{"id":3223,"date":"2011-02-14T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2011-02-14T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T18:46:08","slug":"twis-malicious-facebook-prank-backfires-on-high-school-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-malicious-facebook-prank-backfires-on-high-school-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S: Malicious Facebook Prank Backfires on High School Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are downsides to social media and this fact became evident recently.\u00a0 We have learned that this past week four girls from Stillwater (MN) High\u2019s hockey team were handed one-game suspensions for posting on Facebook a hanged teddy bear wearing jersey number 34 with the caption, “Another successful bear hunt.”\u00a0 In their subsequent game against White Bear Lake (MN) High, the opposing player wearing number 34, senior forward Crysta Lowell(shown here),\u00a0suffered a season-ending left knee injury in a collision.\u00a0\u00a0 Lowell, who had previous knee injuries, will miss the postseason for the Bears, who are seeded No. 1 in Section 4AA.\u00a0 “It looked like a freak accident,” White Bear Lake coach Jerry Kwapick said Wednesday. \u00a0\u201cI don’t think there was any malicious intent at all.”\u00a0 In the game, a 3-2 victory by the Stillwater Ponies, Chuck Lowell, Crysta’s father, recalled the moment when his daughter was injured. He said she was skating hard for a loose puck in the Bears’ offensive zone. As she leaned forward to shoot, she and two Stillwater defenders collided.\u00a0 The collision tore the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in her left knee.\u00a0 The Facebook snapshot may have been\u00a0meant as a lighthearted prank\u00a0by the girls to goad their rivals, but Stillwater AD, Rickey Michel, didn’t see it that way.\u00a0 Upon announcing the suspensions, Michel said, “We don’t want our kids to be involved with this stuff.”\u00a0 An unnamed Stillwater school official called it a “stupid prank done in poor taste.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Editor’s Note:\u00a0Source for this article,\u00a0Tim Leighton, tleighton@pioneerpress.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are downsides to social media and this fact became evident recently.\u00a0 We have learned that this past week four girls from Stillwater (MN) High\u2019s hockey team were handed one-game suspensions for posting on Facebook a hanged teddy bear wearing jersey number 34 with the caption, “Another successful bear hunt.”\u00a0 In their subsequent game against … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[10,56,57,79,94,95,96,111,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}