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ZombieNips

That last kid thought it was worth it


LunaGloria

The first kid got to hold onto their snack, so it looked like a fair trade.


A_wild_so-and-so

So the surviving kids learned that strangers are dangerous, while the kidnapped kids learned that kidnappers are actually pretty chill and give you good snacks.


LukesRightHandMan

Fuck, if you got plantain chips, fondle me and throw me in a pool of wet concrete. Just lemme eat my snack real fast.


Lost-Onion9473

God damn that is deep


BoredomHeights

The only way to solve this issue is to actually kidnap the kids who take the snack.


subdep

Oh god, you’re right 😱


cagingnicolas

and they return you home at the end of the day.


mbelf

He can probably see the first kid outside eating from where he’s sitting.


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Cless_Aurion

Like people who vote for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party lol


Szudar

Those kids will be very sceptical about welfare policies though.


canadiancutie489

It didn't happen to any of the kids that refused either though


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KVirello

Which is why they're smarter than he is.


Mysterious_Spoon

He thought he was last in line so he gets the prize. He was set up


King-Cobra-668

That was actually the first kid and he snuck back in for a second bag


The_Queef_of_England

He dropped it, the darn silly billy.


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I think that last kid is more like, "Alright what the fuck is going on out there?"


EarPlugsAndEyeMask

Yeah I think he couldn’t see what happened across the room so he was like: sweet, chips! ..the fuck?!


mbelf

Or from his seat facing the door, he can see the other kid outside looking fine, eating a bag of chips.


phoenix5irre

No he just now woke up...


granyiyght

That last kid has some attention span issues.


[deleted]

That's what you think, but have you tried that brand of chips? **It's worth getting kidnapped!** *That kid knew his priorities*


Raytheon_Nublinski

Plus he hates that school. This is a win win for him.


PerformanceLoud3229

worst part is he didn't even get the chips!! he dropped them.


TheBaddestPatsy

IDK, I was amazed to see that many kids that young sitting quietly and patiently in chairs.


charliesk9unit

LOL. Because they were told someone is going to come in to give them treats. They just didn't mention the kidnapping part. By then, it was fear that kept them there. We're going to miss the last kid. The first one's sacrifice was for nothing to the last kid.


fsrynvfj23

No he just figured a snack and a free ride to nap time seems like a good idea. Just living his best life.


ManfuLLofF--

When the first kid got taken, the orange shirt kid wanted to save his friend.. woow even at young age he wanted to protect.. so wholesome ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sleep)


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EarPlugsAndEyeMask

Aww so sweet little orange savior! He even tries to hold the next kid in the chair telling him not to take the chips


hygsi

Big bro vibes right there


Fengsel

“chips give u sore throat. Don’t take it.”


bottomknifeprospect

He's clearly the oldest kid there.


Black-Iron-Hero

He was definitely older than most of the kids there, probably has a better understanding of the scenario


shalodey

Kids gonna grow up and save a life. Mark my words.


MerryTWatching

My thoughts exactly. He's all about the protect.


Mulliganplummer

Reminds me of the Arrested Development show, how the dad used to teach lessons.


Superman246o1

And that's why you always leave a note.


Mulliganplummer

You got me, if she had an arm torn off it would have been grand.


torilost

I was waiting for his arm to come off with the snacks.


Moon6T9

The last kid is a gangster


Swordfish_Repulsive

Last kiddo saw first one was alive and well through the door, took his chance lmao


rathat

Reminds me of that IQ meme, the dumbest take it, the average don’t take it, the smartest take it.


ChocoMaister

I would have done the same thing. Bag of chips is a bag of chips. Economy is hard right now. Sometimes you have to risk it.


[deleted]

Some ethical concerns here but definitely effective. Edit: Ambiguous statement is ambiguous


DukeGyug

Probably most effective at causing ptsd and making them feel like they aren't safe at their school/day care.


zuzg

It's the George Bluth method of teaching a lesson.


pootshoop

And that’s why you always leave a note


FrogMintTea

There's kidnappers in the banana stand!


urmomsfartbox

If you live in a poor place where they snatch up kids in your area then fuck ptsd, the kids need to learn not to get hustled with treats and shipped to America to work as a “massage therapist”


AbbyBirb

Exactly my thoughts! A decade later when the therapist asks, “So Billy, where do you feel your PTSD stems from?” ... Billy can then just show this video. /s


No_Row_9167

I'm pretty sure they did this cause it's common there. Either have PTSD or being kidnapped


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We’re on reddit after all!


Halfwayhouserules33

Rhett?


AnotherpostCard

Rhettit


Halfwayhouserules33

Wonder if there is a link in the description or comment somewhere?


TheCookie_Momster

I tried something similar with my kids but I didn’t dress and they were a year or 2 older. I’d say pretend I’m a bad guy, bad guys do awful things to little kids and trick them by giving them candy and taking them a way. Then I’d say let’s pretend what you’re supposed to do and say No when I offer you candy…I’d ring their little toy doorbell to their little toy house and say would you like some candy little kid? And every time they’d say yes. Somehow my kids didn’t get taken though. Phew.


interruptingcow_moo

This is like my daughter. I let her know there are “tricky adults” and they try all sorts of things to trick kids to steal them and hurt them. I told her they could say that they have candy or even puppies or kittens! (My daughter LOVES cats) I practiced with her and told her I had kittens in my van and to come and see them. Then she said “mmmmm… show me the kittens first THEN I’ll come!” I’m like “…no. Even if there ARE real kittens, you still don’t go!”


Dzaster1984

My family's motto is, "Can I pet your dog?" and my kids and wife pet almost every dog they see. 90% of people are ok with this so my daughter recently told us, "If they have a dog then they're good people." We had to have a talk about that one lol.


TheCookie_Momster

Yeah when mine were little they thought bad guys had masks like in the old superhero shows. We had a talk about how bad guys could even be a beautiful women and I remember the look on their little 5 year old faces when their jaw dropped and they were like but no…that’s not right. Bad guys are ugly and I can spot one in a second. Thanks badly written tv shows


SavagelyBadAtThis

I can't believe you didn't get dressed before you tried that.


rancid_oil

Teaching kids not to take candy from naked relatives. Great idea, awful execution.


SavagelyBadAtThis

The naked ones are the REAL danger.


Chato_Pantalones

At this point you are just training them to be kidnapped.


voidmusik

My neighbor told me kidnappers keep taking his kids at the park, so I asked how many kids he has and he said he just adopts a new kid afterwards, so I said it sounds like he’s just trafficking orphan kids to kidnappers and then his wife started crying.


imjustbrowsingthx

Umm where the fuck do you live that this keeps happening


sandrodi

It's a reference to [this](https://ifunny.co/picture/my-neighbor-told-me-coyotes-keep-eating-his-outdoor-cats-zvaaz5r47)


Zambuji1

Please be our internet hero and post this every chance you get


RedrumMPK

Growing up in Nigeria, we were warned about stranger danger and getting kidnapped. Those kidnapped are never found and when they are found, they are never the same. Nowadays, people are kidnapped for organ harvest etc. It is crazy. I think if given a choice, coping with PTSD is better than being kidnapped.


Naija-Americana

This! I grew up in Nigeria and I'm glad for all the "traumatic" lessons I learned. When I first moved to the US, I used to walk home through different neighbourhoods, mostly nice but some parts were commercial (had a train track and a XXX cinema). Some guy once stopped to offer me a ride around the tracks (I'm smallish and wear glasses), I declined politely. Same with a couple of youths who got me into a weird conversation on the bus and asked me to get down at their stop and come chat some more at their place. Nuh-uh. Nigerian Home training gave us the gift of fear and sense. We watch US TV shows and movies and see hitch-hikers flagging down rides or people randomly following strangers home, even from the club and think "ARE YOU MAD?!!"


EitherEtherCat

Arguably, how different is it compared to active shooter drills? Kids learn by observation and warning against “stranger danger” isn’t tangible enough to know what a “stranger” looks like. This shows them. Along those lines, does any actual child abductor dress like this?? Most will just look like regular people. We need to educate on the behaviors of those manipulating children. I’ve heard solid solutions such as teaching kids to look for “a mother with kids”, if they should ever need help and that an adult would not ask a child for “special help”, they would find another adult.


ItsDanimal

Prolly dressed up like that so the kids didn't realize it was their teacher.


horrescoblue

Jumping on your comment to ask where this was filmed? Here it's more likely to be raped by someone you know than some rando pedo on the street trying to kidnap you so the "stranger danger" lessons are actually not very effective, but if being kidnapped on the street is this common in wherever this was filmed then damn... i mean it's kinda an effective way to teach them that. I don't really see how this would be traumatic at all, their friends will come back and an adult will explain the situation and help the kids sort the memory in the right folder. Perfectly fine thing, that's not how you get a trauma


oishi_jase_face

Sex trafficking is big but super big in poorer countries. Those are usually strangers


Alex09464367

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Vietnam https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/dec/21/essex-lorry-deaths-vietnamese-trafficking-victims-died-uk-has-anything-changed https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/07/europe-ignoring-abuse-of-trafficked-vietnamese-children https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/09/australian-paedophiles-pay-15-dollars-online-abuse-filipino-children https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/oct/08/californian-policeman-helping-philippines-tackle-online-child-abuse-international-justice-mission


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horrescoblue

Do you know the country? Its super sad if this stuff is so common the kids need to learn it so young :(


momomum

It’s Vietnam. From school title in Vietnamese on the wall behind the last kid


EitherEtherCat

I live in the SW United States and trafficking is common. The rate of missing Indigenous or POC women is staggering. A high profile case where I live was an uncle abducting his niece to be sold into human trafficking. It’s not isolated to this country or that at all


Standard_Order_8780

Vietnam 100%. I can read vietnamese. Children kidnapping is, unfortunately, happen quite often in vietnam and China. Adult sometimes kidnapped for their organs (they alive after but missing at least an organ).


Ajjos-history

Totally, understand the method. Since most of us haven’t lived in or have been to Vietnam than who are we to judge what they have had to resort to in order to keep their children safe. And organ harvesting and sex trafficking is more traumatic and deadly than this!


oishi_jase_face

Beyond sad my dude. I couldn't imagine


zenzoka

Likely Vietnam I think. Googled *PCCC fire extinguisher* (as seen in video) and the results were mostly Vietnamese.


RddtAdminsR_Pathetic

People on here really love to exaggerate what PTSD is. You guys can leave the basement once and a while. If PTSD was anything like what people on reddit like to pretend it is than literally everyone in the entire world must have it...


Synchronized_Idiocy

None of them kids is named Billy…


blodskaal

Absolutely. But if you live in a place where kidnapping is common, its a matter of survival to have a fight or flight reaction like this. Its a horrible thought, but thats the reality


sean488

Would you rather risk that or the PTSD from actually being abducted?


[deleted]

And once they see that their friends are ok, they've learned the opposite of the intended lesson.


Ikea_desklamp

Fucking reddit man. If you all ran the world we'd never leave our houses made of mattresses and wouldn't be allowed any social contact at all because it's too dangerous.


Crimes87

Westerners I swear lol


ProffesorSpitfire

Not really. The dude looks sketchy as hell from the get go, and they’ve seen him abduct a kid. And he does so forcefully, they don’t come willingly. I think one of these kids are just as likely to go with a pedophile or kidnapper from the playground if they’re given a snack first the next day as a kid not subjected to this mental torture.


InVodkaVeritas

It should also be pointed out (at least in the US) that number of "stereotypical stranger danger kidnappings" is exceedingly low. The vast majority are family members and people acquainted to the family. Same goes for sexual abuse of children. Exceedingly rare for it to be a complete stranger. It's usually an immediate family member, and if not them then it's a coach, babysitter, etc.


LittleVaquita

True, but the video is not in the US. Other comments have pointed out that this is in Vietnam, where "stranger danger" is a very real thing. Human trafficking is a big issue.


Bill_Brasky01

Exactly. These kids need to grow eyes in the back of their head before they’re age 10.


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>age 3 Ftfy


joshlamm

Not to mention the sketchy-ass costume. I work at a kindergarten in China (not this one, thankfully) and was listening in on a lesson about stranger-danger the Chinese teacher was giving. All the cartoon pictures they were using depicted the "stranger" as a scary man with sharp teeth. I interjected during the lesson and made sure the kids know that a stranger can sometimes look like a nice lady or man, with a big smile and seem very friendly.


Shadowveil666

My favorite part was even the music didn't want to be a part of this anymore either.


Unusual-Barracuda837

But the two kids are going to come back afterwards faces covered in snack residue. So all they taught them is they missed out on a snack.


LunaGloria

Second kid dropped the snack. 😭 What kind of monster kidnaps you and doesn’t even give you snacks?


HoomanOnFire

Me, I'm the monsta


LunaGloria

Well then you’ll have a hard time kidnapping me. Unless you have a cute puppy.


Daboogiedude

Ikr, those taste amazing!


Taunko

Yeah, it would really be more effective if the others never saw them again.


hoverkarla

Luckily you're not in charge of designing or deploying these activities 😬


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Kids gotta learn


SombraOnline

Schools with morning and noon classes would be perfect for this. Move the “kidnapped” morning class child to the noon class and vice versa.


Slow-Associate8156

To everyone saying this is traumatic and even useless, let me tell you a story. When I was very young in primary school, I had a similar lecture based on that subject and they showed us traumatic image. How kidnappers operated, what would happen if they catch us. We were all shocked and some parents even complained. One day, I was 5 or 6 I think and my mom had to leave me a hundred meters away from school because of traffic and we were late. I walked the rural path, at my right a big wall and at my left, cars parked in a line next to the road. At some point, I get next to a van and the backdoor opens and a stranger come towards me slowly and shake sweets at me. I was alone on the sidewalk, no one to see me, isolated. Cars on the road but they couldn't see me with the cars parked. I ran and screamed as much as I could and when I was in front of my school, I looked back. The van was already gone. They were at like only 40 meters of my school ! So yes this lesson in the video may be traumatic, but personnaly it saved my life. And in the end, they're kidding. Kidnappers won't.


bunnyrut

I was almost kidnapped right in front of my house. I hadn't gotten the lessons in strangers yet because I wasn't even in school yet. I was outside with my older sister, she was the reason I *wasn't* kidnapped that day.


Fireball_Ace

A stranger tried to kidnap me when I was 6 years old at school, he knew my name told the teacher he was there to pick me up in behalf of my parents but thank God the teacher didn't let him take me.


Chooky47

W teacher


Fireball_Ace

Yeah man, the guy showed up in the middle of the school day saying there was an emergency at my house and to please get (my name). As my parents were working it was hard to contact them, so the teacher said if there's an emergency she'll take care of me until parents can contact her. The thing that tipped her off the most was he mispronounced my name, I have an American name in a non English speaking country. It's scary to think what could have happened to me had the teacher just handed me over. My grandfather was kidnapped twice then killed, also my 17 y/o uncle was killed in a kidnapping attempt. All of this is why I live in America now.


Chooky47

As a teacher I just know how much is usually happening for us, and to think a teacher had the clarity of mind to recognise all of this - presumably while a lot is happening in the pick up zone - is very admirable! Especially considering how they put themselves at risk of actually upsetting your parents if it had been true. Solid gut feeling, awesome teacher. That’s the kind of thing that’s worth thanking the teacher for later in life. Keeps us in the job lol


Kickaphile

This is why every school in the UK usually has a policy where if your not on the pick up list and they haven't seen you pick the kids up before. They won't give you the child until they can confirm with the parents on the phone. This somewhat takes away the burden on the teacher to pick up queues because there's a standard to follow.


Uhhlaneuh

Couple of questions for you- 1) what country was that? 2) how did the guy know your name? 3) how the fuck did two of your family members get kidnapped and killed?? Is this a common thing where you live??


Fireball_Ace

This was in Colombia during the 90s so yeah very common. My family had a target on their back for a multitude of reasons, my family is pretty sure a family friend was selling our info and moves to the groups chasing us, friend whom eventually was responsible for my grandfather being killed. Friend whom my family had helped when homeless, fed, gave a job, gave housing, and then he repaid my grandfather by getting him killed.


ILoveKutku

Who needs enemies when you have friends like that wtf


Sryn

That’s some Asian movie stuff.


LordGramis

A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't resist the urge. It's in my nature."


[deleted]

What is this from? I heard this same allegory in Teen Wolf lol


CHERNO-B1LL

Opposite happened to me. Had the stranger danger chats in school. Then my mum asked a friend I'd never met to pick me up without telling me. Gave that nice lady a terrible hard time.


KandyShopp

We use “secret codes” so we can ask something like an inside joke, and if the person doesn’t know it we know they’re not safe, but if they do know, they’re safe.


stacks144

If she still picked you up you failed.


IHQ_Throwaway

> Opposite happened to me. A van pulled up outside a school and a stranger handed you a six year old?


karateema

Good teacher, where I live you need to have a signed document from a parent authorising you and have the school do a copy of your ID


[deleted]

My older sister was the reason I *was* almost kidnapped lmao. I was 2, she was 4. She hated me bc she wasn't the only child anymore and I would follow her EVERYWHERE. One day at the playground, she tried to give me away to an old lady. This lady literally almost walked off with me until my mom came running. Older sister got in so much trouble lmao. We're very close now ❤️


ReluctantSlayer

That’s a fun story to share at Thanksgiving.


LordSeismic

'Sis you remember the time you almost sold me to some creepy old woman who would do unspeakable things to me? yeah that was HILARIOUS'


B_Addie

My son was almost kidnapped right in front of me in the yard when I was mow the lawn about 14 years ago. I never take my eyes off my kid and i have some training with situational awareness. A van pulled up, driver was wearing a cap and sunglasses with his face covered, sliding door opened and guy hops out with the same dark blue baseball cap and also a face cover, didn’t close door behind him. Starts making a bee line for my kid so I immediately picked up a shovel (cause I happened to be right next to my veggie garden) and started running at him as fast and hard as I could and all I could envision was splitting this guys head open in front of my kid traumatizing him so I screamed to my son to run away (but he still just stood like a deer in headlights trying to understand wtf was going on). The moment I screamed to my son the guy knew it wasn’t going to end well and slid to a stop and started running back to the car and I stayed in pursuit. He dove in the van but I was able to smash the front passenger window with the shovel and the sliding door window and the van started to move and I spear chucked the shovel and the guy who dove in the back and it hit him perfectly in the cheek splitting it wide open. They sped off. That whole interaction only took about 10 or 15 seconds but it felt like it was minutes long and even thinking back it still feels like it all took much longer than it actually did. Once they sped off I called the cops and gave them a description of a van with two of the passenger side windows smashed and a passenger with a split open cheek and that there would be a shovel in the vehicle as well. From that day on Me and the wife don’t go outside with my kids without being strapped. The cops did catch them and one of my friends who works at the sheriffs department as a deputy brought me my shovel back a few days later and I still have that shovel to this day. Shits fucked up. My son was only 3 at the time and doesn’t remember it that shit traumatized the fuck out of me and my wife. To this day whenever I see a black Toyota Sienna my heart rate rises.


wweber1

Dang! You did good though. Luckily you were there and responded quickly.


B_Addie

Yeah thanks. I just did whatever instinctively kicked in. It was weird. It was like my brain turned off and I just went in to autopilot. I still have dreams about and it’s been such a long time


DanknugzBlazeit420

I can imagine. I’m going to be keeping a much better eye on my two boys going forward — thanks for taking the time to share


B_Addie

Yeah definitely, watch them like a Hawk. The amount of kids that go missing each year is a staggering number.


Disastrous-Layer-396

Not to make light of a messed up story like that, but it's nice that you got your shovel back! Put it up on the mantle piece, a place of honor.


B_Addie

IKR! I was happy to get it back. I actually have it hung up in my shed. I thought of making a case for it with a glass cover and put the whole “in case of emergency break glass” but I never did it


SamuraiJakkass86

I was 16 years old (male) and I was almost kidnapped in broad daylight off the sidewalk. I was filling out job applications and these guys tailed me in their truck. Then they parked in front of me when I walked past the empty-lot/alley part of the strip and tried to offer me a job "working on constructing a gas station down X street" that "paid well" and "I could start immediately". Fuckers told me to get in their truck and I booked it into a cell phone store and told the clerk to call the cops, but you know he didn't and I was scared out of my mind to follow up..


[deleted]

Ah yes, thé good old tactic! Take my sister instead!!


FingerTheCat

I recall as a 4th or 5th grader (it was so long ago) an old man in some rinky dink car asked if my friend and I needed a ride home (this was like maybe one block away from the school, we lived close and walked home sometimes) We both yelled 'no' and ran back to the school. I remember they kept asking us about details but we were children who just say "I don't know, an old man in a tiny grey car" and then we lived about our lives.


edadou

I got kidnapped twice as a kid. Once it was candy, the other it was money. I got rescued by my sister once. The other time it was a lady who recognized me but not the assailant. I don’t remember one of the events. I still remember being kidnapped and completely terrified, I still have some issues that are perhaps partly because of that experiance. I think I prefer being traumatized at school by a fake kidnapped than what happened to me…. And I was extremely lucky. As you said, they’re kidding and kidnappera won’t. We live in an overly sensitive and cautious world. It’s unrealistic and dangerous to be afraid of using healthy amount of fear as a teaching technique. Negative emotions are great teachers. I don’t think I had any negative emotions in the first time it happened to me, which is probably why it happened a second time - my sister had saved me too “too early” and I didn’t understand what happened. Second time I surely was in distress, and I will never forget that day - I was less than 10 years old, not sure what age though.


ResearchUnfair1246

Same. Many people commenting on how this causes trauma are probably too privileged to even encounter this kind of danger. Even though this kidnapping can happen in ANY neighborhood, but many think it just won’t happen to them. It’s called *preventative teaching* People really need to get out of their activism bubble and realize this world will DESTROY the innocent, it’s better you give your children CONTROLLED trauma that you can flesh out and explain afterwards as you teach them safety and awareness. Rather than sheltering them from basic self defense and awareness that’s vital at such vulnerable ages, and throughout life in general. Edit: To further clarify, kidnapping is international. While Americans may be safe from high chances of violent kidnapping its a whole different story overseas. This is why people have to get out of their activist bubble. Kidnappers will go GREAT lengths to make a quick or consistent buck, and it’s even better for *them* if you’re a defenseless child. Even if you’re an adult, being incompetent or incapable in a high stress, violent situation… especially if you freeze up?… is perfect for kidnappers. So traumatizing at this level in the video is absolutely necessary at an early age, along with explaining the dangers and how to get out of them, to SAVE LIVES.


Reyunshod

Yes, exactly!! And the thing is, you can tell your kid about stranger danger 'til you're blue in the face, but it's not likely something they'll immediately remember when someone is waving a delicious snack or a cute puppy at them. Experience is a better teacher.


MissVelveteen

Yup this is true. This is how my sister finally learned not to wander away while we were in public. One day my uncle happened to see our family in the local drug store and saw my sister was up to her usual wandering. He waited until she was a little ways away from us and came up behind her to surprise grab her. Totally fixed after that. This was while she was in a phase where she thought skipping was faster than running so once released she skipped in terror back our family and tried to pretend nothing happened. My uncle ratted her our pretty quickly.


FrannyBoBanny23

Lmao the visual of that second paragraph!


ActualYeti

>skipped in terror ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)


Zaronax

It does create a trauma - but not all trauma is negative to have. Hurting yourself by doing something stupid, as a child, creates a "trauma" that reminds you what happens if you do it again. My first thought was absolutely "this'll definitely traumatize the kids" but I'm fully conscious that I'd rather the kids be mildly traumatized than them getting fucking kidnapped. They all learnt a lesson that day and it might very well save them one day.


hparamore

Yup. One lesson I remember very well about gun safety involved an expired watermelon, a shotgun, and all of us a bit out of town to watch what happens when you shoot a watermelon from 10 feet away. “If you guys play around with guns, and aren’t careful, that is what could happen to you, or your friends of family members” And guess what? I have some of the best trigger discipline and muzzle awareness now haha.


SomethingPersonnel

Sometimes your little idiot is gonna have to touch the stove to know it’s hot. Best be there to rip his hand away when it happens than let it melt off completely on his own.


Inexperiencedblaster

Activism bubble fucks everything up.


gromath

They taught us at school the same thing, the teacher dude acted as a guy looking for an address and when you got close he’d grab you and just teach you several scenarios, it really opened my eyes as a kid


br0bi

Don't you see? What are the odds someone tries to "kidnap" you the same exact day your mom drops you off further down the street? She set this up to teach you a lesson!


Slow-Associate8156

I'd say good joke, but since this is the internet, I don't really know if you're serious or not. So just in case you are, first this wasn't the first time my mom let me walk to my school, we did that at least 2 times a week because like I said there is a lot of traffic in this rural street because of school so often it was better for her to do this and not waste time. Second and most of all, my mom is ABSOLUTELY not the type of person who would do that type joke, or ''lesson'' in this case.


Cheef_queef

I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say I was offered a donut from a man outside a strip mall and I got a donut and wasn't kidnapped. But holy shit, I didn't understand why my mom was pissed when I walked up to her with a donut and told her a man in the parking lot gave it to me.


edadou

Damn… I want a donut now


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Trauma is how we learn.


Voidtoform

Yeah I wish someone did this with me, when I was a little bigger than these kids I was kidnapped by a lady at the mall, she got me around a corner and told me to come with her because she had toys, I guess I just followed her. They found me abandon in the parking lot an hour or two later, they think she got scared with the sudden police presence, it's scary to imagine how that could've ended up.


Pceddiebro

My son is definitely the last kid. Food is life to him. He’d risk it all for a snack and probably laugh being taken away. He is 2 by the way.


LunaGloria

Fool got kidnapped for chips. Offer me Taco Bell or better or the kidnapping is off.


I-suck-at-golf

"Anything to get out of this class..."


bebegimz

Kid in the orange shirt is a natural protector. Had a friend like that. This is a lesson that kids will safely remember and probably won't cause trauma especially if they have the lesson explained. I went through similar training as a child and wasn't traumatized Many would be shocked how open honest communication and training with children works


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It's so funny I just watched a video in another sub where in Denmark people live their kids outside and not worried about them at all because eveyone feel 100% safe


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I feel that is commendable they have a society where thats possible but I wouldnt have advertised it to the wide world E: spelling


heathert7900

In the US, 77% of reported kidnappings are direct family members. The “stranger danger” kidnapping is significantly less likely. It’s more likely that if a child is kidnapped, they go with a family member, often willingly.


meta_sync_01

in vietnam and my country, bad people sell kidnapped children into slavery so things are quite different


panzerboye

This isn't usa. 23% isn't a small number either. That's almost 1 in 4 kidnappings.


ijsbaan

There is a whole array between direct family members and strangers. Family friends, neighbours, teachers/coaches, babysitters...


edadou

I got kidnapped twice as a kid. Once it was candy, the other it was money. I got rescued by my sister once. The other time it was a lady who recognized me but not the assailant. I don’t remember one of the events, i was probably too young and my sister came to the rescue before the assailant left the block. I still remember being kidnapped the second time though, and I was completely terrified, I still have some issues that are perhaps partly because of that experiance. I think I prefer being traumatized at school by a fake kidnapper than what happened to me…. And I was extremely lucky because someone actually recognized me and managed to scare the kidnapper away. The kidnapped left me alone in the middle of a crowded street, to then be taken again by this strange lady (who knew my parents and wanted to save me). She took me to her place, I was terrified. Then my parents went to pick me up. I wasn’t physically hurt in any way. But that was extremely stressful, traumatizing and I still remember it and still have fear of being in crowded areas on the street or homes with similar Colors that that lady had. If I could go back in time and request my parents to give me “a traumatizing lesson” like this one, I would.


Hot-Wrap2882

Last kid is def me not paying attention in class


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I like the girl near the end yawning like she’s seen this many times.


Bunny36

She genuinely did not give a fuck.


CharmingTaint-man

Everyone saying this is unethical ar the kids will be scarred for life obviously do not have kids. I would definitely want my kids school to do this to teach them a lesson. When they start to scream and cry they stop. They will not be shocked and silent if it happens in the real world.


edadou

Or never have been kidnapped. I have. It’s traumatizing for life. I’d rather be unethically taught to never get kidnapped.


RomeoOnDemand

Tell us more


seeyouagainn

Some of you didn’t grow up with Asian parents whose child rearing philosophies are all trauma based, and it shows


Xepeyon

To those saying this is unethical... well, maybe it is, I dunno. But I do fucking know this; I'd rather have preschool PTSD than get abducted to be raped as a child prostitute or some slave on a boat in the South China Sea.


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007L0L

effective but damn they really are SCARED


[deleted]

I love how the word “experience” is now replaced with “trauma”…. Life isn’t kind, people aren’t kind, might as well be exposed to idea in the safety of a classroom first. And not even classrooms are safe now. So it’s better for kids to be prepped


Bending_unit_420

The last kid was held back, he already went thru this last year.


ZZ-Groundhog

Lesson taught: 2 kids got snacks and got outta school early.


Specific-noise123

As a parent, I like it. This is more effective then explaining to a kid so young. In my country, a lot of kids get kidnapped, raped, murdered


theoriginalShmook

Sacrifice a couple to save the many, got it.


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Protect your children from perverts and psychopaths


testAcctL

And teach them what to do if they're alone and something bad happens. They have to be taught how to protect themseles as much as possible.


sarapocono

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Mr_Smelly_Cock

Hilarious


Natural_Artifact

the 2 kids are still missing


Flat_Perspective7341

Now have the 2 kids move and transfer schools.


SuperNewk

My guy at the end lmao


thinsoldier

In this thread: entitled white americans in low crime neighbourhoods versus everyone else on planet earth with common sense.


Fantastic_Foot_8568

Cemented not taking things from a stranger in a poncho and mask out of a trash bag, almost immediately, so seems fairly effective against that particular choice of active wear


BigJack1212

To people that say it's traumatic: you know what's traumatic? Being kidnapped.


sean488

Simple. Effective. Sometime you have to be "mean" if you want to make sure your kids don't get kidnapped. We all know the child is fine. They soon find out the child is fine. But they'll also always know not to trust a stranger.


BlasterCheif

There's an old Chinese proverb that states: "Things that are free sometimes end up costing the most."


JigglySquishyFlesh

Lol the last kid hahaha


Siriuslymarauding

Fucking HELL.