Mwahahahahaha!!!1

[igyman]

Personally, I dont' care who did it. Whether it was the father, the brother, or someone else makes no difference to me - that was not funny, it was sick.

[Vladimir-Vlada]

I am sorry for overreacting earlier. But I still have a message to the guy that made this:

 

No one is going to know who this kid is, to humiliate him... But everyone is going to know you and hate you for doing it, jerk.

[mjpb3]

Quoted for emphasis, unless the kid calls his father by his nickname ('Jed', which I assume is short for James) it wasn't his father, so it was probably the kid's older brother or something.

 

 

But is that supposed to make it alright?

 

So what if it wasn't a parent doing this. It is still sadistic and mean.

 

The last thing I have to say about this is that to anyone who has children and finds this funny, how would you like for this to have happened to your child?

 

And for those with no children, save this to your computer then play if after you do have kids and see how funny it is then.

[Jae Onasi]

Quoted for emphasis, unless the kid calls his father by his nickname ('Jed', which I assume is short for James) it wasn't his father, so it was probably the kid's older brother or something.

 

jmac, I'm sure not mad at _you_ about this video (just wanted to make that clear), and I'm betting you weren't expecting quite the eruption of emotions that this has brought forth. However, I am hot under the collar about the person who did this.

Regardless of who was doing this to the child, it was just plain wrong. Just because an older brother or some other relative does this to a child doesn't absolve them of responsibility for what is clearly a supreme lack of good judgment and an utter disregard for this child. I've certainly done my share of pranks on my little sisters, but nothing cruel like this, and certainly nothing that I would put out for the rest of the world to laugh at. That's what really has my dander up--the fact that he not only intentionally set a young child up and then _kept filming_ when the child clearly needed comforting, but also that he thought it was hysterical to post it for the rest of the world to view. If the parents were not involved in this, I'd sure like to know where the heck they are so they can be educated on what some idiot is doing to their child. I'm inclined, in spite of my Christian upbringing, to agree with Achilles on reserving a nasty place in hell for the person who did this.

[Commander Obi-Wan]

That was hilarious......he reaction mad me laugh. Ya, and I loved it when the kid slapped the monitor. lol.

[90SK]

Disturbing. That kid was too young to be subjected to that kind of shock. It leaves emotional scars, or at the very least attributes to future resentment towards whoever was behind the camera. I mean, look at the way he's crying at the end.

[Rogue15]

hey at least he's not choking on jalapenos.

[Aayla Secura]

I find that slitely funny because a prank similar to that was placed on me. Otherwise, I think it was a little harsh on the kid because he was really young. Now if he was older, it would've been way funnier.

[ET Warrior]

Jeeeeez, you people are out of control. First of all, it's almost certainly an older brother doing this. Did none of you have older / younger siblings growing up? that's part of having siblings, torturing/being tortured, resenting them until you're older, and looking back and laughing.

 

I didn't have any younger siblings so I never go to do that kind of business, but when I was younger our house made a lot of creaks and groans and whatnot, and my sister told me it was ghosts and witches in our walls. I was TERRIFIED, and I CRIIIED and she just laughed at me. She even occasionally jumped out at me from behind doorways to add to my terror. If she'd had one of those screamer websites available to her at the time, I guarantee she would've tricked me with that too.

 

Guess what? I'm not emotionally scarred, I don't resent my sister, and I'm a normal adult. Granted, she didn't post my terror on the internet for the entire world to get a chuckle out of, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have made that much of a difference, I'd still have gotten over it, because eventually we all grow up.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

Jeeeeez, you people are out of control. First of all, it's almost certainly an older brother doing this. Did none of you have older / younger siblings growing up? that's part of having siblings, torturing/being tortured, resenting them until you're older, and looking back and laughing.

 

I didn't have any younger siblings so I never go to do that kind of business, but when I was younger our house made a lot of creaks and groans and whatnot, and my sister told me it was ghosts and witches in our walls. I was TERRIFIED, and I CRIIIED and she just laughed at me. She even occasionally jumped out at me from behind doorways to add to my terror. If she'd had one of those screamer websites available to her at the time, I guarantee she would've tricked me with that too.

 

Guess what? I'm not emotionally scarred, I don't resent my sister, and I'm a normal adult. Granted, she didn't post my terror on the internet for the entire world to get a chuckle out of, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have made that much of a difference, I'd still have gotten over it, because eventually we all grow up.

 

Quoted for emphasis.

[CountVerilucus]

Lol, I use to grab my little bro's head really hard and told him that I took his brain. He would cry for a while begging me to give it back.

[Samuel Dravis]

I didn't have any younger siblings so I never go to do that kind of business, but when I was younger our house made a lot of creaks and groans and whatnot, and my sister told me it was ghosts and witches in our walls.

LOL, my sister still does stuff like that. The only difference is she isn't actually trying to scare people (I think she's off her rocker), but usually succeeds with my younger siblings anyway.

 

Wait... ET cried? I hope you saved the water.

[Jae Onasi]

Jeeeeez, you people are out of control. First of all, it's almost certainly an older brother doing this. Did none of you have older / younger siblings growing up? that's part of having siblings, torturing/being tortured, resenting them until you're older, and looking back and laughing.

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The difference here is that the guy filmed it knowing what was going to happen and then published it on the net. He cared more about his darn camera than he did about the kid crying.

I'm sure the vast majority of us have either done pranks or have had them done to us, and we may actually still tell some of those stories at family gatherings and yes, even laugh about them. However, most of us would draw the line at intentionally scaring the bejeezers out of a kid brother or sister and then humiliating the child further by putting it out for a bunch of strangers (some of whom may be child predators, btw) to laugh at.

Let me turn this around a bit. If you had a younger brother/sister/nephew/etc., would you want some other 'friend' (I use the term with great irony) of the family doing this to your family member and then posting it on some public website? I don't think so.

The person who was out of control was the person who put it up on youtube.

[tk102]

The people who want to enjoy this prank as harmless are telling themselves over and over that the kid will get over it, and that it was probably his older brother doing it and so what.

 

Yet you can hear the kid say "Dad, why can't I touch this?" not the mention the crying "Dad... Dad..." while his father gratitutously filmed every sob.

 

And the thing is, you don't know how this kid will adjust to this. He may never trust his father again. Public humiliation by a parent does leave scars. People remember that stuff. What if his dad passed away not long after that, leaving no chance for reconciliation?

 

Count your blessings people if you have great parents. You could have been that kid in the video.

 

Edit: Could have been 'Chad' actually -- here's the quote from the description of the video:

Chad pranking his future step son Justice with my scary maze game, wrong but funny!

 

Everyone had a good laugh after it was over (Justice & Chad), please chill out with the negative comments or I'll remove them completely.

Whatever... I'm sure Chad's friend is just as pleased with his prank as Chad. We'll just have to take his word for it that Justice "had a good laugh"

[ET Warrior]

I also don't KNOW that pretending to steal a kids nose won't cause some manner of irreperable harm later on in life. Do we really KNOW how exactly it is that humans develope, and should be coddle and baby them or try to toughen them up so they understand how the real world will treat them when they leave home? I know I don't know, and I'd be pretty surprised if you did.

 

And if it was his dad, well that's kinda messed up doing that to your own kid, but you know what? I still think it's funny, and if that's enough to forever damage that kid he wouldn't have ever survived in the real world anyways.

[Astrotoy7]

Jeeeeez, you people are out of control. First of all, it's almost certainly an older brother doing this.....

 

We dont know that for certain, one way or the other. Im leaning towards the father, as the kid came and clung to him afterwards.

 

There is always the possibility that the kid is acting, but if so he did a great job.

 

Still, I agree with the general consesnus that as an older person, intentionally doing something like that to a kid is not good Using the "it was funny and he should get over it" excuse doesnt cut it. If he played it on a teen, sure, on another older person(like we all have with this particular joke) its no big deal. But this kid looked about 9ish, if that.

 

Kids are still way too immature at that age to be messing with their heads. lolz. I had a much younger little sister, if I had done that to her when she was 9(when I was 21) and got that response, my momz/dad wouldve punched me out

 

I'd like to hear what others with kids think. When you are a parent(even a step-parent in my case) you become acutely aware of trying to protect your kids from any emotional distress, especially at your own hands. These trivial pranks arent always as harmless as they seem. Kids deal with many pressures, from their friends/peers and sometimes experience things like bullying etc. Parents should be(and usually are) a source of comfort and reassurance for dealing with these pressures. As adults we advise them "you'll be OK - dont take to heart etc" but its just not that easy with them - their coping skills are really in their formative stages and do not start to fall into place well into the mid-late teens...

 

mtfbwya

[Bastila]

That is one of the funnist things i've seen and then the kid starts to cry lol.

[Sabretooth]

OMGWTFROTFLOL!!!!!!!

 

I loved the part when he starts slapping the screen. He looks like a mad overweight belly dancer when he does that. It's a good thing all us formuers have become used to such sabotages. I still love setting up those kinda traps for my friends. An exceptionally good site to browse and send sabotages is http://www.liquidgeneration.com

 

As for the ongoing debate on sympathizing with the kid, I say that it was all good fun and his dad/older bro prolly did it to get the fatass away from the compy and out in the open.

 

EDIT

I dug up some info on that video. The video was made by Chad, on his stepson. Now that's even more mean.

 

You can play that maze game at http://www.winterrowd.com

 

There are more videos of people playing that game. I idea of the game is to have people watch the movie and film it, then send it to the guy at Winterrowd, who'll post it online. Here's another one

[Vladimir-Vlada]

Here's another one

LMAO! That was great! 'Fake Psychology Test'. HA HA HA HA!

[ET Warrior]

A funny similar prank, using the "Jingle Bells Backwards" Version of the screamer webpage

[Vladimir-Vlada]

A funny similar prank, using the "Jingle Bells Backwards" Version of the screamer webpage

HA HA HA! I remember that prank... It scared the hell out of me when I saw it. Nice one.

[Jae Onasi]

We dont know that for certain, one way or the other. Im leaning towards the father, as the kid came and clung to him afterwards.

 

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I'd like to hear what others with kids think. When you are a parent(even a step-parent in my case) you become acutely aware of trying to protect your kids from any emotional distress, especially at your own hands. These trivial pranks arent always as harmless as they seem. Kids deal with many pressures, from their friends/peers and sometimes experience things like bullying etc. Parents should be(and usually are) a source of comfort and reassurance for dealing with these pressures. As adults we advise them "you'll be OK - dont take to heart etc" but its just not that easy with them - their coping skills are really in their formative stages and do not start to fall into place well into the mid-late teens...

 

mtfbwya

 

According to the video description, 'soon-to-be' stepfather Chad did this. I dearly hope mom got a clue about what kind of guy this is before she got married.

My job as a parent of young children is to nurture them and provide a safe place for them to grow up. While they do need to learn how to handle difficult things in the world, they need to learn how to do that at an age that is appropriate and not before they have the right resources to handle the tough stuff. So yes, right now I'm extremely protective of their physical, mental, and spiritual health because they aren't old enough to protect themselves. There is a great deal of unpleasant things out there that are far more accessible now than what they were even 10 years ago. This makes it harder to be an effective parent, but it's still my responsibility to do what I can to help my kids get a good start in life and help them develop into good responsible adults. If someone had done something like this to one of my kids at this age as a 'joke', I would have been furious. Sometimes kids do get damaged. My dad watched a horror movie about giant spiders and decided it would be hilarious to see how his then-4 year old daughter would react. Well, I've had arachnophobia ever since. He regrets that decision, and I've certainly forgiven him, but that doesn't make that fear go away, unfortunately. Mature, caring adults don't take advantage of a young child's fears and emotions.

[igyman]

Jingle bells, now that WAS funny! DAMN, man, when I saw that guy roll over his chair...

[Carthaholic]

Ok ok, I think some people are just over-reacting now... Child Protection services? Come on, you can't be serious... True, it was a mean thing to do, but haven't we all done pranks that got a little bit out of hand before? Seriously, the kid will have forgotten all about it in less than a week... If you insult, bully or beat a child on a daily basis sure it's gonna leave emotional scars, but prank a kid once or twice... it really ain't gonna affect him psychologically - not unless it's something extremely severe which really isn't the case in this vid, it was a big scare yes but nothing more. Kids are a lot stronger than what some people make 'em out to be. When I was 8, my much older brother almost drowned me in our swimming pool, he was keeping my head under water because he thought bullying his sister was loads of fun. Well anyway, today I ain't scared of water and I don't have a grudge against my brother either.

 

Now my only beef with that whole video business is the fact that it was published on the internet. That was just a very senseless thing to do.

[JediKnight707]

Listen, while I'm not a parent, I do have a younger brother. I have never done anything quite this mean, but this is just like jumping out of the closet and scaring a kid. We've all done it, and we've all had it done to us. He probably shouldn't have done it, but the kid has already forgotten about it. When he remembers it, ten years from now, he's gonna go do it to his friends. Plain and simple.