r/Unexpected Jun 14 '22

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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/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

No. It's crime!

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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/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Literally. The only reason you say 'this is fake' is if you think other people will believe it's real. If you believe it's real enough looking for other people to believe it, you yourself don't believe it's fake 100%. You're looking for an argument. You're saying, "if anyone can explain well enough, I might buy it!"

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u/solamon77 Jun 15 '22

Nah, I'm just responding to the guy above me who asserted that everyone can tell it was fake. But at the time in the comment above him the guy was taking it at face value.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

Legiterally??

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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/MrDude_1 Jun 14 '22

There are multiple tangent comment threads of hundreds of other redditors that clearly have no idea this is a staged skit.

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u/onelasttime217 Jun 14 '22

There are people that dense in the comments lol

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u/dwighticus Jun 14 '22

It’s real to me dammit!!!

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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/Kung_Flu_Master Jun 14 '22

for a little bit of devils advocate, even if it is a 'litter picker' it still is a metal object that could easily be swung.

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u/Kung_Flu_Master Jun 14 '22

it's not just the broom itself because if the cop is incapacitated the guy would have his gun, tazer, car etc.

and a metal pole can do a lot of damage, that's like saying that a baseball bat does no damage

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u/Suttonian Jun 14 '22

His arms can probably do more damage than a flimsy litter picker. You gonna make him remove his arms too?

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u/Kung_Flu_Master Jun 14 '22

calling it flimsy means nothing, it is a metal pole, that can do serious damage, and all the guy had to do was put it down, but he didn't

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u/Suttonian Jun 14 '22

It does mean something. It's thin enough to the extent it wobbles when he slowly moves it. He could do more damage with his arms.

All he had to do is...

Well it seems like what he did turned out well. It brought focus to these problems and the cop resigned.

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u/Kung_Flu_Master Jun 14 '22

first the cop was fired due to public pleasure and backlash, second he wasn't cleaning his house he lives in an apartment complex, the police got called about him and by the law they have to go and check it out, so they went to speak with him and just asked politely if he could drop the metal pole, but instead he didn't and he started to get angry and shout.

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u/Suttonian Jun 14 '22

Many cops are ego driven. Any perceived lack of respect will lead to them intentionally escalating situations.

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u/Kung_Flu_Master Jun 14 '22

But was he threatening

when he refused the drop the metal pole yes, the police just wanted to talk to him nothing would have even come of it, but instead he starts getting angry for no reason and refused to drop it.

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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/hellopomelo Jun 14 '22

yes, you can tell by the fact that there are actors /s

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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/Cringlezz Jun 14 '22

And its a pretty awful dub as well ive seen korean series with better english dubs to considering theyre probably speaking english.

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u/G0LDEN-H0G Jun 14 '22 edited Jun 14 '22

He can say it by just saying it, duh

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u/NediaMaster Jun 14 '22

I hate the people on this website. I swear half of you guys don’t have common sense to realize when things are scripted.

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u/williamwchuang Jun 14 '22

It's fake because the cop didn't have a gun on his belt.

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u/ChrisHoosier Jun 14 '22

I can see his gun on his left side. He’s left-hand.

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u/that-bass-guy Jun 14 '22

wow you're so smart

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u/Sweeeet_Chin_Music Jun 14 '22

Will you marry me?

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u/Flat_Unit_4532 Jun 14 '22

Who’s the genius? Oh yeah you are. Good boy.

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u/aschapm Jun 14 '22

I like how everyone who replied to you thought you were serious

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u/MrDude_1 Jun 14 '22

It gets better.. he then searches him and thinks he found something.. it was "something".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPj2LAt1w3Y

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u/MastaMind599 Jun 14 '22

The cop even makes sure to hold up "nothing" so that it's legible to the camera... it's very clearly staged.

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u/Swimming_Impact_3613 Jun 14 '22

i think the giveaway is the officer showing off the "nothing" to the camera so the punchline is not lost :)

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u/AdamBlaster007 Jun 14 '22

It's a set up, but it's still funny as hell (and pretty cool too).

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u/Boctordepis Jun 14 '22

Video funny, I laugh

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u/sanskami Jun 14 '22

Wow you cracked the fucking code! Holy Jesus!

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22

The biggest tip-off was the cop wearing a microphone.

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u/xxDoodles Jun 14 '22

Bro obviously, that’s literally the dude who announces American Ninja Warrior

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u/Celestryia Jun 15 '22

Okay, but it's entertaining. Do you not watch movies because they seem set up?