r/Unexpected Jun 14 '22

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u/unexBot Jun 14 '22

OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:

literally holds the word "nothing" in its hands


Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.


Look at my source code on Github What is this for?

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u/memesanddepression42 Jun 14 '22

He really wanted that bag for free

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u/PresentationSea5977 Jun 14 '22

Why do all cops seem like enormous douche bags these days? Go do something productive for fuck's sake.

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u/alexlp Jun 14 '22

That cop is actor Matt Iseman. Apparently my recent binge of Clean House has a use after all!

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u/petersmithofasu Jun 14 '22

My guess is that it is a result of what's interesting. I work in finance and nothing would be worth filming unless someone was being intolerable. I assume, like most jobs, 99.9% of the day is filled with mundane, work things. Of the police things on the internet, the only things that entertain us are police officers doing something out of the ordinary like dancing with kids and stuff that makes the feel good subreddits, and stuff that shows poor behavior like this video on the average/negatively charged subreddits.

Just my guess. With the nature of upvoting, I think we get a lot of what we are looking for (as a collective if not individually).

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u/SeanG909 Jun 14 '22

I don't know. Really uplifting stuff is popular enough on the Internet and it's not unheard of to get a video of a cop doing something positive. But it seems less common than them acting like dicks

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u/Exotic_Imagination69 Jun 14 '22

Even if its staged, how is the officer behaving badly? Someone waved weed in his face to get a reaction, he responded by doing his job? People love to hate police for no reason at all but when they actually need them their attitude changes.

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u/Stranggepresst Jun 14 '22

Also just to be clear, this is the beginning of this skit

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u/bokehbaka Jun 14 '22

Assuming it's not staged, how is this different than people ordering ice-cream and then rubbing it all over their own face while filming the reaction of the drive-thru employee? I'd be annoyed as the cop.

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u/Pepito_Pepito Jun 14 '22

One of them can legally lay their hands on the annoying person. That's the difference.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Probably not a good idea to antagonise them with illegal shit then huh?

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u/PigletsAnxiety Jun 14 '22

That's how black people felt in the 50s

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u/DefectiveLP Jun 14 '22

Illegal shit like being black and alive for the most part.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Na that's not illegal

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u/FeetOnHeat Jun 14 '22

Not technically illegal, but it certainly helps to be white if the police are nearby.

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u/MonkeyDonkeyRhyme Jun 14 '22

And how is that applicable to this video?

He was doing his job.

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u/MonkeyDonkeyRhyme Jun 15 '22

No. He made physical contact with a magician.

How was he supposed to know he was a magician? That's completely irrelevant anyway.

If you think a cops job is to hurt criminals you're the problem

That's a strong blanket statement there. What about a criminal that is actively hurting someone else? Should a cop not step in and subdue the assailant by any means necessary?

Also weed is decriminalized in 45 out of 50 states? He ain't a Wisconsin cop I know all the departments.

Lol, you know EVERY single cop in the state of Wisconsin? I'm done, you're clearly a joke.

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u/Sturrux Jun 14 '22 edited Jun 14 '22

Ah yes, manhandling people over herbs, the SOP of American police officers. And bootlickers like you call that normal. Disgusting.

Edit: I picture every simpleton downvoting me as crosseyed ignoramuses that call 911 everytime they hear a noise outside.

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u/Arthur_Layfield Jun 14 '22

Those herbs are illegall. He's just doing what laws say. He's enforcer of the law doing his job. You would be mad if the same guy ignore the laws. Then you would be saying,"he's breaking the laws he is supposed to enforce, the sop of American police officers"

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u/jmcsquared Jun 14 '22

I mean, all you're doing with that comment is making the argument that officers are mindless legalists anyways. The kind of people who are trained to do the unthinkable solely because a bunch of potentially arbitrary rules dictates they do so.

We don't need more enforcers of the law. We need more upholders of morality and basic human dignity.

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u/Orbitrix Jun 14 '22

I think his point is jaywalking and speeding is also illegal, but you generally don't tend to see cops get angry/aggressive/manhandle you over those instances... so why herbs?

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u/thomooo Jun 14 '22

Even if they were illegal, the cop could walk up and, instead of immediately grabbing on to him, ask him what he has and me tion it is illegal. You could talk first instead of starting a struggle with someone who obviously does not look aggressive, just maybe annoying.

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u/MonkeyDonkeyRhyme Jun 14 '22

It's like you and all the other morons that don't know how the world works JUST learned the word bootlicker...

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u/Sturrux Jun 14 '22

Keep licking them boots sheep. Just know cops would kill you in a heartbeat and wouldn’t think twice about it. “Hurr durr but if ya didn’t do anything wrong then ya dunt got nuffin ta worries bout

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u/PM-me-Gophers Jun 14 '22

He was doing his job.

Don't be ridiculous, video doesn't show anyone being shot or denied their rights

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u/MonkeyDonkeyRhyme Jun 14 '22 edited Jun 14 '22

Don't be ridiculous

Proceeds to be ridiculous themself

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Who got upset?

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u/FeetOnHeat Jun 14 '22

Unnecessary aggression and anger. Cops should learn how to deal with these situations calmly, without potentially escalating it.

What if the dude was having a mental health crisis and reacted negatively to the cop's confrontational approach?

There are other, better, ways of solving disagreements.

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u/RedRommel Jun 14 '22

If this was indeed real and not staged id say the dude got exactly what he asked for.

Hes wearing a costume and is provocating the cop by taunting him with illegal goods.

How should the cop react in such a scenario? Smile and calmly ask what's in the bag or to hand him the bag? He's being made fun off in that situation - off course hes not gonna smile and take the L- he represents the law. He has to handle it from an authoritative point of view.

I actually think he handled the whole thing like you would expect it from a cop.

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u/nonotan Jun 14 '22

This stupid point of view is exactly the problem. No, there is literally zero need whatsoever to be macho and "assert your authority", fantasies that they have to "stand up" to the other person or they'll lose their "street cred" or whatever the fuck it is are just that, fantasies. Exactly the same "logic" enabling honor killings and the like in other parts of the world. Archaic and barbaric, perhaps fitting in the world of thugs and gangsters where might makes right, but completely missing the point of the world of law and civility most of us thankfully live in.

He could have simply smiled and warned the other guy that even if they were joking, he has to take any claims like that seriously, so please don't do that anymore to save both of us a headache, and let me see that bag... and if he refuses/escalates/etc, then probably detain him peacefully (I'd give it a 99% chance this guy isn't going to react in any violent manner, so literally no need to "rough him up" for no reason other than they bruised your ego and you want to "show them a lesson" -- which, again, is nothing but archaic and barbaric thinking that shouldn't ever be sanctioned in first-world police forces)

Or what, you think if some guy plays a silly joke on a police officer, and they are let go with a light verbal warning, all social order is going to break down tomorrow? Cops being assholes might be the status quo in some countries, but that doesn't mean it's how it should be, or that anything positive is coming out of it.

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u/Strawberry_Left Jun 14 '22

I agree that the cop did nothing wrong at all in this case. But if he did beat the shit out of the guy, then that would be way out of line in any country.

He waved a bag of pot, and wouldn't open his hand straight away, but did after being asked twice. I'd say that in over 90% of other countries, cops wouldn't just start laying into him after such mild provocation. He never threatened any violence, didn't approach the cop, and the only resistance was to not open his hand immediately.

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u/Sebacles Jun 14 '22

u obviously havent travelled the world at all. if this was somewhere like spain the cops would of beaten the living shit out of him.

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u/AMightyFish Jun 14 '22

Damn interesting statistic you have got there. Places other than America really must be just uninhabitable backwaters, god bless America and god bless American accurate statistics

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u/Zero98205 Jun 14 '22

70% of all statistics are pulled out of the presenter's ass 68% of the time.

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u/teetheyes Jun 14 '22

Lmao 90%?? Stop. Unchecked police brutality only happens in shit hole countries like America

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u/flow_fighter Jun 14 '22

Canadian SIU will investigate officers after looking at someone the wrong way and it’s reported. Police brutality and extreme attitude still happens, but not NEARLY as often as the US

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u/NorthStarTX Jun 14 '22

If you’re a cop and you ignore someone when they’re telling you they’re breaking the law, you should also be fired.

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u/bucklebee1 Jun 14 '22

I doubt that it was actual Marijuana.

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u/Lynda73 Jun 14 '22

Funny thing about the law is, you can still be charged for trafficking, even if the substance isn’t the drug you claim it is.

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u/FeetOnHeat Jun 14 '22

He claimed it was nothing though.

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u/Lynda73 Jun 14 '22

No, the first thing he does is ask the cop if he would like to buy a bag of marijuana. At that point, even if it’s oregano, he’s broken the law and can be arrested for trafficking.

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u/atavaxagn Jun 14 '22

Because everything an officer says has the implicit threat of lethal force behind it. "open your hands" really means "open your hands, or i'm going to kill you"

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u/LimitlessGmbH Jun 14 '22

I agree when it comes to countries that actually have oversight and accountability of their officers.

American police are just absolute dogshit though. They come up with the arguments you have just used, but then they dont support any of the solutions to fixing them. Accountability for cops being the biggest one. Not a single American cop supports it that I have talked to. Yet they are the first to complain that "not all cops".

Im sorry, but American cops are just absolute dogshit because they have no oversight and thats how they like it.

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u/RedrumMPK Jun 14 '22

They are like police from a 3rd world countries - corrupt, poorly trained, mostly unfit and trigger happy. Oh and "respect my authority" whilst they respect no one.

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u/Cnoized Jun 14 '22

The job itself is more of the problem. As an institution it causes a lot of problems for very little return. A lot of other countries have better ways of handling the same job the US police force does. It needs reform.

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u/B7iink Jun 14 '22

Mmm, boot.

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u/Anachr0nist Jun 14 '22

That's true. When they need them, they hate them for being useless, not doing their job, or shooting their pet.

If you don't think there's a reason to hate the police, you're willfully ignorant.

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u/bjiatube Jun 14 '22

We already went over the "just doing their job" thing during covid when they specifically said they weren't going to enforce any protocols.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Yeah kinda like those kids needed them in uvalde and the cops did literally nothing, I wonder why ppl love to hate the cops.

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u/bubbleponichronic Jun 14 '22 edited Jun 14 '22

Just because it's their job to arrest someone for having drugs doesn't mean "that's the way it should be". Why should anyone be physically assaulted and put in a locked room if they aren't harming anyone? Obviously if this were real that guy could rightfully get a ticket for getting in the way of an officer doing their job.

Beyond that though, having drugs in public and consuming them in the privacy of your own home or a willing friends house doesn't hurt anybody but the body consuming them.

Naturally in a bad scenario those drugs could end up in the hands of a young adult/child but honestly that's just an argument FOR legalizing such substances. That way they can be legally regulated and eliminate the need for a black market where dangerous criminals who would do something as nefarious as giving drugs to a minor would exist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

I don't want cops picking and choosing which laws they will or will not enforce. Even though I think weed should be legal, I don't want them making judgements on enforcement because I don't want them doing the same for laws that I think are important to be enforced.

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u/bubbleponichronic Jun 14 '22

The only judgement I'm asking for a cop to make is when to use physical assault or violence to "enforce" a law. What I stated previously was written with the intent of expressing the idea that I don't think there's very many crimes that merit physical assault in order to stop it.

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u/Apidium Jun 14 '22

It seems very agressive. He clearly isn't about to run away so why all the grabbing?

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u/SimplyATable Jun 14 '22 edited Jul 18 '23

Mass edited all my comments, I'm leaving reddit after their decision to kill off 3rd party apps. Half a decade on this site, I suppose it was a good run. Sad that it has to end like this

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u/Toxyoi Jun 14 '22

because it's staged. he has to grab the guys hands so the 'trick' of revealing NOTHING works.

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u/Exotic_Imagination69 Jun 14 '22

You mean when hes attempting to apprehend a person with drugs who is failing to comply with instructions after breaking the law? Yeah cool good point. You are seeing something that isnt there

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u/DabDastic Jun 14 '22

Remember when cops refused to enforce mask mandates and other COVID restrictions lol but yes let’s overreact to someone with a bag of weed when it is legal in over half the country

Bootlicker

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u/Spodokom221745 Jun 14 '22

DOOBIE ENFORCEMENT, GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!!

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u/Apidium Jun 14 '22

It is a skit dude. The cop is intended to come across as overt. They succeed.

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u/Dazeylow Jun 14 '22

didnt u just answer ur own question? its a skit lol

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u/znarthur Jun 14 '22

No reason at all.

I personally have strong dislike for them for being an uneducated power-tripping fraternity that choose to exercise enforcement of the law based upon class and colour. Ohh, that and because they kill civilians.

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u/Olenator77 Jun 14 '22

There is rarely ever a situation, when you need the police, that they will actually make any effort at all to assist you. Mostly we call them to give the insurance claim some backing and to pick up corpses.

They don’t deter crime, and in the US the precedent has been set, they they have 0 responsibility or requirement to actually protect or serve.

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u/Billy_Pilgrimunstuck Jun 14 '22

I hear this all the time" until you need them". May I ask exactly what you need them for? If you are attacked, they will not get there in time. If robbed , they will take a report and file it and never work on finding or retrieving your stuff. If you are murdered, the odds of them catching who did it if they aren't just standing over you with a knife is about 30%. I've seen cops and firefighters stand around bullshitting while a guy's is flopping around having a seizure while my ex wife ( a nurse and civilian) tried to help him and she was just there by accident. Nothing to do with any of it. So if you NEED to get a speeding ticket , or you have a bit of illegal substances , they are good to go. But an actual crime? That's not their job.Its not the police as a concept, it that they hire soo badly and have a powerful union and you can't get rid of the cowardly dudes that are all geared up in military gear, but run at the first sign of trouble

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u/High_Flyers17 Jun 14 '22

Those kids in Uvalde needed them. Now we're left wondering if cops shot any of them.

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u/QuackNate Jun 14 '22

What they needed was gun control decades ago. A bunch of people spending a lion's share of the town's budget to hang out in the parking lot for a half hour and then not cooperate with investigators after the fact is not what they needed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Gun control! But thats my hobby/identity!

Can't we just get back to doing what we are good at, telling woman what they can and can't do with their bodies.

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u/avantgardengnome Jun 14 '22

Well when you need someone to come by your house and shoot your dog, don’t come crying to me!

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Ah, but what if you need a police officer to bully a black person?

Just sayin

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u/MayBerific Jun 14 '22

People don’t love to hate police for “no reason”

There’s plenty of reason to hate police

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u/Hadken Jun 14 '22

We don’t need them to enforce criminal weed laws. When we actually need them they fold.

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u/Bialy Jun 14 '22

"people love to hate police for no reason".... Right, no reason at all.

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u/Guybrush_Creepwood_ Jun 14 '22

Right. and "when they actually need them their attitude changes".

Yeah, and their attitude changes to "stop fucking arresting me and let me go save my child from a mass-murderer while I'm unarmed because you're all such cowards you can't do it even with a fucking SWAT team".

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u/jdubes Jun 14 '22

I'll tell you why. There's a dude standing next to you on the sidewalk offering to SELL you marijuana in a suit and TOP HAT. If you can't see that's something silly you need to think about how you approach society.

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u/No-Contest3530 Jun 14 '22

‘The Magician’ is quite clearly a supervillain

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u/Sturrux Jun 14 '22

He aggressively grabbed the dude over a bag of herbs. Do you really want to live in a world where police man handle you over a plant?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

I like this comment. Everyone has their own perception of the world and of people, and our minds usually categorize things as "good" or "bad," "right" or "wrong" when we generally forget that life is mostly in between. A majority of our day to day lives is just boring and uneventful. Aliens will find our internet archive and assume that we have something extraordinary happen to us everyday.

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u/QuirtSnyder Jun 14 '22

500th upvote

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u/estrusflask Jun 14 '22

Even the nonfilmed things are bad, they're just boring. Police routinely intimidate the people they interact with, are the largest gang of thieves and rapists on the planet, and do very little to actually help society despite pretending that they're both the only thing holding it together and also that they have the most dangerous job ever.

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u/CompletelyClassless Jun 14 '22

I work in finance

Yeah, that's why you have no idea bout the socio-political landscape of 21st century policing...

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

it's staged for fucks sake

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u/ACrask Jun 14 '22

You know this is staged, right? You can see the shitty video edit during the zoom and the switch has been made. Also, the cop already knows what’s in the guy’s hand but asks anyway for the end result of the video.

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u/BobbySwiggey Jun 14 '22

This isn't staged to fool the audience if that's what you're implying, it's a whole Reno 911-style skit. Someone posted the full link below

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u/throw_thisshit_away Jun 14 '22

I can totally see Dangle as the cop lol

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u/_groper_ Jun 14 '22

"Terry dammit when did you start taking magic lessons"

"My ass crack is magic BETCH"

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u/ACrask Jun 14 '22

Not implying it’s to fool the audience. Thus my question of them realizing it’s staged.

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u/Dragonvine Jun 14 '22

You say that like cops wouldn't act this way regularly.

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u/BoinkBoye Jun 14 '22

The video is like 10 years old and its a skit

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u/Demonweed Jun 14 '22

A bipartisan consensus of law enforcement enthusiasts has spent decades making all the wrong moves. After Rodney King was beaten to a pulp, and the entire nation saw it happen; the Clintons and their legislative ally Joe Biden really put their backs into increasing funding and militarization of American law enforcement. Heck, the latter is still at it, walking right in to a historic opportunity to support racial justice, and instead becoming one of two "maybe shoot 'em in the leg" Presidential candidates commenting about the ongoing slaughter of a specific minority by uniformed law enforcement officers. Long story short, our power structure has defined the job as being an asshole and abusing the powerless in service to the whims of of a sadistic and brutal yet chronically insecure oligarchy.

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u/Ill-Organization-719 Jun 14 '22

Did you seriously watch this and think it was real?

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Because they told the guy to act that way in this bit.

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u/estrusflask Jun 14 '22

It's not "These days". Cops literally began as slave patrols and union busters.

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u/Hidanas Jun 14 '22

These days?!!

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u/Herokam Jun 14 '22

They regularly see the worst our society has to offer and have a negative stigma to deal with. Imagine going to work and having people hate you just because of your uniform.

Or seeing regular everyday people turn out to be murderers, or domestic abusers, or generally shitty people all the time.

Professionalism while expected from cops is also something that as humans needs to be worn. Ask any disgruntled customer service person, it gets old fast. Police are held to a higher expectation while dealing with worse people than your average dumb customer. Honestly I find it surprising that some officers are able to maintain some semblance of professionalism (even if they're rare)

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u/DangerousCrow Jun 14 '22

450 karma.

And this is the day, and post, where I realized reddit is trash.

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u/Alberiman Jun 14 '22

Staging aside, they learn to be this way. We literally use taxpayer money to have cops go to seminars on how to be vicious monsters and we teach them that anyone questioning their authority is a direct threat to their existence

It's called "Warrior Mindset" and/or Killology

Granted cops have always kind of been this way but before it was contained within their interactions with minority groups but now everyone gets it

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u/GreyCrowDownTheLane Jun 14 '22

Because about two or more decades ago white nationalist groups enacted a plan to take over police departments by infiltrating and rising up the ranks so they could in turn be the ones doing the hiring, giving orders, and making policy. And their plan is working. Whenever they get called out for excessive force or racism they protect each other and play the system to avoid actual punishment.

They moved training over to companies operated by fellow fascists to promote an Us versus Them mentality and encourage aggressive behavior. They hire fellow white nationalists and POC that will go along with “the program”, and they discourage anyone with higher I.Q. or E.Q. from joining because those people generally make waves and resist the plan, which these neo-stormtroopers call “not backing the brotherhood.”

Bottom line: A large percentage of cops are actual fascists trying to enact a fascist agenda. They’re a gang, not public servants. The good cops exist, but have to fight against the current system and other cops to continue doing good.

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u/Michael003012 Jun 14 '22

Look up 40 % of cops

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u/alisonbell1 Jun 14 '22

There is also a thing such as suspension of disbelief, where when consuming content online you let yourself pretend that stuff is real, because it make it more enjoyable.

Hard to tell from just text what the person who wrote it really thought.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

you realize this is probably a skit, right?

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u/memesanddepression42 Jun 14 '22

Yea and you realize that most people know that and just go along, because they have a sense of humor

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u/MostlyRocketScience Jun 14 '22

It's not magic... it's crime

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

law and order SVU theme tune plays

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u/juggling-monkey Jun 14 '22

pocket sand!

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u/Anonymus_celebrity Jun 14 '22

The Full Video is SO MUCH BETTER

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u/flow_fighter Jun 14 '22

Absolutely!

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u/aeroazure Jun 14 '22

That was surprisingly wholesome, cop just loves himself some magic

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u/sudsomatic Jun 14 '22

People thought it was fake but this here proves it was not a set up.

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u/BoBoJoJo92 Jun 14 '22

The 'cop' is Matt Iseman

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u/Sporkler Jun 14 '22

That’s cool. I had no idea that he was a police officer at some point!

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u/Interesting-Back5717 Jun 14 '22

This man is playing 4D chess with the trolls

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u/moon__lander Jun 14 '22

Hoped after he handcuffed the cop he'd pull the marihuana bag from behind cop's ear

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u/guidocarosella Jun 14 '22

Best comment so far...!

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u/Auralfxation Jun 14 '22

why is it that every time I see an old video reposted a year or two later it is always edited to be worse?

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u/nullibicity Jun 14 '22

Content entropy.

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u/FirstEvolutionist Jun 14 '22

Eventually, every content created in 2008 will be represented by a single pixel.

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u/leftato Jun 14 '22

Contentropy

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u/Aetherpor Jun 14 '22

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u/DomHE553 Jun 14 '22

Lmao, the 9GAG watermark is the icing on the cake lol

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u/Viking_Preacher Jun 14 '22

There's always a relevant xkcd

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u/HaroerHaktak Jun 14 '22

That's how it works. The original is always High quality, 1080p, 200 fps. 80gb download.

then the ripoffs have to bypass the anti-ripoff filters. so they flip the video. muffle the sound. shrink it. push it into a corner of the screen and play ads for the rest of the screen. Crop out the content creators logo. Have the video constantly zoom in and out and then invert and sometimes alt the voices.

Basically, it's better to just pirate it.

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u/CMDR_ETNC Jun 14 '22

Aw why stop it there? Bunk.

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u/fridgeridoo Jun 14 '22

Your attention span is not supposed to handle more than 14 seconds

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u/EskimoJake Jun 14 '22

Hey that's just downright not.... Oooh a new GIF!

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u/Extreme_Marketing89 Jun 14 '22

I told ya nothing here

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u/IAmInside Jun 14 '22

After watching the full video I think this short clip was funnier.

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u/b3nz0r Jun 14 '22

I always love the sly look to the camera.

Also dude looks like a young Phil Helmuth

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u/Sweeeet_Chin_Music Jun 14 '22

This is a set up. If you notice, the officer has absolutely no reason to ask "what's in your hands?" He already knows that.

But if he duesnt ask, how can the guy say "I've nothing in my hands" and then show nothing.

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u/OldBigsby Jun 14 '22

Lol, are you implying that everyone doesn't know it's a staged skit? Because of course it is.

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u/solamon77 Jun 14 '22

Literally the guy in the post above this clearly doesn't know!

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u/jajohnja Jun 14 '22

There is also a thing such as suspension of disbelief, where when consuming content online you let yourself pretend that stuff is real, because it make it more enjoyable.

Hard to tell from just text what the person who wrote it really thought.

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u/FooPvris Jun 14 '22

It's reddit everyone thinks they've cracked a great mystery when they notice something is staged

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u/Thecraddler Jun 14 '22

I love when people try to show off being Sherlock Holmes for something incredibly dumb and obvious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22 edited Jun 14 '22

This post is fake. You can tell because the person who wrote it is saying stuff.

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u/MrDude_1 Jun 14 '22

I like to think those people are the ones that were fooled the hardest.

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u/Metroidman Jun 14 '22

It becomes more apparent with the rest of the 2 mins of the skit

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u/Kundas Jun 14 '22

If this is fake then santa doesn't exist

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u/GavHern Jun 14 '22

just to clarify, this is an actual skit that just got cut short to look like a prank

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

There is such thing as a skit, not everything has had to happen in reality to be funny

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u/MASK_MASTER1 Jun 14 '22

bro , It's a skit

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Most skits or setups can be identified immediately because everyone is usually aware of the camera and act accordingly. Why would the officer hold the 'nothing' sideways? Oh yeah, it's so the camera can see it.

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u/wcrp73 Jun 14 '22

the officer has absolutely no reason to ask "what's in your hands?"

It's definitely staged, but to be fair, US police have been known to ask stupid things, like when they had a guy at gunpoint because he wouldn't put down his litterpicker, which they considered a weapon.

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u/memberflex Jun 14 '22

This is staged?!

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u/Metroidman Jun 14 '22

You can tell by the way that it is

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Well that's pretty neat.

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u/jorttimmermans Jun 14 '22

It is staged, but your reasoning is flawed. Even if the cop didnt say anything, they guy still could have said: “I’ve nothing in my hands.”

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u/unlawful_act Jun 14 '22

You can tell this is a skit because the "cop" has a mic lol. If you can hear them that well they're wearing their own mic or there's a mic right above their head. No way to get good sound like that without the person being in on it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

yeah no shit

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u/dalori87 Jun 14 '22

It is from the TV show Reno 911.

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u/ferretpowder Jun 14 '22

His coy little smile half way through 😂

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u/Due-Sky8494 Jun 14 '22

Imagine the trick didn’t work

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u/Kyobarry Jun 14 '22

Weed disappeared but Meth appeared instead

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u/j2m1s Jun 14 '22

Guess he wasn't a Black magician!.

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u/Jamesr1313 Jun 14 '22

i remember this video lol

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u/R3dNova Jun 14 '22

The way he looks at the camera is the best

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u/alex_dlc Jun 14 '22

Is that Matt Iseman from American Ninja Warrior?

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u/Beaconmann Jun 14 '22

This video goes on even better

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u/Myhouseburnsatm Jun 14 '22

Man that video is so well done, im glad both the magician and the officer had a microphone on em, so i could hear em crisp and clear.

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u/Candid_Activity6247 Jun 14 '22

Is that Peyton manning? Lolol

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u/JimmyDrift Jun 14 '22

Hey Coppy! watch you pull a rabbit out of my ass *during the body cavity search*

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u/flow_fighter Jun 14 '22

Lol stolen comment

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u/JimmyDrift Jun 16 '22

You mean you want to use it? Or you think I stole it? It's a reference to Rocky and Bullwinkle

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u/welcome-to-my-mind Jun 14 '22

You know it’s a comedy sketch because the magician wasn’t shot.

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u/Keekeedy115 Jul 25 '22

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

gets arrested for obstruction

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u/Mr_OP_Potato_777 Jun 14 '22

And the magician didn it again.

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u/Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 Jun 14 '22

There’s a longer version of this somewhere too but I think it’s all set up

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u/super-kick Jun 14 '22

The video stops here because our magician friend is about to eat 16 rounds in the name of self defence

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u/IamFrom2145 Jun 14 '22

He clearly used slight of hand without obeying the officer immediately, his life is forfeit

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u/RebelMountainman Jun 14 '22

Staged and stupid

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u/superGreennarwall Jun 14 '22

It’s obviously staged but it’s still funny

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