Happy Slappers

this certainly does exist, its been widely reported and the police are taking particular interest. a google search turned up various discussion groups, the one link offered to such films was dead- the host had deleted it because it violated their policy. will keep hunting!

Can you find a website where we can see these, Alex?

I'm reminded of a story my friend tells me all about when he was in high school, his friends used to get people to pose for the "school newspaper" and , meanwhile, someone was standing behind them holding up a sign that read "I love the cock." They have hundreds of photographs of this. Of course, this was the days before camera phones.

i love the line "fly-kicking strangers' spines"!

I've seen footage a while back of kids (US, Japan, etc..)going around slapping each other. Most footage is of people who appear to know each other. Some bizzare pastime though.

There's a Tango advert which has been cited as the origin of this- it certainly sparked a craze of 'tangoing' people. A clip can be found at

http://www.absolutelyandy.com/tvadverts/index.htm

scroll about two thirds of the way down, you're looking for 'Tango- Orange Fella'

enjoy is all i can say

It sounds like that game from "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" where people...hit strangers and then run away.

I tried it once. It wasn't nearly as fun as I wanted it to be, but the look on my boyfriend's face (ok, not exactly a stranger) was probably worth it.

Too bad I don't have a camera phone. 😉

According to Nick, the fact that there are Internet discussion groups about this proves that it's real. That's an interesting standard of proof.
If people really are posting pictures on the Net of themselves committing assault, all I can say is, where are the police?
Not to mention the personal injury lawyers.

>>>fly-kicking strangers' spines<<<

Well, is IS the responsibility of ninjas everywhere to occasionally flip out and kill people...


This kind of reminds me of the clip of the kid that flips off the police officer, goaded on by his friend in the car with a video camera. "Come on, do it, what's he gonna do?" As soon as the kid turns around, the cop takes out his nightstick and wails on him...

This is apparently a real thing. I just watched a 2 minute video of it. Eventually, these jackasses are going to do this to the wrong person and get themselves hurt. It's pretty insane and disgusting.

If you want to see this you have to go through a few steps. The link will take you to a site called RapidShare. Scroll down and click Free download. Then you will get another window...scroll down and you will see a timer counting down. When it reaches zero you will be able to click on the filename to download the video. It's about 10MB.

There are 3 of these videos, but I have only seen the first. RapidShare limits free users to a certain amount of bandwidth per hour. I guess you will only be able to watch one per hour.


http://rapidshare.de/files-en/425199/Zoo1.avi.html

http://rapidshare.de/files-en/425241/Zoo2.avi.html

http://rapidshare.de/files-en/425271/Zoo3.avi.html

Those videos are infuriating. I hope every single one of them gets their ass kicked hard. (Incidentally, that site prevents you from downloading more than one of the videos in an hour. You can get around it by deleting your cookie for rapidshare.de.)

Tamandua, do we know if those videos were uploaded before or AFTER the story about the alleged face-slapping "craze" ran?

If they were on the 'net before the story ran, it might lend credence to the story. If they were uploaded AFTER the story ran, then they are probably the product of people reading or hearing about the story and copying what was reported in it.

I certainly remember a lot of hoo-ha about the 'Tangoed' ear-clapping thing. Never saw an evidence that it was a real phenomenon but there wer certainly appeals to the ad watchdog to make Tango take the orange genie ad off the air. Not that that is evidence of anything except hysteria...

I'm *way* skeptical of this... Though random assaults are certainly one of the more colourful features of Life in Britain.

Erm, it's in The Sun, which isn't exactly the most reputable of news sources. However after the Sun's brain-dead readership read about it they'll probably think it's cool and start doing it themselves. Eejits!

There was indeed a (successful) lobby to have the Tango ad taken off after some poor kid had both his eardrums burst

this happens so often around here that my school has banned 'happy slapping' and are now enforcing the 'no mobile phone' rule. Strange, I thought there was already a rule saying that you 'should not physically another member of the school community'.
A particular favourite of mine is when the teachers themselves run around 'happy slapping' each other - not when the headteachers about of course!

This does exist and it has to STOP! Violence against women and defenceless old people on buses is inexcusable. While it may seem funny now, what will that generation be doing in 15 years time? Beating their wives, slapping their grannies? What will the next lot do? Video clips of drive-by shootings and rape? Come on people, it's just not funny! It's horrific. Report any that you get!

mama said knock you out, marky.

you're next.

- happy slapper from huntingdonshire

I THINK THAT HAPPY SLAPPING IS VERY FUNNY. I HAVE SEEN SOME OF THE CLIPS AND FIND THEM WICKED. AT TIMES I THINK THAT ITS A FUN THING TO DO BUT ALSO I THINK ITS A VIOLENT OFFENCE. IF PEOPLE IN MY SCHOOL ARE CAUGHT WITH IT ON THEIR PHONE OR DOING IT THEN IT IS AN ASSUALT AND YOUR PHONE IS CONFESCATED. I THINK THAT IF THIS GOES ON THEN IN ABOUT 20 YEARS TIME PEOPLE WILL BE RECORDING ASSUALTS/MURDERS AND RAPES. THIS WILL BE A BAD INSITE ON OUR GENERATION.
THNAK YOU FOR READING MY MESSAGE. LOVE
LOVER AND HATER OF HAPPY SLAPPERS

Lover and Hater of Happy Slappers,

Please make a note, using all caps is the equivalent to yelling. Please do not yell.

Actually, there were some guys in san diego around last year who were going around assulting the homeless downtown and then posting the videos to the internet. Later, the same guys started thinking they would assult ederly people or people in wheelchairs and post those video's to the internet. My mother works at a hospital in San Diego. One of her employees was outside about to go to her car when she saw a man beating on an ederly man in a wheelchair. The man then ran away and she followed him. He ran into a car that was around the corner to pick him up and she wrote down his license plate number. The police were eventually able to catch them and persecuted them based on all the video evidence.

It's interesting to me how Marky implies that people don't currently beat their wives/grannies, or that hitting a woman is somehow worse than hitting a man.

Also that Marky felt the need to repost, in caps, under a different name, as if that adds validity to his/her ridiculous comments.

Helo i would like to present you http://www.youshareit.com
its used for file sharing same as rapid share but they are much better at least there is better speed and there is 100 downloads i hope they will put more.. i hope it helps

yoooooooooo. happy slappers 4 eva dan. innocent ppl gttin slapped up. watch yo backs u honkeyssssssssssss.

wat u lot on about happy slaps are the funniest shit...my m8s got bout 20 ov dem on his fone..it hilerious...but it hurts ur hand tho...i got this kid the other day and it was like a full on punch ..it sent him to the ground ..lol..proper fucked him up

Alex, thanks for deleting that last comment (yah, I got it emailed). It takes alot to really offend me, but that was way out of line.

I deleted the comment and ip-banned the guy. Hopefully he won't return.

Joe and Razela, I deleted that guy's comment. Then I deleted your comments since they no longer made sense once the thing they were referring to was gone. And I'm closing comments on this topic since it's obviously attracting undesireable elements.