For one, the parent alluded to pranks
they did in the past, of which we know nothing about and I expect many of which were more asshole than they were awesome.
The Headroom prank interrupted TV people (presumably) wanted to watch, made broadcast engineers scramble, and may have even gotten a few woken up in the middle of the night. I won't even speculate as to what kind of pains-in-the-ass it almost certainly caused throughout the network and at the FCC going forward.
You really cannot see the asshole quotient here?
Pranks should be between friends, not unsuspecting strangers.
