“El dar una palmada feliz” en España

Behold the flower of youth: Espanky and the Little racailles Happy Eslapping in Espain. Hide the livestock.

Spanish police have arrested four Frenchmen for jumping in front of cars on a busy road so that they could film them and post the footage on the Internet

Relatively rare in Spain, a youth craze known as "happy slapping" took off in Britain last year, in which groups of teenagers slapped or mugged strangers while filming the victims' reaction on camera phones. The images were then sent to friends or posted on Web sites.

Spanish police and local government officials were unavailable for comment.

Reader Yon points out that they may be unavailable for comment do to being out trying to find the rotten twerps.

The fuse is lit!