60YO Man Who Got Hate For Lodging Police Report Over FB Joke Explains Himself

Boon Hun

2018-08-28 , 11:40 am

I‘m pretty sure that everybody knows there’s a thin line between a prank and an act of cruelty.

After all, they’re both malicious in nature. If you’re funny, it’s a prank. If it’s not funny, you’re being cruel.

Look at how pranks or jokes seems to be done nowadays.

With pranks going too far and too wrong, it’s no wonder that some people just “can’t take a joke”.

Like the latest Facebook prank incident in Singapore.

Netizen Lodged Police Report After Facebook Prank

Take a look at the Facebook post below:

The user claimed his house was broken into and he knows who the burglar is. In the post, he also left a link to the “burglar’s” FB profile so that he can shame him.

Except, if you look closely at the URL, the link will always lead to your own profile.

Most people laughed at the joke.

Some didn’t. Including Facebook user Christopher Perreira.

I am going to make a police report now

And he did.

He even posted the proof of his claims.

And when friends told him that it’s just a prank, he just doesn’t get it.

And it went so far the prankster threatened to lodge a police report.

We just know someone will start throwing the words fake news around liao.

Now, Guy Who Allegedly Can’t Take A Joke Tells His Side Of The Story

Christopher Pereira was contacted by STOMP and gives his side of the story.

When asked why he pursued the issue so far, he said that he “didn’t know” it was a prank.

He believed that he was implicated in a crime of breaking into a house and didn’t know it was a prank.

And because of his actions, he was hated for not being able to “take a joke”. That and accused of leveraging this issue to gain some fame.

It All Started With Good Intentions

Christopher, a freelance artist who makes Lee Kuan Yew figurines, thought that he could offer help to the victim.

When he saw that the URL pointed to his own account, he got worried.

“Because of my job, I was worried about my reputation. What if people really thought that I had broken into someone’s house? That’s why I made a police report.”

He claimed that after the incident, he was attacked online by netizens who called him a “retard, fu**** and fa****”.

But the reality of the situation is, he really had no idea (at first) that he was the victim of a prank.

After all, he’s 60 years old, he said, and not computer-savvy. Even when he asked his friends between the age of 35 to 40, they had no idea too.

And let’s face it: the older generation might not even know the difference between Facebook and Google. So it’s pretty common for the prank to go wrong.

And The Moral Of The Story Is…

Don’t expect everyone to be able to take your jokes. That’s pretty much what the internet age should be all about.

In this era of self, where people judge others based on their own standards, this serves as a good lesson to the prankster himself as well as the many netizens out there.

Not everybody has the same standards and tolerance. If not, why can’t everybody in the army run 2.4 km under 6 mins?