"The footage showed a hooded youth throwing a two and a half stone (15kg) blue chair over a glass balustrade before he and the boy filming the act run away swearing in the opposite direction."
"Prosecutor Elizabeth Ajayi previously said the chair, which was worth 500, was thrown 50ft (15m) from the top floor. It's fortunate that nobody was injured."
"The boy who threw the chair told police 'it's not that deep, it did not hit no one'. He also mentioned that he and his co-defendant 'regularly indulge' in pranks."
Two teenagers were arrested after a viral video showed one throwing a chair from a shopping center in East London. The chair, weighing 15kg, was thrown from a height of 50ft, narrowly missing shoppers below. The boy who threw the chair received an eight-month detention order, while the other admitted to charges of recklessly causing a public nuisance. The incident caused unease among customers, and both boys acknowledged their involvement in similar pranks. Sentencing for the second boy is scheduled for April 29.
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