Jun 10, 2008 12:28 pm US/Eastern
Judge: YouTube Pranksters To Face YouTube Justice
(CBS)
Call it Internet Justice: A Florida judge has ordered two teens to post a video on YouTube apologizing for having put another video on the site - of them playing a prank on a fast food worker.
Jessica Ceponis, 23, was at the drive-through window of a Taco Bell in Merritt Island, about 50 miles east of Orlando last July when the teens taped themselves tossing a 32-ounce cup of soda at her as they yelled, "Fire in the hole."
But Ceponis managed to track them down, leading to two counts of battery and one of criminal mischief.
A judge sentenced them, among other things, to make the video saying they're sorry and put it on YouTube.
"We thought it would be funny to victimize fast food employees by drenching them with ice cold soda," one of the teens says in the video. "We take this time to apologize to the victims. And we take full responsibility for irresponsible behavior. Instead, we should have used better judgment. Think before you act. Don't be stupid. Your future depends on it."
Former Orlando State Attorney's Office prosecutor Andrew Moses says the sentence was appropriate.
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