"South Park," so much to answer for: "The beating of 12-year-old boy by a group of classmates at a Southern California middle school may be linked to a Facebook posting encouraging kids to target redheads, authorities say. The redheaded boy was beaten up by a group of seventh and eighth graders at A.E. Wright Middle School in Calabasas in two separate incidents Friday.... A Facebook page stating that Friday was 'Kick a Ginger Day,' referring to redheads and possibly inspired by an episode of the 'South Park' series, may have sparked the injuries at the middle school, authorities said."
I am personally offended and will be holding a vigil this evening in my apartment.
Sounds like an episode of South Park.
Calabasas is where those Bling Ring kids are from. Must be something in the water.
Yeah, but the South Park episode on "cheesing" cat spray completely makes up for it.
Is this related to the Norwegian gingerbread terror?
Fucking gingers.
Ugh, that is like, such an old episode. Way to have your fingers on the pulse, kids. Next they will be talking about this hip new game fad called "POGS."
I thought Marylin Manson was responsible for violence in schools.
They didn't beat him up because of a South Park episode, they but him up because he had red hair.
As they should.
Sounds like he forgot to bring a towel.
"The boy's injuries were not serious." Can we get a ruling on "beat up" and "serious" because, and apologies for going all Rooney here, when kids I went to school with got "beat up," including myself, it meant something. Everything that wasn't "serious" was just called "being 12 years old."
truth to power. can't anyone get in a scuffle under the monkeybars nowadays?
I'm okay with the beating as long as one of the 7th and 8th graders was the red-headed kid's stepfather.
This is weird, because it's a silly UK thing that has only now for some reason 'crossed the pond.'
And while in the UK those of normal hair colour have jolly good reason to fear and distrust the red-headed, dating back to the terrifying 10th century reign of Alfred the Red, in the US this prejudice seems to just have been picked on a whim.
I doubt, for example, that any of these kids in California have been taught in their history classes of the terror and the unjust tithes that the red-headed once inflicted on the now-United Kingdom.
No, they try not to teach anything in American schools. It's policy.
I blame comic books with red-headed villains like Poison Ivy and video games with red-headed antagonists like the Legend of Zelda's Ganondorf...
I also blame women.
I know a certain Mr. Newell at Wonkette who is going to get his ass kicked the next time I see him.