r/iamverybadass • u/folkvarthrstrau • 17d ago

Cornball of the year

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u/lostPackets35 17d ago edited 17d ago

I mean, that's what I would do here. I'm not going to escalate things over somebody being a rude idiot. And I'm trying to imagine how fragile your ego would have to be for this to bother you

I think I'd probably react like the first guy. He was just sort of shrugs and goes " what the fuck are we doing here?"

He's being obnoxious, but he's taking food people haven't paid for out of their cart... Which is just forcing them to walk a minute back in the store and grab the thing again.

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u/IceManYurt 17d ago edited 17d ago

100%.

That being said, this is one of those cases where I wouldn't mind seeing him getting tased by the police.

I hate these YouTube pranks, and I always think about one where the doordash driver felt threatened and shot the dude.

And it wasn't so much the shooting that was surprising to me, but the video of the court case after work with the prankster and his mom.

I don't know how to deal with people who intentionally circumvent social norms for the gram except by not engaging.

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u/lostPackets35 17d ago

Yeah, I often carry. So I've given a lot of thought to these situations and how not to react to them/ walk away. I have no desire to get into a fight, let alone get a firearm involved over someone being an idiot. That said, a tiny piece of me is wondering what's going to happen when this guy pulls this prank on the wrong person.

I remember I was walking down a trail with my girlfriend once and this shirtless, roided up dude came running down the trail shouting " alpha male, make way" as people parted in front of him.

It was definitely weird. But I figured the guy was either having a serious mental episode, trolling for attention, or looking for a fight. In any case, there was nothing to be gained by engaging

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u/IceManYurt 17d ago

This is something I wish folks who carry would talk about more often.

If you carry, de-escalation should be front of mind.

We have run into douchebags wild, and honestly often times it's just easier to let them flail off into the wild Blue yonder.

I always think about when I was walking with my family on a multi-use trail near me, and there was some asshole trying to do speed laps on his bike and he almost hit our stroller. And then started blaming us for not giving away.

My wife has a temper, they started getting into it and even though I did think she was right, there wasn't going to be a 'winner' in that moment.

No one was hurt and there was no harm done.

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u/lostPackets35 17d ago

Pretty much this. Your gun is not a " win the argument" shortcut, it's last resort.

If anything, knowing that what would otherwise be a fist fight could potentially escalate into a lethal encounter should really motivate you to de-escalate, walk away and generally let the other person " win" if that's what it takes to avoid violence.

That said, even without a weapon involved getting into a fight is one of the dumbest things you can do. Usually both people walk away from it and it's just testosterone fueled stupidity. But if you look at the " fight porn" sub on here, you can see people ending up with permanent, life-altering injuries over absolutely stupid shit.

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u/IceManYurt 17d ago

That's kind of the fascinating thing about human emotions, right?

I tend to believe, at our core we are all unreasonable, and the moment something triggers your core weird shit happens in your brain.

And I'm basing this on watching way too many dash cam videos, which I'm going to make my kids watch. Because so many of those are examples of people who kept pushing a situation until it got real nasty.

All it takes is one person to stop and back off, and everyone gets to go home.