[quote]A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered the parents of a 14-year-old Nanaimo boy to pay $48,000 in damages for a high school prank.
The incident happened two years ago when the boy decided to play a prank on his friend by attaching his friend's padlock to a sprinkler head inside Nanaimo's Wellington Secondary School, on Vancouver Island.
According to court documents, the prank went awry and he ended up activating his high school's entire sprinkler system, causing extensive damage.[/quote]
[quote]Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick concluded that if the boy considered his actions, he would have realized that he might have broken the sprinkler, and as a result he is negligent.
Fitzpatrick concluded the law doesn't require constant supervision of 14-year-old students by the school.[/quote]
[url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/nanaimo-sprinkler-prank-costs-parents-48-000-1.2895184]**SOURCE**[/url]
There's more in the newspaper. The parents tried to sue the school saying that students do not receive training on how fire sprinklers work and that nobody would of known how they worked, thus they should be off the hook.
No, sorry. Your son is a stupid crate of bricks and you look like equal idiots trying to play the blame game.
"IT WAS A PRANK!"
Sucks for the parents.
I am pretty sure schools here are just insured for kids doing dumb shit and eventual damage is covered with that.
Still if that's not the case with these guys, tough fucking luck.
A student's life shouldn't be ruined (48K will ruin you unless you're rich), because he didn't know that breaking one sprinkler would set off the ENTIRE SCHOOL.
To me, that's a bad sprinkler design.
[QUOTE=bitches;46918468]A student's life shouldn't be ruined (48K will ruin you unless you're rich), because he didn't know that breaking one sprinkler would set off the ENTIRE SCHOOL.
To me, that's a bad sprinkler design.[/QUOTE]
Or, don't be a dumbass 14 year old and do a stupid prank.
Almost 50k? I hope his parents are loaded otherwise this is horrible.
[QUOTE=bitches;46918468]A student's life shouldn't be ruined (48K will ruin you unless you're rich), because he didn't know that breaking one sprinkler would set off the ENTIRE SCHOOL.
To me, that's a bad sprinkler design.[/QUOTE]
Here is an idea, don't mess with a system that's only function is work during an emergency.
[QUOTE=redBadger;46918491]Or, don't be a dumbass 14 year old and do a stupid prank.[/QUOTE]
Have you never been 14?
How did he get a hold of his friends lock in the first place and why didn't he just ask a teacher Or whatever to get it down?
[QUOTE=redBadger;46918491]Or, don't be a dumbass 14 year old and do a stupid prank.[/QUOTE]
What, you know how stupid that sounds?
[QUOTE=bitches;46918468]A student's life shouldn't be ruined (48K will ruin you unless you're rich), because he didn't know that breaking one sprinkler would set off the ENTIRE SCHOOL.
To me, that's a bad sprinkler design.[/QUOTE]
Ok but who should be paying for the damages then?
[QUOTE=itisjuly;46918500]Have you never been 14?[/QUOTE]
kids are dumb but not attach a padlock to a sprinkler system dumb, that's bad parenting and the fact that the parents tried to sue the school and play their kid as a victim just proves it
[QUOTE=pentium;46918390]No, sorry. Your son is a stupid crate of bricks and you look like equal idiots trying to play the blame game.[/QUOTE]
Ask yourself this: If you had to pay 48000$ for something like that, would not try to play the blame game as well?
[QUOTE=itisjuly;46918500]Have you never been 14?[/QUOTE]
He was 12 when it happened.
[QUOTE=bitches;46918468]A student's life shouldn't be ruined (48K will ruin you unless you're rich), because he didn't know that breaking one sprinkler would set off the ENTIRE SCHOOL.
To me, that's a bad sprinkler design.[/QUOTE]
That's how modern sprinklers work. Once the static pipe pressure drops (a sprinkler activated somewhere), a pump turns on and the sharp rise in pressure causes all the sprinklers to activate in a zone, just in case the fire isn't just under the sprinkler that activated the system.
[quote]Almost 50k? I hope his parents are loaded otherwise this is horrible.[/quote]
This is in the land of half million dollar bungalows. They'll have the money somewhere.
[QUOTE=Hugg;46918535]He was 12 when it happened.[/QUOTE]
12 year olds don't go to highschool, most higschoolers are 14-19
[QUOTE=bitches;46918468]A student's life shouldn't be ruined (48K will ruin you unless you're rich), because he didn't know that breaking one sprinkler would set off the ENTIRE SCHOOL.
[/QUOTE]
Break shit and pay shit.
you don't get away by simply being dumb.
Its just a prank bro
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;46918559]12 year olds don't go to highschool, most higschoolers are 14-19[/QUOTE]
Nanaimo's Wellington Secondary School, not high school. It's in canada apperently so they have it up to 11-12.
[QUOTE=freaka;46918587]Nanaimo's Wellington Secondary School, not high school. It's in canada apperently so they have it up to 11-12.[/QUOTE]
High school == secondary school
Sprinklers that work just like they do in a movie.. They aren't supposed to work like that, are they?
If his parents can't afford to pay this reasonably then this is just a bit overboard. Yes they should be held accountable but by no means should somebody's life be ruined by a small dumb decision (it's not like he hurt anybody, just got some stuff wet).
[QUOTE=Lalelalala;46918716]Sprinklers that work just like they do in a movie.. They aren't supposed to work like that, are they?[/QUOTE]
Of course it's not supposed to do that. He broke it.
[QUOTE=Lalelalala;46918716]Sprinklers that work just like they do in a movie.. They aren't supposed to work like that, are they?[/QUOTE]
They are. The pressure drop from one sprinkler going off is enough to cause the other ones to activate by design.
Obviously there was only one old trend that convinced him to do it.
[QUOTE]YOLO[/QUOTE]
Edit: I do not regret this post.
I don't think the entire school sprinkler system is meant to go off by doing that though.
[editline]13th January 2015[/editline]
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[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;46918559]12 year olds don't go to highschool, most higschoolers are 14-19[/QUOTE]
well it said in the article that he's 14 now and the incident happened two years ago
Dont we have youth justice act for these situations
[QUOTE=itisjuly;46918500]Have you never been 14?[/QUOTE]
I was, and I never did something that incredibly stupid.
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