pic: IRI Prank #1

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Pavan Dave

Wow.

The way I'm looking at it right now is that Arefin's prank was not theft. The other one, by the sound of it, was. Can you add getting police officers to patrol the event to your list of things to do for IRI next year? Maybe we will need some snipers on the roofs too to make sure everyone is always in order. WAIT maybe thats taking it too far? We're all involved with robotics, maybe we should just make a meter to measure how a team's sense of humor is?
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I understand some of the outrage about this pranking controversy but really everybody is over reacting unless some damage was caused. If Karthik and 1114 can post on here and say what happened to their robot and what damaged what maybe people will calm down without a magic "chill pill" and shrug or laugh this off.


Pavan.

I've got to disagree. Taking someone else's robot out of their pit, and then doing anything at all to it is out of line.

1114's radio cable came out in SF 1-1. Their arm pot was screwy all afternoon in the elims. Who's to say that it wasn't because random people were messing around with their robot?

It's like they teach you in kindergarten (or maybe even preschool. It was a long time ago ) keep your hands to yourself. Even if they didn't cause damage, that doesn't negate the fact they were messing with another team's robot.

If this happened to my team, and my kids "arranged" for such a prank to take place, I can tell you I would not be happy at all. Both the responsible parties, and my students would have a lot of explaining to do.