During any point while writing these comments, did you ever stop and think: “maybe these students have a good relationship with the professor and knew how he would react to such a prank”?
Like I’d get it if the guy said he was afraid of spiders and the following day someone put a fake spider on his desk. In that situation, they don’t know him well, the spider has a likelihood of being real, and a single person doing it without peer review can be iffy.
But this is weeks later, everyone agreeing that the professor would find it funny, and doing something that could in no way be perceived as “real”.
During any point while writing these comments, did you ever stop and think: “maybe these students have a good relationship with the professor and knew how he would react to such a prank”?
Like I’d get it if the guy said he was afraid of spiders and the following day someone put a fake spider on his desk. In that situation, they don’t know him well, the spider has a likelihood of being real, and a single person doing it without peer review can be iffy.
But this is weeks later, everyone agreeing that the professor would find it funny, and doing something that could in no way be perceived as “real”.