Weird people, bad behavior on TV

TV magazine shows these days make extensive use of footage sent in from social media that features strange, unique, loopy and even bizarre instances of human behavior or “talent.” Recently, the rowdy rogues’ gallery was led by a middle-aged mother whose teenage daughter bared her dismaying penchant, fetish or obsession for continually and even perpetually undergoing cosmetic surgery to achieve what she felt was physical “perfection”!

Trouble was, in her view, the changes and improvements are best achieved by adding to her body, especially her boobs and butt—which, over the years, have artificially been made to balloon to truly humongous dimensions!

Thus, we fully commiserate with the daughter, whose embarrassment at her mother’s loopy antics motivated her to come up with visual evidence of the same, in the hope that it would “shame” her mother to give up her “extreme” obsession, and opt to look and live normally—well, more or less!

So, did the poor teenage girl’s ploy work? Alas, the result was quite the opposite: Her mother loved the notoriety that all the free publicity got her, and she turned up the heat even higher by paying her cosmetic surgeon to perform a new round of procedures on her!

Televiewers were also boggled to see that the mother’s thinking had become so spaced out that she even bought a mattress with a big indentation in the middle that enabled her to get some (face-down) sleep, because her huge, enhanced breasts fitted snugly in the hole in the middle!

So, what’s her poor, outraged, embarrassed and mortified daughter to do? Our advice to her is—give up, the crazy lady’s too far gone to be redeemed. Rather than trying to knock some sense and shame into her addled head—get a new mother!

Some viewers were similarly shocked to see two “extreme” instances of parental “tough love” sent in by eyewitness videographers: The first was a desperate dad who tried to control his disobedient and unmanageable son—by throwing him into a swimming pool and letting him fend for himself to teach him a lesson!

The second dad went even further: His skateboarding son was hesitant to go down a steep incline and couldn’t be persuaded—so, the frustrated father pushed him down!

Both dads later regretted their rash behavior, but explained that they had gotten carried away in their sincere efforts to teach their children to face up to challenges and “dare” to learn new things.

Still, radio-TV commentators and other parents all agreed that, where young kids are involved, physical coercion is simply unacceptable! The “lesson” may be a valid one, but the “teaching” sucks.

Thus has cell phone and CCTV video enabled practically everybody to become an “eyewitness” videographer these days—a brave but sometimes scary new world in which privacy and unaccountability are things of the past.

Of course, the weird shockers that make it to global network TV shows are of the “crazy-making” sort, but if you take away the “shock and shock value,” some valuable life lessons can be learned!