Victims are usually boys around the same age as the attackers, but it's not unknown for victims to be older, or even women. Sometimes the tables are turned, as there are videos going around where the attacker is happy slapped by the victim. More power to the victims, I say. The act is totally random, so be on the lookout for a group of pussified yoots pointing their camera phone that their mum bought at you. I hope to God that one day a happy slap victim is a psycho and shanks the happy slapper in the face.
If you get happy slapped, grab the camera phone and smash it on the ground. A stupid craze where the victim is attacked , and the incident recorded. Supposedly against the law, although lots of incidents are not brought to police attention. Is not always to random people, can be someone well known to the attacker, and the violence can be a form of revenge.
Not always teenage boys-I was 13 when I was attacked by a girl a year younger. I was filmed at school having food thrown at me and my friends and then me being slapped. The teacher whose attention it was brought to gave punishment for the violence, not for the happy slap.
Bullying UK started to get complaints about happy slapping in November The first incidents took place in the London area, often on buses and trains, and quickly spread to the school playground and street. The pictures are then circulated by mobile phone or put on the internet.
In recent months happy slapping has become an unpleasant and dangerous craze. There have been a number of high profile cases in which attackers have been jailed for killing people in this way. Where happy slapping attacks have happened in school playgrounds pupils have been afraid to return to school. Anyone who thinks this is just a bit of harmless fun should think about the consequences.
Anyone assaulted in this way should tell their parents who should make a complaint to the police. In , Tango introduced the nation to the now-infamous "Orange Man". The advert, featuring a bald assailant clapping the face of a Tango-drinker, was widely credited with sparking a wave of copycat attacks across the country. As folklore goes, many a school-child was left with perforated ear-drums as a result of being Tangoed too hard.
The phenomenon is seen by many as a spiritual predecessor to happy-slapping. Trevor Robinson, the advert's creator, remembers needing a concept that was bold.
Something that would scare Coca-Cola. Something stupid, slapstick and crap. Originally, the advert was set to include a kick up the arse, but when advert clearance board Clearcast ruled something that violent out, the kick became a slap. While he never witnessed anyone get Tango-slapped himself, Trevor and his team began to hear about copycat incidents in the news.
He was saying it was right that it got banned, not just because of that but because him and his fellow doctors were slapping each other as well! Not for a minute did we think they would start slapping each other. A decade later, headlines would be full of kids slapping each other all over again, this time under a different banner and with even more ruinous consequences.
Michael Shaw was a reporter at the Times Education Supplement in when a news editor approached him with a report written by a London teacher. The report described random acts of violence that were being filmed on mobile phones, and how the footage was being shared around for the amusement of other students. The teacher also mentioned what they were calling it, and on the 21st of January that year Michael published an article including the first mention of the term "happy-slapping" in the press.
As with most trends, it's impossible to pinpoint the exact epicentre of happy-slapping — some reports say Lewisham, others blame St Albans. The difficulty comes, of course, from trying to locate something so notional. Happy-slapping was a buzzword, an idea, that tore through the playground at a faster rate than the videos themselves ever could.
Those who were at school during the mids will struggle to remember where they first heard about it — or how serious an issue it actually was. All that's obvious is that at some point in , playground scraps and mobile video technology congealed into something more.
For those who experienced a happy-slap first-hand, the rules at tarmac-level were simple. First: there was no motivation. They were not attacks driven by anger or revenge; the happy-slap was the motivation, and the less the victim was expecting it, the better.
Happy-slaps often took place while the victim was sleeping, or facing the opposite direction. They normally occurred in the weird in-between places that break up the school day — the bus, the basketball courts, the top-floor corridor — where the act could go ahead suddenly and unnoticed. The heavy blow brought down out of nowhere, the gasp of silence, the plunge into screeching laughter. Secondly: they were filmed. A happy-slap was just a slap if nobody caught it on camera. Nokia s, Motorola Razrs, the Sony Ericsson Ki, the Samsung D, were all set to capturing videos that amounted to little more than people-shaped moving blocks.
Pixelated bursts of movement, soundtracked by clattering, indiscernible audio. The video completed the act; it was a vehicle for the component that made happy-slapping whole: the humiliation. Once the video was recorded, it was then shared between phones via Bluetooth, or Infrared, depending on how shit your phone was.
Videos would travel around schools and, possibly, if funny enough, to other schools further afield. Theories as to why kids did it ranged wildly. When asked, some said they were bored, others blamed violent video games, others said they wanted to be famous in some small way. For most people, first-hand experiences with happy-slapping were rare. Instead, they tended to be the stuff of legend; short clips huddled over in the minutes before a class started. The compilations — put together by bedroom "production companies", like Slap Happy TV, using Windows Movie-Maker — contained school-kid happy-slaps often alongside random more brutal attacks between adults.
Very few of the old slaps remain online, but the below video gives a flavour of the scene. On the ground, schools immediately began grappling with how best to deal with this new breed of bad behaviour.
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