What a Gag!

So there happens to be a show on TV3 called WANNA- BEn. Anyone whose watched it knows it is all for laughs and is full of pranks. Well one apperntly went too far and embarassed the victims enough to get WANNA- BEn presenters arrested. WOOPS! Its like whose the biggest bully on the play ground at school again.

A practical joke is a mischievous trick played on a person/ people, especially one that causes the victim to experience embarrassment, indignity, or discomfort. The practical joke they were playing was one they frequently do called "Blaggin' Bryce". Byrce tries and talk his way into somewhere where they should be and for free. He goes all dressed up and wheather they get in or not is up to the people who let them in so the joke is on them! For example get into the movies dresses as buz light year, a fashion show dressed as fashion police , a Warriors game as a tee boy, a Hip Hop concert dressed as noise control, a Wiggles concert dressed a Dorthory the Dinosaur, a rock concert dressed as emergency hair dresser, the Comedy Gala dressed as a parrot and tries to get into a rugby match selling tes dressed as Mr T. He Doesnt always get in but none the less the prank is funny and no harm done.

In this case he tried to get into the pilots area dressed up as a pilot. Maybe an airport was a bit much, but when the TV satation wants to to keep the good veiwer numbers and the audience loves it and wants more, what else are you to do bigger and better. hmm why was the TV company arrested then? They allow much worse don't they?  (actually if we pulled them up for everything they allowed on air  then there might not be anything left to play on TV) what MADNESS! If they were arested for impersonating a piolt the should probably take it up with the costume shop. They didnt get in- so they cant arrest them for trespassing, They could thank them for proving their secuirty is tight, they can complian the no every Tom Dick and harry will try it becuase they have seen you do it but they will soon see on TV it didnt work. What they should really do is admitt "you got us" lets have a luagh.

They facing upto 12 months imprisonment and up to a $10,000 fine under the Civial Aviation Act

56A Security check offences

(1) Every person commits an offence who, in relation to a security check of that person,—

(a) provides information that the person knows is false or misleading in a material

particular; or

(b) fails to disclose, without reasonable excuse, information that the person knows

to be materially relevant.

(2) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable to imprisonment

for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding $10,000.

Considering no damage was done and seem pretty obvious he didnt look the slightest like a pilot, this is a bit much and silly. A warning was more warrented i think. How could you take it seriously.

 Ben Boyce told 3 News
“He [Casey]  look like a pilot, he’s unshaven, he’s got tattoos, we didn’t have any ID, he just went up and said ‘I’m flying the next plane out of here,’ and they pick holes through the story because he had no ID and he had no idea what gate or what flight he was on,”  And as soon as the knew they were looking for this person owned up.

It should be noted that they did apologise publically:

"We want to apologise for any alarm that was caused by our "pilot" skit. We’ve been doing skits for over nine years, but this time we crossed the line and we fully accept that.
"There was never any intention to cause trouble at the airport. Nor was it our intention for Bryce to breach security. On Sunday when we saw that the police were looking for us we called them immediately. "Obviously we have learnt from this incident and will put more thought into the skits that we are going to film.

I think it was GENIOUS. NZ is becoming too serious.