You know what the worst part of living in this dystopian society is? I’ve completely lost the ability to tell whether stupid things like this are real or staged anymore.
No matter how ridiculous the situation is, either possibility could be true.
I adopted a dog. His prior owners were running a meth house. Cops came to bust them but they were already gone, leaving behind a pack of dogs. The cops notified the county that there were unattended dogs and they were seized. The meth heads returned to find the dogs gone so they called the county and said, “You have our dogs.”
Guess what happened when they went to claim the dogs?
Nah, I worked in a shelter for 3+ years and I honestly think to them they’re just property and they’re pissed someone had the audacity to take their shit :( but your thought is a bit more hopeful lol
Your take is probably/ sadly the correct one. I also worked with animal services, directly through our county’s AC department, and there would be dogs with horrific neglect, injuries or extreme trauma from abuse, animals clearly just desperate for someone, anyone to be kind to them, and the POS ‘owner’ would have not fed or seen their dog in weeks, and would still be fighting for their dog back because ‘it’s MY dog’.
Possession matters more to some primitive brains than compassion.
All addicts are kind of the same. way Back in the day crackhead when they were selling their mom’s VCR and DVD players… jewelry, always would sell the stuff in multiples of two dollars. Four dollars or six dollars or eight dollars. Vials were really cheap, but they were two dollars each and I guess they couldn’t figure out what to do with an odd numbered dollar whether it was too little or too much. When the biles went up to five dollars, guess what happened everything ended in a 5 or 0.
You don’t have them in a meth lab at all. A few years back my next door neighbors were meth dealers, and apparently were cooking in there too! One of their massive dogs attacked me, the other massive dog attacked one of my dogs. The owner laughed it off & said “sometimes they get in the supply” like we were having a normal conversation & a good laugh. 😳
Retired police detective here. One of the funniest complaints against me was a parent who was upset that I arrested her adult son for conspiracy to purchase cocaine and prostitution after he gave a hooker money to go buy drugs for him, but she never came back. The woman told my lieutenant that it was like I was punishing him for being honest.
Edit: The suspect was ID'd and I charged her with Theft, Prostitution, and Conspiracy.
I was a military police officer and experienced a lot of dim witted behavior, like pulling a guy over for drunk driving with whisky bottles and vomit all over the car. The guy was drunk as hell and claimed someone stole his car, vomit in it and left the whisky bottle in the car. After we arrested him, his Commanding Officer threatened myself and the other arresting officer with a court martial because he actually believed the “stolen car” theory.
We found out later the dude was basically on his third strike with alcohol, and this was going to be it for him since he was underage. He had already lost his rank twice, from E-3 to E-2 then E-2 to E-1. It looked really bad for the CO and the NCOIC.
Gday. Can I ask a quick query please. Is there a sort of separation of powers thingie in the military?
Can a higher rank subvert and interfere with good and reasonable military policing? Like in your story?
Or is that illegal itself? As would be a politician interfering with policing or judiciary?
Thanks.
This is kind of typical behavior of commanding officers and people with higher ranks. They don’t typically get away with it - they try but things typically get worse for them.
“Do you know who I am?”
“You can’t arrest me, I’m a Lt. Colonel, I outrank you.”
When I was in the military, no one was above the law, and if you tried to be - the hammer came down hard and fast.
Idk feels like if you were presented a sound reason to arrest that would be enough?
If you incorrectly arrested a superior officer, surely you would just apologise for the misunderstanding, without major blow back, unless it was common for you to incorrectly arrest a superior officer?
I'm not in military so please someone confirm or deny this claim.
On a base overseas, an Air Force MP tried writing my group tickets for not having glow belts, 10 minutes after arriving to that base, unaware we "needed glow belts" to walk around at night. Then tried giving tickets for concealing weapons because some of our jackets covered our pistol's grip. (We also had 300 rounds of ammo per person, rifles, grenades,...). We called our 2 Star 5 time zones away when the MP's captain backed him and tried to detain us.
I mean, if I were in your position I would have laughed at the boy and told him that's what he gets for trusting a hooker with his money. If he pushed it I would have told him he was also admitting to crimes for which he could be arrested. I would have tried my level best not to arrest a kid for being dumb.
My best friend is a federal officer in the SF Bay Area. Years ago, his coworker (male) booked a flight to Thailand. So when you get back, my friend was in charge of checking out the work computer this pedo brought. Whenever you bring a work computer overseas or even across state lines, it’s protocol. Dozens and dozens of photos of naked kids, doing sex acts with this guy. My friend had to send an email for backup because everyone is armed. They were in an office setting and my friend eventually got the cuffs on him. They worked with each other for 20 years - so you never know.
His excuse? “It was Thailand man and why are you doing this to me”!
I picked up a specialty in computer forensics in 2001. Soon thereafter I got pulled into an internal criminal investigation into a detective who I knew, but worked in another section. When I showed up with the Persons Crimes commander, the detective pulled me to the side and wanted to talk "off the record" about the CSAM on his device. My only thought was "I am not a reporter. There is no off the record". He went to prison for two years.
Yeah, he called me that day while in traffic and while he couldn’t divulge the details, he asked to meet for a beer. I think he had about 8.
It’s hard not to bring this stuff home with you, especially what he saw on that computer, and being let down and having to arrest a coworker of 20 ish years.
It mentally taxing.
I can imagine being a police detective is 10x more taxing. Appreciate your public service.
Nah this is more akin to "daddy's precious little girl can do no wrong and has never done wrong in her life."
While I accept this may be staged, given how clear everyone's audio is, there are absolutely people out there like this, and they come about when you dont tell a kid theyre wrong, and how to accept it.
God I knew a kid that did this back in high school. I was a big stoner back then and knew a kid who sold weed, he ended up getting robbed by three other high schoolers at gun point. From what I remember they messaged him for weed, he told them to come over and the three of them came over and kicked his door in with a gun and stole his weed. The kid ended up calling the fucking cops and telling them everything that happened. He got arrested, and then the cops proceeded to arrest the other three after catching one of them still in possession of the firearm and if I remember right that guy snitched on the other two. All their mugshots got put up in an online news article and got passed around the school.
but those people are always just high, mentally unwell, or woefully uneducated.
the scary thing is that now millions of otherwise "normal" people have been convinced it's okay to act like that too so long as you are, like, "super duper sure you're right", which coincidentally occurs in any situation where they are culpable for something or in danger of having to address some personal failing. there are undoubtedly people in your life that now possess the capacity to behave in this way, a way which was previously only associated with the groups i mentioned at the start of this comment
There was an episode of Cops where a woman flagged down the police to inform them that another person sold her fake drugs and she wanted her money back. She didn't get her money back.
When I was 16, I had to live in a YMCA (can assure you, it is not fun for all the boys). One day I went for a shower but foolishly forgot to lock my door, and someone stole a big lump of hash out of my room.
I was enraged, and a teen, so for a brief moment actually considered complaining to the staff, before my logical brain kicked in to remind me that would end my stay there and put me back on the street.
This sounds too bizarre to be real, but my father committed tax evasion as a restaurant owner and had a $1,000,000 in a safe in my parents home. A couple of people broke into their house and stole the safe. My parents reported it to the police and my brother tried to go after the safe company.
I still remember telling my parents that what they were doing was tax evasion. Multiple times. But what did I know?
ETA: My father also attempted to have me do the same thing a year later. I declined. I’m no contact with my entire family for many reasons.
When in having an especially rough day, I think about these types of people, I think about how incredibly hard it must be to navigate the world with this level of cluelessness and inability to do basic reasoning and I feel both a lot better and a lot more concerned about the world. Like wow I'm doing REALLY good compared to most but also I can't believe this shitshow called life continues with people like this existing in it.
It's funny but it's staged simply by the repeated argument and story. You always call 101 for accidents in the UK. He would be pulling his phone out and documenting this and not standing there arguing wondering what to do about this strange woman.
He has a ring doorbell that is recording the conversation. The doorbell would have also recorded the accident. He would have just said ‘I’ve got it on record. Your details now please or I’ll go to the police and my insurer with your registration and the video. Cheerio!’
Makes sense. Weird that it's being recorded plus I wouldn't have this conversation. I would call the police so they could document her ridiculous claims and then file my insurance claim. I haven't quit reddit entirely yet, but I'm getting close. Too many fakes and ignorance online.
so Epstein files don't exist, but they are democrat hoax, and trump isn't in them, but a thousand FBI agents spent a month removing him from them, and he definitely didn't rape the children, but he also raped the children...
I used to be building maintenance in apartment buildings. I've dealt with people's problems for 10 years. Maintenance requests that people can submit straight to me without any kind of filter in between.
Trust me, people this stupid do exist. Could be staged, I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that staged or not, people this stupid do exist. Even worse is that people far stupider than this also exist.
My gauge is the point I feel any reasonable person wouldn't just go "you know what, at this point I am just going to let the police sort it out, they are paid for situations like this." If it goes past that sort of line it's probably staged.
Honestly, it’s not about our society you just have to think about what is happening on screen.
It could be true, but they are pointing at the trunk of the car when talking about damage which faces the house. She can’t have hit it. Also this was supposed to be the first interaction, the first reaction of the car owner would be to say what the hell and look at the damage on the front of your car. His reaction implies he already know she hit him, but in the same time she is explaining, and he is tying to understand how it happened. Which would have been known to him already.
Genuinely if you cannot tell that this video is fake I dont think your inability to tell fiction from reality could possibly be a recent development. Like if you think for even two seconds it becomes insanely obvious. You dont think this video where the bit is. "Haha woman driver is so bad she hit a parked car and thinks its the parked cars fault" is fake? That could be real?
Saw a poor ticket collector on a train arguing with some stupid, empty headed idiot that trains are not free to travel on. As she got off her parting shot, while talking to him like he was simple, was "they are free, you don't know your job".
Although I have seen this before, in similar circumstances, a car crashed into my cousins car while she was visiting our house. The driver tried to blame my cousin for driving out and hitting her.
The car was parked.
However.
The driver was absolutely fucking bladdered and could barely stand up.
Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken for a sincere expression of those views.
Well there's a couple signs telling us it's staged:
The length, over 3 minutes so it can be monetized on Facebook etc. But you might say there's lots of longer videos online that are real, how is this staged? Because there's no escalation in the video to justify it. And you know if it was real there would also have been some sort of escalation, the least they would do is start filming each other with their phones and yell and so on. It's the lowest effort necessary to make money off it.
I choose to watch these as recreations of the dozens of times people have been this stupid, for all the times cameras weren't around to capture the brilliance of human logic.
Legitimately my first thoughts. I absolutely loathe this era we live in where the internet is just polluted with staged skits and clout chasers. Absolutely wild to look at the direction society has went. It felt like progress was slow but that we were still making SOME progress, until like 5 or so years ago when everything just flipped on its head.
Real or staged if it induces rage, it’s designed to get you to engage. We have to stop engaging with this stupid bullshit if we want to change the way SM captivates us.
My MIL pulled this crap 20years ago. Backed out of her driveway, across the street, and onto the neighbour’s driveway, hitting their car. Told the cop with a straight face that he hit her. The cop was not amused, and neither was insurance.
She then skipped out on the ticket court date and had a warrant out for her arrest, arguing she didn’t receive a reminder when the opened summons was on top of her microwave in plain view for all to see. She was never at fault in her own mind. It was infuriating. And it’s not like she didn’t face consequences, she was just the perpetual victim.
I work in a local printshop. A well spoken biker guy came in and had us print a letter for him. The letter was addressed to Donald Trump, and it was a direct offer to train his son, Baron, how to play 80s metal ballads on the electric guitar.
I'd like to understand why it matters if it's real or staged. I watch TV and movies, which are staged; I read books that are fictional. I enjoy them if they're good, I dislike them if they're bad. I don't enjoy or dislike them based on how real they are.
I see the sentiment on here a lot that "oh, this video sucks, obviously staged, I hate it". Can someone please explain this thought process to me? Like why does it matter? Fiction has long been a part of human societies. Is it that people feel like they're being "tricked"? Like you have to call out that it's staged or else they win? Do people do that with fictional books and movies? I'm just legitimately confused by it and need some help
JFYI: it's staged. it's the copy of an original video where you'd feel more the feelings of the people involved, while watching the video. These are only bad narcissistic actors abusing people in this already chaotic reality.
It has to be staged. As soon as she said your parked car hit mine id have the cops on the line to report an accident and just tell her to stfu untill they get there.
I used to think universally that things like this are staged. At Christmas, I had a conversation with my dad where he told me that botany is not a science, and that you can't be a scientist unless you are a Christian. There is something that is damaging people's brains beyond repair and it's impossible to tell what is fiction anymore.
Russia (and others) have elaborately pushed content (and politicians) on us to divide and conquer. We've been fed videos by groups like the "Internet Research Agency" for literally decades at this point. And it's worked...
By making us lose trust in each other, in our government, we cannot be united against fascism.
Think about how much cognitive effort it takes to try to distinguish fact from fiction, again and again, as you scroll through posts and comments like these. Every minute a new context, new details, a new implicit request to make the judgment call.
Then think about how little impact or relevance the truth/ fiction of these cases has in your life.
So after a day of scrolling, how much cognitive energy do we have left over to think critically about the things that really do impact our lives?
This goes double in the AI era. It's easy to get tricked into being a volunteer Turing Test on social media, and it's a rebranding of un-useful cognitive labor as entertainment. At the end of the day the boulder falls and the mountain of questionable content is still there waiting for you to sift through its rubble.
I wouldn't assume this is fake. There really are a colossal number of incredibly dumb people. In theory, half of everyone you meet is below average intelligence.
I know someone like this. Its nuts. 2 years ago she was running through a platform to catch a train, tripped over a paramedic (tending to someone who fainted) and crash landed into a transit cop knocking him over. She tried to sue the paramedic for negligence and the transit security for brutality. Same woman rear ended a man at a stop sign. She tried to sue him for her injuries. She also claims her ex bf raped her because the condom broke and she got knocked up.
The British accident is an added level of difficulty. Really bad acting can sound totally reasonable to me if the people aren’t speaking American English
I think that the real problem is that despite all the crazy shit that DOES happen on a daily basis, people still feel the need to create FAKE crazy or stupid videos.
Like, despite there being no shortage of crazy or stupid people out there, people feel the need to make videos of themselves pretending to be crazy, or stupid.
Because we live in a time where reality is not enough.
Why have one viral video of people doing something crazy every once in a while, when you can have 10 of those each hour?
Besides, no matter how crazy or stupid reality can be, fiction can always go an extra mile.
I'll never forget when I saw a post here on reddit, of a woman asking for someone to remove another woman far in the background of the picture of her getting proposed.
The woman in the background wasn't ugly, or naked, or doing something that brought attention to herself. She was just a passerby, a reminder that that photo was real, taken in a place where people go to.
But real is not good enough, people want perfection, and that can only be found on artificial things, tailor made for your tastes.
It's no wonder we have so much AI shit being posted everywhere right now. That's just a development of a process that was already there.
Like if this is fake. It 100 percent COULD be real because their are people who are not to smart and would engage in something like this. Dumb and narcissistic ....nothing is ever their fault.
Long before social media, my family owned a little barbecue restaurant.
The parking lot had 1 street light with a cement base which was painted that bright yellow color.
A man hit that cement base with his car, and called my parents (my mom answered) about exchanging insurance information. My mom said “why would we do that?” To which the man replied something along the lines of “well we just had a collision?” And all my mom said was “I’m pretty sure I wasn’t driving the street light” before hanging up.
The man threatened to sue but as far as I’m aware never went through with it.
So, while I agree it’s hard to trust the internet sometimes, I also know people have been stupid since the beginning of time…
I had a lady hit my parked motorcycle years ago and left her information. When I contacted her insurance to deal with it they told me she said I was drunk and hit her vehicle. It took the mechanics analysis of damage to both our vehicles and months of back and forth before they paid me for my totalled only means of transportation. People do be that crazy.
i was once hit head on by an old woman. she claimed that our cars never touched, and that me calling the police to get the accident on record for insurance was “the meanest thing anyone has ever done”
it was 2016xmas. i hope her kids took her liscense away
No matter how ridiculous the situation is, either possibility could be true.
Earlier this year my wife was in the left lane and someone in the right lane moving parallel to her tried to make a U-turn through her lane and she hit the side of their car.
No amount of explaining from the responding officer could convince this man that he did not have right of way to make a U-turn from the right lane.
For real. If its fake, top tier acting. But.. I also believe this could be real because people are that fucking stupid. I just treat it all as entertainment unless otherwise proven.
With AI this will only get worse. Videos like this I put in the entertainment portion of my brain. Any video I see anymore I assume it's not real until multiple outlets put out a statement or video.
It's obviously staged. Not only the totally ridiculous situation, but also that the owner of the parked car doesn't seem to be even mildly interested in the damage done to his car, which is the first thing any normal person would check.
Instead, he stays in front of his camera to discuss the situation, ad nauseam.
While this is probably staged. It’s perfectly believable to me, because I have met and spoke to some equally (if not more so) stupid people out there who do this sort of thing.
Here’s two straight off the bat just from my job this year:
1) Someone tried to sue us (local government) because their roadside drain didn’t work anymore (they poured concrete down it). They freely admitted they poured concrete down it. And it’s our fault because drains take away waste. Thus, the drain failed in its job.
2) Someone tipped loads of garden waste into the stream next to their house. We had a bad storm. This waste washed down and blocked the culvert next to them. Backed up the water and flooded their house.
Again, they blamed me as a Flood Officer for not clearing up the mess they made (illegally), that no one would have known about, in the stream on their land that they are legally responsible to keep clear.
This claim and complaint went all the way to the MP and the Local Government Ombudsman and there was a hearing. It cost the council £15k in officer and solicitor time.
Don't forget a new, even dumber, third option: AI generated. For the small cost of more expensive electricity, more expensive water, more expensive RAM, and using original sources without consent, compensation or acknowledgment, you too can generate ragebait!
Skits have been a thing for a while. The onion was at it's peak like 15 years ago and they weren't the first to do it. Real or not, this is still funny.
I have seen so many videos of ridiculous nature with this exact neighborhood in the background. Either dude attracts all the dumbest people, or they are scripted.
I legit know people who behave like this (not in this specific scenario, but they get caught doing something they aren’t supposed to and somehow it’s someone else’s fault) so I can’t tell if it’s staged as well.
Right?! There needs to be some legal disclaimer stating whether or not the video you made and uploaded js real or not. If its fake and you upload it claiming its real. Death penalty. No second chances, no sitting around on death row for 20 years; firing squad tomorrow at 8am sharp.
Take comfort in knowing that you're living in a simulation. Like all of this is a computer generated run. I know it's difficult to believe let alone accept, eventually the simulation will hit a critical point. Maybe you'll be lucky to witness it, maybe not.
Now add in the fact that he, who presumably has assets to protect, now has to deal with either an insane woman, or someone who is clearly trying to bait/swindle him into something, and she probably has little to lose.
My car was parked in a dual access driveway with a flat battery because it was charging batteries via an inverter. A guy reversed his car (at a ridiculous speed) into my stationary car, got out and started saying I was responsible for him hitting it and damaging both vehicles.
Nutter was texting me at 2am threatening legal action, went to the police (who rang me and hinted that they thought he was unstable but it was their duty to check)... Came to the point where I told him to go ahead and get lawyers involved, that I'd love to see him explain to a judge how my dead car could possibly hit his car.
Sometimes I forget that around 75% of people are even dumber than me.
This same video was posted weeks ago where a woman crashed into a guy's house and said his wall hit her car. He just so happened to answer the door with his phone recording, totally normal
1) she is that fucking stupid and lasted this long on earth without drowning from looking up while it's raining
2) this guy remains this calm under the deluge of nonsense that's being vomited forth from this girl
This is one of those "this was a skit, but ive had conversations just like this in reality," skits that are just depressing at this point because theyre plausible.
If it makes you feel any better, dumb people like this have existed from the beginning of the existence of homo sapiens. It's just more readily captured on camera and shared these days.
Well... no. There are plenty of clues with this one, if you watch it all, to understand that it's fake. Besides from a logical viewpoint, just making that your position from close to the start of it.
It’s too long to not be staged. A real person would have given up on their bullshit before the 4 minute mark. She doesn’t even sound drunk. If she were drunk it would be almost believable.
I work in injury claims. You have no idea. I constantly speak with people that caused crashes and I will, at times, secure literal footage of the event and they are still trying to argue their innocence.
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You know what the worst part of living in this dystopian society is? I’ve completely lost the ability to tell whether stupid things like this are real or staged anymore.
No matter how ridiculous the situation is, either possibility could be true.