Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
i think we should encourage the filiming of happy slapping. It saves money and is less intrusive than CCTV. We have had quite a few cases in the UK where teenagers have filmed themselves committing crimes, posted the video on the internet, the police have seen the video, come round and arrested the kid who is then convicted on the basis of his own video evidence. Result!

As a friend of mine who is a criminal barrister once remarked sadly, you would not BELIEVE how stupid the average criminal is. its a shame we can't criminalise stupidity really.
Well, my idea was that the guy who filmed the happy slapping can now be put in jail as well and cannot excuse himself by saying "I didn't take part, i just filmed it...".
I mean happy slapping is illegal as well and they still do it so I guess they will also keep filming it despite the law, like you said, they are sometimes incredibly stupid.