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seriously, people, anyone who is going to buy this and use it to prank someone is going to do it to someone that they know will be able to handle the gag. they are not going to randomly place it on a 67 year old woman's bedroom window. they are going to put it on their friends window or their roommate or their brother/sister.
if someone puts it on a random strangers window and then sits back and watches to get a thrill, then that person is really sick and i'd venture to say that with or without this prank peeper thing they are going to do malicious type things to people just for the fun of it. they wouldn't need this to do that, because they are already sick people.
there are thousands of videos of people scaring the pants off of people. this mask is just another way to do that. it is nothing new really. i saw one yesterday, it was a girl/young woman hanging her head in her lap sitting on a seat outside, looking like she was crying. random strangers were walking by and see her apparently crying and they were walking up to her to ask her if she was ok. she would abruptly look up at them with a freaky gross scary face and then start chasing them. this was just one of many pranks that people do. youtube is full of them. should the mask that she had on be pulled from shelves? i guess there are people who would say yes.
Oh stop making sense. We don't like that around here. It's all about outrage and hurt feelings.
"Lots of name calling." You object to my colorful characterization of "nervous nellies and schoolmarms" so you accuse me of name calling. That's weak.
I understand that you take this subject very, very seriously and you may even work with traumatized children. That's fine, my wife is also a social worker and she works with traumatized children sometimes. But I don't think even she would call for an outright ban on this product.
And you're wrong about businesses always making brilliant decisions. Sometimes they make lousy decisions.
BTW I did watch the video and that's a group of adult 20-somethings, not "a girl in her bedroom".
Here's another video about the product that's not from the marketer, and it's more realistic IMO.
You are putting so many words into my mouth (or post) that it is pointless even discussing or having a friendly debate. Enjoy your pranks!
Well adios, my friend, but I'm not going to be doing any pranks. That's my whole point. I don't want to ban the item just because I don't have any use for it.
seriously, people, anyone who is going to buy this and use it to prank someone is going to do it to someone that they know will be able to handle the gag. they are not going to randomly place it on a 67 year old woman's bedroom window. they are going to put it on their friends window or their roommate or their brother/sister.
That's what I said very early on in this thread. But the Schoolmarms For Decency don't want to hear it.
Agree it is creepy. Not funny prank to put that on someones window. Glad to see it gone from shelves. I don't see what it has to do with Halloween which I think of having to do with ghosts and goblins and not criminals.
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The point is to stick the decal on someone's window from the outside. To me, it encourages strangers to be hanging out around my windows. That's the criminal element in my mind.....not the decal itself, but the behavior that it encourages.
On second thought, can you affix it from the inside? If it's only affixed from the inside, then who cares?
Agree it is creepy. Not funny prank to put that on someones window. Glad to see it gone from shelves. I don't see what it has to do with Halloween which I think of having to do with ghosts and goblins and not criminals.
Stop being glad. It's not "gone from the shelves." This was pulled in Canada. They're still being sold HERE and, BTW folks, this isn't a new product. I first heard about these "peepers" a few years ago.
And they're here and as popular as ever. Despite the busybodies, they're not going anywhere.
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