Halloween "Trick"

[Chick15]

I read this and found it hilarious.... I dont think this is bullying because bullying is something that happens every day, this was just a prank, and it is Halloween after all. I am in school and I disagree that this is "where we get bullying from" as this is not bullying. You are all over reacting, it was a joke. If he felt really that bad, then he could have gone home and changed.... or cleaned off the zombie makeup off his face...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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No, but you don't have to go out of your way to be mean, either.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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WHY should people learn how to take a joke that is played AT them? How is your right to play jokes on people any more "correct" than someone else's right to NOT be ridiculed?

This is not about political correctness; it is about respect. Not everyone LIKES practical jokes or finds them amusing, and that is not something "new."

 

[KristyHall]

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WHY should people learn how to take a joke that is played AT them? How is your right to play jokes on people any more "correct" than someone else's right to NOT be ridiculed?

This is not about political correctness; it is about respect. Not everyone LIKES practical jokes or finds them amusing, and that is not something "new."

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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The difference here is that it is a mutual thing that all of you enjoy and take turns at. Being one person ganged up on by 70 others, including the boss, with no apparent history of pulling pranks on each other makes a HUGE difference. Change the circumstances and say that the victim is a woman who is naive and conservative. And the prank involved something X-rated...

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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You freely chose to go in costume, you weren't tricked into it. Big difference.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

That person chose to go as well. They weren't forced to go, they chose to "participate."

I don't agree that they should have played this "trick" as it was mean and inconsiderate, regardless of how this person acts. Be the bigger person. But, I would hope that the person who the "trick" was played on was able to rise above everyone else and enjoy themselves.

 

[Fierlin1182]

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I'm sure if you'd been the one pranked you would've had a ball!

 

[silky_3699]

ray's two cents :

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I'm sure if you'd been the one pranked you would've had a ball!

exacly! I find so many things funny. unless they serious AREN'T funny

 

[dinahmoe]

well,i have learned one very important thing from this thread:

what BYC members NOT to prank.