The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment 267
theodp writes "Having fooled major news outlets with a heartwarming-but-entirely-faked video of a pig rescuing a drowning goat, Nathan Fielder turned his attention to texting. CNET reports on the great Twitter 'text-your-parents-you're-a-drug-dealer' experiment, in which the Fielder called on his Twitter followers to text their moms and dads and (accidentally) reveal a drug deal. Fielder's tweet read: 'Experiment: text your parents "got 2 grams for $40" then right after "Sorry ignore that txt. Not for you." Then tweet pic of their response.' The reactions are various and, sometimes, hilarious."
Slashdork (Score:4, Informative)
News for tards. Ass that blathers.
just an observation... (Score:5, Informative)
Geeks need t' lighten up.
Re:All iPhone screenshots? (Score:5, Informative)
ifaketext.com
Re:Not to mention not nice (Score:5, Informative)
"Not to mention not nice to the ones who gave you life."
Seriously? I just emailed the link to my son, telling him that I wanted to watch from the sidelines when he texted his mother. Are you suggesting that I am not nice?
Re:Seems like a risky proposition (Score:0, Informative)
Also, iPhones are the majority of smart phones in the US, approaching 2/3 market share.
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/4/24/q1-2013-us-smartphone-share [ben-evans.com]
Maybe not "funny" but... (Score:4, Informative)
If you are incapable of distinguishing between drug use and drug addiction (which itself is completely distinct from physical dependency), that speaks volumes. Especially since you do not, presumably, call people who occasionally drink or who take prescription psychoactive drugs "addicts". That you seem to imply shame in *being* a criminal, instead of emphasizing the perfectly reasonable worry a parent might feel about their child being arrested, is also telling. Presumably you do not attach the same level of inherent shame in, say, occasionally driving 45 MPH in a 35 zone? Yet that also makes you a lawbreaker (if you want to quibble over infractions vs. misdemeanors vs. felonies, I am sure I could come up with instances of the latter that are similarly widespread), in addition to endangering more lives than merely your own.
The very fact so many people are calling this not funny, dangerous, and/or cruel speaks volumes about how sociologically (and morally) damaging this 'war' has been.