I love to scare people. I wish I had the opportunity to do it more often, because nothing beats the look of an absolutely terrified face... when you know there's really nothing to actually be afraid of.
On Halloween, I told you about my most successful attempt at scaring someone - when me and some friends invited my neighbor over for a seance. That experience, and my childish love for the horror genre in general would make me a good choice to produce a series like Scare Tactics. (Take the hint, Sci-Fi Channel).
There is this one clip I remember, where a girl in a car meets this hitchhiker. He keeps popping up at regular intervals ahead of them, and the last time when they stop (if I remember correctly due to being out of gas) - when the hitchhiker opens the door she goes absolutely nuts, throwing herself up against the door on the other side, on top of two other people in the car. I remember she was screaming her head off, tears streaming down her face. When they told her she was on Scare Tactics, she could not understand a word they were saying - her eyes were the size of baseballs, I tell ya!
I felt sorry for that girl, because she was absolutely certain she was about to die...
Couldn't find that clip on YouTube - but this girl is almost as scared... and that'll have to be funny enough ;)
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Scaring people is fun. People scaring me? Not so much. LOL
My cousin J-Bone always made it a ritual to scare the living shit out of me each Halloween...and every year I still fall for it even knowing that it is coming!
lol you can really mess some people up like that!
Jay: Oh, I'm sure you'd be fun to scare ;)
RockDog: LOL! Sounds like a true Halloween tradition :)
Jay Cam: You sure can! Too bad I couldn't find my favorite clip. That girl in not likely to have recovered still ;)
That would have freaked me out. Then I would have been mad that I didn't think of that! I like scary in my books and in my movies--not so much when it's aimed at me physically. Can't do haunted houses where they come after me with a chain saw, for example.
I am a total whimp. I don't do scary movies, books or reality. It is like torture.
Beautifully Profound: Oh, you'd be friends with her still, I think. The relief as you find out it was all a hoax could very well be the most wonderful feeling in the world... and that's a nice thing to do to a friend, yes? ;)
Kell: Haunted Houses are tons of fun... I may be a little on the old side to visit one myself, so I should get busy making kids (which in itself is quite fun)... kids are such a good excuse for a grown man to have some fun ;)
Karen: I should invite you for a horror film weekend or something. As I said, I love the look of a terrified face ;)
Used to be my specialty in my late teens - inviting pretty girls and watch horror movies... never failed, as they would curl up tight against me, holding my hand in fear.
Please don't ever try something like that on me, will you? I *hate* being scared!
Those shows seem really mean to me, probably because I couldn't handle that kind of scare. I think I'd have nightmares for the rest of my life.
I scare my kids often. Does that make me a bad mom?
My favorite of late is waiting at the top of the steps and when they round the corner there I wait! I even got the hubby the other day. He said I didn't scare him, but he jumped, that's proof enough.
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I love that show, as long as I'm the one watching. ;)
I scared someone three years ago, and she's still holding it over my head about when she's going to get even. It was my girlfriend, and she was pregnant at the time so this was reeeeeeally mean of me. She was in the bathroom at work and she thought she was alone, so she was singing to herself and just taking her time. I was hiding around the corner by the exit, and when she came around I jumped at her. I have never seen someone try to scale a wall with their fingernails. Either that or she was trying to claw her way through it. One day she's going to get me back, and I'm dreading it. Or maybe that's her revenge - to make me dread it the rest of my life?!
Ha ha ha ha ha OMG I am pissing my pants!!!!!!!
LOL!! Great post!
Guilty Secret: You know... by saying that, the temptation to scare you is only greater, right? ;)
Sparkling Red: I'm pretty sure they keep a good eye on the "victims" so that the scare doesn't become harmful in any way... you know like them having a heart-attack and all ;)
Butterfly Girl: Nah, that should prepare your kids to face the world some day... it's scary out there you know.
Fiwa: Scaring a pregnant girl is something even I would seriously think twice about :O
You got her good though ;)
Let us know if, and when, she gets you back... that should make for a good blog, right?
Preposterous Ponderings: I'm willing to place a bet the girl in the video did the same... for other reasons though...
Leighann: I've always been a fan of that show ;)
i like to dial random phone numbers and pretend to be a lady from the health dept and let them know that someone they have been sexually active with has an STD, and because of privacy i cannot let them know who that is or what STD it is....
i would consider that a scare tactic.
Scaring people RULES!!! It's great. What a rush!!
That show was always funny to me.
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I am on the wimp list! I *HATE* to be scared. Can't watch scary movies, don't do Halloween - I'm just no fun at all!
Tequila Mockingbird: Prank calls are tons of fun. I remember back when I was a teenager, we once called the parents of a kid at school, saying we were the police and had arrested him for shoplifting... I wonder to this day still what his parents told him when he came home (most likely drunk) that night... eeevil ;)
Your scare tactic is even more brutal... I might have to do that ;)
Aunt Jackie: It does! I think I've been inspired... gotta come up with something real good... maybe get someone at work ;)
Dana: I'm sure you can be tons of fun... let me scare you and we'll find out ;)
That's flippin' hilarious! But, I got to say, I really felt her terror. Poor thing.
I love to watch scarry movies with my dad. I am a big baby when it comes to gore and scarry movies. The only time I coped well with a gore flick was my 16th birthday. We had a huge pot of swedish meatballs and we decided how many meatballs to eat by the quality of the murder.
Jen: She was scared, alright ;) Kinda cute too... I could've held her hand to comfort her ;)
Newt: So, how many meatballs for the classic "fork in an eye"?
Really... I'm curious... how did you guys determine the amount of meatballs a kill would get?
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