>But yea, I could imagine that dude laughing with his boys (and
>girl) while putting the phone up to the fake ventilator noise.
>I mean I get how that shit is funny to a certain extent--but
>he let it go way too far. And yes Manti is naive and dumb for
>falling for it--but doing that shit with someones emotions is
>fucked up.

I mean in this situation there was a shitload of time spent and involvement of other people...

it's hard to understand why somebody would go to this kind of effort without any sort of monetary gain. extortion would make a ton of sense but there has obviously been no claim of that.

te'o gonna lose money on this though. which also makes his 'forgive and forget' stance hard to explain.