Fannysplashin'

KUALA LUMPUR: Police have branded the copycat acid-splashers as mischievous people trying to outdo each other.

KL police chief Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah (pic) said the public should not be alarmed by the splash-and-run incidents that began last month, but recommended caution when moving around.

"Continue doing your daily chores and, at the same time, watch your surroundings. Alert the police if you see someone suspicious fitting the description of the acid-splasher."

Zulkifli said police believe these suspects might not be linked to each other but were merely a group of attention-seekers trying to outdo each other.

He said police were focusing extra hard to nab the culprits.

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'Mischievous people trying to outdo each other'?

Man, this is scary. This reminds me of a bunch of schoolgirls who beat the hell out of a fellow student -and recorded it on the video- for the sake of getting high views on Youtube, some years ago.

It also brings out the memory of CSI season 7 episode 4, entitled Fannysmackin', where Greg was seriously injured when trying to save a tourist from being 'kicked to death'.
A bunch of kids, only one of them above 18, belasah random tourists just for fun.

But that's in the You Ass of A.
This acid splashing thing is in our very own Kay Elle.
Splashing acid to total strangers in public places for no apparent reason is sick. I hope the culprits are sick.
Some kinda mental illness, perhaps. Because I just cannot take people doing that for fun.

What constitutes 'fun' nowadays?

I like the conversations at the end of the Fannysmackin' episode (in the above clip), the end of the day locker room chat.
It was something like this;

Warrick : Yeah, these kids need to beat people up in the street to be entertained. They need some good discipline, they need their grandmother whuppin' their ass like I had. 

Nick : Yeah, a good slap. 

Sara : You know, it kinda sounds like you guys are blaming everyone but these kids. I mean, you don't get a bye just because you grew up here or your parents are on drugs or - - those kids were perfectly capable of telling the difference between a wild night out and beating somebody to death. 

Grissom : The truth is, a moral compass can only point you in the right direction, it can't make you go there. Our culture preaches that you shouldn't be ashamed of anything you do anymore. And unfortunately this city is built on the principle that there's no such thing as guilt. "Do whatever you want, we won't tell." So without a conscience, there's nothing to stop you from killing someone. And evidently you don't even have to feel bad about it.

 Have we arrived there?
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