Title:  Internet Video Bullying
Producer: Emily Halevy
Feed: CWKN #384, May 7, 2008
Time: 1:25
SUGGESTED LEAD:  HERE’S A RECIPE FOR CHILDHOOD TROUBLE:  START WITH AN IMPULSIVE TEENAGE BRAIN, ADD IN A LITTLE PEER PRESSURE, A VIDEO CAMERA AND THE INTERNET, AND THE RESULT IS VIOLENT ASSAULTS, DANGEROUS CRASHES, AND OUTRAGEOUS STUNTS.  CONNECT WITH KIDS HAS THE STORY.
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NATS: video of boy on skateboard (:00)

NARR: ONE WEBSITE SHOWS KIDS CRASHING WHILE ROLLERBLADING … SKIING WHILE TIED TO A CAR … AND SHOOTING FIREWORKS AT A FRIEND. (:08)

NATS: Explosions and screaming (:08)

SOT: Donte Graves, 15 years old (:10)
“I saw this video, that um …  two friends; one guy put himself in a garbage can, and his friend pushed him down the street, and then it was going and going, and then bam he just hit the door.”

NARR: AND, RECENTLY, EIGHT FLORIDA TEENS WERE ARRESTED FOR BEATING UP ANOTHER TEEN AFTER THEY POSTED THE VIDEO ONLINE.

BECAUSE OF THE POPULARITY OF VIDEO-SHARING SITES LIKE YOU-TUBE, EXPERTS SAY EACH WEEK KIDS TRY EVEN MORE DANGEROUS STUNTS TO GAIN THEIR 15 MINUTES OF FAME. (17)

SOT: Harold W. Phipps, Computer Forensics Expert (:36)
“Its one up-manship almost … and they say, ‘Well, he jumped off a ten foot ladder.  Well, I’m going to do him better.  I’m going to jump off a 15 foot ladder.’  And then it will be a 20 foot and then 30 foot.”

SOT: Derek Riker, 15 years old (:50)
“They could say, ‘Yeah, I jumped off my roof.’  And if someone doesn’t believe them, they could say, ‘Oh yeah? Well, go check my Myspace.  I have a video.’”

NARR: EXPERTS SAY PARENTS SHOULD EXPLAIN THAT STUNTS ARE NOT JUST DANGEROUS. THEY MAY EMBARRASS THE CHILD FOREVER. (:07)

SOT: Harold W. Phipps, Computer Forensics Expert  (1:04)
“So you could do something stupid and say, ‘Well, I’m going to erase it.’  But you have to realize that could be reproduced by hundreds if not thousands of people who have seen that.”

SOT: David Serodino, 15 years old (1:13)
“It can have all sorts of effects, like when you are trying to go to college, if they see that you are an arsonist, they might not accept you.”

SOT:  Griff Crow, 17 years old (1:20)
“It never goes away.  It’s a permanent record of your stupidity.”

NARR: I’M COLLIN SIEDOR, FOR CONNECT WITH KIDS. (:02)

SUGGESTED TAG:  EXPERTS SAY MAKE SURE KIDS NEVER PUT THEIR REAL NAME OR ADDRESS ON THE INTERNET.