Teen who made prank calls writes letter of apology

I came across this article that describes how a young kid had to write an apology letter about some prank calls he made. That story itself is somewhat funny, but what makes the article hilarious is that it includes the full-text of his apology letter, which is a grammatical atrocity. There are over 20 errors in the just-over-a-paragraph-long letter. I took the liberty of putting the errors in red for you. Enjoy.

Teen who made prank calls writes letter of apology

By Lesley Hughes
News Editor
lhughes@erwinrecord.net

http://www.erwinrecord.net/Detail.php?Cat=LOCALNEWS&ID=58748

Prank calling during late-night hours landed three juveniles in trouble with the law, and one teenager wrote a letter of apology following the incident.Sheriff Kent Harris discovered the three juveniles had made phone calls on March 13, 14 and 15 during late hours. The citizens they called reported answering the phone and hearing a recorded voice of a baby crying.

After an investigation into one of the victim’s phone records, Harris identified where the calls originated.

A 13-year-old who made the calls wrote to the victims and apologized for his actions.

“I’m sorry for bring so stuped and immuture,” the eighth-grade student wrote in a letter full of spelling and grammatical errors not corrected for publication here. “It wuz a stuped joke that wuzn’t funny. I’m very sorry for bothering you. The Sheriff had 2 come 2 my house and talked to me mom and dad are [huh? -linear] very disipionted with me. I lost all privileges on the fone and got grounded for 2 months. And I have 2 do extra chores around the house and volunter at my mom’s work on weekind. So it wuzn’t worth the laugh and it wuz bad that I bothered people at their homes and worryed them.

“I’m very sorry and I promise that I will never prink call anyone else agin. U can get in alot of truble and its not worth it.”

Harris said the boy will work out a punishment through volunteer work.