You know how I know your parents hate you??

[valpo04]

They hire this guy...

Dominic Deville stalks young victims for a week, sending chilling texts, making prank phone calls and setting traps in letterboxes.

He posts notes warning children they are being watched, telling them they will be attacked.

But Deville is not an escaped lunatic or some demonic monster.
He is a birthday treat, hired by mum and dad, and the ‘attack’ involves being splatted in the face with a cake.

‘The child feels more and more that it is being pursued,’ said Deville.

‘The clown’s one and only aim is to smash a cake into the face of his victim, when they least expect it, during the course of seven days.’

www.metro.co.uk/weird/821591-evil-clown-hired-for-stalking-threats-and-a-pie-in-the-face

[stlvufan]

Man, they talk about "pushing the envelope" these days?

There is no "envelope" anymore. Either that, or the meaning of the phrase has been inverted (pushing the envelope has become so conventional that the conventional is now the surprisingly new, fresh way to go).

:crazy

[valporun]

I've heard of church youth pastors who do this kind of stuff, of course it is after the consultation with the parents that they know this is going to happen. If this is the case, then it is meant all in good fun, but if it 'pushes the envelope' towards stalking, then yes, it is weird, but I guess acceptable in the United Kingdom. Cultural understandings can be really odd for many various things.

[stlvufan]

Ours used to raise funds by offering people the chance to be "flocked" (suddenly a bunch of sea-gull plastic figures on a wire sticking in the ground all over your front yard). It went over well, and we're not exactly a progressive congregation

The one mentioned in this thread? Um, no, it wouldn't go over at all, I guarantee it.

[vuweathernerd]

Apr 21, 2010 17:42:24 GMT -5 stlvufan said:

Ours used to raise funds by offering people the chance to be "flocked" (suddenly a bunch of sea-gull plastic figures on a wire sticking in the ground all over your front yard). It went over well, and we're not exactly a progressive congregation

The one mentioned in this thread? Um, no, it wouldn't go over at all, I guarantee it.

at the first church my mom served at, they did something similar, but with flamingos. it was quite a shock when i got home the night before my 18th birthday to find 30 pink flamingos in our front yard.