Phil Lewis: Student arrested after sending fax claiming to be the principal resigning, reports say

Student arrested after sending fax claiming to be the principal resigning, reports say

Student arrested after sending fax claiming to be the principal resigning, reports saywww.fox8live.com A high school student has reportedly been arrested after sending a fax pretending to be the principal resigning.

How does a high school student know how to send a fax? 😄

My thought exactly 🤣

Fax. Chef's kiss.

People are uptight about the wrong things. Stop criminalizing pranks in school, start banning weapons on campus and near school zones.

that's... already been done?

Oh come on! Give them a day of in school suspension like a normal administrator would.

I was thinking the same until I got to the part about what they’d been doing first, using phony email addresses to try to get info on another student. That doesn’t sound great. Criminal charges still seem like way overdoing it, unless the motives were really alarming

This seems like a bog-standard high school prank. Arresting the kid is a giant overreaction.

Not a crime. Fuck the police.

Honestly, I’m just impressed a kid knows how to send a fax.

How is this a crime?

Impersonating someone is considered identity theft.

Via FAX MACHINE?? You can just text the person and ask them "did you send this weird fax"

That’s not the world we live in. It’s a no tolerance school zone. Everyone and everything is viewed as a lawsuit/liability.

I keylogged the admin password in high school and got suspended. At no time was law enforcement ever anyone's thought. This fax thing was probably just a good senior prank.

It’s an ever shifting and less forgiving landscape. Tolerance for pranks has disappeared.

The student was not trying to gain anything, it was for fun. I can put on a Trump mask for Halloween and guess what? It’s not “identity theft”.

A lot different than impersonating your building principal and sending in a resignation letter on their behalf.

Why? What was the harm? Are you implying the director got the fax and immediately hired a replacement that afternoon and changed all the locks?

Yeah, so when the principal shows up for work and people ask him why he quit.. this is a nothing burger.

In that case, twitter is probably the biggest identity theft ring out there.

Arrested? WTF

How is sending a fax still a headline in 2024?

I can think of at least 4 sad things this headline says about technology in K-12 schools

I work in a school. Can confirm...we still have fax machines. 😂😂😂

Somebody’s about to get a fax saying that this case has been dismissed.

Ooo... so close.

"Kids these days are so sensitive and can't take a joke" Adults these days:

Honestly I’m impressed with a high schooler who can send a fax. That’s old school. That’s like playing notes into the pay phone to make free calls

That’s kinda funny, actually. Probably not to the principal though 😂

People my age like to laugh about how Kids Today can't use rotary phones and fax machines, but the moment one does we toss them in jail?

That’s just a bit draconian.

If there's any question of whether involving police in response to high school pranks is disproportionate, I suggest Googling Kenneth AuYeung en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mic...

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"Downer and Ryall did not face legal repercussions." I'm opposed to the death penalty in all cases . . . Except this one. Fuck those guys.

For those that are just looking at the headline…

Thank you! I was wondering when someone was going to point out this was not just one simple prank.

Fax???

It's a female fox

🤣

I bet money on the fact that he wouldn’t be arrested if he SHOT a fax machine INSIDE the school.

Valedictorian!

"added his own cellphone number to the cover sheet of the fax" Rookie mistake

damn i don't even know how to send a fax

Arrested?

Meanwhile Chaya Raichik keeps threatening to send the psychos to blow-up buildings but that gets labeled as “journalism.”

"The student ended up being caught after police said he added his own cellphone number to the cover sheet of the fax." Oh no.

The fax is funny. The email thing to get info on other students bears further scrutiny, surely?

Extremely good prank

I roll to disbelieve. Like any student today knows how to use a fax machine.

If he successfully sent a fax, he is smarter than I am.

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