There is this notorious guy that goes around causing nuisances in the guise of pranks, he is called the Trinity Guy. He is known for the trademark of always yanking off random ladies’ wigs, chasing old women to the gutter, chasing people around with machetes and sticks etc all in the name of pranks and other manners of nuisance.
Well, he’s in jail now. A Magistrate Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo state earlier today remanded him “ Trinity Guy’ in prison for ‘sexualizing a female minor’ in a prank video and for other dangerous, life-threatening skits.
These should set precedence and a stern warning for other skit makers and pranksters for them to know that there is a limit to everything and there is a huge difference between creating content and causing a nuisance to other people and endangering other people’s lives.
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For the umpteenth time, any skit or content you will have to place the lives of others at risk to create or cause public nuisance, that’s no longer content; contents and skits ought to be risk-free, seamless, harmless and funny, but if you have to chase someone around with machete or big sticks and some of the victims falling into gutters and into pits or muds all in the name of prank and you end up recording them and posting that on social media blogs then I wonder what is funny with all that. If someone got injured, got a heart attack, or even nearly died and you found it funny, then you must be a sadist.
If you have ever watched the Trinity Guy’s post then you will know that the guy is a very dangerous person. Nobody is immune from his pranks; the aged, the sick, the underaged, the pregnant women, the hawkers, the market traders etc.
The bloggers who post and promote nuisances like these in the name of content are as well complicit; if these pranksters see that everyone frowns against and in strong terms condemn these dangerous pranks and bloggers turn down reposting them on their individual pages then they will learn to engage their time and creativity creating danger and risk-free contents.
Pranks itself is not a crime or yet to be criminalized in Nigeria but other events surrounding these dangerous contents in the disguise of the prank are criminal offenses. Like the Trinity Guy was not remanded in jail for the offense of prank, he was remanded for sexualizing a minor in one of his prank videos. He claimed to have obtained the consent of the parents of the minor before using the minor for the video, but that excuse will definitely not exculpate him.
I am so sure as I am sure of my name that numerous victims of his dangerous pranks will be willing and eager to testify against him in court and that will put him behind bars for a long time.