He keeps trying to dance close to her to likely try to “accidentally” touch her.
I had a grown man do the same thing when I was like 10 at my sisters wedding and he touched my butt TWICE with a brushing swipe of his hand when he “danced” next to me. And it was intentional because I moved away from him and he followed and did it the second time. I told my mom and just got a “stop trying to cause trouble”
My dad would take us to bowling alleys as kids and I was the older one. Every time some dude from the bar would come over and try to talk to me, similar to the scene in Uncle Buck, my dad would walk over (he as like 6ft 3) and just stand there in front of us and the guy would get up and wander off... strange stuff HA!
This happens so often and it's always close friends and family. My uncle was always SUPER weird with my sister growing up - everyone always laughed off him being touchy feely as "haha that's just your uncle Arthur" but it was strange that it was only the girls and not the boys cos he was the same to my other female cousin but not my male one.
Anyway, nothing happened but it was fucking weird. He died when I was a teenager so I'm not sure if it would have ever manifested into anything else but yeah, very weird behaviour from family and it was just brushed off when it shouldn't have been.
I mean it's clear the guy is drunk and doesn't know the dance and still almost bumps into the dad and is still all over the place.
I mean I dunno if that's straight-up pedo shit or dumb ass drunk shit as he clearly doesn't give the little girl much clearance and only does so a little bit when the dad steps in but he also could have just wandered off in the other direction, as drunks do.
Fuck pedos, but every single dumbass move around a kid I'm not sure, is someone wanting to fuck them, especially when a big ass dad is right there...give me some more context than under a minute I'd have an easier time judging.
People are 100% reaching with him being a predator, he's wasted and obnoxious. He stumbles almost just as much next to the dad, and considering he's nearly twice the height of the kid it's reasonably to assume she was out of his peripheral vision half the time.
Getting drunk just emboldens them to let their creepy pedo selves go wild. I've had to run away from a drunk guy who was harassing me while coming home from school at the age of 10.
Yeah this is fucking stupid, pedophiles aren't out here trying to side bump into kids at a music festival. They are inserting themselves into positions of trust where they can have access to children outside of supervision.
That's crazy, and I'm so sorry your mom didn't have your back. I once tore a guy to ribbons when I saw him give the pervy up & down to my then-13 year old daughter. I blasted him right on the spot, in front of a bunch of people, with, "Stop staring at my daughter, you creep. She's in MIDDLE SCHOOL."
In what way did anything about his movements change? I think he backed up a step or so when they swapped and that’s about it, he’s still completely out of sync and stumbling around randomly. This looks like a drunk guy who doesn’t know the steps, and possibly he was staring at her because he was trying to focus and not run her over. I’ve seen drunk people on the dance floor who looked exactly the same trying to avoid a chair. The dad did the right thing moving the daughter away but these comments are way too quick to label the guy a potential pedophile based on almost nothing.
It's such a good example of how suggestible people are and how groupthink works online, isn't it? He's clearly not hitting on this child, yet once that narrative gets set everyone just agrees and adds on.
This is not much different than how people would get hanged or tarred and feathered based on some rumours not that long ago.
It’s kind of scary. It’s so fucking obvious and any rational person can see that, but these fools have worked themselves up into an actual frenzy trying to vilify this man. Mob mentality is just a bunch of stupid people doing stupid shit.
It’s like that Michael Jordan and the ice bullshit all over again.
Yup, and it is how witches got burned at the stake and how Emmett Till got beat to a pulp. This is, unfortunately, one of the traits of humanity. Mob think.
You're absolutely right but who do you think you are to get in the way of a good social media beatdown? We need blood, we need to feel superior, and we need everyone around to see us take part in it. Shame on you for trying to take that away from us. The guy in the video was white AND male AND old AND southern... do you think he deserves humanity or grace or understanding? Do you think people like HIM deserve to enjoy drink and dance and music?
We're not here to learn or connect, we're here to judge and to feel better about ourselves by putting other people down. This video has just the right combination of factors to create maximum outrage bait and you just swoop in and ruin all the fun. What's this world coming to?
If you had eyes and watched the video you'd see he stepped away when he realized he bumped into someone. And then had more close encounters with the dad than he did with the kid. Dudes drunk. Fucking Boston bomber shit going in here
When you're actively trying to get close to them and practically falling on them so you have an excuse to grab them instead of I dunno...maybe taking a breather and realizing you're too drunk to dance right? Then yes. Yes it's creeping on a child.
He looks drunk and like he's stumbling around, and people are suggesting he stops when dad changes sides. even though it's plausible that the drunk guy just caught wind of his own stumbling
having someone who's his height next to him could help
or he could be a creep, but certainly no one actually knows. it's not stopping them from acting like it though
I’m not going to defend a man here because ugh, but on that last spin, you can see that he spun right into the dad and the touched. Dude’s piss drunk. He’s a weirdo for dancing that close to the girl though. Being drunk is no excuse for pedophilia.
Jumping straight to pedophilia on this is so...extreme. He is plastered. It's possible that she's just not in his line of sight whereas the dad is. Like he doesn't see her because he's not looking down. He continues to be completely out of sync with everyone even after dad swaps spaces. Kudos for dad to giving the girl the space to dance, but labeling this guy a pedo for this is kind of a lot. He's a drunk and he's rude, but unless there's more to go on the Pedo label here is wild. Like maybe but you can't make an actual judgement on this video alone.
He’s a weirdo for dancing that close to the girl though.
It's a tightly packed line dance my guy. There's absolutely nothing weird about this, including the fact that one person is too drunk to complete the dance. This is all pretty normal.
He has his back to the girl most of the time (because he's out of sync with the group), has no spatial awareness because he's drunk and stumbling, and keeps almost running into her because she's small and he's turning the opposite way of people.
Examine your sexism. This is a disgusting mindset and you should be ashamed of yourself. You acknowledge the guy's probably not a creep, then for some reason accuse him of fucking pedophilia???
I know this is a weird comparison, but have you ever had a dog or a cat? It's easy to turn around and accidentally step on their tail---you don't see them because you aren't looking down. But if it's another person you live with, you turn around and you immediately see them. The dad is in his line of vision, the daughter is not. He's just not paying attention because he is drunk as fuck, which is rude, but doesn't make him a pedo.
Enabling it is calling everything under the sun being a pedophile and not actually looking at the real issue. Never heard of the boy who cried wolf. Calling everyone else a pedophile for innocuous actions lets the actual pedophiles blend in and avoid scrutiny. Side bumping into a kid in a public setting is not the MO of a pedophile.
There's this story you may want to read, it's called "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". You might want to have your mommy or daddy read it with you so they can explain the moral at the end.
And "to avoid potential problems." The kid only goes up to the guy's hips. Could he be a creep? Sure. Could be he be drunk with bad peripheral vision? Sure. We aren't in his head, we don't know.
A guy has no idea what he's doing and reddit loves assuming everything is sexual assault of a minor and don't realize this is why reddit isn't taken seriously in the real world
He literally wasn't. Have people's attention spans really degraded to the point where you can't even finish the video? He actually bumps into the dad once and nearly bumps into him 2 more times beyond that. The dude is sloshed, not a pedo.
I watched the entire video, did you? He very clearly is not bumping into or standing in the way of other adults the way he was the child. I didn't say anything about pedophiles. The man is behaving in a very inappropriate way, but that doesn't mean sexual. He could just be a bully picking on someone smaller because he thinks he can get away with it. Either way and regardless, being so drunk that you can't control your physical movement around children is extremely inappropriate behavior and it's weird to offer excuses for that.
Men don’t seem to have the acute awareness of this behavior because most of them have never experienced this kind of behavior, being touched and bumped into “accidentally” on purpose. And for some reason they like to get really upset about their own ignorance.
That or they do these things themselves and don’t see an issue. It’s particularly common with older men in my experience. It was more tolerated when they were younger and seems normal to them.
He just wanted to touch her. It might not have even been in a perverted way and could have just been playful, but she was immediately uncomfortable. You don’t mess with kids like that.
Likely the fullest extent of what he was going to do was to “accidentally” bump into her some more and be creepy. That’s still bad. He is a bad person for doing that. He doesn’t have to kidnap her for his actions to be bad and inappropriate.
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