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Motorcyclist Hurt After Getting Caught In Duct Tape Prank On Roadway
CBSLA.com) ^ | August 22, 2013 10:59 PM

Posted on 08/23/2013 8:48:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin

LA CRESCENTA (CBSLA.com) — A motorcyclist was hurt Wednesday night after getting caught in clear duct tape that had been stretched across the road in La Cañada Flintridge.

The incident happened just before 11 p.m. on Oak Grove Drive near Foothill Boulevard.

Deputies with the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station said the tape was placed about four feet in the air. The motorcyclist was rushed to the hospital with injuries.

Authorities said the incident is part of prank, which has been showcased in numerous YouTube videos.

In some videos, cars turn around when they see the tape, while others drive through it.

Some pranksters lay the tape on the road, forcing drivers to stop when it gets tangled in their tires.

“People look on YouTube, I know a lot of kids who watch YouTube videos and imitate it. Teenagers and kids they do things like that, but I think that goes too far. Way too far,” said resident Beatrix Schwartz.

Ryan Monroe rides his bike in the area and now worries about this type of prank.

“It could have been me. If it was night, all I have is a flimsy little bike light, so not so good,” he said.

Dessi Sieburth, 10, doesn’t find the joke funny.

“(They prank people) because they don’t know what else to do. Because they just sit inside all day, so they don’t know what to do, so that’s the only thing that comes to their mind,” he said.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: nationalsecurity; wherewasobama; youtube; youtubevideos
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To: Darksheare
Back in the 80’s in New Jersey, some kid was harrassing a neighborhood by riding his dirtbike down a set of train tracks after dark. Someone got the bright idea to string piano wire across the tracks. Don’t know if their intent was to snag the bike or not, either way the result was thus: Nobody came forward to admit to being the piano wire idiot after the head stopped rolling on the ground.

Whoever did this is guilty of murder.

21 posted on 08/23/2013 9:18:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: BenLurkin
Yup. Every Saturday morning, these two gents taught me a lesson about life. Every episode was a morality tale. To this very day, Clayton Moore's "Lone Ranger Creed" is displayed in my office on parchment paper and framed in leather. Sure miss those guys...
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22 posted on 08/23/2013 9:20:39 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Portcall24
"When I got to Vietnam you would see many of the jeeps that operated in cities like Saigon or Nha Trang had a hachet piece of metal sticking up from the front bumper."

Those were probably leftovers from WW2

http://wwiijeepparts.com/WW2/Photos/G503ArmyJeepRestorationPictures/JohnHolzinger1942FordGPW1.jpg

23 posted on 08/23/2013 9:24:48 AM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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To: Darksheare

We did that in 1969 on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Lessened a lot of bike travel there for a while.


24 posted on 08/23/2013 9:28:33 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: bigbob

Ouch.


25 posted on 08/23/2013 9:28:35 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Flick Lives

Obviously.


26 posted on 08/23/2013 9:29:32 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Safetgiver

Bet they had to examine the pile of bikers first.


27 posted on 08/23/2013 9:30:18 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

In late 1945 and early 1946, a few Nazi “werewolf” dead-ender guerrillas strung piano wire across German highways to decapitate American GIs riding around in open jeeps and on motorcycles.


28 posted on 08/23/2013 9:43:56 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: BenLurkin

This isn’t a “prank”, it is vandalism and sabotage.


29 posted on 08/23/2013 9:47:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Boogieman

It’s the moving vehicle version of putting saran wrap over a toilet hole under the seat.

But the consequences here are far more dangerous.


30 posted on 08/23/2013 9:47:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: PowderMonkey

I loved that show!

And Jay Silverheels was a REAL Indian playing an Indian.

Unlike some depps I could mention!


31 posted on 08/23/2013 10:31:36 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: faithhopecharity
Duck tape kills?
Ban Duck Tape!

Cities every where could start a massive buy back program, $50 dollar gift cards for every roll turned in.

32 posted on 08/23/2013 10:38:03 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: 2001convSVT

great idea!
I am on my way now to the big hardware store to buy up all their $3 duck tape so I can unload it on the taxpayers at your Buy Back program for $50 a pop!~

thanks for the tip!


33 posted on 08/23/2013 10:53:37 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (E)
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To: Darksheare
Nobody came forward to admit to being the piano wire idiot after the head stopped rolling on the ground.

That happens a lot to night riding "snowmobilers" who fail to see a barbed fence or the guy wire from a power pole. It's best to stick to the marked trails...

Regards,
GtG

34 posted on 08/23/2013 10:54:25 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

And lots of dopes tend not to stick to marked trails.


35 posted on 08/23/2013 11:03:30 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Darksheare
And lots of dopes tend not to stick to marked trails.

Mother Natures way of "chlorinating the gene pool"...

Regards,
GtG

36 posted on 08/23/2013 11:36:40 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Gandalf_The_Gray

Very true.


37 posted on 08/23/2013 11:56:38 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Gaffer

La Crescenta isn’t exactly the hood.


38 posted on 08/23/2013 1:03:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Germans did it to. A lot of jeeps had a steel tube or steel
angle mounted on the front bumper that stuck up s couple of feet higher than the drivers head. this was to cut or break wire or light cables.


39 posted on 08/23/2013 8:18:16 PM PDT by TweetEBird007
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