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19 Apr 2011, 9:20 pm

Jamesy wrote:

I think its a great idea

Come on can you just give me 1 or 2 variables that could happen to give me an idea of what i am getting myself into?

I could be walking past the health club, see you do it, realise its you, get really annoyed that you've done it, beat you up with my red handbag, and throw a custard pie in your face. Several other WP members, who are on a meet up, and have read this thread, also realise who you are, and stuff a blancmange down your trousers, tie your shoelaces together, and do a morris dance around you, thus preventing your getaway. Others film it on their mobiles, put it on youtube where it goes viral and ends up on WrongPlanet and the BBC news. Everyone you've ever known, and ever will know, finds out about it, and for years you get blancmanges and custard pies thrown at you in public.

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19 Apr 2011, 9:22 pm

LOL but you don't know what town i am from do you?

Can I add as well that i doubt i would get arrested for doing it since i would not be hurting anybody.

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19 Apr 2011, 9:48 pm

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201102 ... tunt.shtml

I don't know the laws where you are, but here you can be arrested for even pretending to have a gun if you're pulling something like what you're talking about. In fact, at the very least, someone will have a cell phone and phone the police, you'll get caught on CCTV, and end up with minimally a fine for wasting public services (the police, who could be out doing more important things).

That's only one of a million possibilities.

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20 Apr 2011, 9:01 am

Jamesy wrote:

LOL but you don't know what town i am from do you?

Can I add as well that i doubt i would get arrested for doing it since i would not be hurting anybody.

If you enjoy doing it, do it. People will either love you or hate you for it, but at least you'll be getting more and more of the attention that you constantly crave and lust for.

But one thing: stop trying to claim you're an Aspie when you've made it clear that you don't show signs of having Asperger's and you've never been diagnosed as such.

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20 Apr 2011, 9:14 am

Okay I only read the first post.
Terrible idea.

I call attention seeking.

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20 Apr 2011, 9:50 am

Jamesy wrote:

LOL but you don't know what town i am from do you?

Can I add as well that i doubt i would get arrested for doing it since i would not be hurting anybody.

Terrorizing people is hurtful. They could be permanently traumatized. From that point forward, they would feel vulnerable to a real attack. What would trigger post traumatic stress disorder varies from person to person.

There is a difference between knowing you could be a victim and convincing them (temporarily) that they might be about to die. This is the age of terrorism. Just because you might enjoy seeing someone do this, does not mean anyone else would.

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20 Apr 2011, 11:03 am

As others have said, this is a bad idea, Jamesy. You can still be charged with attempted robbery. You will be caught. You will harm and shock a number of people whose medical conditions you don't know. If security is armed with a weapon, mace or a taser, you may be seriously harmed. If there happens to be a police officer that you don't see, even off-duty, you can be seriously harmed.

Are you feeling desperate for attention? Why do you have a desire to act out this way?

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20 Apr 2011, 4:47 pm

Well I saw the stunt that i want to do on a reality TV show

here
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_ ... eAWhifY7NU

that is what inspired me to do it

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20 Apr 2011, 5:45 pm

Jamesy wrote:

Can I add as well that i doubt i would get arrested for doing it since i would not be hurting anybody.

That's irrelevant. It's what others perceive as harm which will decide the outcome.
You must have seen stuff on the news about this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-so ... e-11736785
Personally I think it's utterly ludicrous that frustration expressed through a text message has become escalated into "bomb hoax", never mind the idea that some droid spends his day reading all of it looking for something 'suspicious'.

There are links at the bottom of the page providing more background.
Still think you won't get arrested?
Then again, you should think yourself lucky you're not in the States where you could just as easily be shot on the spot.
You know you're joking - but no-one else does.

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20 Apr 2011, 5:49 pm

wefunction wrote:

If security is armed with a weapon, mace or a taser

Mercifully, it's illegal for any security personnel to posses these things in the UK.
Also rather fortunately for Jamesy, if he's daft enough to try out this stunt.

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20 Apr 2011, 5:50 pm

Here's what will happen.

Actual robbers are holding up the place when you pull your stupid prank. When you come into the place and wave your gun around, the real robbers realize what an amateur you are and they ridicule you mercilessly for your stupid stunt and then they shoot you. The problem, however, is that you live. The cops arrest you. You are in the hospital for a while and the nurses make fun of you for being stupid enough to pull a prank like that but not intelligent enough to do it well. And then you end up someone's girlfriend in prison. And again the other inmates ridicule you for being an idiot. After you get out of prison, the only job you can get is in a circus side show as the butt-head who pulled this stupid prank and got shot for his troubles. After you die, a low budget comic film is made of your life. The director is an alcoholic and all the jokes fall flat. The only thing the film is remembered for is it contains the first film role of a minor comedian who when on to do much better films.

You are forgotten. Your prank is an embarrassment to yourself. Your friends will pretend they don't know you.

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20 Apr 2011, 5:54 pm

jagatai wrote:

And we'll file that under Best Case Scenario.

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20 Apr 2011, 5:54 pm

Jamesy wrote:

Well I saw the stunt that i want to do on a reality TV show

here
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_ ... eAWhifY7NU

that is what inspired me to do it

What?! - so someone actually watches this mind-numbing drivel?

You really need to find something more inspiring than this pap, my man. Seriously. :lol:

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20 Apr 2011, 6:24 pm

Cornflake wrote:

Jamesy wrote:

Well I saw the stunt that i want to do on a reality TV show

here
http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_ ... eAWhifY7NU

that is what inspired me to do it

What?! - so someone actually watches this mind-numbing drivel?

You really need to find something more inspiring than this pap, my man. Seriously. :lol:

And sadly, I doubt Jamesy is single-handedly keeping it on air. :-(

I find it amusing that I can't watch it because it's not available in my country. That's a first. I thought we invented crap. :lol:

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20 Apr 2011, 6:30 pm

If I was a sadistic person, I'd tell him to go for it and anxiously watch Tosh.O for the security camera footage of the police beating the crap out of him.

But I'm not a sadistic person.

Jamesy still hasn't explained WHY ON EARTH he wants to do this. Please explain this, Jamesy.

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20 Apr 2011, 6:40 pm

I dunno really the more i think about it the worse of an idea it seems.

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