Saturday, May 21, 2005

Happy Slap


BRITAIN: GIRL, 16, HELD IN 'HAPPY SLAP' ATTACK A 16-year-old girl was arrested and charged with being part of a group of youths that attacked another girl in Manchester while filming the incident on a mobile telephone. The victim, 16-year-old Becky Smith, was briefly knocked out and spent two days in the hospital with head injuries. The assault was the latest example of an apparent British craze known as "happy slapping," in which youths randomly attack passers-by and then use their mobile phones to circulate pictures of the victims. Miss Smith's mother, Georgina, said that video phones should be banned from schools.

A little research unearthed this and this.

I expect a full explanation from Mondale and Weasel about what it is about their native land that could create such ugliness.

3 comments:

weasel said...

This is what happens when kids don't have access to their parents loaded handguns stored in an unlocked cupboard like they do over here. Assholes tend to stay in the gene pool a little longer, alas.

Have you heard about the hoodie controversy over there? I'm pulling together an epic summary sometime this week.

weasel said...

More research results: Chavscum
A great happy slapping t-shirt can be found there. What would be the American equivalent of Chav, I wonder? Red neck for rural areas, but you guys?

Crumberdale said...

Did anyone catch that sky documentary defending chav culture?