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Little girl yells at street preacher

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An unidentified young girl yelled at a street preacher who was using a megaphone in Salem, Mass., on Oct. 29.

A video (below) of the confrontation was filmed by Robert Goss-Kennedy who wrote on LiveLeak.com:

Every year Salem is inundated with street preachers during our Halloween celebrations. They spend most every weekend during October telling us to "Turn or Burn." I've been recording their interactions with people for a couple of years now for a long running art project, and while this young guy was preaching, a little girl just ran up and started laying into him.

According to the Friendly Atheist, the little girl told the preacher, "Stop talking, no one's listening." She later followed with, "No one wants to hear you" and "Piehole should be quiet!"

RawStory.com notes the girl also shouted, "Zip your lips!" and "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!"



Several years ago I would have laughed at my own notion here that this is an example of a demonically inspired event. Not anymore.
 
:lamo Love this girl!
 


Several years ago I would have laughed at my own notion here that this is an example of a demonically inspired event. Not anymore.


So you're saying this is demonically inspired?
 
That's hilarious. Good for her. Those people who yell at passersby like that, especially with a megaphone, are incredibly annoying.
 
That's hilarious. Good for her. Those people who yell at passersby like that, especially with a megaphone, are incredibly annoying.

Though I agree that loud people hawking anything on the street can be annoying, I find the behavior of this young child troubling. Found myself having to drive through Salem Ma to get to Marblehead on Thursday the 30th. Talk about Halloween traffic hell, I want to yell at everyone in Salem !
Get outta tha way !

ugh, stupid revelers...
 
So a girl acts like a bratty child with no discipline or manners and it's ok because she's yelling at Christians?

No reasonable parent should allow their child to act like that.
 
So a girl acts like a bratty child with no discipline or manners and it's ok because she's yelling at Christians?

No reasonable parent should allow their child to act like that.

Absolutely. I detest street preachers in general, and doing it during Halloween is a dick move to begin with. But allowing your child to be openly disrespectful to an adult in public like that is very poor parenting and a bad example.
 
She is awesome, if only everyone told these morons to STFU.
 
So a girl acts like a bratty child with no discipline or manners and it's ok because she's yelling at Christians?

No reasonable parent should allow their child to act like that.
What 'discipline or manners' is the guy yelling in everyone's faces showing?

Is it okay to yell in everyone's face as long as it's a Christian doing it?
 
What 'discipline or manners' is the guy yelling in everyone's faces showing?

Is it okay to yell in everyone's face as long as it's a Christian doing it?

Fellow isn't up in people's faces, he is speaking into the area around him. That's not just willy-nilly preaching, that is a planned activity, a person needs a permit from the town of Salem and one's behavior is very controlled. Preachers, nor anyone else can be dickwads in downtown Salem, literally police on every corner during Halloween and they don't mind arresting you and generating revenue for the city with fines.
 
Absolutely. I detest street preachers in general, and doing it during Halloween is a dick move to begin with. But allowing your child to be openly disrespectful to an adult in public like that is very poor parenting and a bad example.
I agree that it was rude of the girl to yell back in the face of the yelling man. But then I think it's extremely rude for the guy to be yelling at all the passersby and making a public nuisance of himself in the first place.
 
What a rude little brat she is. If one doesn't like the message, one simply walks away. I noticed that she kept flicking her eyes to the camera to make sure she was getting her 15 seconds, or 1 minute, of fame! Set up, encouraged and disgraceful.
 
What a rude little brat she is. If one doesn't like the message, one simply walks away. I noticed that she kept flicking her eyes to the camera to make sure she was getting her 15 seconds, or 1 minute, of fame! Set up, encouraged and disgraceful.

If only the preacher had taken your advice. He doesn't like the "message" of the event and decided to tell EVERYBODY about it. He should have just walked away, right?
 
Fellow isn't up in people's faces, he is speaking into the area around him. That's not just willy-nilly preaching, that is a planned activity, a person needs a permit from the town of Salem and one's behavior is very controlled. Preachers, nor anyone else can be dickwads in downtown Salem, literally police on every corner during Halloween and they don't mind arresting you and generating revenue for the city with fines.

He wasn't "speaking into the area around him". He was yelling. Using a microphone and an amplifier.

Here's an interesting case from Salem during Halloween where a man was arrested because he was using a megaphone and ignored a request by the police to stop using it for reasons of public safety.

MARCAVAGE, COMMONWEALTH vs., 76 Mass. App. Ct. 34
 
What a brat!
 
What a rude little brat she is. If one doesn't like the message, one simply walks away. I noticed that she kept flicking her eyes to the camera to make sure she was getting her 15 seconds, or 1 minute, of fame! Set up, encouraged and disgraceful.

Frankly I think the man was being an incredibly selfish "rude little brat". He doesn't like Halloween celebrations? Then simply walk away or stay home on that night instead of spoiling the family fun atmosphere by using a microphone to amplify his obnoxious yelling. Doesn't matter what the content of his 'message' was.

It's a bit hard to 'walk away' when someone is using a microphone and amplifier in a public space.
 
The difference between the two is this:
He may be crazy, but he is not malicious. The little girl is acting like an asshole. Give me a crazy person to deal with any day, over an asshole.
 
What a rude little brat she is. If one doesn't like the message, one simply walks away. I noticed that she kept flicking her eyes to the camera to make sure she was getting her 15 seconds, or 1 minute, of fame! Set up, encouraged and disgraceful.

I noticed that eye to the camera, too. That girl starves for attention.
 
The kid's a rude little ****. The adult who set that up should be slapped. I've argued with street preachers, but I've always been polite doing so. Just because someone else is being obnoxious does not give you the right to be even more obnoxious.
 
She's demonstrating a healthy disrespect for a dick with an attitude and a megaphone.
 
What a rude little brat she is. If one doesn't like the message, one simply walks away. I noticed that she kept flicking her eyes to the camera to make sure she was getting her 15 seconds, or 1 minute, of fame! Set up, encouraged and disgraceful.

Exactly. Shame on her, and shame on her parents for rearing such a hateful little winch. I am always amazed at those who love that we have free speech, as long as they agree with the speech.
 
I agree that it was rude of the girl to yell back in the face of the yelling man.

Yep. Reflection on poor upbringing.
Notice the crude language too, reminds me of what is referred to as "trailer trash."



But then I think it's extremely rude for the guy to be yelling at all the passersby and making a public nuisance of himself in the first place.


So what? If he's breaking any bylaws, cops will deal with him. If not, just learn to ignore!
This is America....not some dictatorship. Learn to deal with it.


Anyone who loses their cool over something like this and doesn't know how to ignore or walk away....tend to be the ones who's got some serious emotional/psychological baggage.
 
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