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How many people feel mad after they see this stuff being done? I just love a good fireworks show, I wonder how these kid's play station or nintendo would look with a few roman candles taped to it? It just disturbs me to know that there are that kids do these kind of things, get away with it, and post it on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWMyuwGzt_o
It's a little difficult to tell if that was vandalism or just some dopey kid busting a move with his parents's inflatable.
While I despise vandalism, some of that was pretty funny and the video WAS pretty well done.
I agree that it's probably best not to condone this sort of behavior but I think the jury is still out on what actually occurred during the making of this one.
And in case any wanna-be copycats read this: it's possible to make a funny video without destroying someone else's stuff. Doing so doesn't add to the humor.
I made it through a few mins and had to stop it. I wish they showed their faces. On a lighter side, I wonder if they are for hire to dance inside an inflatable snowman for my display. Might be tough to keep up with TSO though.
Brad Caudill wrote: I made it through a few mins and had to stop it. I wish they showed their faces. On a lighter side, I wonder if they are for hire to dance inside an inflatable snowman for my display. Might be tough to keep up with TSO though.
Yeah. That's what had me kind of torn over it. There were some genuinely funny things about that video. It's too bad they had to push the envelope and (apparently) resort to destroying stuff.
As I mentioned, though, it's kind of difficult to tell if they did actually wreck anything and, if they did, whether it was their own display or someone else's. That DOES make a difference. (At least, it does to me.)
Edit: Case in point: Jeff O. posted a video of him and some local kids playing baseball with some of his giant ornaments. I found that disturbing but it was, after all, his display to destroy. I still found it pretty sick. If you don't want it anymore, why not give it to someone that might appreciate rather than wreck it?
Last edited on Sunday March 16th, 2008 11:21 pm by ChuckHutchings
I have to agree, the dancing snowman part is funny, but you have to watch out when you are scaring the vandals because the usually come with a big knife or even a bb gun.
i wasnt talking about scaring the vandals, i was talking about scaring the trick or treaters like i did last year...cept last year i only covered myself with a sheet and a mask and laid still on the porch
Gotta tell ya.......I have taken a long serious and slow look at this video...and I think we have a case of "americas funniest home videos" here. You know what I mean....when people started staging stupid stuff to look like an accident.
I find it hard to believe that so many people had their inflatables out on display withouts stakes and tethers......look how easily those inflatables go over.
The other issue is.........if you all go running to youtube to see the same video it is only make the idiot proud enough to do more and maybe this time for real.
Hey....nobody has to listen to me........It is just a thought.
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Hey, who was it with the spider web in the front yard? Rig it to fall at the first sign of someone tampering with the display. Accidently leave it up for Christmas. Call it 'a trap for Santa' if anyone asks. No, better not say that. The kids may get upset, but still could use it to catch hoodlums. ?? Are there any spiders big enough to do anything with the web caught hoodlums?
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While most of this is obviously in his own home there are a few clips that do look to be real destruction of private property.
What I find disturbing is just how many related videos there were posted on snowman tackling. Monkey see Monkey do.
I wonder if this will get bigger and more wide spread each season or is this a passing fad that was done and now considered old news.
My biggest concern is I like a lot of PC'ers use re-bar to stake down everything, What do you think will happen when one of these idiot kids goes to tackle a display piece and lands on the re-bar sticking up and gives himself an appendectomy?
Are we liable for their injuries sustained on our property even though they were not invited?
Funny video and very well made.
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Carrie Sansing wrote: Yawn...typical teenagers overdosing on testosterone..the most it got out of me was a smile when the snowman was dancing.
I suspect this wasnt necessarily open vandalizm except well maybe with the reindeer... a couple of the snowman pictures look like they were tearing up their own inflatables...
I got messed with once about 10 yrs ago... promptly went down and got one of those electric things you put around a cow pasture and it gives you a nasty feeling but harmless electric shock when you come into contact with it and been booby trapping my display with it for years and never got messed with again. If you dont know what to avoid, coming into my display and messing around (armed when the lights go off at night, not during hours its on and we are attending the display) a would be vandal will encounter the bare wires and get that shock. Of course news of our electric booby traps has been circulated among the neighborhood hoodlums so they know about it and that helps in itself!
BTW: Why does it have to be a testosterone thing? In my neighborhood its the "girls" you have to watch out for. IN my early years of the display the neighborhood terrors were these twin girls. They used to pull lights out of sockets making my strings dark and defective. Teenage girls can be holey terrors too!
Last edited on Tuesday March 18th, 2008 03:23 pm by Joseph Ayo
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