# Scare Tactics: I'm SO glad they're getting sued **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654 "2003-03-23T23:57:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/81 "2003-04-07T22:46:12Z")
_ **Scare Tactics** _ would be a _profoundly_ bad idea to pull on me… You see, I have a concealed carry permit, and if I feel my life is _genuinely_ in danger, somebody’s (or some_thing_) is gonna get plugged…(no, I don’t have an itchy trigger-finger…if I did, I’d have never been issued the permit!) ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/82 "2003-04-07T22:51:29Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by onyxtyghr \* > \*\* Plus, if you have ever jumped out from around a corner and yelled at a friend to scare them, Then you fall into the same group of people that you all are complaining about. Or, how about halloween?_\* First off, jumping to scare a friend is one thing. It amounts to a short jump and thats it. This crap though is a bit hard to take as it can go for however long they feel like doing so. Second off, on Halloween you can expect something like that. Its the night of frights so to speak, so if you have friends that like tricks, you can set youself to expect that. And it would be different if it was a “rubber mask boo” shit. My god, killing someones dog? Are you that cold to not feel hurt when something you or someone you knew cared for died violently? I have seen some advertised where these people are treated like they have been exposed to something radiological. Thats right. “Hey in this age of terrorism and real threat, lets freak a guy out by pretending he is exposed to radiation or chemicals. Haw Haw! Fuckin Hilarious!” Jerks ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/83 "2003-04-07T23:30:35Z")
Yes, onyxtyghr, I’ve participated in a haunted house and a haunted hayride sponsored by service groups and I did my best to scare the shit out of the visitors. That was entirely different from the shit you’re defending (visitors knew there were going to be people trying to scare them and we were not humilating anyone by taking videos in either case). As for not watching the show, the description is enough, coupled with what little reality television. I don’t have to buy Brittney Spears’ latest album to know she’s lucky to carry a tune in a bulldozer bucket. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/84 "2003-04-07T23:42:52Z")
Oops, insert I’ve seen after television in above statement. Note to self: Must improve proofreading skills. ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/85 "2003-04-08T05:03:46Z")
add me to the not funny group- my friends could never do something like this to me, and heaven help whoever was doing the actual scaring. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/86 "2003-04-08T05:25:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by onyxtyghr \* > \*\*Have any of you people who are bashing this show even seen it yet? You are all making these assumptions on a show you have not even watched. If you ask me, to make any kind of proper judgements on anyone for anything you should have all the facts first. If someone is intelligent enough, they would know this to be true. I have seen the show and have laughed. It is not the soul purpose to harm someone. These are practicle jokes that a “Friend” sets up another “Friend” to fall for. Plus, if you have ever jumped out from around a corner and yelled at a friend to scare them, Then you fall into the same group of people that you all are complaining about. Or, how about halloween? This stuff happens all the time during halloween. Are we going to stop halloween from happening? No. I don’t think so. \*\* [sarcasm] Hey, I would like to be your friend so that I can sign you up for Scare Tactics. Why not we meet over a cup of coffee someday? It’s so harmless and so cute so I guess you wouldn’t mind to be the butt of a ‘simple, harmless joke’ in Scare Tactics. [/sarcasm] If you do read the post, btw, some people here watched the show and found it not funny. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/87 "2003-04-08T05:32:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by onyxtyghr \* > \*\*For me to know that there are this many people that will get this upset and are so close minded about little things in life as practicle jokes just makes me want to perform even more practicle jokes on the whole of the world. \*\* And the Milgram experiment was just a fun way to pass the time. You need to seriously meditate on your ethical world, if you have one. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/88 "2003-04-08T08:13:15Z")
Man you people must have some boring friends. The way I see it, anyone who is _not_ comfortable enough with me to bust on me every once in awhile is not my friend. Not the other way around. Of course, you people who say “anyone who does this to me is not my friend” obviously have friends that know that and, as a result, you will never ever have to worry about being on this show, so why ruin for everyone else? I saw the show and most of the “victims” had a good laugh. I say to each his own and if you don’t like it then turn it off. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/89 "2003-04-08T13:32:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by onyxtyghr \* > \*\*“Make sure that your friend does not have any weapons on them because they will be scarred during our taping!”. \*\* Somehow I don’t think this is a typo. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654/90 "2003-04-08T15:47:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cisco \* > \*\*I saw the show and most of the “victims” had a good laugh. \*\* I think you may be confusing relief with amusement. I’m not so sure that going through life knowing that you’d videotape someone dying instead of calling 911 because some guy in a lab coat told you to do so is a burden that most people would be glad to carry. I don’t see how being set up by friends makes that any more acceptable. Would you please explain to me how it is that the Milgram Experiment, which garnered important scientific information about human nature and gave disturbing insight into the holocaust, is considered to be highly unethical, whereas making some poor slob think that he just shot somebody, when he knew it was a bad idea, just because an authority figure told him to do so is fun, harmless entertainment? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scare-tactics-im-so-glad-theyre-getting-sued/163654.md?page=4)