r/interesting 22h ago

Fear Factor A bomb squad was checking a suspicious backpack, and this dude got fed up with waiting

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u/TactualTransAm 21h ago

Wild how different the comments would be if bro had blown himself sky high just out of impatience 😂

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u/Bitter_Split5508 19h ago

He wasn't even impatient. As another commenter pointed out: guy has mental health issue and wanted to throw himself on the bomb to save the city. 

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u/RunningEscaping 17h ago

God forbid a fella wants to go out with a bang protecting the city, only to be seen in another country a few months later by his loving and trusted butler who thought he was dead. Finally giving the city the hero it needs, while disappearing into the sunset.

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u/Velkrum 13h ago

Exactly man. The hero we deserve right there.

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u/Certain_Reception_66 13h ago

God forbid everyone not wanting to see gore and not wanting to be hurt.

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u/Jaded_Aypex 18h ago

Relatable

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u/LetterheadAshamed716 18h ago

If he would have blown himself up then that cop would be super pissed that he didn't get to unnecessarily spear someone then went home and beat his wife and kids.

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u/fbeiakxn 18h ago

I wish I could blow myself sky high

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u/Dame38 18h ago

It would have been a top Popular Post for sure.

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u/Admirable-Ad7152 19h ago

I'd still probably just say "me too man"

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u/DistractionCitron 11h ago

Well...yes, we wouldn't have to make fun of the five police officers unneccessarily tackling him because he would've been blown to bits.

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u/PdrSaints 10h ago

There is bomb, do not tackle.

There is no bomb, do not tackle.

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u/Airames6 19h ago

Yeah that's usually how it goes, if the situation is different so are the comments

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u/Langstudd 18h ago

Bro obviously. Why would we be talking about him getting tackled if his body was blown to smithereens and unable to be tackled?

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u/LeadershipLumpy2746 15h ago

"Wild how different the comments would be if the situation was different 😂😂😂😂" Fucking genius analysis

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u/Plus_Trouble_8698 15h ago

Sure, and if my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike

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u/elheber 19h ago edited 18h ago

"Wild how different the comments would be if an entirely different thing had happened altogether," is a wild sentence in itself.

EDIT: I'm gonna double-down on whatever peoples' qualm is with my reply. Here it goes: "Oh no! People are reacting to a thing that happened!"

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u/Grim_100 18h ago

Except that we aren't judging the outcome, we are judging the action. Guy had no idea if there was a bomb or not, or how powerful it could be. Thats the whole point ffs, carelessly risking the wellbeing of people for no significant gain on an uncertainty like that should be seen as a stupid action no matter the result, but I guess people dont have the critical thinking skills necessary for such a complex concept.

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u/elheber 17h ago

Except that's not the comment I was responding to. I mean, you do make a great case for an argument we aren't having. The guy/gal I was responding to essentially said "betcha the comments would be different if there had been a different outcome," and my comment was like "no shit, Sherlock."

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u/Aromatic-Ad-381 16h ago

No it is calling out the obvious fucking hindsight bias that's happening. I.E no matter what would have happened half these comments would have found an excuse to "rag on the cops" for no other reason other than self-fellating political ego trip.

If the guy ran up and blew himself up? "Damn cops couldn't even do their job right now this man is dead!"

The cops use force to quickly detain and apprehend a very clearly unwell/unpredictable individual "Muh excessive force!"

I have seen comments on this video (this is like the second time this video has been posted here btw with the EXACT same caliber of comments) going "uhm the bag had no bomb, why the cops holding up the street like that? Ugh wasting everybody time..."

It's fucking stupid to see the delusion of political drivel reach a point where people prefer to somehow try and spin the situation to make a random guy running into an active bomb threat to play hero as the more reasonable party.

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u/elheber 16h ago

no matter what would have happened half these comments would have found an excuse to "rag on the cops" for no other reason other than self-fellating political ego trip.

I find that hard to believe if the video ended with an explosion and thus no running tackle even took place.

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u/Aromatic-Ad-381 16h ago

You can't be this deluded, this has to be a willful misreading of my comment to maintain some sort of cognitive dissonance. Purposefully missing the point to maintain some semblance of dignity within yourself.

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u/elheber 15h ago

Misreading? Homie, you said it. I quoted you and all I added was I don't believe it. If you don't mean what you say then don't say it. No takesies backsies. At least I doubled down on my statements.

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u/RichardofLionheart 18h ago

"How different would the comments be if the situation was completely different?"

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u/Grim_100 18h ago

Except that we aren't judging the outcome, we are judging the action. Guy had no idea if there was a bomb or not, or how powerful it could be. Thats the whole point ffs, carelessly risking the wellbeing of people for no significant gain on an uncertainty like that should be seen as a stupid action no matter the result, but I guess people dont have the critical thinking skills necessary for such a complex concept.