News19 mins ago
Happy Slapping
Did anyone watch this on Trevor McDonald last night? I'd never heard of the 'craze' before and actually felt sick, angry and frightened by the end of the programme.
However, I can't help feeling that, for someone like me living on a pretty rough Council Estate having never heard of it, by showing what they did last night it will encourage people to try it that have never seen / heard of it before.
Answers
No best answer has yet been selected by natalie_1982. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050511/344/fimfw.html
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/158/158130_happy_slapping_programme_rescheduled.html
See the above links if you're not sure what it is. The prog. last night was so violent it made me feel ill.
On the programme last night they showed clips of a man that had his ear drum perforated through a slap, a man who had fallen asleep at the bus stop so they kicked him and set fire to him (he is now scarred from his neck/ chest area and all around his body) and kicking (with both feet - kind of martial arts stylee if you know what I mean) in someone's face.
ITV put real 'happy slapping' cases (mostly kids) alongside more isolated and severe assaults like the setting alight and bus attack to get the show more headlines. The only thing in common was the filming of attacks.
Viewers will probably become paraoid and, yes I agree, may even get slapped because the program has given other people the idea.
What really made my blood boil was the teenagers they interviewed proclaiming 'it's funny man, half of them are asking for it'
Even if they do pick on the wrong person one day who ends up giving as good as he gets, it won't stop these little sh*ts from doing this kind of stuff. Listening to the two half wits who set that guy on fire was chilling. They were almost psychotic.
I wish they wouldn�t show these sort of programs, as not only does it upset and infuriate people, but it also instills a fear of teenagers. And I know some very good hearted decent ones who would also be shocked at this.
I did not see the TV programme reporting about the TV programmes mentioned. I did read about the horrifying bus stop incident in the regular Press. It is responsible reporting that will get the other programmes taken off, plus any clamour - if there is a clamour - to take off the other TV programmes which are encouraging this new horror. The authorities and police would like to keep a lid on it, to prevent copy-cat crimes, but by doing this, in the past, horrors have grown until it's too late and a lot of people are still suffering in the 'lid kept on' areas. Anyway, I don't think they can keep the lid on it, as those involved have their own ways of spreading news. Its getting to the point when one feels a prisoner, in the evenings particularly, as even healthy and agile young ones can't do anything against this. Is this 'Dirty Sanchez' programme still being transmitted?
jake-the-peg: The film 'A Clockwork Orange' was a film depicting such bad things that Stanley Kubrick, the Director, was sorry that he had made it and banned it from being shown. He died a couple of years back so people who wanted to could show it again. I noticed from the schedules it was on late-night TV recently. Goodness how many bad people have been made worse by the film's influence.
A lot of people have never heard of this craze, one suspects it is an incredibly rare event sufficiently shocking to attract the national press. Please do not succumb to the daily mail attitude of fear. Fear is what causes a lot of other 'bad things'.