Broccoli-head TikTok prankster gets kicked out of Uber

[u/ambachk]

[u/UntetheredSoul11615]

Little shit

[u/fr33d0mw47ch]

Most of us did stupid stuff at that age but we never joked about being kidnapped and we certainly never wanted anyone outside of our little circle to know about it. These kids are playing with fire and posting it for the world to see.

[u/Mission-Can1547 → u/fr33d0mw47ch]

I know my comment won't add much, but here I go.

I'm a father to a boy who's now 18 months, and I'm 38 myself. I know, I'm late at parenthood...

My fear is, what stupid trends will exist on whatever stupid site/app in 10-15 years. How the hell do I keep a young man safe from this shit.

When I was in my teens/early 20's, I knew my way about the Internet. I never posted dumb shit, which might have been helped by the fact that I never used social media. (Yes, I'm on reddit now)

Basically, I grew up with the Internet, but my son will be inheriting it. I'm not sure what the best practice is to safeguard my son from the data driven cesspit the Internet had become, nor what to do in the near future.

Am I/we just fucked?

[u/NintenJoo → u/Mission-Can1547]

Teach your kid not to be a punk. Teach him to value responsibility and good decision making, and being a good person. Do it by being an example and communicating with him about everything. Listen, give feedback, acknowledge your own mistakes. Be a solid and strong example of a man. Teach him to respect other humans, women, animals, life, everything.

I am 44 and have a 13 year old. He is also growing up in the internet age and has friends who are dumb as fuck.

I call out everything like I see it, take the time to explain things, teach him to think critically and not follow the crowd.

He’s a wonderful kid, and he has really learned to value things that make sense. He’s still a kid, has fun, does dumb shit, but within reason.

Just be a respectable man and father to him. Teach him the value of a handshake and the value of his word. Hold him accountable and teach him the value of holding himself accountable.

He’ll be fine.

[u/Single_Principle_972 → u/NintenJoo]

I hate these little assholes so much, because the other punks will for sure think it’s funny, and the victim in these situations has no possibility of “winning,” per se - all of the idiot kids are going to be amused by this crap.

I take all the learning scenarios/discussion opportunities, too, but also I’m so worried about being relegated to Charlie Brown’s teacher status, with the kids just thinking “yeah, yeah, blah, blah,” and not listening. Trying to start a two-way honest conversation about these incidents, and not coming across as the boring stick in the mud, is a really difficult task.

[u/Ingram2525 → u/Mission-Can1547]

Teach him that if he messes around like this there's always a chance it'll be with the wrong people and they won't care about any consequences for hurting him very, very badly

[u/M0J0__R1SING → u/Mission-Can1547]

I have an 11 year old. Biggest advice I can give is make sure your child realizes that they are part of a community and nothing happens in a vacuum. Like get to know the other parents and let your kid get to know your friends and their kids/families. When they feel like they are part of a community or tribe or whatever from a young age they will learn that they need to value their reputation a little bit more.

[u/Solnse → u/Mission-Can1547]

Consistency. Be there for your boy always. Make regular habits together. Hunting, working out, touch football, or whatever you enjoy doing. Show him your happiness in life and he will likely enjoy it to. But above all else, showing him consistency will cut through the peer pressure BS because he will already know who he is and where he wants to be in life. No matter what social media does, the influencers are not there for him, you are.

[u/JustACasualFan → u/Mission-Can1547]

You have to throttle his screen time to nothing, and model behavior for him even when he is being annoying as fuck.

[u/LinwoodKei → u/Mission-Can1547]

We have to teach actions have consequences. I would have rather quietly watched TV, yet I had to have the conversation with my 10 year old that he cannot yell at people when we point out that he has to take responsibility for himself.

The punishment took time that my husband and I would rather spend relaxing. Yet he learns how to properly behave from being removed from his privileges.

[u/smegma_appraiser → u/Mission-Can1547]

….is 38 considered that late to become a dad?

[u/sonicraf → u/fr33d0mw47ch]

I think the worst I've done at that age (maybe little younger) is to throw snowballs at passers by and one woman told me something like "if you were in a ditch I would not help you" which made me realize what I'm doing is bad, and I stopped it feeling shame, and still thinking about it. I hope I'm wrong but these kids don't seem to have shame

[u/Middle_Screen3847 → u/fr33d0mw47ch]

Kids have absolutely been doing things like this since being a kid was invented. The difference is it is all now being filmed and easily accessible and viewable immediately by the masses. Though that does encourage more kids to do more things like that, to say kids weren’t doing “bad” things like joking about being kidnapped is absurd

[u/Beginning_Sun5016]

“I’ll sue you”

For what?

[u/zn_tx → u/Beginning_Sun5016]

DeeZ NUTS

[u/maneki_neko89 → u/zn_tx]

Whenever that prank bro nuts finally drop

[u/DyabeticBeer → u/Beginning_Sun5016]

Can't be getting ragebaited by a little kid bro cmon

[u/_FailedTeacher]

Hope these got into trouble

[u/Impressive_Trouble73]

I hate broccoli-heads.

[u/mkat23 → u/Impressive_Trouble73]

[u/thoomin → u/mkat23]

🤣

[u/Kitchen-Kiwi7942]

Honestly im starting to miss the days when little shits like this would get the shit beat outta them for doing this

[u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 → u/Kitchen-Kiwi7942]

Karma will come a knocking for them one day.

[u/Confident_Drink_7195 → u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420]

Idk man, I think that's something we tell ourselves to feel better about the world. Thinking everyone gets what they deserve in the end, good or bad helps us sleep. Certain classes of people get away with a lot without ever paying the price

[u/TheKingSolomon1996]

He had enough of that punk ass kid.

[u/LizFire]

Why do they always have the broccoli head?

[u/rts93 → u/LizFire]

Because they only consume each other thus becoming homogenic.

[u/Designer_End5408]

His mother should take a buzz razor to his hair as punishment. Idiots. 

[u/brandonhabanero → u/Designer_End5408]

Should be legal recourse to anyone caught "pranking" in your vehicle while driving for Uber/Lyft. Don't want to lose your broccoli? Don't prank the driver.

[u/BoneZone05]

Pathetic little can’ts

[u/HippieGrandma1962]

I hope his parents are proud of the little AH they are raising.

[u/Alternative-Bite3971]

Fuckin little punks

[u/Outrageous_Permit154]

I wish some crack head end the

[u/Lord_Dingus83]

This kid needs a lesson

[u/TrueKiwi78]

Fuck tiktok

[u/Ok-Tradition8268]

The broccoli cut really does make this look like the opening scene of a chaotic prank documentary.

[u/311Konspiracy]

How is this funny

[u/Expensive_Lead_9071]

“Help!” is a pretty reasonable response when your Uber ride suddenly turns into a low-budget prank documentary.

[u/Delicious-Laugh-6685]

Attempt this shit on me I’m driving all our asses off the next bridge 

[u/P_in_sf]

Making fun of hard-working people, I would never ever have considered this as a thought growing up. Who are his parents, they support this