You do not play bloody pranks on a bloody law student.

Definition of a prank:

prank - a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.
And, a few words which are related to the word 'prank' are:
foolery, tomfoolery, lunacy, craziness, folly, indulgence

From: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/prank

Guess what??? I've been bloody pranked on today.

I woke up this morning and was about to drive my car to uni. But, lo and behold, I found that my car was MOVED. You know how in apartments and all, you're allocated a lot of your own to park your car. Well, I parked my car at my spot last night and I was shocked to find that my car was parked one lot beside my lot.

Now, before you go off thinking that I might have been sleep walking and thought "hmm...maybe I'll just go down and shift my car to the lot next to me just for kicks", well, I wasn't. And yes, I did lock my car doors. And, no, I didn't put up a HUGE sign which said "HEY THERE! FEELING BORED? WHY NOT TRY STEALING MY CAR?".

So, anyway, as I approached the car, I was shocked even more to find out that my car doors were locked. So, obviously, this guy has somehow got hold of some sorta key to open my car door. And, he left an Adidas cap in my car.

So, at that moment I thought, "Hmm..how thoughtful of the car thief to have broken into my car, used it for some joyride or whatever, and returned it with a nice little souvenir for my safekeeping."

Uhm......Yeh..that'd work in a comedy show or whatever. But,not here, not now.

I was freaking out. I checked if all the stuff in my car were still intact. I checked if the car thief tried to jack my door open or scratched my car in the process. I was relieved that find out that everything was still there. I was also planning on going around and asking my neighbours whether or not they've seen anyone suspicious. I decided that I was going to make a police report about this since I had the "souvenir" to prove it. But first, I thought, I should probably go get a state-of-the-art steering wheel lock, just in case he strikes again tonight. I even got all CSI-ish and checked out the cap for possible strands of hair to determine if it was an Aussie or an Asian bloke because that would narrow down some prospective suspects living around me (not that I'm being racist in anyway!). But, right before I was about to go out and buy that lock, I got a phone call from the friend of mine in Singapore from whom I bought the car. I had told her earlier about how scared I was. She was just as worried as I was but she suspected that it was a prank that some people were trying to pull on me. And, so she decided to contact a few people and sure enough there were a couple of my "close" friends who was trying to pull this prank on me.

You must be wondering how they did it. Well, the thing is Adeline, the seller of the car was supposed to pass me her second pair of keys before she left Hobart for Adelaide en route to Singapore, couldn't find it in time to give it to me. Later, she realised that it was with her all that time and so she passed it to this girl in Adelaide who was supposed to bring it to me when she came down to Hobart. But, this person forgot about it. So, she agreed to post the keys back to me ASAP. So, I gave my address to this other person to have him pass it her through a text message or something because I did not have her number. So, yep, you've guessed it. They must have plotted some sorta plan to pull this prank on me by having her send the keys to their place and so on.

I eventually got a hold of the Adelaide girl and asked her whether or not she has sent the key to me. She then tells me that she sent it in the post 3 weeks ago. So, I thought, "oh no...maybe the post got delivered to the wrong address. Or, maybe the postman was drunk or something and was negligent in delivering the letter. Oh well.. I guess all that doesn't matter anymore.

I have no idea why they did it. Maybe, they were trying to teach me a lesson on giving out such private information or whatever. Or maybe they were trying to teach me a biblical lesson on forgiving and forgetting. Well, tough luck.

Whatever it is, it was clearly a wrong thing to do, both by law and by any friendship standards. Any second year law student can tell you that that act has very clearly amounted to a tort of trespass, in which they have PHYSICALLY TOUCHED and MOVED my property without any express or implied consent. In doing so, they have caused me a lot of distress and anxiety. And they did nothing to mitigate their actions. Instead, they prolonged my distress and pain by trying to keep it a secret. And, in their defence, they can't just say that it was a practical joke and that they didn't mean it (Wilkinson v Downton). Am I just overly sensitive? But, even if I am, they should have and ought to have known that about me. And, that would've worked against them in a court of law.

Forget about the law. What about simple "unwritten" rules about friendships. The last thing you would want to do is to cause your close friends distress and anxiety over a stupid joke. They should've thought about whether it was worth it to shake up someone over something so serious before they decided to do something like that. These are the people from the OCF...uhm..more like LEADERS of the OCF...leaders who I associate with and in whom I place my trust and have faith in.

I'll tell you what pranks are. Pranks are for e.g. Bursting a water balloon over somebody, giving them a rubber toy which looks like a cockroach, or putting a whoopie cushion on someone's seat. Those are pranks. Pranks do not include cars which you paid over $11,000 in purchase price and insurance.

I was disgusted to see that they reacted by laughing it off as another joke when I later approached them to get my keys. Was it too much of me to expect a simple apology from them?

Arghh...stuff it. I've got my keys. That's all that matters.

Here's the "souvenir" for your viewing pleasure.