I’m shamed for letting my son egg people’s homes – I don’t care what other people say
A DAD who encourages his son to throw eggs at people’s homes insists he’s “doing the right thing”.
Jason Knight, 29, from Oldham, Manchester, believes that he is giving his son the best chance he can at being “TikTok famous” and that the prank is just harmless fun.
The dad-of-four found viral fame by posting a TikTok of his six-year-old son Jack throwing eggs at homes in his local neighborhood.
And believes that by indulging young Jack in the “harmless prank” he is giving him the best chance for his future and is teaching him valuable life lessons along the way.
Speaking to the Manchester Evening News, he said: “In my eyes, I see it as a little thing for my son where he cleans up afterwards and it teaches him a lesson.
“There was someone running around with a machete where I live a few weeks ago saying he was going to slice everyone up.
“My son is egging houses, not running around with a machete. In my eyes, I’m doing the right thing.”
The first video Jason made, involved the youngster egging his sister’s home and racked up 300,000 views on the social media platform.
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The dad, who owns a vehicle recovery business, quickly found himself bombarded with requests from people asking him and Jack to target the homes of their friends and family.
Jason insists that they are “not doing it maliciously” and says that “some people take it as a joke and some people see it like I’m in the wrong.”
He added: “We always go back the next day and clean up.
“It’s not like [Jack] is running off and leaving it for other people to clean.”
Jason says that if his son does get Tiktok famous from the prank that “it is a good thing for him” and will help him to move out of the area when he is older.
He said: “The estate I live on, it’s crazy. The police are there all the time and people are racing up and down in cars. It’s not a nice place to live.”
He believes that he is steering his son away from “all the other kids swearing and bullying other kids”.
Jason says another reason he records the videos is that he wants to keep the old-school prank alive and doesn’t want the “tradition” to die off.
He said: “I’d like to keep what I did as a kid in my family. I know in my head he’s out doing normal little kid stuff that everyone used to do when they were kids.
“I did it as a kid and I’ve turned out to be a nice person.”