# Scaring Babies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaring-babies/601601>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 2, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaring-babies/601601 "2011-11-02T08:28:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaring-babies/601601/41 "2012-05-06T00:58:01Z")

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Maybe it’s just the human version of Confuse-A-Cat.

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**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaring-babies/601601/42 "2012-05-06T02:25:20Z")

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> [@Malthus](#):
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> How else to defend yourself against random baby attacks?

[Like this!](http://images.slashdot.org/articles/08/08/15/060207-1.png) Fight 'em like a man. A naked man. Fighting babies.

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**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaring-babies/601601/43 "2012-05-06T20:17:31Z")

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> [@Sicks\_Ate](#):
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> I donno, this sounds like one hell of an idea. If he gets a kick out of psychologically torturing an infant, the mental hell the kid is probably in for makes me shudder.

It is my go to idea when a man is being obnoxious but some people don’t know their own strength and things might turn out bad, so I needed to cover my ass just in case of zombies or anything like that happening.

Cos it might. You know what zombies are like.

But punching him in the nuts does tend to be a cure-all.

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**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaring-babies/601601/44 "2012-05-06T21:07:53Z")

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> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> [Like this!](http://images.slashdot.org/articles/08/08/15/060207-1.png) Fight 'em like a man. A naked man. Fighting babies.

I tried that.

The police were not sympathetic, and the courts have ordered me never to come within 500 feet of the playground again.

Worst part was, someone stole my clothes. ☹

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**Author:** ![Patience\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@Patience\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patience_Jones)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scaring-babies/601601/45 "2012-05-07T00:25:00Z")

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Aw, my li’l baby thread! Back from the dead!

As for the topic, this video is probably the worst one I’ve seen: [We scare babies for fun....and WE LOVE IT =] part 2. - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTFJe2Dv2uo)

It shows two or three people ganging up on this toddler to scare the daylights out of her with a pop-up clown, as far as I can tell. IIRC, this is the video that inspired me to start this thread.

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