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A measure of this sickness is that a major newspaper, which together with the political establishment has been at the forefront of promoting degeneracy for years, glosses this topic with its own sheen.Concern over rise of ‘happy slapping’ craze
Fad of filming violent attacks on mobile phones spreads
Mark Honigsbaum
Tuesday April 26, 2005
In one video clip, labelled Bitch Slap, a youth approaches a woman at a bus stop and punches her in the face. In another, Knockout Punch, a group of boys wearing uniforms are shown leading another boy across an unidentified school playground before flooring him with a single blow to the head.
In a third, Bank Job, a teenager is seen assaulting a hole-in-the-wall customer while another youth grabs the money he has just withdrawn from the cash machine.
Welcome to the disturbing world of the “happy slappers” - a youth craze in which groups of teenagers armed with camera phones slap or mug unsuspecting children or passersby while capturing the attacks on 3g technology…]
guardian.co.uk/mobile/article/0,2763,1470214,00.html
In the article, words used to describe these vicious assaults include…trivial, joke, fad, craze and rude.
These are horrible, unexpected, random assaults upon completely innocent people that will leave them traumatized, terrified and brutalized for years, beside any immediate phyical harm.
Liz Carnell, the director of Bullying Online, a Yorkshire-based charity set up to combat bullying in schools, said that since the start of the year she has heard of increasing attacks both on children and on adults. But she fears many incidents are not reported.
“In most cases the worst that happens is a minor scratch or a bruised ego,” she said. “What the people behind these attacks have to understand is that technically they are committing an assault. And if they then upload the images on to the internet or a phone system they could be prosecuted for harassment.”