A dad who encourages his son to egg houses has said he believes he is 'doing the right thing' and that it 'teaches him a lesson.' Dad-of-four Jason Knight has recently found fame on TikTok after posting videos of his six-year-old son, Jack, throwing eggs at houses.
The 29-year-old dad from Oldham racked up 300,000 views on his first video of his youngest pelting eggs at his sister's home - but Jason insists that the pranks are are not malicious and that they return to the houses to clean up afterwards. “In my eyes, I see it as a little thing for my son where he cleans up afterwards and it teaches him a lesson," Jason said.
“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,” he told the Manchester Evening News.
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Now, Jason has found himself bombarded with comments from people asking for their friends and family to be targeted. Jason and Jack visit addresses in the evening to throw eggs at the properties. Jason can be heard in some of the videos encouraging his son to get closer to the window and take his time throwing the egg before running back to the car.
"We’re not doing it maliciously," Jason said. “We have people give us addresses whether it be their family or friends. 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.
"We show them the address that’s been given to us and we let the people know who has [thrown the eggs]. Everyone started liking the videos and commenting; some people take it as a joke and some people see it like I’m in the wrong. Even if Jack gets [TikTok] famous, it’s a good thing for him, [TikTok famous] people move to different areas with the money they get."
Jason said one reason for recording the videos is to keep the prank alive, saying that he doesn't "want the tradition to die" and that he wants to keep what he did as a child in the 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," he said.
However, another reason for making the videos is to guide Jack away from bullies and to potentially enable Jack to move away from where they live, Jason says. "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 said.
"It steers [Jack] away from all the other kids swearing and bullying other kids. I let him out the other day on the park and he came back crying his eyes out saying the other kids were bullying him. I’m trying to do it for him so he’s got a better life so he can move away from around here."
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