Yeah, I told my 19 year old son about that IAH thing and he thought it was a riot. And then I had to explain that back in 1983 that was perfectly acceptable behavior and if he wanted to copy his old man, that he would end up in Gitmo for the next 65 years.
In the 1970s, in California, I was serving as my own attorney on a fairly serious charge related to a little prank. I used the good old boy Texas defense that a certain amount of wildness from a Texan is impossible to totally restrain, and before it was over the court room was cracking up, the judge was laughing and wanted me to have sex with her (I'm pretty sure) and the problem was reduced down to a misdemeanor, a $100.00 fine and time served.