Boys Arrested for Kick a Ginger Day

[Spaghetti]

Chinese parents pay little or no heed to their childrens upbringing. And in most cases are not even involved at all.

I've seen a Chinese women watch her daughter climb out of, and stand upon the child seat in a KFC here making no move to stop her. Then having said daughter slip and fall to the grand hitting her head and beginning to cry. The mother.... just laughed and picked her up.

Mind boggling.

That's an...unusual fact. But the article was about kids in Los Angeles. It's just a chinese newspaper thats reported it. So I'm going out on a limb here and assuming you didn't read it.

OT: As cynical as I am about the whole "TV and Games" are evil debate, I'm going to go with the police on this one...but I'm not going to blame South Park. I'm gonna blame both the kids and parents for being stupid.

 

[Trotgar]

Heres an idea, maybe 12 and 13 year olds shouldent watch shows ment for adults

These children didn't do this because they watched South Park and were 12/13. These children did this because they were idiots.

Investigators said the incident was seemingly inspired by the season nine South Park episode 'Ginger Kids'.

I'm usually one of the first to cry out "Now wait a minute, don't go pinning this on TV/Movies/Games so quickly", but considering the age of the kids and...well, the whole "kick a ginger" thing, I'm gonna agree with the OP. Kids that young shouldn't be watching shows meant for adults.

Yeah, but... come on! Only idiots can go kicking gingers, younger people can see the episode and not go kick anybody because of it. I think it's about inviduals.

 

[setvak]

I didn't think they had gingers in China.

That's why being a ginger in Beijing is such a big responsibility. Although to be honest I'm glad I'm just a daywalker, I'd probably get even weirder stares if I were a full-on ginger, as well as a general lack of self-esteem.

 

[JazzStation88]

Actually being a ginger, I take offense to this whole idea of needing to kick someone. Yeah I know its kinda like everyone has one. But lets see it reinforced. Kick an Aryan anyone?

 

[Aztek463]

Heres an idea, maybe 12 and 13 year olds shouldent watch shows ment for adults

These children didn't do this because they watched South Park and were 12/13. These children did this because they were idiots.

Investigators said the incident was seemingly inspired by the season nine South Park episode 'Ginger Kids'.

I'm usually one of the first to cry out "Now wait a minute, don't go pinning this on TV/Movies/Games so quickly", but considering the age of the kids and...well, the whole "kick a ginger" thing, I'm gonna agree with the OP. Kids that young shouldn't be watching shows meant for adults.

Dont get me wrong here, i hate it when people blame games and tv shows and stuff like that, but all the same, like you said, these kids where young, and there parents should have watched them. I have to deal with my brother running around the house screaming "shut your fucking face uncle fucker!" and random family guy lines all damn day, it gets stupid fast...

Agreed, there was a definite lack of parental responsibility in this story. It would be very naive to say that violent media has no effect on anyone...it definitely does, but not as big an effect as the news media likes to believe. Some kids can definitely handle stuff like South Park and GTA and not be adversely effected, other cannot. But what really gets me about these stories is the one detail that is always left out: where the hell were the parents while this was going on?

 

[Woodsey]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2009-12/02/content_9103780.htm

Heres an idea, maybe 12 and 13 year olds shouldent watch shows ment for adults

You sound just like those old men in grey suits that think 13 year olds are still painting by numbers.

 

[Baby Tea]

Heres an idea, maybe 12 and 13 year olds shouldent watch shows ment for adults

These children didn't do this because they watched South Park and were 12/13. These children did this because they were idiots.

Investigators said the incident was seemingly inspired by the season nine South Park episode 'Ginger Kids'.

I'm usually one of the first to cry out "Now wait a minute, don't go pinning this on TV/Movies/Games so quickly", but considering the age of the kids and...well, the whole "kick a ginger" thing, I'm gonna agree with the OP. Kids that young shouldn't be watching shows meant for adults.

I agree that kids that young shouldn't be watching South Park, But the blame still falls on the kids.
They may have got the idea from South Park, but they are old enough to know how wrong that is. They have no excuse, no-one else to point the finger at. They knew it was wrong, and regardless of inspirations, they stand alone to face the consequences. I wouldn't be so quick to give them a crutch like 'South Park made me do it'. South Park didn't make them do anything.

 

[Standby]

Why all the hate for gingers? What did we ever do to you?

Well, you guys have no soul!


Actually neither do I.......

Niether does anyone, your arguement is flawed!

We're all the same colour when we're dust anyway.

 

[Rafe]

Social Learning theory gone wrong.

 

[Mr.Switchblade]

Heres an idea, maybe 12 and 13 year olds shouldent watch shows ment for adults

These children didn't do this because they watched South Park and were 12/13. These children did this because they were idiots.

Because children are idiots.

 

[Batfred]

Oh and what Abadeus

Oh, Barfred, thank you.

I will forgive you this time and only make the same mistake you did. Next time, I won't be so nice.

Crap, sorry bud - you are far too generous.

Note to self: Don't post while talking to the boss on the phone.

 

[The Hairminator]

Why is everyone upset about kick a ginger day?
Everyone does that, right guise? guys?
I mean... THATS TARGIC

 

[RatRace123]

Why is this happening in china, I thought that asians didn't carry the ginger gene.

And on a serious note, I'm sure the punishment of those idiotic pre-pubers will be nothing in comparison to what I could cook up; They get the crap beaten out of them by all the gingers in their school. Oh and they don't watch South Park either, that's a show not meant for morons, how would they get all the intelligent political satire anyway?

 

[Dan506]

Three students in Los Angeles have been arrested after a South Park-inspired 'Kick A Ginger Day' prank appeared to get out of hand.

LOS ANGELES, NOT CHINA. Did no one read the article at all? It's the first line!

Also, while the headline says 'boy arrested' the story says they got punishments ranging from '5 day suspensions to picking up trash'. It's all shit.
Anyway, to people who think this isn't about finger pointing at South Park you've got to see context - a couple of kids getting a bruise at school IS NOT NEWS. The fact that it was 'inspired by South Park' is the story.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Kick a ginger? Sure, just let me find my mate Lewis...

 

[asinann]

Why all the hate for gingers? What did we ever do to you?

It's obvious, you have no souls.

 

[Jim Grim]

-Sigh- Once again the media blames a controversial show rather than the parents who obviously had boundary issues. If you've raised you kid to believe South Park can tell them what to do, you can't blame the show.

Kids of around 12/13 have long since stopped turning to their parents for moral guidance on things like this. They saw South Park, said "HUR HUR FUNEEE." That's all there is to this.

 

[AceDiamond]

-Sigh- Once again the media blames a controversial show rather than the parents who obviously had boundary issues. If you've raised you kid to believe South Park can tell them what to do, you can't blame the show.

Kids of around 12/13 have long since stopped turning to their parents for moral guidance on things like this. They saw South Park, said "HUR HUR FUNEEE." That's all there is to this.

Pretty much yes. I mean I usually don't like to jump on the blaming of videogames and whatnot but it was pretty much my initial instinct to say "oh great, a couple of idiots saw the ginger kids episode of South Park and thought it was fucking hilarious and imitable."

Kids are dumb. And even better is the kind of logic they could come up with.

"Hey South Park won a Peabody right? And Sesame Street has also won a Peabody before, right? So in theory we should take lessons from South Park!"

Granted that line of thought relies on idiots knowing what a Peabody award is.

 

[Myrrath]

Chinese parents pay little or no heed to their childrens upbringing. And in most cases are not even involved at all.

Yes, because Chinese people are all soulless dog eating savages and light years behind western parents who ACTUALLY CARE for there children!

No, seriously you are just making stupid baseless generalizations, and fairly racist ones at that.

I've seen a Chinese women watch her daughter climb out of, and stand upon the child seat in a KFC here making no move to stop her. Then having said daughter slip and fall to the grand hitting her head and beginning to cry. The mother.... just laughed and picked her up.

Uhm.....you are aware that 90% of pretty much everybody has witnessed there parents laugh at them after getting him/her self harmed in some way through his/her's own stupidity, right?

I once hit myself in the head by mistake with a toy when i was younger and my parents laughed at that, does that make them soulless monsters and shitty parents?

No, I never said Chinese parents do not "care" about their children, but do not pay much attention to what they do if it does not concern their studies. Also the children are more often raised by grandparents or the schools, rather than the parents themselves. This is mostly because the parents are constantly working to support said grandparents and children. It's a generalization sure, but baseless, hardly. I have lived in China for many years, taught many students here and this is their own recount of their family dynamic not mine.

Hitting your head with a toy is not camparable to having your daughters head plummet into a tile floor, when you could have easily prevented such a thing from happening but didn't.

Toy = Funny. Preventable head to floor incident = shitty parent

The story would be equally valid if it was Canada, the US, England or any other country. But since I did not witness it in those places.

Besides, after reading the article it did not even happen in China. Which makes this all moot anyway. My bad.

I'm so used to not being able to see posted links on this website that I didn't bother to check it. The internet here blocks nearly all the posted links.