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Viral high school senior prank landing teens in trouble with the police 92%
5/16/2026, 4:30:28 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Emotion, and Availability Heuristic, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 84% saturation with 137 hits. Analysis detected 343 faulty-reasoning hits from 163 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.7% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,375 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 91.80% of the video peer group.
A police officer responds to a 911 call late at night in the Michigan suburbs, believing there might be a burglary in progress, according to local officials.
>> What?
>> He gets ambushed by a teenager with a gun.
A water gun.
>> Get on the ground.
>> The rattled teenager apologizes.
>> I'm sorry.
>> We're looking for people stealing cars.
>> The officer made a splitsecond decision not to fire.
The teenager wasn't stealing cars.
He was playing senior assassin.
In the game that has become a spring pastime, players are assigned a target, a fellow classmate to shoot with a water gun.
The winner is the last one who stays dry.
It's supposed to be just harmless fun.
>> But police departments nationwide are asking students to think carefully about how they play and use water guns that look like toys.
The problem is some look like this.
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