Happyslapping...

It was pretty depressing seeing 'HS' footage of girls being hit, there's something really wrong about that. I propose a new wave of 'Mam Slapping' where a gang of the righteous hunt down the mothers of every Happy Slapper and film them doing a big slap on them. For one, to say 'YOU BRING UP KIDS BADLY' and secondly because all scrotes 'luv their mam' so it'll upset them.

The guy who got set on fire. Lifting his jumper up and showing his scars and saying "That's wut happy slappin does t'yer" in a gruff northern accent. There was something *so* Brass Eye about that.

I think there is probably a tangled situationist perspective on this all. The situ's used to celebrate rioting, looting etc as people escaping the spectacle, taking their desires for reality etc etc etc. Now it seems Ver Kids are more interested in constructing their own micro-Spectacles. (I remember hearing stories of joyriders who would nick a car and then charge people to watch them smash the car to pieces.)

That said it seems to be broken on Kirstie Allsopp, as it's just giving me Dave Grohl with breasts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/images/2004/09/09/kirstie_150_150x180.jpg

Happy Slapper:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/kvinna/0106/27/KVINNA-27s00julia.jpg

Ted Maul: "Not many cars to nick here; so instead they hijack pedestrians and run them around at terrifying leg-speeds. It's called "git surfing"; all too often, the "git" is one of their own mothers."

CUT TO:

SECURITY VIDEO FOOTAGE: (Shop interior), NIGHT

TM: "The latest trick - catapult them into a shop -"

(A "git" flies through a shop window, glass breaking over the floor)

"- and force them to steal booze, fags and mags."

Unlike JtN I am not that crazy about 'the democratisation of technology' in the first place, or about the plutocracy of technology neither. Perhaps we could happily do without some of the technology that is knocking around.

yeah, but be careful because all his mates have footage of you doling out a beating...

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(x-post, the little shitheads don't have footage if you take the phone off them. I guess the footage I'd like to see is the "happyslapping" incident "gone wrong" where the bullies get hospitalised by their "victim")

TS: acupuncture vs. kirstie walking all over me with her thigh-high boots?

yea, i think a lot of this is if it coincides with school start/end

shit. i hope the little lads across the road at the boys' school don't get any new ideas after all of this. they're, um, lively enough as it is.

I am still in hysterics over this.

So if you want to know what sort of people think six guys slapping a woman is cool then investigate viceuk

i got to the bottom and there was a definite atmosphere, and people looked uneasy, i felt the presence of people behind be rushing about, *something* was happening, i walked briskly to the bus stop and the 29 was there. as i got on i looked around to see 5 or 6 lads punching this other lad, he fell to the ground, and they all kicked him as he lay prostrate, their cameraphones pointing, laughter rang through the air. everyone on the bus was looking out the window, and people looked ashen.

there was loads of people everywhere outside too. no one did anythiing.

i felt shaken, these had been the people that were right behind me on the street. i couldnt relax on the tube on the way out, and i couldnt relax when i was out. i had to walk past this spot on the way home, i just wanted to go home. for the first time since ive been in london i really did feel, well, nervous. i came home early, and there was no one around

its pretty fucked, but pretty inevitable i think. sometimes i am surpirsed that there isnt more random acts of violence around. as a kid at the public school i got knocked about a bit on a friday night, but i was usually aware that it was gonna happen. i dont like the randomness of this, esp. at bus stops.

How are we gonna increase market share of buses if this sort of shit happens?!!?

B b but Americans invented it! Its from Jackass, innit?

Also: I guess the footage I'd like to see is the "happyslapping" incident "gone wrong" where the bullies get hospitalised by their "victim"

Apparently thats happened too - someone I know says theyve seen footage of some little american shits in a car doing, of all things, drive-by slappings by leaning out car doors. Exept this one kid misjudged his lean out, and fell out the car, and got run over and killed.

I cant feel a drop of sympathy either.

Had it not been for ilx and this thread, I would probably have lived the balance of my life unaware of the happyslapping fad. Now I cannot unsee this.