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Provost Harrison
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The farce is strong with this one.
Feb 2000 time: 05:36
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor
He is New Labour, so dont be too surprised 
But on a serious note - this new craze that is going around, its called 'happy slapping' - is looking like going out of control.
I watched a program on tv about it last night. Its part of the whole 'Hooded tops' yob thing.
Just in case your dont know what 'happy slapping' is about i'll give a brief description.
Usualy its done by two or more kids/youths(often 'hooded'). Mostly it happens on public transport+ at schools, but its also started to be reported on the high streets.
Anyway one member of the gang is the slapper - he will be the one conducting the attack. His mate(s) will take up a good vantage point to use their mobiles to record the event(sending video over the internet or to other friends phones), most attacks happen behind the victim - catching them by surprise.
They pick a target and the slapper will come up behind the unsuspecting member of the public and using an open hand, give them a huge slap on the face/head. His freinds will record it. And then they all run off.
By huge slap - they showed people getting knocked out cold, knock to the floor by the force, so its not like the game 'slaps' kids used to play at school. Its basicaly a full out assault.
Now it doesnt sound too bad on paper, but some of the footage they showed on this program was pretty disturbing.
One young women was hit twice in the face, just minding her own business, and you could tell was really traumatised by it - i doubt she will be able to travel on the bus by herself anytime soon 
The thing was watching these attacks just made my blood boil - its hugely cowardly on the yobs part. And the craze is growing and getting very dangerous as they try to up the ante.
Recently a guy who fell asleep at a bus stop was set on fire by two kids who filmed it on their phones. He survived but is burnt for life and in constant pain. The two idiots who did it got 6years each in jail(too little imho).
I'm just waiting for it to happen to me - i'll ram their phones down their throats for starters i think. The thing is i know i'll react extremly violently to such an attack, bad for me probably(due to my reaction), bad for the kids who do it, as i can not gaurantee i wont kill them in a fit of rage(or get stabbed or shot in the process) 
Stupid fu**ing kids 
Its stuff like this that makes me loose my tolerance - are our out of control kids just asking to be pyriahs in our society? I can see this story growing and the reactions getting harsher 
And the problem is because they are oftne wearing hoodies or caps - its difficult to catch them from the cctv footage.
I hope the police will be allowed to come down extremely hard on this kind of thing. |
Yeah, if something like that was tried on me I would probably react very violently...they'd find out just where a mobile phone can end up...
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