Not really, because it was a joke, not a “joke”, whatever that implies. Just because I say, “What do you call 100 dead lawyers? A good start.” doesn’t mean I want or condone the slaying of attorneys. It doesn’t explain why people may kill them. Its seperate from reality, that’s part of humor and storytelling.
Okay, so somebody calls people and tells them to do outrageous things and they comply, so he tells them to do even more outlandish acts, and they still keep obeying!
Sounds like the setup for a lot of SNL skits.
If it weren’t for the actual real-life victims’ actual real-life trauma, the whole thing would be hysterical.
The reason he can make a joke about it is that it’s NOT his daughter, sister or girlfriend. If the Darwin Award deaths were real, would they be funny to the friends and families of the people who died? I doubt it. Distance is necessary for humor sometimes.
The joke we’re talking about here isn’t funny and it IS in bad taste. On the other hand, the crime is so bizarre - and the people who went along with it so astonishingly stupid - that I couldn’t blame anyone who made a good joke about it.
Having just read this story for the first time, I think there are tons of people who deserve a large-scale pitting far more than kidchameleon does. Assistant Manager Donna Jean Summers foremost among them. What a fucking idiot.
Hell, even factoring in the actual real-life victims’ actual real-life trauma, it’s still pretty freakin’ hilarious. The fact that the manager’s name is Donna Summers makes it no less so.
I’d also like to point out that it sounds like the premise of a porno movie. “Gee, Buffy, Officer Hardin is saying that you should suck Dirk’s big hard cock.” “Golly, do I have to?” (Goes eagerly to it.)
Take some time to reflect on why you posted the above, rather than ignoring my comments.
Still think it was a smart question?
Why did the baby cross the road?
It was stapled to the chicken
Is this the start of a mobius?
So, you totally disagree with studies that show people go along with authority figures? It’s only the stupid ones who do this?
Am I being wooshed? Aren’t most of them, in fact, real?
I don’t think that’s quite the point. If I show up at your front door in a full police uniform with badge and gun, and start ordering you around, you’re not necessarily stupid for doing what I say. If I show up at your front door wear a paper star with “sharif” written in crayon and start ordering you around, you’re pretty much a moron if you listen to me. The people in this particular case fall somewhere between those two extremes, but I’m thinking they lean bit more towards the paper star side of the continuum.
And, as we all know, the epitome of authority comes from some guy who calls himself “Officer Scott” over the phone.
There haven’t been any threads lately about murdered lawyers. Making the above joke in this thread is okay; posting it in a thread about a lawyer who’d been murdered wouldn’t go over too well. I do recall a poster getting slapped not too long ago for posting a joke in a thread about a real person who died.
Again I say, the mindset that your joke was, I assume, parodying is very probably the mindset of the ex-fiancee in the linked story. And that’s why your joke wasn’t funny. As has been pointed out in the other thread, Nix wasn’t lodging much, if any, protest at having to force oral sex from the victim. Seeing you express eagerness (jokingly or not) to be a voyeur to this incident makes a person wonder what you’d have done in Nix’s shoes.
I’m not making a comment about the Milgram experiments or others that were, quite smartly, brought up in the article. The situation we’re discussing in this thread is on its face just not credible, and I think that makes it different. I can understand people being pushed beyond their normal limits by an authority figure asking for things that seem reasonable at first. We’re talking about an unseen police impersonator, admittedly quite clever, asking people to do things that are more in line with shock jock antics. He took advantage of people failing to ask questions and got them to do things that are absolutely ridiculous. I’m going to stick with my comment that they are stupid for failing to question a guy over the phone who told them to strip a woman, spank her, have her dance around, kiss her, etc.
I singled out Summers because she insisted on Ogborn strip in the McD’s bathroom.
If Summers listens to the girl here, none of this shit happens. They go to the police and there’s an embarassing story, but not the hours of emotional torture that ensue. That’s why I’m especially pissed. Ogborn may not have guessed this was a hoax, but she at least had the sense to ask that she be taken to police and searched instead of being stripped by her manager in a fucking bathroom. But Summers said no. I’ve seen tree sap with more common sense than that.
I’m not wooshing you, but I had ‘Darwin Awards’ e-mails in mind. Perhaps the site itself keeps a better grip on things. I had Snopes pages like this one in mind; at this link, only one of the 10 proposed Darwin deaths is verified.
Only if said person is a moron.
Probably the same thing you or George Carlin would.
Or if said person has heard a great many comments, some joking, some not, about ogling young girls and conning them into doing stuff they wouldn’t normally do, and is tired of it.
Perhaps you should address those situations instead.
I have. Why do you think you should be excluded?
The number of people who have sticks up their asses and who take the Internet way to seriously never ceases to astound me.
It’s the Internet, people. Jokes about your sexuality, maternal parents, genitalia size, pedophilia, necrophilia, and personal tragedies will be made. :rolleyes: If you don’t like it, go find kidchameleon in Cecil’s basement and assrape him with a broom handle.
Please let me know where I said, jokingly or not, anything along the lines of suggesting “conning them into doing stuff they wouldn’t normally do”.