Scarred for life... If he lives.

[daffy654]

http://www.dailymail....arty-fights-life.html

It isn't just under-educated 'chavs' who commit horrific crimes as some posters on AB would have us believe.

What on earth would make anyone think this was ok to do? Is this sort of behaviour reinforced by TV programmes such as Trigger Happy TV and ***?

I've never been one to claim that TV or films are to blame for this sort of thing but i'm now beginning to wonder.

[Greedyfly]

Lets just agree to disagree then.

[sp1814]

The idea that this could possibly be 'a prank that went wrong' sounds very dubious.

Had the lad been awake when it happened, then the prank explanation would fit. But you have to be the left side of stupid to chuck a flammable liquid on someone then set light to it - WHEN HE'S UNCONSCIOUS!!!

It's no less malicious than the thugs who set light to homeless people 'for a larf' drink and drugs may loosen your grip on common sense, but it doesn't detach the grip altogether.

[karenmac60]

Isn't it the mob mentality thing thrown in too though? A bunch of them get drunk and what might start out as a laugh becomes some sort of macho competition to outdo one another in doing more and more outrageous things. I don't think it's inspired by any TV show - there have probably been other cases of things like this over the years, long before ***. I vaguely remember an incident where one young man had a fire extinguisher shoved up his backside and set off while he was asleep 'as a joke'. I think that poor guy died. I doubt that was in any TV show, but instead was dreamt up by a bunch of drunken idiots, trying to impress one another.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

Is that the only excuse you can come up with this time?

No blaming it on social depravity, poor housing, one parent families, roll models, or unemployment, then?

[boxtops]

Some fun - poor guy. Some idiots set fire to a tramp here sleeping in a shelter on the beach a few years back. Ha bloody ha.

[Kromovaracun]

"Jack Brown, 20, an Australian student and Rohan Foley, 21, an American gap year student,have been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent."

Jeez, we're on page 2 and NOBODY has tried to blame this on immigration?

What's wrong with you, Answerbank?!

[daffy654]

They aren't immigrants as far as i'm aware. The Daily Mail would have made a point of it if they were!

[birdie1971]

Daffy - “I would have thought anyone intelligent enough to be at uni would know...”

Attending university these days is hardly a measure of one's intelligence.

[Backdrifter]

Talking of universities someone should do an academic study of this thread, it's a masterclass in whipping up utterly pointless unnecessary arguments in response to innocuous comments

[daffy654]

Which unnecessary arguments would they be backdrifter?
Please enlighten us with your vastly superior knowledge (attitude).

[Backdrifter]

well daffy I could cite your own comment above for its sarcastic tone, but I was thinking more of R1Geezer's borderline hysterical response to greedyfly, which seemed to come out of nowhere, for no reason, and typifies the kind of thing that crops up too often on this site.

The again, even mildly query anything and you get people e.g. you and R1Geezer complaining about 'superior' attitudes. The collective weight of apparent chips on shoulders on this site is enough to affect the Earth's orbit.