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If it's some people having fun trying to outprank each other, then okay -- they're all in on it and have fun, you guys.
But when the victims are people just trying to live their lives -- or worse, people trying to do their jobs (people seem to love to prank customer and public service and retail workers for their own amusement but the prank-ees annoyance, inconvenience, and often embarrassment), then I think they should be glued to their own toilet seats and forced to wear them around for awhile to see how they like being the literal butt of someone else's amusement.
Utter. Bastards.
08/23/09
Nothing nastier than pulling a "practical joke" or hurting someone in a way that really, really humiliates them to boot, so that they'll probably feel that much more embarrassed when they seek help...Emilio Estevez's character "whaling" on a kid in his locker room and taping his butt cheeks together (not just painful--how many people would laugh that off?) in "The Breakfast Club" comes to mind.
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Pardon my language, but I work in an acute psych hospital for kids and teens. My patients range from kids with developmental disorders like autism whose parents were never instructed in how to adequately discipline such children and are now struggling to contain a non- or minimally-verbal and violently tantruming young kid to keep the whole family safe, to kids with intellectual disabilities who don't understand why it's not okay to hit someone if they don't get their way when we first get them, to kids with severe depression and anxiety who self-injure, to psychotic and schizophrenic kids who are actively delusional, to kids with substance abuse problems.
I watch every day as kids help out other kids who are totally different, are in the hospital for reasons completely unlike their own (the units are based on age, roughly, not diagnosis). Yes, some kids pick and tease. But the vast majority are patient and tolerant when others' difficulties are explained in terms they can grasp. There is no "can't" to ANY of my kids--maybe a few "won't"s, but even the kids who are psychotic or severely autistic or profoundly intellectually impaired try, and that is the best we can ask of them.
If children in a psychiatric hospital can do it, then "normal" kids in an average school, on an average street, in an average playground can manage not to be little assholes.
I will also note, because a disclaimer always has to be made, that I was subject to moderate to severe bullying in school--verbal and occasionally physical. A lot of kids won't but that is no reason to say they can't. Don't give them excuses like that.
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So she has had her feelings hurt (although, I would say generally unintentionally) by curious kids/awkward questions. This article made me so sad--she and her siblings are selling off all their toys so they can go on a holiday to the beach before she goes blind due to her brain tumor. And then some yobs try to set her on fire. For shame.
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