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Highway surfers must pen their obituaries

NORTON, Ohio, May 5 (UPI) -- A judge sentenced two Norton, Ohio, teens to write their obituaries for a dangerous highway surfing stunt, the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal reports.

In addition to writing about their death, Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio ordered the 17-year-old boys to write mock editorials warning other youths about the dangers of highway surfing and revoked each one's driver's license for a year.

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The teens admitted they took part in the March display on Interstate 76 at Norton, in which one drove the pickup truck and the other surfed the highway on his shoes while a camera recorded the daredevil acts.

"To deliberately put yourself in a situation where you're at such risk is certainly frightening to me," Teodosio told the teens.

"I realize what I did was ignorant, irresponsible and extremely dangerous,'' one of the teens said.

"I really don't know what I was thinking," said the other teen, who also apologized to the judge.

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