Videotaped Prank at Seamen's Bank Backfires on Rockland Teen

A Suffern family got in trouble in Massachusetts because bank officials and police didn’t think a videotape two teenagers were making was all that funny.

According to the Cape Cod Times, a 19-year-old man visited two branches of Seamen’s Bank on Cape Cod, held up a bag containing liquid soap and said he wanted to make a deposit. The teller at the second bank saw someone (his younger sister) videotaping it all and called police.

Police stopped the car, and in the process of the investigation confiscated the recording device he was wearing under his sweatshirt.

His parents, who were driving, objected to no avail.

That it was a joke, that no threats were made, that it was harmless, that it was a class project did not matter. He was charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful wiretap.

Then prosecutors cut him some slack, reporter Doug Fraser wrote: he signed a deal April 13 to do 40 hours of community service, write an essay and be respectful when making future videos—and avoided arraignment and a record.

Read the entire article on capecodetimes.com