"Happy" Slap ???
Discussion
Why do the media continue to use this phrase. It clearly does not fit the bill.
I glanced a headline in a comic/tabloid this morning which was about some poor kid who has been stabbed to death whilst onlookers took 'Happy Slap' footage on their mobiles.
Can't they come up with a more suitable phrase. I don't think anyone can relate this event to happiness.
Media? Do they deliberately print crap to stir ill-feeling?
I glanced a headline in a comic/tabloid this morning which was about some poor kid who has been stabbed to death whilst onlookers took 'Happy Slap' footage on their mobiles.
Can't they come up with a more suitable phrase. I don't think anyone can relate this event to happiness.
Media? Do they deliberately print crap to stir ill-feeling?
lazyitus said:
Media? Do they deliberately print crap to stir ill-feeling?
IMHO, yes. Ill-feeling sells papers.
Any time any sort of violence is caught on a mobile phone camera, it's going to be 'Happy Slapping' no matter what the circumstances. I'm suprised no-one's called for mobile phone cameras to be banned as they're obviously causing more violent crime
ge2 said:
Media? Do they deliberately print crap to stir ill-feeling?
IMHO, yes. Ill-feeling sells papers.
Any time any sort of violence is caught on a mobile phone camera, it's going to be 'Happy Slapping' no matter what the circumstances. I'm suprised no-one's called for mobile phone cameras to be banned as they're obviously causing more violent crime
Well youu may jest but Happy Slapping didn't exist before these things were invented. Now suddenly we have DiY snuff movies.
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hate mobile phones. Damnable inventions. I want to go and live in a hut somewhere, on a hill. Alone.
yertis said:
Well youu may jest but Happy Slapping didn't exist before these things were invented. Now suddenly we have DiY snuff movies.
True, but I bet there was a huge increase in incidents after Trevor McDonut 'exposed' it.
Thing is, people do shitty things to each other, always have done, always will do, mobile phones with cameras or not.
egomeister.
If only. Didnt you read about the recent event of "happy slapping" where a number of little scrotes tied an 11 year old boy to a tree & set the tree on fire ! Oh & whilst doing this they filmed the (presumably) hysterical 11 year old trying to get free on their mobiles.
After a couple of the perpetrators admitted their guilt, the CPS kindly confirmed that it would not be in the Public interest to prosecute the little f*****s, even though there faces were clearly to be seen on the film & they admitted their guilt.
WTF !! Happy Slappers. Happy kick in the bollox says I.
If only. Didnt you read about the recent event of "happy slapping" where a number of little scrotes tied an 11 year old boy to a tree & set the tree on fire ! Oh & whilst doing this they filmed the (presumably) hysterical 11 year old trying to get free on their mobiles.
After a couple of the perpetrators admitted their guilt, the CPS kindly confirmed that it would not be in the Public interest to prosecute the little f*****s, even though there faces were clearly to be seen on the film & they admitted their guilt.
WTF !! Happy Slappers. Happy kick in the bollox says I.
ge2 said:
Well youu may jest but Happy Slapping didn't exist before these things were invented. Now suddenly we have DiY snuff movies.
True, but I bet there was a huge increase in incidents after Trevor McDonut 'exposed' it.
In criminology its called 'deviancy amplification', and is a typical result of reporting standards today.
ge2 said:
Thing is, people do shitty things to each other, always have done, always will do, mobile phones with cameras or not.
Oh no, didn't you know violence only started a few years ago with video messaging?
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