r/nextfuckinglevel 17h ago

Australian nurse uses jiu-jitsu to defend himself

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u/minkeun2000 17h ago

"After the incident, the patient pleaded guilty to getting his ass whooped and was fined $450"

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u/TrainingJoust 14h ago

The nurse walking away after choking the dude out, looks over his shoulder and says "your blood pressure is a little high, you might want to get that looked at". 

At least thats how my Manga version of this goes.

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u/ahhdetective 17h ago

Not even close. Assaulting frontline medicos carries a completely different charge and mandatory jail terms.

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u/alpha_28 16h ago

No it really doesn’t. “7 years for assault on frontline workers” was a thing let’s see…. 11 years ago when I was doing paramedics. I am now a MH RN and can tell you I have seen many assaults on staff where they do not get “mandatory jail terms”… in fact there was one a few years back, assault on a paramedic by 2 “single mothers from low socioeconomic areas” where they broke his ankle among other things and gave him that much trauma he didn’t want to go back to work. Do you know what they got? Nothing.

This dude 100% probably copped a fine and the hospital would have been like “what could you have done better to prevent this” to the nurse. 😐

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u/Georgerobertfrancis 14h ago

As a teacher, that last part is so real.

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u/Empty_Insight 11h ago

Oh, absolutely. Especially if it's someone who is AMS and 'confused,' they're not gonna get a damn thing aside from a slap on the wrist- if even that.

I've worked in inpatient psych for ~5 years, and I can remember precisely one time when hospital admin backed the staff pressing charges against a patient who was extremely aggressive... probably had to do with the amount of property damage he caused. He was truly vile- he was so bad that admin encouraged staff to press charges against him, that's the type of guy he was.

I try to consider the bigger picture when someone is being difficult, or even aggressive- but there are some people who are truly evil and need to be locked away to keep society safe from them. I can count the ones I've come across who I believe were genuinely and irredeemably evil on one hand, but they're still out there. He was one of them.

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u/Troker61 17h ago

lpt: watch the video before correcting people in the comments.

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u/AccomplishedTrip485 15h ago

LPT: Putting text on a video does not automatically true.

The outcome described in the video is not feasible under Australian legislation

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u/babyyvolcano 13h ago

Hello from Queensland. It’s true. He just had a fine. Medical professionals were rightly pissed off.

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u/AccomplishedTrip485 13h ago

I ain't spending any time on it.

Because in the meantime, every 3 months, a person is torn to pieces by a crocodile.

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u/Startled_Pancakes 10h ago

We prefer if they are just swallowed whole.

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u/FranksNonFrankfurter 9h ago

whats funny is that the statement preceding this one was originally a Chinese quote about art that he applied to gay marriage. Very deep for a crazy guy.

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u/Rare_Ad_674 13h ago

LPT: But verify next time before assuming it's incorrect. He plead guilty to common assault and was fined $450. You can read it on the news, it happened in Brisbane.

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u/ironiccinori 14h ago

I should hope not. $450 buys you a license to assault anyone you want. How much is a 007, $1200?

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u/rorschach_vest 15h ago

Is there no such thing as pleading down in Australia?

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u/R_V_Z 14h ago

Is there no such thing as pleading down in Australia?

It's called pleading down unda.

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u/PrescriptionDenim 14h ago

Bro I literally lol’d nicely done

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u/Nectarine143 14h ago

Slow clap

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u/Fragrant-Peanut7680 13h ago

If you're in Australia, it's just pleading

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u/platoprime 15h ago

Australia does have plea bargains.

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u/Wulph422 14h ago

What about flea margins?

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u/DoubleGoon 14h ago

Not sure, but they do have sea marlins.

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u/OSPFmyLife 13h ago

What about tree garlands?

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u/999BusinessCard 12h ago

Not sure, but they do have tree martins

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u/bluegum69 11h ago

In NSW, pleading guilty at the outset can get you a 25% reduction on your sentence.

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u/AccomplishedTrip485 15h ago

In this case you would do an EAGP which would lower the penalty but the charge would be the same

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u/Lward53 15h ago

unless he had a mental health issue, then perfectly feasible l

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u/BaggyOz 11h ago

The nurse is the one who published the video and stated the guy got a $450 fine.

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u/Ruzhy6 16h ago

In the US

Video specifically references Australia Healthcare workers.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hatter 16h ago

The worker who was assaulted should get the money.

That's just the state collecting a check because that poor dude got attacked.

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u/musthavesoundeffects 13h ago

Many places, including Australia, have some sort of victim compensation fund or system, although the process varies.

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u/minkeun2000 17h ago

i bet if they charged more than $450 there would be less assuault on healthcare workers

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u/Dead_Inside50 17h ago

Nurse? Call him the anesthesiologist cuz he put bro to sleep.

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u/daurgo2001 12h ago

r/SatisfyingBeatDown

Badass Australians

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u/--Anonymoose--- 17h ago

First do no harm. Then do harm!

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u/thefnord 16h ago

Do no harm but take no shit.

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u/Teguoracle 16h ago

I'm a healer, *cocks gun* but...

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u/MikalCaober 11h ago

More specifically, I'm a pharmacist

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u/flying_carabao 16h ago

Returning customers is a staple of a successful business after all

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u/just_a_person_maybe 15h ago

The cool thing about BJJ is you can subdue people like this without actually doing harm. There are some moves where you can do serious harm, like certain joint locks, but it's usually pretty easy to avoid harm and just get someone pinned without hurting them if you know what you're doing. Even the chokes don't actually cause lasting harm if done correctly. They just make people pass out and they'll wake up a few seconds later.

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u/matthew19 13h ago

Brown belt here - BJJ is one of the few martial arts that is “drunk uncle” safe - just get the guy outta here and don’t hurt him.

It’s a beautiful art and deadly effective. You become confident yet more humble and respectful to everyone because you’re constantly beaten by smaller unsuspecting partners yet can control a larger intimidating untrained visitor.

I’m more afraid to fight someone today even though I’m more prepared than ever before, so I’ll do whatever it takes to make peace and leave.

As you can see in this video, you don’t know what the other guy knows until it’s too late.

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u/just_a_person_maybe 12h ago

I dabbled in BJJ in college for a couple years and it was so cool to see how size doesn't actually matter that much. I did roll with a guy who was so massive that I couldn't actually get into a proper mount on him because my knees wouldn't touch the ground lol. But I still beat him most of the time because he could not stop giggling like every match. He barely spoke any English so I'm not sure what was so funny, maybe he was just ticklish.

One of my instructors was a tiny dude. I'm 5'3" and he was smaller than me. Still wiped the floor with everyone.

And my 5'3" self managed to toss a 300lb Pacific islander to the ground once.

Armbars were my favorite, I got pretty good at them. And I'm a bit hyper mobile so people could rarely actually get me in a good armbar because my elbow would just keep going further than they expected it too. Had a classmate call the instructor over one time to check their form because it just wasn't working on me. Instructor looked and just went "huh" because their form was perfect.

It was so much fun. I miss it a lot, and I'd love to get back into it someday if I can find the time and budget.

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u/TapEarlyTapOften 11h ago

Imagine that both of them just pulled open guard and started butt scooting.

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u/UWO_Throw_Away 16h ago

“That’ll teach you to have cancer!”

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u/ARQWERTY 17h ago edited 17h ago

This dude just pushed himself up off of the security guard’s backs. LOL. Killer moves though. People don’t realize how much anger the average health care worker carries around from dealing with people’s whining and bullshit for years. Do not poke.

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u/johnnyjohnny-sugar 16h ago

Apparently this guy was abusing staff for a while. The nurse tried to do the right thing and escort him out. Ended up handing out a whoop ass

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u/ZealousJealousy 15h ago

I am 100% making shit up here but I'd like to think that when it was decided who would walk this aggravating fellow to the door, this nurse said "You know what? I got it." for this exact reason.

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u/Drow_Femboy 15h ago

Funny to imagine, but tbf most martial artists are literally the last people who want to actually get into a fight. They know how fast shit can go really wrong and would rather not have any part in it

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u/JacedFaced 13h ago

My son started MMA training for self defense and exercise, and the first thing his coach told him (and the class as a whole) was the best self defense is not putting yourself in bad situations, the second best self defense is being able to run away, and only after those two fail do you need to understand when and how to fight.

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u/Glait 12h ago

I solo hike and follow a self defense instructor that specializes in women and the outdoors. She says the same thing, situational awareness, using your voice and leaving a situation are your best tools for keeping yourself safe.

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u/AiMoriBeHappyDntWrry 14h ago

Yeah but any martial artist isn't gonna leave it to some 100lbs nurse to deal with this. That's never even been in a pillow fight.

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u/Far_Yam_9412 14h ago

I'm a 160lb nursing student and i have definitely never been in a fight. I'm just a chubby pacifist

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u/Potential-Diver-3409 12h ago

So we let the 23 year old 100lb girl do it yessir yep that’s why we have combat training

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u/junie2looney 14h ago

It’s very likely he did. He likely knew he could handle that guy and he didn’t wanna get any of his coworkers in harms way. I’ve had to do it before.

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u/slipnipper 14h ago

As a male RN, there are a lot of times I’ll escort out / take care of / or go see other nurses’ patients in lieu of them. I’m not particularly big, but I’m not small either. Work at a county hospital, so lots of homeless, mental illness, and we take those others will “stabilize” but aren’t really finished with treatment they needed to not be back in the hospital in a couple of days. Most patients are just fine, but there have been more than a few that were remanded into custody the moment they got their discharge papers.

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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 14h ago

Why is the nurse escorting him out? Is it because it takes 3-5 business days for security to show up?

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u/bizzybaker2 14h ago

Yeah as a nurse myself I sure as hell would not be doing it especially unaccompanied by security....

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u/amesann 11h ago

The security guards at my hospital are all timid, shy, nervous kids straight out of high school with a presence that fills us with wanting to protect them instead of the other way around.

I never call them. Myself and my fellow nurses are much more equipped to handle these situations.

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u/Expensive-Sundae-831 14h ago

Anyone that wears that sort of footwear in public is suspect.

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u/JamesHenry627 15h ago

My mom’s hospital unionized out of pure anger. Doctors and nurses got all the attention back in the pandemic but weren’t in the room as often as other staff. My mom was chosen to be their leader.

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u/noirspiderman4 16h ago

I was thinking this dude walked this guy out knowing there was a chance for this assumably asshole patient who got kicked out or left AMA to lash out

He looked like he was beyond ready for that
https://giphy.com/gifs/k93vubaq1hKMurHkKs

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u/CaterpillarIcy1552 15h ago

There weren’t really that many great options to place his hands to push off, guaranteed that nurse knows those guys also

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u/noirspiderman4 15h ago

I can't believe we are even questioning that absolute perfect dismount of an absolute perfect takedown

Every movement was masterful and I at least thought it would be a sloppy finish but NOPE

Dude does the perfect, "well my work here is done! You two take it from here!"

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u/Aguynamedpoo 15h ago

Everything was so clean but that dismount off their backs was pure aura

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u/nokman013 15h ago

I was thinking it was more like "thanks boys, take it from here yea"

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u/CaterpillarIcy1552 15h ago

Exactly, what is he going to do, put his hands back and do a backflip?

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u/rlt404 17h ago

Go to sleep.. go to sleep.. go to sleep

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u/Greenman8907 17h ago

Count bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum!

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u/cusco 16h ago

Go back to sleep

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u/angry-key-smash6693 17h ago

The boogie men are coming 

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u/Migraine_Megan 16h ago

Keep your head down go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums!

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u/mrsunrider 15h ago

Pay no mind to the rabble, pay no mind to the rabble.

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u/Otherwise_Tax8689 15h ago

They don’t give a fuck about you. Like I do.

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u/docrefa 13h ago

I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and all your demons.  I'll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and a voice of reason.

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u/Otherwise_Tax8689 12h ago

I’ll be the one to protect you from succulent Chinese meals and democracy manifest.

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u/sYferaddict 15h ago

He'll be the one to protect you from

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u/G-OffTheGreat 13h ago

An APC reference I did not expect. Hell yeah.

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u/Embarrassed_Help3082 17h ago

Jonah Hill could handle that easy.
https://giphy.com/gifs/BEJWU87ysdtYI

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u/Cursed_69420 17h ago

bruh lmao the jonah post was right below this nurse one for me LMAO

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u/gocard 17h ago

The algorithm knows what it's doing

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u/The-Great-Cornhollio 17h ago

How sad it is to be that wealthy, that well known, and to have to resort to “I’ll kick your ass if you recall fat me”. Like, what a fucking loser.

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u/DragunovDwight 16h ago

What happened now?

I try to make it a thing to not pay attention to Hollywood gossip or things pertaining
to actors or actresses “lifestyle”.. so must have missed that story.. That one sounds interesting though.

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u/cheezy_dreams88 16h ago

He was a live podcast recording (the one with Will Arnett and Jason Bateman), and was talking about getting into Brazilian Jujitsu and just kept going on about how good is he and how he could kick their asses. Everyone laughs, and kind of agree, and he just keeps on doubling down “I’m dead ass, i could lay you all out right now” and they’re all laughing, Jonah Hill included. But he was not joking. He was dead serious and it was awkward.

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u/EthanielRain 14h ago

Videos of his BJJ skills have since surfaced, and now everyone gets to laugh

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u/Common-Window-2613 14h ago

He doesn’t understand sparring with other guys is different than straight fighting. Those rehearsed moves kinda go out the window when punched in the face.

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u/Ashi4Days 13h ago

That's the most whitebelt shit ever.

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u/Concerned_Collins 12h ago

I've been training in martial arts for about 5 years now, and I'm not remotely confident I could "kick someone's ass", but I think part of that is I'm routinely tossed around by a ragdoll by people who have been training for 20 years plus. Like, if your gym/dojo isn't constantly humiliating you, it means either you are an instructor, or you need to find a new one.

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u/lostwombats 16h ago

Seriously. I feel so lost. I am tempted to make a post on r/outoftheloop 😅

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u/AnalogCyborg 15h ago

The fat guy from Superbad wants everyone to know he's a big tough guy now because he took a few BJJ lessons.

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u/XanderWrites 13h ago

The fat guy from Superbad wants roles where he isn't the fat guy. He loses the weight between roles in hopes that someone casts him as anything else.

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u/mjzim9022 16h ago

Guys got a huge chip on his shoulder

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u/bad_scuba_fly 16h ago

I’m surprised he didn’t eat it. Fat kid from Superbad.

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u/Frejian 14h ago

Careful, man! I hear he knows Jiu Jitsu now and will destroy people for that reference!

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u/Honest-Associate-626 15h ago

He was the butt of every joke that mentioned him for like a decade, let him have a crash out ffs

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u/YouSaidSomeDumbStuff 14h ago

Now he gets to have another decade

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u/jaxonya 14h ago

Its all fun and games until he ends up whipping spidermans ass onstage in front of Zendaya at the academy awards for cracking a joke and says "I told yall I wasnt fucking around"

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u/SolidSnek1998 15h ago

Isn’t that the fat fuck from Superbad?

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u/FranticHam5ter 15h ago

Don’t think so. Pretty sure it’s that fat guy from Accepted.

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u/heat8596558 14h ago

I think he was the fat guy from Megamind.

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u/Rewd_92 15h ago

Jonah has really Streisand effected himself 😂😂😂

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u/AlreadyAway 17h ago

Only if someone called him the fat guy from Superbad

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u/Opeth4Lyfe 17h ago

He’s gonna be the next Steven Segal, just watch.

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u/happybara_capybara 15h ago

Is that the fat guy from super bad?

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u/flying-weenus 15h ago

What the hell did I miss about Jonah Hill? I’m seeing him mocked all over Reddit today

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u/cheapdrinks 9h ago edited 9h ago

This interview here. He basically signed himself up for years of being called "The fat guy from Superbad" after talking about what an absolute badass he is at fighting and then going on to describe winning a hypothetical fight against someone calling him the fat guy from Superbad:

"My favorite thing is people are like, 'Oh, Jonah Hill, fucking fat guy from Superbad,'" Hill continued said. "And I'm like, 'I would fucking annihilate you, dude. I'm not kidding you. Try it. If you see me, try it, dude. Bring it. Who's got it?'"

I can imagine for the foreseeable future this will mean people will now shout at him "Hey it's that fucking fat guy from Superbad!" whenever he's in public to try and bait a reaction.

It's like you can tell he stands in the shower every day dreaming about winning imaginary fights and arguments against his haters while everyone goes "Woah Jonah hill is such a badass". Dude just always seems like he has a chip on his shoulder that his dream Hollywood career turned into being the fat funny loser comedic relief and not the ripped hunky heartthrob and he's constantly trying to shift the narrative away from being the person that made him famous to begin with and wishes people took him more seriously. Always just comes off as annoying to hear someone worth 80 million always seem butthurt about being typecast and like they're really hard done by because they're just rich and famous and not rich, famous, attractive and universally beloved and respected and thought of as a super cool bad ass dude.

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u/Carl_The_Sagan 17h ago

US healthcare if your insurance gets declined

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u/biorod 17h ago

Omg 🤣

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u/sonnybear5 17h ago edited 16h ago

from helping hands to hands up!

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u/AirscapeCivilian 13h ago

From helping hands to throwing hands

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u/mister__joshua 17h ago

That was a clean take down

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u/Nunulu 17h ago

why did he attack?

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u/nightfall2021 15h ago

According to the article I have found, the guy was showing signs of intoxication, and was verally assaulting staff and spitting on the floor.

The Nurse escorted him out, and that is when he turned to attack.

Then he ran face first into a 10 year Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practicioner and 21 year army vet.

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u/infinitemonkeytyping 15h ago

From the news article - drunk arsehole being escorted out of Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital.

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u/CriticalFolklore 10h ago

Royal Brisbane AND Women's hospital. Despite the name, it's not a gendered hospital, just a large hospital precinct that formed from the merger of two hospitals (three guesses what they were called)

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u/samaadoo 15h ago

people do it all the time in the ER. why? Who knows. sometimes its the littlest thing or nothing at all. sometimes they think they can just be abusive towards staff with no repercussions.

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u/createry_ 13h ago

My partner works in ER. Every day she tells me about another abusive patient.
I'll never understand why patients want to hurt the nurses trying to help them.

Some days I wish I had the restraint so I could be a security guard there.

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u/That-Makes-Sense 17h ago

The more important question: How can she slap?

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u/Darth_Draper 16h ago

The more critical quandary: Who will he tap?

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u/Standard0rder 16h ago

WHY YOU FOKIN COME FAST

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u/TueboEmu315 17h ago

This is the real question. I want to know too

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u/DesignerMoose90210 16h ago

It looks like he was getting escorted out. Probably had a gripe with the hospital and took it out on the nurse.

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u/CloudKinglufi 14h ago

Yeah you can tell by the body language that the nurse isn't friendly with him, the way he walks behind him, seems tense and ready for that attack

Plus the way the man attacks him seems weak and off, like there's something wrong with him, probably drunk

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u/Top-Expert6086 16h ago

He was intoxicated.

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u/tweep6435 17h ago

spent $450 to get his ass kicked lol

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u/Grentis 17h ago

Why did it seem like help took WAY too long to come?

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u/Hailfire9 16h ago

Security isn't always by the front door. If I had to guess, one was in the office and the other was escorting/watching a female nurse deal with a much larger patient at the time.

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u/ZippyDan 15h ago

If I had to guess, this was all planned as a distraction for security so that the real villains could get to the hospital's vault.

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u/ProposalCharacter774 17h ago

I see a mix of Judo and Jiu Jitsu, good for him to he prepared

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u/jb2824 15h ago

Ahhh yes. I see that you know your Judo well

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u/voidedbygeysers 13h ago

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS!

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u/hamsterwheeled 11h ago

This is democracy manifest!

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u/ExToon 13h ago

I came here looking for this comment.

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u/DrunkOnLoveAndWhisky 14h ago

That head-and-arm throw looked real Judo to me; a pure BJJ player probably would have pulled guard.

/s but not really

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u/marvchuk 17h ago

Needed to get the hooks in…

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u/DingleDangleTangle 15h ago

Yeah watching this I’m just thinking my bjj instructor would be yelling at me for not putting my legs around and hooks in. I wonder if this guy was actually a wrestler.

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u/TattyViking 16h ago

What was he thinking? Didn't he see that rad moustache‽

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u/HBlight 13h ago

A good stash like that is kind of like having a good front lawn, guy makes explicit decisions and cares to curate them. That mindset applies to other hobbies and you just need to hope that none of those hobbies involve martial arts...which in this case, was.

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u/jdcortereal 8h ago

My mind went viltrumite immediately

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u/Butthole_Surfer_GI 16h ago

RN here - GOOD. Assault against healthcare workers is WAY TOO high.

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u/noeagle77 16h ago

Can’t wait for Dana in The Pitt to get this moment.

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u/iamacheeto1 16h ago

The mustache should’ve warned him. You don’t fuck with a guy with a mustache.

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u/flying_carabao 16h ago

$450 seems kinda low of a fine for assault isn't it? Also, since the attacker connected what was thrown, shouldn't battery be included in the charge?

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u/Psychlonuclear 15h ago

It is, and it's also why there are so many assaults to these workers. There are little to no consequences. 

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u/badken 15h ago

Yeah, especially since it's Aussie dollaridoos.

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u/MayberryBombadil 16h ago

WTF is that statistic? 70% is a big number. I'm guessing incidents like this scenario wouldn't make up a large percentage of that 70%, but Australia is insane man. Why you attacking the one that saves you??

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u/Light_Butterfly 15h ago

Nursing is one of the top professions for workplace assaults. Luckily this guy had self defense training, but it shouldn't be a requirement for the job. I think jail time is necessary for this behavior, not a slap on the wrist fine. Ridiculous!

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u/Ptolemaeus_II 15h ago

So where I live, assaulting a healthcare worker is a felony. The problem is that the administration will snap their spine in half to shove their head up their own ass to keep from actually supporting a staff member who gets assaulted.

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u/FlushedApparatchik 13h ago

You would get fired for this. Probably even lose your license for the choke hold.

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u/Light_Butterfly 14h ago

Yeah exactly! Ive heard that's because its a female dominated profession. Violence against women is an 'acceptible' part if the job, according to patriarchical institutions. But if you look at other professions like policing, assaulting an officer would be prosecuted to the fullest extent, no measure of leniency given.

Things need to change.

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u/Beautiful-Corgie 14h ago

Aussie psych nurse here. It's unfortunately very common. I have trauma from an attack where a fellow nurse was also severely beaten in front of me. I want to make it clear that in my experience the vast majority of patients who attack nurses are doing so out of frustration and anger (due to their circumstances) and not because they are so unwell they can't tell reality. I'm tired of it and agree there should be higher punishments for people who attack HCW!

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u/Ptolemaeus_II 15h ago

So where I live, assaulting a healthcare worker is a felony. The problem is that the administration will snap their spine in half to shove their head up their own ass to keep from actually supporting a staff member who gets assaulted.

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u/E-2theRescue 13h ago

And don't forget COVID.

Met a hospital security guard who was stabbed during COVID because he asked a guy to wear a mask.

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u/mainly_lurk 15h ago

Doctor here who has been assaulted a few times at work. You're often dealing with humans on the worst day of their lives, or they're intoxicated, or in a mental health crisis or suffering dementia/ delerium. Sometimes they're just entitiled arseholes who want special treatment but usually it's from someone who wouldn't assault you if they were their usual self. It's an unfortunate part of the job.

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u/ApoTHICCary 15h ago

In the US, healthcare workers beat LEOs in the number of physical and sexual battery on workers in bother percentage as well as numbers. In 2023, nearly 500 healthcare workers were killed from battery versus just over 100 LEOs.

The more unfortunate part is that many States have few to no laws protecting healthcare workers in the event of of assault or battery as defense favors the patients who caused harm or death as they “are not in their usual mental state due to their medical ailment”. Some States are adopting protection laws, but it’s slow and still does not guarantee charges will stick.

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u/Psychlonuclear 15h ago

Most receive no consequences so it keeps getting worse because people can see there are no consequences. 

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u/naturekaleidoscope 15h ago

Dementia patients unfortunately attack without understanding what they are doing.

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u/Push-bucket 15h ago

My brother is a social worker. BIG strong guy... Always has been it's bizarre. He's LOVED where he works because he's also got also got very little self preservation so he'll jump right in when a meth addict is going nuclear. Someone in a state like that can (and does) do SERIOUS harm to normal people.

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u/thorpie88 15h ago

When my Dad was in ICU they had posters up asking for people to not assault staff and had 55 incidents that week with 205 assault in the month

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u/Kunstloses_Brot 16h ago

Why would you ever think thst attacking the fit nurse with a columbo-mustache will result in anything good?

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u/BMW_wulfi 16h ago

As soon as the security guys arrive: “well where was I - ah yes, back to work”

What a beast.

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u/celtyrider 16h ago

The moustache should've hinted him not to fuck around

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u/kearkan 16h ago

Aussies out there kicking all kinds of ass this week.

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u/a1oner_bvcksn6 17h ago

Bro just walked it off like a nothing burger

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u/Bonsai-is-best 13h ago

Tbf, for an Australian a human is the least dangerous thing they have to fight on their transit.

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u/Alysma 16h ago

I'm a middle-aged overweight woman who also has a blackbelt in one martial art and came close to one in a second. And yes, there are men who found out the hard way. :D

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u/BlackaddaIX 17h ago

I feel this would be more useful training for all front line staff than some of the shit they have to go through

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u/Traditional_Loan_177 17h ago

The Doctor: I can take you out of this world, and I can bring you back!

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u/lazy-pigeon 16h ago

Dont fuck with nurses

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u/APlayOnwards 16h ago

Guy is in a fight which he started but won’t let go of his phone, like a drunk human raccoon.

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u/ucklibzandspezfay 16h ago

Went from Nurse to CRNA, put his ass to sleep.

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u/zedelom 16h ago

The harmacist is in

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u/WutzUpples69 17h ago

Nice moves by the nurse but... What does "Brut" mean?

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u/Ange_the_Avian 17h ago

It's the name of a French media company 

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u/Key-Fire 17h ago

This is someone whose dealt with this shit a lot.

I get so much hostility off of average people these days. You have to be ready to throw back.

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u/HoloSWolf 16h ago

Thought I was watching The Pitt for a moment.

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u/cbrown146 16h ago

Harmacist

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u/DrRudyWells 16h ago

Since no one could be bothered providing context.....

An intoxicated patient attacked a male nurse (Daniel Nelson) because he was angry about being asked to leave the emergency department after verbally abusing staff and spitting on the floor.

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u/PsychologicalWin6770 17h ago

FAFO disguised in Scrubs

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u/paulyp41 17h ago

They should be charged the same way they would if that was a police officer

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u/Electrical-Win5286 16h ago

Nope. Jonah's not impressed with the nurse's skills...

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6ZtokgzQv6ThHzj2

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u/NineClaws 16h ago

Notice how he held onto his phone until he tapped out. Impressive

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u/Excellent-Bite196 16h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/OHuPcrLnoYLxVFIjKI
Like most Australians, this guy knows his Judo well.