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Botany

(70,552 posts)
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 12:51 PM Feb 2016

Free Izaha Akins! 18-year-old poses as Senator, lectures class

He convinced teachers, administrators, even law enforcement and a car dealership he had just been appointed to fill the seat of State Senator Dave Burke.

Turns out, that whole story was a lie.

"He basically decieved and conned some people," says Ken Ratliff, Superintendent of the Mohawk Local School District.

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Akins is now facing felony charges of telecommunications fraud and impersonating a peace officer.

http://www.13abc.com/home/headlines/18-year-old-poses-as-Senator-lectures-class-369524101.html

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Free Izaha Akins! 18-year-old poses as Senator, lectures class (Original Post) Botany Feb 2016 OP
Hey, if you're not willing to take the consequences, don't do the impersonation... Human101948 Feb 2016 #1
By the way, how did he "borrow" a car from a dealership? Botany Feb 2016 #3
So, he stole it. Orrex Feb 2016 #4
The car was returned Botany Feb 2016 #5
So, he stole it. Orrex Feb 2016 #7
Nobody was hurt and nothing of value was damaged Botany Feb 2016 #8
people in power *really* don't like to be played for fools tk2kewl Feb 2016 #9
In another article the superintendent said something like .... Botany Feb 2016 #10
You have a fucked up definition of "butt hurt" Orrex Feb 2016 #11
Please! Botany Feb 2016 #12
Since you asked so nicely Orrex Feb 2016 #13
"In response to my correct observation." Botany Feb 2016 #15
I will be borrowing your car for my upcoming trip hfojvt Feb 2016 #17
Felony charges seem a bit extreme. (eom) HassleCat Feb 2016 #2
What's your threshhold? Human101948 Feb 2016 #6
what do you have to write with? snooper2 Feb 2016 #14
I call this a hilarious teenage prank. What nerve! Quantess Feb 2016 #16
I hope they get a judge w/a sense of humor Botany Feb 2016 #18
 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
1. Hey, if you're not willing to take the consequences, don't do the impersonation...
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 12:58 PM
Feb 2016

The kid wasn't doing anything heroic.

By the way, how did he "borrow" a car from a dealership?

Botany

(70,552 posts)
3. By the way, how did he "borrow" a car from a dealership?
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 01:12 PM
Feb 2016

He told them that he was the new St. Senator and they let him use it.

BTW Izaha Aklins is my new hero!

Botany

(70,552 posts)
5. The car was returned
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 01:20 PM
Feb 2016

This is one of the best cons ever ..... btw the St. Senator he punked voted
to defund planned parenthood in OH ...... now that is something to be pissed
off about.

18 and to pull this off?

Orrex

(63,219 posts)
7. So, he stole it.
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 01:23 PM
Feb 2016

No reason why we can't be pissed off about the asshole State Senator while recognizing that Akins committed multiple crimes.

I suspect that if he'd punked Planned Parenthood in a similar attempt to make them look foolish and ineffectual, the same people who are praising him now would be calling for jail time.

Botany

(70,552 posts)
8. Nobody was hurt and nothing of value was damaged
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 01:51 PM
Feb 2016

Life is too short to be pissed off about a case of "butt hurt."

For God's sake he told the teacher that the prior state senator
was quitting because for "health reasons" and that he got appointed
in a special way that nobody had ever heard of?


And yes the kid played the system like a fiddle so make
him and his friends do a little community service and then
turn it into a movie.

 

tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)
9. people in power *really* don't like to be played for fools
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 02:04 PM
Feb 2016

but frankly, doing exactly that is sometimes very important.

The Senator sounds like a jerk. It's possible that the teacher and/or school admin deserved to be knocked down a peg or two as well.

Orrex

(63,219 posts)
11. You have a fucked up definition of "butt hurt"
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 02:32 PM
Feb 2016
Nobody was hurt and nothing of value was damaged
So what? A crime does not require physical harm nor property damage.

He stole a car. That's a crime, even if he returned it.

He impersonated a state senator. That's a crime, even if he was joking.

For some bizarre reason you find this charming. By your silly logic, the faked videos intended to implicate Planned Parenthood were just fine and dandy, because "nobody was hurt and nothing of value was damaged."

Botany

(70,552 posts)
12. Please!
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 02:56 PM
Feb 2016

wet blanket
A negative person who tends to ruin other people's good times.
Don't let Orrex come on the Vegas trip, he's only going to be a wet blanket and take the fun out of everything.

Now please show me exactly where I posted this meme?

By your silly logic, the faked videos intended to implicate Planned Parenthood were just fine and dandy, because "nobody was hurt and nothing of value was damaged."

Orrex

(63,219 posts)
13. Since you asked so nicely
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 03:22 PM
Feb 2016
wet blanket
A negative person who tends to ruin other people's good times.
Accessory after the fact
Someone who assists another 1) who has committed a felony, 2) after the person has committed the felony, 3) with knowledge that the person committed the felony, and 4) with the intent to help the person avoid arrest or punishment. An accessory after the fact may be held liable for, inter alia, obstruction of justice.

Don't let Orrex come on the Vegas trip, he's only going to be a wet blanket and take the fun out of everything.
Well, since you seem to enjoy the commission of crimes and complaining when someone calls you out for it, I assure you that I'd have no interest in going to Vegas or anywhere else with you.

Now please show me exactly where I posted this meme?

By your silly logic, the faked videos intended to implicate Planned Parenthood were just fine and dandy, because "nobody was hurt and nothing of value was damaged."
In response to my correct observation that your hero committed a crime, you scoffed that "nobody was hurt and nothing of value was damaged."

In other words, according to your assertion, a crime requires either personal harm or property damage. As such, the faked videos intended to implicate Planned Parenthood, which caused neither personal harm nor property damage, do not constitute a crime. Further, since the videos were a prank intended to embarrass and inconvenience, they are not entirely dissimilar to Izaha Akins' prank intended to embarrass and inconvenience.

Botany

(70,552 posts)
15. "In response to my correct observation."
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:23 PM
Feb 2016


I assure you that I'd have no interest in going to Vegas or anywhere else with you.

Well damn so what do you want me to do with the plane tickets and hotel reservations?

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
17. I will be borrowing your car for my upcoming trip
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:28 PM
Feb 2016

Nobody will get hurt and nothing of value will be damaged.

So I guess you won't mind.

Botany

(70,552 posts)
18. I hope they get a judge w/a sense of humor
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:32 PM
Feb 2016

Some community service and then move on.

Judge, "Now please tell the court exactly what you guys did and include your
lecture to the high school class too."

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