Man jailed over ‘traumatic’ Bunnings fart spray prank
www.smh.com.au
Instead of “lightening the mood”, the incident forced the hardware store to close and customers to be subjected to “humiliating” decontamination showers outside hospital.
  • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Hart was sentenced over the prank on Tuesday, with Perth District Court Judge Felicity Zempilas telling him she did not accept the claim he thought he had innocuous fart spray in his pocket and not Satan’s Spit as he was seen on CCTV repeatedly looking at the product.

    Yeah, I had a hunch it wasn’t “a prank”. But even if this didn’t happen and it was a fart spray, I’d say give them a slap on the wrist for that antisocial crap too (just not a full 16 months like this capsaicin chemical attack earned).

    Dunno why traumatic is in quotes and prank isn’t.

    I’m guessing it’s an actual quote and not a scare quote, even if it doesn’t read that way.

    edit: I just realised, is there even a legitimate use for that product, culinary or otherwise, or is it effectively consumer-available pepper spray?

      • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        That page interestingly advertises it both as a “food additive” and as an “OC spray” (a technical term for pepper spray). While that technically doesn’t imply a use-case, it’s a term associated with the pepper spray weapon and its strength is in the high end of that range.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m guessing it’s an actual quote and not a scare quote

      As a general rule, a headline from a reasonably reputable news source is always going to be using quote quotes and not scare quotes.

  • Dave.@aussie.zone
    3·
    2 months ago

    Dunno why…

    It’s lifted directly from a statement from one of the injured parties.

    Welllll actually they used the word “traumatising”, but that’s the reason quotes are used in headlines like this, they are quoting someone involved.