosecutor should have declined to file charges...”
I agree. It was a senior prank and although juvenile... harmless. Why ruin a kid’s life because you had to call the bomb squad. So what? Last year, I saw a lad on my son’s football team with an ankle bracelet. Well, all sorts of horrible scenarios went through my mind. Was he a rapist? Was he violent? Turns out, he had to wear the monitor bracelet because he put some poop in newspaper, put it on a front door step, lit the “package” and rang the doorbell. The homeowner stepped on the package and it was considered arson. Dang, we use to do that every Halloween when I was a kid.
Me too.
The old bag of burning dog poop on the front porch trick.....