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To summarize:

Drunk college students get caught attempting a prank that has been tried in the past.

20 years ago, no one would have given a rats behind about this sort of thing. Welcome to fascist America, where you're looking at a conviction that will follow you for the rest of your life . . .
 
Yawn. Must have been a slow news day.

Toss 'em in jail with bubba for a day or two, and let 'em go with a stern warning and a sharp slap on the wrist. BFD. Not the first time some college kids pulled a dumb prank.

I pulled a ton of dumb pranks in Daytona years ago... Including one scavanger hunt that got a touch out of hand (a pink flamingo, a garden troll and a police cruiser were involved). The Daytona cops were pretty cool about it. Then again, I do remember getting hassled pretty good by the Daytona Beach Shores cops too... Well, had they thown me in jail, I guess I would have deserved a life sentence too, huh?:rolleyes:
 
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There goes their commercial aviaton careers. They still might have a chance with Air Bogota though.
 
Oh, come on; like everyone on here hasn't done something they later wished they hadn't. It was a mistake, sure, but nothing to ruin the rest of their careers over.

A little bit of judgment on the part of the administrator that oversees these kids and a good lesson could be learned...

Personally, I'll bet these guys, based off of what little the story gives, are just college kids being college kids. Really now, 10 (5?) years from now when they are sharing a cockpit with someone, wouldn't you rather hear this story than just about anything else that happened at Riddle?

Everyone gives the Riddle kids a lot of cr@p about being Riddle kids, but I give these kids some credit for having some harmless fun.
 
A night in jail is enough. Like previously posted I'd rather sit with a guy with a story like that than someone who was on the flight team.
 
lowtimedriver said:
There goes their commercial aviaton careers.
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I don't know ......

Interviewer: "Any arrests/convictions?"

Candidate: Er.... yes sir. I tried to steal an alligator from an amusement park when I was at college. I was young and it was partly a peer pressure prank, but I learned a lot about CRM and teamwork. It was through that incident that I learned about professionalism and ethics.... in fact, I am now a much better person for it."

Excellent lad....welcome aboard!
 
E-Man said:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...igator-theft-041708,0,7339088.story?track=rss

It'll be a nice story for their Mesa "flow-up" 250hr interview......

Nice way to toss a 100K+ education!
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Come on, Really? Spending a 100k on an education for a 20k regional airline job is throwing money away in the first place. Then if you lucky to make it too a major you'll have to worry about losing your job or medical for the rest of your career.

This is probably the best thing that could happen to them. They will all get out of flying and probably become Lawyers and CEO's.
 
I think somebody shot the middle three with a mole gun.
 
BIGGOAT said:
What would have made the story funny is if the daddy gator was nearby!


Goat
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He was tied up in TX:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351565,00.html

A routine traffic stop was anything but ordinary for a Texas state trooper Sunday, when he discovered a wild passenger in the back of a suspect’s car.
Texas Highway Patrol officer Steven Stanfield stopped William Johnson, 30, along State Highway 35 after Johnson made a U-turn and almost hit another vehicle, MyFOXHouston reported. It was then that Stanfield noticed an alligator in the back seat of Johnson’s blue Buick, with no restraints on it.


Johnson passed a sobriety test, although Stanfield said he smelled alcohol on his breath, and claimed he was lost. Stanfield called a Brazoria County sergeant and a Texas game warden to the scene, where they learned Johnson had followed the alligator into a ditch and wrestled it into the back of his car.


Johnson also is accused of attempting to steal his boss’ large-screen television on the same night. The plot allegedly was foiled when his accomplice saw the alligator in Johnson’s car and dropped the TV, damaging it, MyFOXHouston reported.:laugh:


Johnson is in the custody of Brazoria, Texas, police while the alligator is in the custody of the Texas game warden.
 
Stolen alligator?

..I've gotten away with much worse! ;)


Your teen years are the time to let loose and have fun. Too bad those boys got caught. Most likely, if they haven't any priors, they will get some community service and have this expunged from their records.


...but boy do they look like a sad bunch. Kinda greasy lookin, but hey they're teenagers I suppose.
 
PennEagle said:
I don't know ......

Interviewer: "Any arrests/convictions?"

Candidate: Er.... yes sir. I tried to steal an alligator from an amusement park when I was at college. I was young and it was partly a peer pressure prank, but I learned a lot about CRM and teamwork. It was through that incident that I learned about professionalism and ethics.... in fact, I am now a much better person for it."

Excellent lad....welcome aboard!
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Interviewer: (looks over his shoulder) So, uhhh, by the way, what were you going to do with that gator? (winks)
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You know how it can be with management types...
 
All those kids looked under the influence in their mugs.
 

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