Prankster uses plastic wrap as road trap
Somewhere, whoever is responsible for this is laughing his @$$ off, thinking that he (or she) just pulled off a hilarious prank. What could POSSIBLY be funny about causing what could potentially be a serious injury to someone you don't even know?
TOWN OF WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) -- A prankster tightly wound plastic wrap around traffic poles across a two-lane road, causing a motorcycle accident that injured two people.
Daniel Buckel, and his girlfriend, Theresa Brzykcy, were riding south of Waukesha on Tuesday when their motorcycle crashed into the plastic wrap set up 3 to 4 feet above the road -- wound thickly from traffic poles on opposite sides.
Buckel, 22, was within 10 feet when he saw the makeshift barricade, and hit the brakes.
"It's appalling, and it's really frightening," Brzykcy, 19, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "What was their intention? This should make people more aware that pranks like that are not as harmless as they seem."
Buckel was cut above his eye and broke his finger. Brzykcy also suffered scrapes and bruises.
It's not very often I am speechless, but I just cannot begin to imagine what would cause a thinking, feeling human being to believe that this is funny. Thankfully, the injuries caused were relatively minor, but what if they hadn't been? What if one or both of the riders had been seriously injured, or worse, killed? Would the person or persons responsible for this be laughing then?
