{"id":24756,"date":"2014-09-04T17:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T09:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24756"},"modified":"2014-09-04T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T09:03:24","slug":"tuition-books-mooning-frosh-week-rituals-can-be-costly-police-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/04\/tuition-books-mooning-frosh-week-rituals-can-be-costly-police-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuition, books, mooning? Frosh week rituals can be costly, police warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147317933.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24757\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147317933.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_147317933\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147317933.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shutterstock_147317933-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add mooning and prank calls to the list of back-to-school expenses university students should plan for.<\/p>\n<p>A Toronto-area police force is warning students about the hidden cost of some questionable frosh-week rituals such as streaking and putting cement in a public washing machine\u2014both of which carry fines of up to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>York Regional Police say forcing a pet to smoke marijuana, for example, could cost thousands in fines and involve jail time, while the price of \u201cdropping excessive bass at 4 a.m.\u201d depends on \u201chow excessive\u201d it is.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most affordable offences are hiding in a Walmart after closing time and \u201cclimbing onto the roof of the math wing,\u201d both punishable by a $65 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Others\u2014including mooning, defacing faculty portraits and urinating in a neighbour\u2019s yard\u2014carry much heftier price tags of up to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>And a few, such as buying beer for underage siblings or starting a bonfire with a dorm-room sofa, could land students behind bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add mooning and prank calls to the list of back-to-school expenses university students should plan for. A Toronto-area police force &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":24757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}