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Social networking isn’t all poking people and sending gifts. This is demonstrated perfectly in the case of an unnamed 14 year old boy from Canada who used Facebook to start a group with evil ends involving redheads.

Inspired by a South Park episode the boy (who we will call “John” to make things easier) set up a Facebook group whose aim was to encourage people to kick a ginger. This group was set up purely as a joke, almost as a tribute to South Park. However, it would appear that you can’t say anything these days without someone taking you seriously. The group grew to around 5,000 people, and a date was set to initiate this ginger-kicking-fest: the 20th of November.