The happy slapping craze is now a nationwide phenomenon. But as it's moved from London to the home counties to the north of England,

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The germans have a word for taking pleasure in someone elses misery its called schardenfoirde. It soudnlike some weird psychological theory. The basic translation means to laugh at someone elses misfortune. . We all do it, people are always secretly happy when something goes wrong for someone else because they’re glad its not happening to them.  Like in you’ve been framed, when a man slips on wet concrete much to the delight of the audience. but schardenfroide can sometimes go very wrong,    I knew a guy called Joseph once, he was one of those people who all the boys wanted to be and all the girls wanted to be with. He’s just got amazing A’level results and was on the bus just minding his own business when he got a brick to the back of the head and died.

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They caught the guys who murdered him, in their defence, the guys said it wasn’t murder, it was just happy slapping. To them it was just pure entertainment.

That’s what happy slappers do, they go around and slap, smack, set fire to people while videoing it  so they can watch it and be entertained later.

The happy slapping craze is now a nationwide phenomenon. But as it’s moved from London to the home counties to the north of England, so the attacks have become more menacing, with increasing numbers of severely violent assaults

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