Should Teen Get Eight Years in Jail for Senior Prank?

When sitting around the Pictionary board with your old high school buddies this coming July 4th, you might recall some classic (classic!) pranks you collectively pulled back in the day.

Hopefully none of you will have “just got out” for pulling one of those pranks a decade ago.

That could be the future glory days reunion for Tyell Morton when he returns to his hometown of Rushville, Ind.

Last week, the 18-year-old Rushville High senior's great prank idea turned serious when authorities had to be called to investigate and remove a nefarious blow-doll Morton placed in a girls’ restroom.

As reported by local NBC affiliate WTHR, “Morton was arrested Tuesday after school surveillance cameras captured a picture of a man dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and wearing latex gloves, concealing a package and leaving without it. Believing it contained explosives, the school was evacuated and the Indiana State Police bomb squad was called in.”

The senior whose mother forgot the R in his name and who has no previous criminal record has been spending nights in jail since Tuesday.

“It's not right. It was a senior prank,” Morton told WTHR. “They're blowing it out of proportion. I didn't hurt anybody, I didn't intend to embarrass anybody. What did I do wrong, you know?”

Robert Turner, Morton's attorney, stands by his clients claim that the school's charges are overblown. Unlike the doll, which we can only imagine was inflated to precisely the correct pounds-per-square-inch proportions...