The Breaching Assignment

First of all, this assignment seems extremely exciting because it reminds me of my favorite celebrity and "shock humor" creator Tom Green. The breaching exercises I will do are based off of the hilarious on-the-street segments that Tom Green did on his show. My first breach would be to ask someone about their interests, but I will say that everything they like "sucks". This is based off of a segment at the Hoover Dam in which Tom Green said that the Dam sucked and its elevators sucked and it's not that big. The tour guide had to call security and escort Tom Green out of the tour due to his ridiculous complaints. The norm this breach would break is conformity because I am not trying to gain social approval but I want to be judged negatively. If someone did this to me, I would first assume that he/she is a jerk but if I feel that he/she is doing this just to be funny, then I would just laugh and play along.

My second breach would be to ask random people on the street where they are going. This is also based off of a Tom Green segment where Tom asked an old man where he was going and the old man got really angry and said "it's none of your damn business where I am going". The old man even broke Tom's microphone and tried to chase after him in order to fight him. The norm this breach would break is conformity because almost no one asks where other people are going. If someone asked me where I was going, I would think that he/she is extremely weird and probably wants to stalk me because there is no logical reason to ask me where I am going. I might also be a little curious and ask him/her why he/she wants to know where I am going.