Why would someone do this? (rant)

[eeyore kelly]

We went camping this weekend to a campground that puts on a Halloween weekend. It was fun-for the most part, and we saw a lot of Disney princesses Anyway, this is what got me. My DD 8 went in a small haunted house that a couple of campsites got together to put on. My DD 8 thought candy was in there and went in with my DS (11), got scared, and ran out screaming and crying. One of the characters from the haunted house proceeded to run after my DD still scaring her while she was screaming and crying running toward me and DH. Totally infuriated me. DH turned to the guy in the costume and said "leave her alone and go away" DS ran out of the haunted house looking for his sister, and the guy who ran out of the haunted house after her. DS saw the guy walking away from us, and yelled, "If you scare my sister again I will turn every bone in your body to dust." I went over to DS and made him apologize. (secretly, I was thinking Go, you!) We fixed DD's costume, and joked with the kids until the incident was forgotten about, and continued to have a good time. I am not mad or upset about the haunted house, but why would someone try to continue to scare a visibly upset child?

 

[totalia]

Because some people are just cruel, horrible people.

 

[poohtown]

i'm hoping the guy in the costume didn't realize how scared she really was. Maybe he thought she was running because he was chasing her (having fun) but didn't see she was really crying. My dd16 has done haunted houses before and told me it's really hard to see the peoples faces (I had asked if she saw dh, dsister, or me). Other than that, I'd have to say the guy was a jerk.

 

[FroggyinArk]

i have no clue, we are hosting a haunted house too, we are being very careful that any scared child is closlely escorted or asked if they want to return to the lobby, and wait in our tv room, ussually we will try and let the rooms ahead of us know if there is a problem with a group, and the problem is then carefully watched as teh tour progresses of course we also refuse entry to the full show to any child not being escorted by parents, for the first hour each night we are doing childrens tours where the rooms are lit and we dont use any of the extra special effects. so far we have only had one real smart alex come through and he was closely watched and told at one point if he made any more remarks or attempted to touch anymore props he would be escorted out by our security men,, one of whom was 6 ft 300 lb guy in leather armor with a mace and well able to escort this guy out.

 

[Molokai Gram]

Either he couldn't tell she was crying and truly upset or he was stupid.

When we give out candy, we have a portion of our lanai made up as a haunted scene and we try to be careful not to scare small children. Some little girls run and scream in fun, in fact my own dgd is one of these girls. She screams louder when her friends or her brother are around.

But what really bothers me are those children who are really frightened and yet their PARENTS laughingly push them forward to the scarey side, chiding them not to be a baby! What is wrong with those parents???? If I can tell their kids are really afraid, I know they can too. Yet they seem to think it hilarious that their own child is frightened???

We have had a group of little boys who have come for two years now. The first year they got frightened when my husband moved, they had thought he was a dummy in the scene (and I will not say what I could to that). Last year, they stood at a distance and threw candy at all of the "dummies" trying to determine which one was my husband. They figured wrong and when he moved they again jumped and yelped. And then, of course, reassured each other that they knew it all along and were not frightened. Yeah, right.

This may sound sexist, but we were unable to surprise any girl child that we spooked last year, they all remembered and were alert. But a number of the boys got spooked again. If I didn't know better, I would think they don't learn as quickly as girls.

(And before any mothers of boys are offended, I too am a mother of only boys, and I am sorry, but I still say, in this instance, they boys seem to be slow learners. It also seems as if they believe more in vampires and monsters and the girls realize faster there is no such thing and that it is only someone in a costume. Has anyone else noticed this?)