Happy slapping arrives in Tenerife

The first known case in the Canary Islands of so-called “happy slapping”, a youth craze in which video phones are used to record attacks on unsuspecting victims of 3g technology, took place in Puerto de la Cruz this month when three local teenagers recorded the beating they meted out to a classmate outside Puerto de la Cruz’s IES secondary school, on camera. [via Tenerife News]

Sadly, not a first for Spain. - Shades of Happy Slapping in Barcelona

emily | 5:03 PM | Happy Slapping/Violence |
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