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Post by msdemos on Oct 20, 2022 20:12:27 GMT
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Post by James on Oct 21, 2022 1:16:01 GMT
Here's the video in case anyone's wondering (there is more in the thread from the person who shared this on Twitter):
Seemed like they were really traumatized and these workers were pushing for more than just a "bit of fun" or to teach them a lesson. These are children at kindergarten age from what it looks like too, so the culprits would obviously face a bigger punishment than if these were middle schoolers.
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Post by cooly44 on Oct 26, 2022 1:17:46 GMT
Those workers are sick. They should never be around children for the rest of their lives.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 28, 2022 17:50:52 GMT
Hehe, it's kind of funny.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 29, 2022 12:22:36 GMT
That wasn't very smart. What were they thinking?!
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Post by amyghost on Oct 29, 2022 12:49:32 GMT
Hehe, it's kind of funny. I hate to say it, but that was kind of my initial reaction. That said, it wasn't a particularly smart thing to do, and I don't think picking a mealtime, which should be tranquil, was kind or well-thought-out. But for the luvvajaysus, felony charges? And behaving as thought the toddlers have been scarred for life? That's nothing short of a sad commentary on how overly protective and snowflake-blinded our society has become; counselling and therapy are now adjuncts to everyday traumas that are tantamount to no more than a toe-stub. And if this appears heartless to anyone reading this, I'd have to ask you, what's your take on things like the violence endemic to large swathes of the modern world, in which children are daily (hell, hourly) exposed to levels of terror and violence that make a prank like this look like cuddle-time by comparison? This tells me how insulated Americans really are from the larger part of planet Earth, and just how smugly safe our lives, for all of our bitching, really are, that we can brew up an outrage tsunami in a teacup over a comparative non-event such as this.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Oct 29, 2022 13:12:57 GMT
Years ago went Trick-or-Treating with a friend with a couple of kids maybe 5-6 years old (maybe a little younger ?)
One house had a teen (15-16?)came out with a chain attached to his leg and a wild wig and madman make up...ROARING and lunging at the kids.
It was startling as all heck for the adults and terrifying to the kids.
Well, one kid ... one freaked out and the other one stepped back and just watched the show !
IF this had been done now in the age of videos the family would have been in real trouble BUT at the time, it was a hoot once the kid calmed down and was shown that it was just their friend they knew from the neighborhood.
Luckily they lived close enough to go home and change the younger kid's underwear.
They are all much older now and talk about the incident around this time of year ! It WAS a memorable prank.
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Post by hermionegranger on Nov 19, 2022 0:48:23 GMT
What the hell is wrong with those sickos? Terrifying children like that is just cruel.
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Post by onethreetwo on Nov 19, 2022 1:01:21 GMT
The charges should be thrown out. I didn't know scaring little kids with a mask was a federal crime. This country needs to get a grip.
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Post by Gourmando the Reindeer on Nov 19, 2022 3:49:22 GMT
Saw some of it on the news back when it happened. The worker actually chased one kid around while the kid was crying and screaming bloody murder. What I would like to happen but never will.  Everyone including judges, balifs etc would be in on it. All of the daycare workers should be summoned to court at the same time and have a court officer instruct them to go into a waiting room/empty room. They hear yelling outside before a masked gunman (actually a retired law officer of some sort) bursts in with a real but unloaded gun, waving it around, pointing it at each one of them threatening to blow their brains out, ranting and raving so on.Before unmasking, and the judge, prosecutors et all walk in letting the daycare workers in on it, telling them they won't be charged, but will not be allowed to work with children in any capacity in the future. Some of the children might not be affected by what they did, others there is no telling what issues it could have given them. |
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Post by marianne48 on Nov 19, 2022 4:42:12 GMT
I'm not sure of the laws, but I'm guessing that the idea of pursuing felony charges is a way of making sure that these idiots will not be able to work in a daycare setting again--I think felons would be prohibited from doing so. Those who accuse these kids of being "snowflakes"--they're toddlers, for cryin' out loud. They're way too young to be able to take a joke. It was obvious that none of these kids took this as a prank, what with the screaming and trembling going on. That at no time did the adults stop and think that this was a bad idea just shows that they were sadists.
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Post by amyghost on Nov 19, 2022 11:42:58 GMT
I'm not sure of the laws, but I'm guessing that the idea of pursuing felony charges is a way of making sure that these idiots will not be able to work in a daycare setting again--I think felons would be prohibited from doing so. Those who accuse these kids of being "snowflakes"--they're toddlers, for cryin' out loud. They're way too young to be able to take a joke. It was obvious that none of these kids took this as a prank, what with the screaming and trembling going on. That at no time did the adults stop and think that this was a bad idea just shows that they were sadists. I can agree that the dodos involved in this need to be accountable for stupid behavior, and probably should be carefully screened prior to any working with preschoolers again, but felony charges for this are far out of line--there are other deterrents to keeping any of them from this sort of employment in future. And I didn't call the children themselves snowflakes, I referred to the current societal climate that brews up the levels of overreaction that call for that degree of punitive action as being in part largely implemented by mentality that mandates that any sort of frightening or unpleasant experience, as needing therapeutic counselling to handle 'lifelong' scarring and trauma (i.e. 'snowflake mentality') as what's behind it. The children were scared, yes (as anyone with half a lick of sense would expect them to be), but this whole insane piling on of notions of lifelong damage being inflicted on otherwise healthy and well-cared-for middle class youngsters by something like this is purely absurd when set against the context of real-life horrors that children of this age and younger are subjected to, throughout too much of the world, on an ongoing basis. Frankly I sometimes think children in these situations tend to be more scarred and experiencing ongoing trauma by well-meaning but not particularly well-thinking adults with agendas, continually replaying to the child via their 'help' and therapy scenarios the initial action, than any trauma the initial action itself brought about.
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