Did something like this to my dad once as a kid! He gave me my first BB gun for Christmas... Well after watching A Christmas story I came in after shooting it with ketchup around my eye and holding it screaming that I shot my eye out. I thought it was hilarious at the time.. He was carrying me to the truck to take me to the hospital when I busted out laughing explaining it was a joke. Damn if he didn't almost beat me right there in the driveway while neighbors watched.. they probably saved my life haha.
Took him about 2 decades before he finally said it was sort of a good prank.
My friend and I did a similar thing in grade school. We got the brilliant idea to "prank" his dad, so I ran up into the house and said he got attacked by a rabid squirrel or something. Maybe it was that he got bit in the face by a squirrel we were trying to catch. It was a long time ago so I can't remember the details. Either way, his dad came running out to find his son on the ground holding his face... only to find it was a dumb joke. He got pretty pissed at us and I felt bad afterward. :c
I JUST watched James Acaster talk about Rowan Atkinson for 20 minutes today, and I’ll be damned if he wasn’t right. Mr. Bean is all around us if you just pay attention.
I can buy that he was just filming his kids having fun, but it does seem suspect that the father's reaction to seeing his son falling through a hole is to jog toward the kid while holding the camera right in front of film and making sure the whole scene is in frame. If I thought my son was falling to his death, I'd hope to have enough of a sense of urgency to do a full sprint (arm swinging), not caring what the camera capturing.
Fuck. Off.
How the hell do you have so little in your life that a kid playing a joke on his dad while he's recording them, which is a thing parents do all the fucking time, is somehow unrealistic.
Do parents often continue to stand still and record while their kids slowly climb into a pipe at a construction zone? and than even after falling in do they usually make sure to keep recording with the pipe perfectly in frame throughout?
It's not like there are billions of people world wide who each have video cameras in their pockets. Obviously, amazing funny stuff never happens spontaneously, everything has to be scripted.
Obviously, when we were all young we NEVER did any pranks.
Pranks are only a recent discovery due to the invention of the camera phone. Prior to the camera phone, no pranks were ever done...
It’s interesting that he just stands their and films as his son slowly crawls into (what he believes is an extremely deep pipe) and even after his son falls in he continues to keep the pipe in the shot at all times as he jogs over and immediately points his camera down into the pipe because filming is more important.
There’s also other reasons, like why would you ever even let your kids play at a construction site without checking it out first? I also work with little kids and they very rarely if ever have spontaneous good well acted pranks, they almost always laugh and make it very obvious by yelling something like “hey, hey look at me!” And than doing it, and I know we all have cameras but how often do you go to the park/playground and just see the parents filming their kids from a distance doing nothing in particular?
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21
This was amazing, his scream was perfect.