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‘Awkwardly Touching’ or Cringe-Inducing? Check Out This Hilarious Prank
- Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:34pm by
Becket Adams
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Depending on how you feel about being touched by strangers, the following video will either be “awkwardly touching,” as Gawker’s Neetzan Zimmerman puts it, or flat out cringe-inducing.
We chose the latter (although, we have to admit, we laughed).
The video is called “Holding People’s Hands.” We’d explain its premise, but we figure it’s best if you just watch it:
The video was made by Losing All Hope Was Freedom, a group that seems to specialize in making awkward videos about awkward things. They’re the same crew that brought us “Holding The Door Open For People That Are Far Away” (which is hilarious) and “Staring at People” (which is hilariously uncomfortable).
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Comments (115)
SERE22
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 2:57amTHANK YOU Blaze for a good laugh! Bet he’s a psychology or sociology major.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 5:03amcreepy….. too intimate for a stranger.
Now there is a difference if this was a child looking for help, … not him
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 7:23amPeople are strange when you’re a stranger. And on ones more stranger than some unknown guy trying to hold your hand. Use a pretty girl on those dudes I bet you get a different reactions totally and about the same reaction from women. Women are touchy feely guys aren’t but they do like hot chick.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 7:51am@johnjamison “Faces look ugly when you’re alone….” :)
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 7:58amI would have decked the Perv ! In this new world I would be the one to go to jail! Back when America was great I would have been seen as doing the right thing. Either way I would recommend you Pervs stay away from me.
Report Post »Best_Patriot
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 9:18amOooh, SocialistSlayer is getting turned on!!
Report Post »kadster01
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:34amDangerous as hell to try to hold some random dude’s hand! You could get yourself killed!
Report Post »Best_Patriot
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 12:33pmKilled? Really? I don’t think so.
Report Post »thegreatheed
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 2:00pmThese guys are from Utah, probably shot on BYU campus, from the looks of it. Virtually no chance of a violent reaction there.
Report Post »boomboom
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 2:55pmAt first I thought it’d be creepy but then I was laughing.
(PS: lucky he didn’t get slapped though)
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 3:05pmHa! This is totally at Utah Valley University. I didn’t attend, but I recognize the hallway. Plus, I can tell by the way they’re dressed and the one guy recognized the other from Bountiful (high school near Salt Lake). Can’t those Mormons find anything better to study or do with their time? ;-)
Report Post »ReaganBaby
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 3:43pmI did this same thing over Ten years ago on BYU campus in Utah when i was like 16, we got some unforgettable reactions. Probably wouldn’t get the same reaction if it was in my home sate of Washington.
Report Post »SAC crewdog
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 2:52amBack around 1995, my father and I were walking through the local mall, when a hand grabbed mine. When I looked to see who it was, it was a little boy, maybe 6 or 7, on the verge of crying. He’d lost his parents and I guess I looked trustworthy (I was 40 or so, and add 30 to that for my Dad.) Being taller than most of the crowd, we spotted a couple that looked borderline frantic. Making our way in their direction, the boy broke and ran to them when we were about 15 feet away and he spotted them. No big deal, but in a small way I felt a responsible part of a greater whole that day.
Report Post »sta
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 12:24pmYou’re my hero of the day! I got lost as a child in a department store. I was hysterical until a grown-up helped me out.
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 1:59pmI teach my kids if something happens and we get separated to “find a mommy”. Women are much less likely to be pervs and much more likely to help a child. FYI for parents out there. Keep your kids close, but if the unthinkable happens “find a mommy”
Report Post »Talent-Keyhole
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 2:11pmI got lost in a department store when I was about 5 and a man took me to the men’s room and you can guess (or fantasy) what happened to me. Started me on a life long suspicion of everything and everyone. My philosophy: Don’t even trust yourself or you will be betrayed. Now-a-days, I trust the hollowpoint doomsday rounds in my various guns. I touch them a lot.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:18amI have a 22 year old special needs “child”. He knows if he gets lost to find someone in uniform. That could be a store employee or a police officer. He also knows where customer service is. I let him and my almost 13 year old shop by themselves while I ran to the spice isle yesterday. I was about to go somewhere else when I saw them in check out, so I went ahead and checked out. By the time I got done they were no where is sight. I asked the door greeter if she’d seen them leave, and she hadn’t. I was on my way to customer service when I saw them…they had gone to spices to see if I was still there, and were headed to customer service. But if a strange man, even much younger than me, were to try to hold my hand, I’d pull back and be very suspicious. Hand holding is just such an intimate thing, between friends.
Report Post »ronin_6
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 1:30amBet he is a sociology major. All sociology majors should be tasered for 3 hours straight before they are allowed to perform their nonsensical and offensive little experiments.
Report Post »Stay the heck out of my space and I will stay out of yours.
turnabout
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 1:34pmMost likely not. They’re not allowed to do unapproved human experiments.
Report Post »SammyStutsfruckle
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 1:03amTry that in Texas you’ll get horse dragged.
Report Post »WatchingAmericaDie
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 12:46amIf a guy tries to hold my hand, I’ll strike his face. This guy thinks he’s being cute, but he’s asking for trouble.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 7:54amIt appears it transpired in the safe halls of a community campus. Not likely to have a smiley outcome in LaGaudia airport, or maybe a Texas mall.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 12:44amIts harmless and funny, but he’s gotta be careful, you try that say in the NY subway and most likely you’d get maced, hit, or punched. People are very protective of their space and with all the things you hear and see in the news, people don’t like to have strangers do stuff like that.
Report Post »ReaganBaby
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 3:47pmI can guarantee that was a Utah Valley School. I did the same thing when i was about 16 at BYU. I got some pretty funny reactions. The Kid said he was from Bountiful which is near Salt Lake.
Report Post »cgnick
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:51pmNot even funny. He is just violating people’s personal space. Lucky he didn’t punched or slapped as another poster noted.
Report Post »amerbur
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:29pmFunny, interesting study in culture. He is lucky he did not get punched or slapped.
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:45pmThat is what I was thinking, I would not take it very well if some guy grabbed my hand.
Report Post »sta
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 12:27pmThe Youtube video says that the films are at BYU.
Report Post »Probably the reason why the people are so nice.
If this were in NYC, he easily could have been tazed.
Common.Cents
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 1:33pmActually, it is at UVU which is right down the road from BYU.
Report Post »Copper Catfish
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:24pmNow this is just creepy!
Report Post »Melika
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:15pmSeriously, there are so many things wrong with the premise of the “prank”. Aside from violating someone’s personal space, there is a whole list of why this is a bad, inconsiderate idea. The other ideas are fine, but this one is crossing the line.
On a side note, who was hired at The Blaze that there is a slew of stupid, feel-good (or bad), social stories on here now. I thought this was supposed to be different news, it’s turning into the local news.
Blaze stinks big time now.
Report Post »trappedinwv
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 12:05amWhat about the title of this article made you believe that this was “real” news? I think this does fall under the “different” category, where else would you read about it?
Report Post »izzy1127
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 7:59amIt’s under the “ENTERTAINMENT” section. Did you not find it entertaining? Some do, some don’t. You shouldn‘t knock the entire sight for a few stories YOU don’t like.
Report Post »Bad Kitty
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 8:47amIm starting to believe that the stereotype that we conservatives don’t understand most jokes is true…
Report Post »iBeliever
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:13pmI dont care about touching a girls hand… kind of funny….. but i remember living in a world where some of the hands “he” touches would have been COMPLETELY unaceptable….. it wasnt that long ago where holding a mans hand in public would get you beaten on the spot……. and people say Satan hasnt taken over this country??
Report Post »The_Big_Z
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:50pmDid I read that right? You consider the man NOT being beaten as proof that Satan is taking over this country? In your mind, the lack of violence equates to a lack of Godliness? If that is correct, I find your behavior more disturbing than his.
Report Post »v15
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 2:38am@IBELIVER,
Wow, dude, either (1) you misspoke or (2) you are a total psychopath. I see a prank, you see Satan. It seems like most Christians on here are so stoked about the end of the world and seeing everyone burn in Hell that they are aching to kill anyone whom they deem as “a follower of Satan.“ Is it any wonder why Atheists on here keep falling back on their ”no religion = no war” arguments?
Report Post »jp2feminist
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:46pmSo what’s the point? There is absolutely nothing wrong with people being startled, angry, or upset with a stranger approaching from behind to try to hold hands. I would be more concerned with people who responded readily because it exhibits a certain loneliness in that they would be so quick to grab hold of a perfect stranger without knowing that person’s intentions. Kind of reminds me of sleeping with strangers after a night of bar hopping, which so many young people do.
Report Post »iBeliever
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:14pmwell as long as its just men sleeping with women even that would be better then some of the disgusting things he does in this video……
Report Post »LongRange
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 10:37pmJust wrong on so many levels… truly awkward…
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:39pmtouch me and am going to knock your wussy azz out
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:11pmHey, punk – touch me and get decked!
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:50pmSomeone is very uncomfortable with their own sexuality…
Report Post »gadgetninja
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:24pmGee such violent tendencies
Report Post »gadgetninja
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 11:26pmU have violent tendencies
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 12:39amCalm down Francis.
Report Post »shackero
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:10pmNow that was funny!!!
…………but I loved the old Candid Camera (from back in the day ) too.
Report Post »mbck1491
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:06pmAll the junk that’s going on in the world, this is a good lighthearted story that put a chuckle in my evening. Thanks Blaze.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:03pmIf this wasn’t Utah, he’d get punched.
Report Post »shackero
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:26pmVery true——Utah is a VERY conservative state—and the folks there are top-notch citizens……..
Report Post »Imagine if this was LAX, Oakland, or New York!!!!!!
KickinBack
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:01pmMore awkward than funny. Had he been floored, that would be funny!
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:50pmLove the young lady that says… “Hi”.
Report Post »RockinChuck
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:49pmbe careful because freaks are all over. I would have flinched and maybe struck the guy . Had it been a women ……well thats different
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:48pmNice distraction from all of the garbage I sift through every day. THANKS BLAZE!
Report Post »AllAmericanGirl22
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:46pmThat’s hilarious!
Report Post »RockinChuck
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:51pmno thats dangerous
Report Post »Bad Kitty
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:04pmobama says that you get herpies and every STD there is if you hold hands, so dont do it
Report Post »Southpaw
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:26pmsafer than a ghetto zombie.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:40pmCringe: My Body; My Space — Violate it at your own Risk!
Report Post »possom
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:37pmSlow new’s day?
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